Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, (a) Section 3.12(a) of the Contributor Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of each Company Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has previously provided to Local Insight true and complete copies of: (i) each written or oral Company Benefit Plan; (ii) the actuarial report for each Company Benefit Plan (if applicable) for each of the last three years; (iii) the most recent determination letter from the IRS (if applicable) for each Company Benefit Plan; (iv) the current summary plan description of each Company Benefit Plan that is subject to ERISA; (v) a copy of the description of each Company Benefit Plan not subject to ERISA that is currently provided to participants in such plan; (vi) a summary of the material terms of each unwritten Company Benefit Plan; and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees (vii) the annual report for each Company Benefit Plan (if applicable) for each of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries last three years.
("Crestar Employee Plans"i) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in on the Crestar Contributor Disclosure LetterSchedule, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have each Company Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, funded and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the its terms and applicable requirements of ERISALaw, including ERISA and the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan ; (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (aii) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) Company Benefit Plan intended to be a qualified plan under “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of received a pending application for such favorable determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested letter from the IRS, and there are no circumstances that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of any such Company Benefit Plan, and each such Company Benefit Plan has been timely amended for the legislation commonly known as “GUST” and “EGTRRA” and has been submitted to the IRS for a determination letter on the GUST legislation within the applicable remedial amendment period; (ciii) neither Crestar nor any none of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedCompany, any Company Subsidiary, or is required to provideany other Company ERISA Affiliate maintains, security to sponsors, contributes to, or has any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29current or potential liability or obligation under (or with respect to) of the Code, (dA) the fair market value of the assets of each any “defined benefit plan plan” (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA), (B) exceeds the value any “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA), (C) any benefit plan, program, agreement, or arrangement that provides for post-retirement or post-termination medical, life insurance or other welfare-type benefits other than as described in Section 3.12(d) of the "benefit liabilities" Contributor Disclosure Schedule, (D) any “multiple employer welfare arrangement” as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA, or (E) “multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) 210 of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary ; (iv) no liability under Title IV of ERISA has been incurred any liability by a Company ERISA Affiliate that has not been satisfied in full, and no condition exists that presents a risk to the PBGC Company, the Company Subsidiaries or any other Company ERISA Affiliate of incurring a liability thereunder; (v) none of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or, to the Knowledge of the Contributors, any other Person, including any fiduciary, has engaged in a transaction or taken or failed to take any action in connection with which the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or any Company Benefit Plan would reasonably be expected to be subject to either a material civil penalty assessed pursuant to Section 409 or 502(i) of ERISA or a material Tax imposed pursuant to Section 4975 or 4976 of the Code; (vi) there are no pending, or, to the Knowledge of the Contributors, threatened or anticipated claims (other than routine claims for benefits), audits, investigations, proceedings, or suits by, on behalf of or against any of the Company Benefit Plans; (vii) all payments, premiums, contributions, distributions, reimbursements or other amounts required to be paid by the Company or the Company Subsidiaries for all periods ending prior to or as of the Closing Date with respect to each Company Benefit Plan have been made or properly accrued; (viii) the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and the other Company ERISA Affiliates have complied and are in compliance in all material respects with COBRA; (ix) the Company and the Company Subsidiaries have no current or potential obligation or liability by reason of being treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code with any "singlePerson other than the Company and the Company Subsidiaries; (x) each Company Benefit Plan that constitutes a nonqualified deferred compensation plan for purposes of Section 409A of the Code has been operated in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code and all applicable IRS guidance thereunder; and (xi) the Company and the Company Subsidiaries have, for purposes of each Company Benefit Plan, correctly classified those individuals performing services for the Company and the Company Subsidiaries as common law employees, leased employees, independent contractors or agents.
(d) Except as described in Section 3.12(d) of the Contributor Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or in conjunction with any other event): (i) result in the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries being liable for any payment or benefit (including non-employer plan" deductible remuneration (as described in Section 162(m) of the Code) severance, retention, stay-put, change of control, unemployment compensation, “excess parachute payment” (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 280G of the Code), except for premiums all tax gross-up, forgiveness of which haveindebtedness or otherwise) becoming due to any Person from the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries under any Company Benefit Plan or otherwise; (ii) increase any amounts or benefits otherwise payable or due to any Person under any Company Benefit Plan or otherwise; or (iii) result in any acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of, or any requirement to fund or secure, any amounts or benefits or result in any breach of or default under any Company Benefit Plan.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 3.9 of the Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, welfarecomplete and correct list of each material Employee Plan. As applicable with respect to each material Employee Plan, bonusthe Sellers have made available to the Buyer a true and complete copy of the following documents: (i) the most recent plan document, deferred compensationincluding all amendments thereto, pensionand in the case of an unwritten plan, profit sharinga written description thereof and (ii) the current summary description of each material Employee Plan and any material modifications thereto. As applicable with respect to each Assumed Plan, stock optionthe Sellers shall make available to the Buyer as specified in Section 5.4(d) a true and complete copy of the following documents: (i) all current trust documents and funding vehicles relating thereto, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral (ii) the most recently filed annual report (Form 5500 and all trust agreements related Sections thereto), relating (iii) the most recent determination or opinion letter from the IRS, if any, with respect to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Code and (iv) the most recent summary annual report and actuarial report.
(b) Since January 1, 2017, each Employee Plans have Plan has been maintained, operated, operated and administered in all material respects in compliance accordance with their its terms and currently complyapplicable Law and administrative or governmental rules and regulations, including ERISA and the Code. There are no pending audits or investigations by any Governmental Authority involving any Employee Plan, and have at all relevant times compliedno pending or, in all material respects with to the applicable requirements Knowledge of ERISAthe Sellers, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth threatened claims (except for individual claims for benefits payable in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar normal operation of the Employee Plans) or Actions involving any Employee Plan.
(c) Each Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS received a favorable determination or opinion letter as to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested qualification from the IRS, .
(cd) neither Crestar Neither Sellers nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries their respective ERISA Affiliates has providedadopted, maintained, sponsored, contributed to (or is has been required to provideadopt, security to maintain, sponsor or contribute to) any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29(i) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "“multiemployer plan" ” (within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA); (ii) employee benefit plan or arrangement subject to Title IV or Section 302 of ERISA or a "(iii) “multiple employer plan" ” (within the meaning of Section 210 of ERISA or Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor ), in each case, that could reasonably be expected to result in any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred material Liability to Buyer.
(e) No Employee Plan provides any liability post-employment health or welfare benefits to any Business Employee except to the PBGC extent required to be provided under COBRA.
(f) Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, whether alone or together with respect any other event, will (i) entitle any Business Employee to any "single-employer plan" within material payment or benefit; (ii) increase the meaning amount or value of any compensation, benefit or other obligation payable or required to be provided to any Business Employee; (iii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due any Business Employee or accelerate the time of any funding (whether to a trust or otherwise) of compensation or benefits under any Employee Plan; or (iv) result in the payment of any amounts that would not be deductible for federal income tax purposes by reason of Section 4001(a)(15) 280G of ERISA currently the Code or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it would be subject to excise tax under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 4999 of the Code, except . No Employee Plan provides for premiums all the reimbursement of which haveany penalty or excise tax under Section 409A or 4999 of the Code.
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Samples: Asset Purchase Agreement (Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 5.11(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have Local Insight Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of each Local Insight Benefit Plan.
(b) Local Insight has provided to the Company (to the extent available) true and complete copies of: (i) each written Local Insight Benefit Plan; (ii) the actuarial report for each Local Insight Benefit Plan (if applicable) for each of the last three years; (iii) the most recent determination letter from the IRS (if applicable) for each Local Insight Benefit Plan; (iv) the current summary plan description of each Local Insight Benefit Plan that is subject to ERISA; (v) a copy of the description of each Local Insight Benefit Plan not subject to ERISA that is currently provided to participants in such plan; (vi) a summary of the material terms of each unwritten Local Insight Benefit Plan; and (vii) the annual report for each Local Insight Benefit Plan (if applicable) for each of the last three years.
(i) Each Local Insight Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, funded and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the its terms and applicable requirements of ERISALaw, including ERISA and the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan ; (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (aii) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) Local Insight Benefit Plan intended to be a qualified plan under “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of received a pending application for such favorable determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested letter from the IRS, and there are no circumstances that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of any such Local Insight Benefit Plan, and each such Local Insight Benefit Plan has been timely amended for the legislation commonly known as “GUST” and “EGTRRA” and has been submitted to the IRS for a determination letter on the GUST legislation within the applicable remedial amendment period; (ciii) neither Crestar nor none of Local Insight, any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedLocal Insight Subsidiary or any other Local Insight ERISA Affiliate maintains, sponsors, contributes to, or is required to provide, security to has any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29current or potential liability or obligation under (or with respect to) of the Code, (dA) the fair market value of the assets of each any “defined benefit plan plan” (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA), (B) exceeds the value any “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 3(37) of the "ERISA), (C) any benefit liabilities" plan, program, agreement, or arrangement that provides for post-retirement or post-termination medical, life insurance or other welfare-type benefits, (D) any “multiple employer welfare arrangement” as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA, or (E) “multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) 210 of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor ; (iv) no liability under Title IV of ERISA has been incurred by a Local Insight ERISA Affiliate that has not been satisfied in full, and no condition exists that presents a risk to Local Insight, the Local Insight Subsidiaries or any Crestar other Local Insight ERISA Affiliate of incurring a liability thereunder; (v) none of Local Insight , any Local Insight Subsidiary has incurred any liability or, to the PBGC Knowledge of Local Insight, any other Person, including any fiduciary, has engaged in a transaction or taken or failed to take any action in connection with which Local Insight, the Local Insight Subsidiaries or any Local Insight Benefit Plan would reasonably be expected to be subject to either a material civil penalty assessed pursuant to Section 409 or 502(i) of ERISA or a material Tax imposed pursuant to Section 4975 or 4976 of the Code; (vi) there are no pending, or, to the Knowledge of Local Insight, threatened or anticipated claims (other than routine claims for benefits), audits, investigations, proceedings, or suits by, on behalf of or against any of the Local Insight Benefit Plans; (viii) all payments, premiums, contributions, distributions, reimbursements or other amounts required to be paid by Local Insight or the Local Insight Subsidiaries for all periods ending prior to or as of the Closing Date with respect to any "single-each Local Insight Benefit Plan have been made or properly accrued (viii) Local Insight, the Local Insight Subsidiaries and the other Local Insight ERISA Affiliates have complied and are in compliance in all material respects with COBRA; (ix) Local Insight and the Local Insight Subsidiaries have no current or potential obligation or liability by reason of being treated as a single employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the CodeCode with any Person other than Local Insight and the Local Insight Subsidiaries; (x) each Local Insight Benefit Plan that constitutes a nonqualified deferred compensation plan for purposes of Section 409A of the Code has been operated in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code and all applicable IRS guidance thereunder; and (xi) Local Insight and the Local Insight Subsidiaries have, except for premiums all purposes of which haveeach Local Insight Benefit Plan, correctly classified those individuals performing services for Local Insight and the Local Insight Subsidiaries as common law employees, leased employees, independent contractors or agents.
(d) Except as described in Section 5.11(a) of the Local Insight Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or in conjunction with any other event): increase any amounts or benefits otherwise payable or due to any Person under any Local Insight Benefit Plan or otherwise; or result in any acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of, or any requirement to fund or secure, any such amounts or benefits or result in any breach of or default under any Local Insight Benefit Plan.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedules sets forth a true and complete list of all material Employee Benefit Plans. With respect to each material Employee Benefit Plan, the Group Companies have provided CHFW with true and complete copies of the material documents pursuant to which the plan is maintained, funded and administered. The Company does not maintain any Employee Benefit Plans for its current or former employees, officers, directors or other individual service providers located outside of the United States and no Employee Benefit Plan is subject to the laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States.
(b) True, complete and correct copies of the following documents, with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, where applicable, have been made available to CHFW: (i) all documents embodying or governing such Employee Benefit Plan (or for unwritten Employee Benefit Plans a written description of the material terms of such Employee Benefit Plan) and any funding medium for the Employee Benefit Plan; (ii) the most recent IRS determination, advisory or opinion letter; (iii) the most recently filed Form 5500; (iv) the most recent actuarial valuation report; (v) the most recent summary plan description (or other descriptions provided to employees) and all modifications thereto; (vi) the last three years of non-discrimination testing results; and (vii) all non-routine correspondence to and from any governmental agency.
(c) No Group Company has ever maintained, contributed to, been required to contribute to or has any Liability with respect to or under: (i) a Multiemployer Plan; (ii) a “defined benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA, whether or not subject to ERISA) or a plan that is or was subject to Title IV of ERISA Section 412 of the Code or Section 312 of ERISA; (iii) a “multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section of 413(c) of the Code or Section 210 of ERISA; (iv) a “multiple employer welfare arrangement” as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA; or (v) any funded welfare benefit plan within the meaning of Section 419 of the Code. No Group Company has any material Liabilities to provide any retiree or post-termination or power-ownership health or life insurance or other welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance-type benefits to any Person other than health continuation coverage pursuant to COBRA or similar Law and for which the recipient pays the full cost of coverage and no Group Company has ever promised to provide such benefits. No Group Company has any material Liabilities by reason of at any time being considered a single employer under Section 414 of the Code with any other Person.
(d) Each Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and has timely received a favorable determination or opinion or advisory letter issued by the IRS with respect to a volume submitter or prototype plan adopted in accordance with the requirements for such reliance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating has time remaining for application to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all IRS for a determination of the Crestar qualified status of such Employee Plans have Benefit Plan for any period for which such Employee Benefit Plan would not otherwise be covered by an IRS determination and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event or omission has occurred that would cause any Employee Benefit Plan to lose such qualification or require corrective action to the IRS or Employee Plan Compliance Resolution System to maintain such qualification. None of the Group Companies has incurred (whether or not assessed) any material penalty or Tax under Section 4980H, 4980B, 4980D, 6721 or 6722 of the Code.
(e) Each Employee Benefit Plan is and has been maintainedestablished, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance accordance with their terms applicable laws and currently complyregulations and with its terms, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of including without limitation ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable lawsthe Affordable Care Act. Except as set forth in As of the Crestar Disclosure Letterdate hereof, there are no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, material claims or Proceedings with respect to each Crestar any Employee Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (other than routine claims for benefits). There have been no non-exempt “prohibited transactions” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA and no breaches of fiduciary duty (as defined determined under ERISA) with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan. With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, all contributions, distributions, reimbursements and premium payments that are due have been timely made, except as is not and would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in Section 3(2the aggregate, material to the Group Companies, taken as a whole. No Employee Benefit Plan is, or within the past six (6) years has been, the subject of ERISA): an application or filing under a government sponsored amnesty, voluntary compliance, or similar program, or been the subject of any self-correction under any such program.
(af) each pension plan The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not materially (alone or in combination with any other event) (i) result in any payment or benefit becoming due to or result in the forgiveness of any indebtedness of any current or former director, manager, officer, employee, individual independent contractor or other service providers of any of the Group Companies, (ii) increase the amount or value of any compensation or benefits payable to any current or former director, manager, officer, employee, individual independent contractor or other service providers of any of the Group Companies or (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting, or trigger any payment or funding of any compensation or benefits to any current or former director, manager, officer, employee, individual independent contractor or other service providers of any of the Group Companies.
(g) No amount that could be received (whether in cash or property or the vesting of property) by any “disqualified individual” of any of the Group Companies under any Employee Benefit Plan or otherwise as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to a result of the consummation of the Transactions could, separately or in the aggregate, be a qualified plan nondeductible under Section 401(a280G of the Code or subjected to an excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code.
(h) The Group Companies have no obligation to make a “gross-up” or similar payment in respect of any taxes that may become payable under Section 4999 or 409A of the Code.
(i) Any transfer of property which was subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture and which would otherwise have been subject to taxation under Section 83(a) of the Code either has been determined is covered by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was valid and timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in filed election under Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(2983(b) of the Code, and a copy of such election has been provided to the Company.
(dj) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit Each Employee Benefit Plan that constitutes in any part a nonqualified deferred compensation plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as 409A of the end Code has been operated and maintained in all material respects in operational and documentary compliance with Section 409A of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Code and applicable guidance thereunder. No payment to be made under any Employee Benefit Plan is, or to the date hereof, calculated on the basis knowledge of the actuarial assumptions used in Company, will be, subject to the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning penalties of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c409A(a)(1) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Samples: Business Combination Agreement (Consonance-HFW Acquisition Corp.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and (a) Section 4.14(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar material Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all None of the Crestar Employee Plans has undergone within the last six years or is undergoing an audit or investigation (nor has notice been received of a potential audit or examination) by either the IRS, the United States Department of Labor or any other Authority.
(b) With respect to each Employee Plan, complete and correct copies of all material documents have been maintainedmade available to Purchaser, operated, including the most recent plan documents or written agreements thereof and the most recent summary plan descriptions.
(c) With respect to each Employee Plan: (i) each has been administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complywith all applicable Laws, including ERISA and have at all relevant times compliedthe Code; (ii) no Legal Actions (other than routine claims for benefits) are pending, in or to the Company’s Knowledge threatened; (iii) all material respects premiums, contributions, or other payments required to have been made by Law or under the terms of any Employee Plan or any Contract or agreement relating thereto as of the Closing Date have been made or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP; (iv) all material reports, returns and similar documents required to be filed with any Authority or distributed to any plan participant have been duly filed or distributed; and (v) no “prohibited transaction” or “reportable event” has occurred within the meaning of the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, ERISA or the Code, and Code that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or Purchaser or any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with of its Affiliates.
(d) With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either Code, (i) the IRS has issued a favorable determination letter or opinion letter or advisory letter upon which the Company is entitled to rely under IRS pronouncements, and (ii) no such determination letter, opinion letter or advisory letter has been determined revoked nor to the Company’s Knowledge, has revocation been threatened and, no event has occurred since the date of such qualification or exemption that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect such qualification or exemption.
(e) No Employee Plan is nor was within the past six years, nor do Seller, the Company or any of their ERISA Affiliates have or reasonably expect to have any liability or obligation under (i) any employee benefit plan subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA; or (ii) any Multiemployer Plan.
(f) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) entitle any current or former employee, consultant, officer or director of the IRS Company to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedseverance pay, (bii) there result in any payment from the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation due, to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company, (iii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employee Plan, (iv) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits from the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company or (v) result in any forgiveness of indebtedness, trigger any funding obligation under any Employee Plan or impose any restrictions or limitations on the Company’s right to administer, amend or terminate any Employee Plan.
(g) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not (either alone or in combination with another event) result in any payment or deemed payment (whether in cash, property, the vesting of property or otherwise) to any “disqualified individual” (as such term is no accumulated funding deficiency defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.280G-1) that could reasonably be construed, individually or in combination with any other such payment, to constitute an “excess parachute payment” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 280G(b)(1) of the Code), whether . No Person is entitled to receive any additional payment (including any tax gross-up or not waived, and no waiver other payment) from the Company or its Affiliates as a result of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any imposition of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedexcise Taxes required by Section 4999 of the Code or any Taxes required by Section 409A of the Code.
(h) No Employee Plan provides health, medical, or is death benefits to current or former employees of the Company beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than coverage mandated by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or as required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to avoid the excise Tax under Section 401(a)(29) 4980B of the Code, or coverage mandated by any similar state group health plan continuation Law, the cost of which is fully paid by such current or former employees or their dependents.
(di) the fair market value of the assets of The Company and each defined benefit plan (Employee Plan that is a “group health plan” as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16733(a)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of (each, a “Health Plan”) (i) is currently in compliance, in all material respects, with the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havePub.
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Samples: Share Purchase Agreement (Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefitBuyer will make made available upon written request for examination by NMC true, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, correct and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each of Buyer's pension, profit profit-sharing, stock optionbonus or other deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownershipif any, consultingfor which a letter was obtained except for any multi-employer plans sponsored by Buyer, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral (each a "Plan" and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans");
(ii) the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 Series) and accompanying schedules of each Plan sponsored by Buyer with respect to which the same are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except required, as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterfiled pursuant to applicable law; and
(iii) all plan documents, all as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, modifications with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan sponsored by Buyer, as well as the most recent financial statements of each of such plans. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. Buyer does not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, ("ERISA") and Section 4975 of ERISA): (a) each pension plan the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (and the "Code"), which has been engaged in by Buyer or by any Plan sponsored by Buyer, any trust relating theretocreated thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the best of Buyer's knowledge, after due inquiry, threatened against any of the Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of the Plans nor any said trust have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) intended of the Code (whether or not waived), since the Closing Date of ERISA. The terms and operation of each of the Plans have complied to be a qualified plan under the extent required with the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code either has and with ERISA, and all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been determined duly filed or given. Buyer shall make available for examination by the IRS JK or RK a list of all of Buyer's Plans subject to be so qualified or Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 4043 of ERISA, if any. Except as may be specified in Buyer's Disclosure Schedule hereto, none of Buyer's Plans and no such trust has been terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such Plans since the effective date of ERISA. The present value, on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by Buyer and subject to Title IV of ERISA and Section 412 did not, as of the Code)most recent valuation date, whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havedate.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(i) Section 3.1(hh) of the Disclosure Letter lists all Employee Plans, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating Multiemployer Plans with respect to which the Purchased Corporations have any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or liability.
(ii) To the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the extent applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is Plan, true, correct and complete copies of the most recent documents described below have been made available to the Purchaser: (i) IRS determination letter and any outstanding request for a pension determination letter; (ii) Form 5500 for the three most recent plan years, including any attachments or exhibits thereto; (iii) all plan documents and amendments thereto (and where such Employee Plans are oral commitments written summaries); (iv) current summary plan descriptions and any summaries of material modifications; (v) administrative service agreements, HIPAA business associate agreements, related trust agreements, annuity contracts and other funding instruments, and (vi) form of letters and notices given to employees under Code Section 4980B, HIPAA policies and procedures and HIPAA notice of privacy practices.
(iii) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not accelerate the time of payment or vesting under any Employee Plan. With respect to each Employee Plan, no prohibited transactions (as defined in ERISA Section 3(2406 or Code Section 4975) and no violations of ERISA): (a) ERISA Section 407 have occurred, in each pension plan as amended case, except where such occurrence would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each Employee Plan (and any trust relating theretoits related trust) that is intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Code Section 401(a) of and to be tax exempt under Code Section 501(a) is separately identified on the Code either Disclosure Letter as such, and each such Employee Plan has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified qualify thereunder for all applicable requirements and, to the knowledge of the Vendors, nothing has since occurred to cause the loss of the Employee Plan’s qualification.
(iv) Each Purchased Corporation does not and has never sponsored or is the subject of participated in a pending application for “registered pension plan” as such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as term in defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether Tax Act. The Purchased Corporations have not made or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to make any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminatedcontributions to, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred have any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning (including by reason of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it being in a controlled group under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section Sections 414 of the Code) with respect to, except any employee pension benefit plan that is subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or any Multiemployer Plan including any “multi-employer plan” as defined under the British Columbia Pension Benefits Standards Act or similar provincial pension legislation.
(v) None of the Purchased Corporations have any liability or obligation to provide life, medical, or other welfare benefits to former or retired employees, other than under COBRA (or any similar applicable state or provincial Laws requiring the continuation of medical benefits).
(vi) Each Employee Plan is in material compliance with its terms and applicable Laws.
(vii) All contributions to the Employee Plans or any Multiemployer Plan payable by a Purchased Corporation (or with respect to which a Purchased Corporation would reasonably be expected to have liability) have been made on a timely basis in accordance with ERISA and the Code and applicable Law, or else appropriate accruals have been made in the Current Balance Sheets for any contributions owing. All insurance premiums all with respect to each Employee Plan or any Multiemployer Plan payable by a Purchased Corporation (or with respect to which a Purchased Corporation would reasonably be expected to have liability) have been paid in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms of which haveeach such plan and applicable Laws, or else appropriate accruals have been made in the Current Balance Sheets for any insurance premiums owing.
(viii) Other than routine claims and appeals for benefits, no Employee Plan is subject to any pending or, to the knowledge of the Vendors, threatened action, investigation, examination, claim (including claims for Taxes) or any other proceeding initiated by any Person, and, to the knowledge of the Vendors, no facts exist that would give rise thereto.
(ix) Neither GB Acquisition USA, Inc. nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, arrangement or Employee Plan that has resulted or would result in a payment that would not be fully deductible as a result of Section 280G of the Code (determined without regard to the reasonableness of any such compensation), and neither the execution of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible pursuant to Code Section 280G. Except as specifically set forth on Section 3.1(hh) of the Disclosure Letter, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not, either alone or together with any other event: (i) entitle any current or former director, independent contractor or employee of any Purchased Corporation to severance pay, bonus amounts, retirement benefits, unemployment compensation, termination benefits, or any other payment; or (ii) trigger or accelerate the time of payment, funding, or vesting, or increase the amount or value of any benefit or compensation due to any current or former director, independent contractor or employee of any Purchased Corporation.
(x) Each Employee Plan that provides for the deferral of compensation subject to Code Section 409A is, and has been, properly documented and operated in accordance with Code Section 409A. No individual who has provided services to any Purchased Corporation is or has been subject to any Tax or penalty under Code Section 409A.
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Employee Plans. All Except as set forth on Schedule 6.2(i) of the Intek Disclosure Schedules, all employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral oral, and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar Intek or the Crestar Subsidiaries any Intek Subsidiary (collectively, "Crestar Intek Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in substantial compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, ERISA and the Code, to the extent applicable, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with With respect to each Crestar Intek Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a), except as set forth in Schedule 6.2(i) of the Intek Disclosure Schedules: each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) 4042 of ERISA entitling the PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to institute any such proceedings and (g) proceedings, no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" and as of the last day of the most recent plan year which ended prior to the date hereof and for which an actuarial valuation has been issued by the plan's actuary, with respect to each defined benefit plan which is a "single-employer plan" (within the meaning of Section 3(374001(a)(15) of ERISA or a ERISA) the actuarially determined present value of all "multiple employer planbenefit liabilities" (within the meaning of Section 413(c4001(a)(16) of ERISA), as determined on the Codebasis of the actuarial assumptions contained in the plan's most recent actuarial valuation, did not exceed the then current value of the assets of the plan and there has been no material change in the financial condition of the plan since the last day of the most recent plan year. Neither Crestar nor No liability under subtitle C or D of Title IV of ERISA has been incurred by Intek or any Crestar Intek Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or ", formerly maintained by any of them or by any entity which is considered one employer with it Intek under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Samples: Sale of Assets and Trademark Agreement (Simmonds Capital LTD)
Employee Plans. All (a) Schedule 4.19(a) lists each material plan, agreement, arrangement or policy providing for compensation, bonuses, profit-sharing, stock option or other stock related rights or other forms of incentive or deferred compensation, vacation benefits, insurance (including any self-insured arrangements), health or medical benefits, employee benefitassistance program, welfaredisability or sick leave benefits, bonusworkers’ compensation, deferred supplemental unemployment benefits, change in control benefits, severance benefits and post-employment or retirement benefits (including compensation, pension, profit sharinghealth, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severancemedical or life insurance benefits), or fringe other employee benefits, in each case, which is either maintained, administered, sponsored or contributed to by a Seller Party or their ERISA Affiliates for the benefit plansof any Hired Personnel (each, formal or informalindividually, written or oral an “Employee Plan” and all trust agreements related theretocollectively, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar “Employee Plans"”).
(b) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with With respect to each Crestar of the Employee Plans that is not a Multiemployer Plan, Seller has made available to Buyer: (i) a true, correct and complete copy of such Employee Plan, (ii) the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 Series) and accompanying schedule, if any, and (iii) the most recent determination letter from the IRS, if any. Seller has also made available to Buyer the current summary plan description and any material modifications thereto for each Employee Plan that is not a Multiemployer Plan in respect of which is there exists a pension summary plan description.
(as defined in Section 3(2c) of ERISA): (aSchedule 4.19(c) identifies each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) Employee Plan intended to be a “qualified plan under plan” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code either (“Qualified Plans”). Each Qualified Plan has been determined by received a favorable determination letter from the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination prototype plan that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested received a favorable opinion letter from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor and any of the Crestar Subsidiaries such IRS letter has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, not been revoked.
(d) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Seller has timely made or accrued all contributions required with respect to any Qualified Plan.
(e) Except as would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the fair market value Seller Parties and their ERISA Affiliates have performed and complied with all of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA their obligations under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior or with respect to the date hereofEmployee Plans and each Employee Plan that is not a Multiemployer Plan has been operated in all material respects in accordance with its terms and in compliance with all Applicable Laws including the Code and ERISA, calculated on and to Seller’s knowledge, each Multiemployer Plan has been operated in all material respects in accordance with its terms and in compliance with all Applicable Laws including the basis Code and ERISA. There are no pending or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened claims or proceedings relating to the Employee Plans that are not Multiemployer Plans, other than routine claims for benefits that have not resulted in any pending or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened litigation. Neither the Seller Parties nor their ERISA Affiliates have engaged in a transaction with respect to any Employee Plan that, assuming the taxable period of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan transaction expired as of the date hereof, (ewould be reasonably expected to subject Seller to a tax or penalty imposed by Sections 4975 through 4980 of the Code or Sections 502(i) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2502(l) of ERISA entitling in an amount which would have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no material audits, inquiries or proceedings pending or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened by the PBGC to institute IRS, Department of Labor, or any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC other Governmental Authority with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveEmployee Plan.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set Set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.13 of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which Letter is a pension plan true and complete list of all the Company's employee benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(23(3) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")), all the Company's bonus, stock option, stock purchase, incentive, deferred compensation, supplemental retirement, severance, insurance (including any self-insured or post-retirement arrangements), disability, vacation, profit-sharing and other similar employee benefit plans, arrangements, policies or agreements, and all the Company's unexpired severance agreements, written or otherwise, for the benefit of, or relating to, any trust current or former employee of the Company (collectively, the "Employee Plans").
(b) With respect to each Employee Plan, the Company has made available to Buyer, a true and correct copy of (i) the most recent annual report (Form 5500) filed with the IRS, (ii) such Employee Plan, and (iii) the most recent actuarial report or calculation relating theretoto any Employee Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(c) With respect to the Employee Plans, individually and in the aggregate, no event has occurred, and to the knowledge of the Company, there exists no condition or set of circumstances in connection with which the Company could be subject to any liability that is reasonable likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company, under ERISA, the Code or any other applicable law.
(d) Each Employee Plan which is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either is so qualified and has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is during the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waivedperiod from its adoption to date, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested each trust forming a part thereof is exempt from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan tax pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c501(a) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor The Company has furnished to Buyer copies of the most recent IRS determination letters with respect to each such plan.
(e) Each Employee Plan has been maintained in compliance with its terms and with the requirements prescribed by any Crestar Subsidiary and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code, which are applicable to such Employee Plan. No "prohibited transaction" (as that term is defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) has incurred any liability to the PBGC occurred with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it Employee Plan. No tax under Section 4001 4980B of ERISA or the Code has been incurred in respect to any Employee Plan that is a group health plan, as defined in Section 414 5000(b) (1) of the Code. With respect to the employees and former employees of the Company, there are no employee post-retirement medical or health plans in effect, except as required by Section 4980B of the Code.
(f) With respect to the Employee Plans, there are no funded benefit obligations for premiums all of which havecontributions have not been made or properly accrued and there are no unfunded benefit obligations which have not been accounted for by reserves, or otherwise properly footnoted in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, on the Company Financial Statements.
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Samples: Purchase and Sale Agreement (Image Guided Technologies Inc)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 2.12(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, Disclosure Schedule contains a true and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Lettercomplete list, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan Company, of (i) all employee benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(23(3) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)), and (ii) any other pension plans or employee benefit agreements, arrangements, programs or payroll practices (including severance pay, other termination benefits or compensation, vacation pay, salary, company awards, stock option, stock purchase, salary continuation for disability, sick leave, retirement, deferred compensation, bonus or other incentive compensation, stock purchase arrangements or policies, hospitalization, medical insurance and life insurance) whether funded or unfunded, written or oral, qualified or nonqualified, whether or not tax-qualified or subject to ERISA, for the benefit of any present or former employee, consultant, manager or director of such Company with respect to which such Company would be reasonably expected to have any liability (together, the “Company Employee Plans”).
(b) Seller has made available to Buyer an accurate, current, and complete copy of each of the Company Employee Plans and related material plan documents (including, to the extent applicable, trust relating theretodocuments, insurance policies or contracts, employee booklets, summary plan descriptions and summary of material modifications), or where any Company Employee Plan has not been reduced to writing, a written summary of each Company Employee Plan’s terms, and have, to the extent applicable, made available copies of the Form 5500 reports (including all applicable schedules) filed for the last three (3) plan years. Any Company Employee Plan intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application favorable and current determination letter or opinion letter from the IRS. Seller has also made available to Buyer the most recent IRS determination, notification, advisory, or opinion letter, if any, issued with respect to each such Company Employee Plan, and, nothing has occurred since September 6, 2019 that could reasonably be expected to cause the loss of the tax-qualified status of any Company Employee Plan subject to Section 401(a) of the Code.
(c) None of the Company Employee Plans promises or provides retiree medical or other retiree welfare benefits to any Person, except as required by Applicable Law. Since September 6, 2019, there has been no non-exempt “prohibited transaction,” as such term is defined in Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, with respect to any Company Employee Plan. Since September 6, 2019, each Company Employee Plan has been administered, in all material respects, in accordance with its terms and in compliance with the requirements prescribed by any and all applicable statutes, rules and regulations (including ERISA and the Code), and all reporting requirements have been satisfied in all material respects. Since September 6, 2019, all contributions required to be made by any Company to any Company Employee Plan have been made on or before their due dates. No suit, administrative proceeding, action or other litigation has been brought or is pending, or, to the Knowledge of Seller, is threatened, against or with respect to any such Company Employee Plan, including any audit or inquiry by the IRS, United States Department of Labor, or any other Governmental Entity, other than requests for such determination that was timely filedpayments in the ordinary course or requests for qualified domestic relations orders.
(d) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, by themselves or in conjunction with any other agreements of the Companies in effect to Closing will (i) entitle any current or former employee, manager, director or other service provider of any Company to severance benefits or any other payment by any Company, except as expressly provided in this Agreement or in Section 2.12(d) of the Disclosure Schedule, (bii) there increase any benefits otherwise payable by any Company or (iii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting of any benefit, or increase the amount of compensation due any such employee, manager, director or service provider by any Company, except as provided in this Agreement or in Section 2.12(d) of the Disclosure Schedule.
(e) Each Employee Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Closing in accordance with its terms, without material liabilities to Buyer.
(f) No Company maintains, sponsors, participates in or contributes to, nor, since September 6, 2019, has it ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to, any pension plan (within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA) which is subject to Section 302 of ERISA, Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code.
(g) Since September 6, 2019, no accumulated funding deficiency Company is a party to, or has made any contribution to or otherwise incurred any obligation to contribute to, any “multi-employer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA.
(h) Neither the execution of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will result in the receipt or retention by any Person who could be a “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Code Section 280G) of any payment or benefit that is a “parachute payment” (within the meaning of Code Section 280G). No Company is obligated to make reimbursement or gross-up payments to any Person in respect of “excess parachute payments” as such term is described under Section 280G of the Code.
(i) Each Company Employee Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 409A of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver ) that is subject to Section 409A of the minimum funding standards of such sections Code has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any operated in compliance with Section 409A of the Crestar Subsidiaries Code and applicable IRS guidance. No Company has providedany obligation to gross up, indemnify, or is required to provideotherwise reimburse any individual for any excise taxes, security to any pension plan interest, or penalties incurred pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) 409A of the Code, .
(dj) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Notwithstanding anything to the date hereofcontrary contained herein, calculated on the basis representations and warranties in this Section 2.12 are the sole and exclusive representations and warranties of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveSeller concerning employee benefits matters.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havehave been paid when due. Neither Crestar nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any withdrawal liability with respect to a multiemployer plan under Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. Neither Crestar nor any of its subsidiaries has an obligation to institute any Employee Plan or any such other arrangement, agreement or plan. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, there are no outstanding grants of restricted stock with respect to Crestar Common Stock and no outstanding stock appreciation rights with respect to Crestar Common Stock. With respect to any insurance policy that heretofore has or currently does provide funding for benefits under any Crestar Employee Plan, (A) there is no liability on the part of Crestar or any of its subsidiaries in the nature of a retroactive or retrospective rate adjustment, loss sharing arrangement, or other actual or contingent liability, nor would there be any such liability if such insurance policy was terminated, and (B) no insurance Crestar issuing such policy is in receivership, conservatorship, liquidation or similar proceeding and, to the knowledge of Crestar, no such proceeding with respect to any such insurer is imminent. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, neither the execution of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will (A) constitute a stated triggering event under any Crestar Employee Plan that will result in any payment (whether of severance pay or otherwise) becoming due from Crestar or any of its subsidiaries to any present or former officer, employee, director, shareholder, consultant or dependent of any of the foregoing or (B) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to any present or former officer, employee, director, shareholder, consultant, or dependent of any of the foregoing. The material terms of the Executive Agreements (as defined below) are reflected in the Crestar SEC Reports, as amended in the manner reflected in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has any obligations for retiree health and life benefits under any Crestar Employee Plan, except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, there are no restrictions on the rights of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries to amend or terminate any such Crestar Employee Plan without incurring any liability thereunder.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, (a) Section 3.18(a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a complete list of Employee Plans. With respect to each such Employee Plan (other than those relating to any present Target and its Subsidiaries), the Company has provided to the Purchasers true and complete copies of (i) all plan documents and related trust agreements, annuity contracts or former directorsother funding instruments, officers or employees (ii) all summary plan descriptions, summaries of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Lettermaterial modifications, all material employee communications and a complete description of any Employee Plan which is not in writing, (iii) the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with most recent determination letter issued by the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Internal Revenue Service and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in opinion letter issued by the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Department of Labor with respect to each Crestar Pension Plan and each voluntary employees' beneficiary association as defined under Section 501(c)(9) of the Code (other than a Multiemployer Plan), (iv) for the three most recent plan years, the Internal Revenue Service Form 5500 including all schedules and attachments thereto for each Pension Plan and Welfare Plan, and (v) a description setting forth the amount of any liability of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date for payments more than thirty (30) calendar days past due with respect to any Welfare Plan.
(i) Each Employee Plan including any related trust agreement, annuity contract or other funding instrument is legally valid and binding and in full force and effect.
(ii) Each Pension Plan and each related trust agreement, annuity contract or other funding instrument which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service stating that such Pension Plan and each related trust is qualified and tax-exempt under the provisions of Code Sections 401(a) and 501(a) and has been determined so qualified during the period from its adoption to date. Each Employee Plan has been maintained in compliance in all material respects with its terms, both as to form and operation, and with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations which are applicable to such Employee Plan, including, without limitation, ERISA and the Code. Except as provided by law or in any employment agreement set forth on Schedule 3.18, the employment of all persons presently employed or retained by the IRS Company or its Subsidiaries is terminable at will.
(c) Except as set forth in Section 3.18(c) of the Disclosure Schedule (i) none of the Employee Plans (other than any Multiemployer Plan) is a plan that is or has ever been subject to be so qualified or is the subject Title IV of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedERISA, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and or Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, Code and no waiver (ii) none of the minimum funding standards Employee Plans is a plan or arrangement described under Section 4(b)(5) or 401(a)(1) of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedERISA, or is required to provide, security to any pension a plan pursuant to maintained in connection with a trust described in Section 401(a)(29501(c)(9) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Samples: Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (Olivetti International Sa)
Employee Plans. All (a) Schedule 4.13(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists all "employee benefitbenefit plans," as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended ("ERISA"), bonusand all other employee benefit plans or other benefit arrangements, including but not limited to all employment and consulting agreements and all bonus and other incentive compensation, deferred compensation, pensiondisability, profit sharingseverance, retention, salary continuation, vacation, stock award, stock option, employee stock ownershippurchase, consultingcollective bargaining or workers' compensation agreements, severanceplans, policies and arrangements which the Company or any trade or business, whether or not incorporated (an "ERISA Affiliate"), that together with the Company would be deemed a "single employer" within the meaning of Section 4001(b) of ERISA, maintains, is a party to, has contributed to or has any obligation to or liability for current or former employees and directors of the Company (each an "Employee Benefit Plan" and collectively, the "Employee Benefit Plans"). Schedule 4.13(a) separately identifies each of such plans and arrangements Employee Benefit Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(b) True, correct and complete copies of the following documents with respect to each of the Employee Benefit Plans (as applicable) have been delivered or made available to Buyer: (i) the most recent plan, document or agreement, related trust documents and all amendments thereto, (ii) the most recent summary plan description and all related summaries of material modifications, (iii) the annual report on Form 5500 and attached schedules filed with the Internal Revenue Service in the last three years, (iv) the most recent actuarial report, (v) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter, and (vi) a description of any non-written Employee Benefit Plan.
(c) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, (i) all payments required to be made by or under any Employee Benefit Plan, any related trusts, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans collective bargaining agreement have been maintained, operated, timely made; (ii) the Company and administered its ERISA Affiliates have performed all material obligations required to be performed by them under any Employee Benefit Plan; (iii) the Employee Benefit Plans comply in all material respects and have been maintained in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws. ; and (iv) there are no actions, suits, arbitrations or claims (other than routine claims for benefits) pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(d) The Company and its ERISA Affiliates have not incurred any unsatisfied withdrawal liability with respect to any "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
(e) Each Employee Benefit Plan and its related trust which are intended to be "qualified" within the meaning of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as from time to time amended (the "Code"), respectively, have been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be so "qualified" under such Sections, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Company knows of no fact which would adversely affect the qualified status of any such Employee Benefit Plan and its related trust.
(f) Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(aon Schedule 4.13(f) of the Code either Company Disclosure Schedule, or as contemplated by this Agreement, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of compensation due, to any current or former employee or director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employment Benefit Plan; or (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits.
(g) No Employee Benefit Plan has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no an "accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in deficiency" within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, nor has any waiver of the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has Code been requested from of or granted by the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security Internal Revenue 12 17 Service with respect to any pension Employee Benefit Plan, nor has any lien in favor of any such plan pursuant to arisen under Section 401(a)(29412(n) of the CodeCode or Section 302(f) of ERISA.
(h) The "benefits liabilities," as defined in Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, of each of the Employee Benefit Plans subject to Title IV of ERISA using the actuarial assumptions that were used in the most recent actuarial valuation (da true and complete copy of which has been provided to Buyer) in the event it terminated each such plan, do not exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan such plan.
(i) No stock or other security issued by the Company forms or has formed a material part of the assets of any Employee Benefit Plan.
(j) No Employee Benefit Plan provides medical, surgical, hospitalization, death or similar benefits (whether or not insured) for current or former employees or directors of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates for periods extending beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) coverage mandated by applicable Laws, (ii) death benefits under any "pension plan" as defined in Section 3(353(2) of ERISA, or (iii) exceeds benefits, the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all full cost of which haveis borne by such current or former employee or director (or his or her beneficiary).
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set Set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 4.15(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedCompany Disclosure Schedule is a complete and correct list of each Company Plan. The Company has made available to Purchaser, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with to the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterextent applicable, with respect to each Crestar Employee Company Plan (i) the plan document and all amendments thereto (or, in the case of any unwritten Company Plan a written summary thereof), (ii) the most recently disseminated summary plan description and an explanation of any material plan modifications made after the date thereof, (iii) the trust agreement, (iv) the three (3) most recent Form 5500 Annual Reports, (v) non-discrimination testing results on the Company’s 401(k) Plan for the three (3) most recent plan years, (vi) for each Company Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a “qualified plan” under Section 401 of the Code, the most recent determination letter received from the IRS, and (vii) all related Contracts, insurance Contracts, and other Contracts by which such Company Plan is established, operated, administered, or funded. The Company does not have any formal plan or commitment, whether legally binding or not, to create any additional Company Plan or modify or change any existing Company Plan.
(b) The Company does not have any ERISA Affiliates.
(c) Each Company Plan materially complies in form and has been materially maintained and operated in accordance with the requirements of all applicable Laws, including ERISA and the Code, if applicable, and each Company Plan has been maintained and operated in accordance with its terms.
(d) All required reports and descriptions (including, without limitation, Form 5500 Annual Reports, summary annual reports, and summary plan descriptions) have been timely filed with the appropriate Government Entities and distributed appropriately to participants and beneficiaries with respect to each Company Plan. The requirements of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (“COBRA”) have been met with respect to each Company Plan that is an Employee Welfare Benefit Plan and that is subject to such requirements.
(e) All contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) that are due have been timely paid to each Company Plan that is an Employee Pension Benefit Plan and all contributions for any period ending on or before the Closing Date that are not yet due have been timely paid to each Employee Pension Benefit Plan or accrued in accordance with the past custom and practice of the Company. All premiums or other payments for all periods ending on or before the Closing Date have been timely paid with respect to each Company Plan that is an Employee Welfare Benefit Plan.
(f) Each Company Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such favorable determination that was timely filedletter, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 to the Knowledge of the Code)Company, whether there are no facts or not waived, and no waiver of circumstances that have affected or are likely to affect the minimum funding standards qualified status of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Company Plan. Except as set forth on Section 401(a)(294.15(f) of the CodeCompany Disclosure Schedule, (d) the fair market value none of the assets of each defined benefit Company Plans is, and the Company does not have any Liability (including current or potential withdrawal Liability) with respect to, a multiemployer plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA or a "multiple single employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" pension plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently ERISA. Except as required by COBRA, none of the Company Plans provide for or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under promise retiree medical, disability, or life insurance benefits. No Company Plan is (i) a defined benefit plan or subject to Section 4001 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA or (ii) a self-insured group health plan.
(g) Except as set forth on Section 414 4.15(g) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, there has been no “prohibited transaction” (as defined in ERISA § 406 or Code § 4975) and no “reportable event” (within the meaning of ERISA § 4043) has occurred, with respect to any Company Plan. No “fiduciary” (as defined in ERISA § 3(21)) has any Liability for breach of fiduciary duty or any other failure to act or comply in connection with the administration or investment of the assets of any Company Plan. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Action or Proceeding with respect to the administration or the investment of the assets of any Company Plan (other than routine claims for benefits) is pending, threatened, or anticipated. To the Knowledge of the Company, there is no basis for any such Action or Proceeding.
(h) Except as specified on Section 4.15(h) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, (i) the Company is not, nor will be, obligated to pay separation, severance, termination or similar benefits as a result of any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, nor will any such transaction accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount, of any benefit or other compensation due to any individual from the Company; and (ii) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not be the direct or indirect cause of any amount paid or payable by the Company being classified as an excess parachute payment under Section 280G of the Code.
(i) Each Company Plan that constitutes a nonqualified deferred compensation plan subject to Section 409A of the Code (each, except for premiums all a “Section 409A”) is and has been operated in compliance with the provisions of which haveSection 409A of the Code and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe (a) Section 3.10(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all benefit and compensation plans, formal contracts, policies or informalarrangements, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees including each employee benefit plan within the meaning of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"Section 3(3) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Codebenefit program or practice providing for bonuses, and incentive compensation, vacation pay, severance pay, insurance, restricted stock, stock options, employee discounts, company cars, tuition reimbursement or any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterperquisite or benefit, which is currently maintained or contributed to (or with respect to each Crestar which any obligation to contribute has been undertaken) by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate for the benefit of current or former employees of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and current or former directors of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Employee Plan which Programs”). Each Employee Program that is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by received a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) regarding its qualification thereunder and, to be so qualified or the Company’s knowledge, no event has occurred and no condition exists that is reasonably expected to result in the subject revocation of a pending application for any such determination that was timely filed, determination.
(b) there With respect to each Employee Program, the Company has provided, or made available, to Parent (if applicable to such Employee Program): (i) all documents embodying or governing such Employee Program, and any funding medium for the Employee Program (including trust agreements); (ii) the most recent IRS determination or opinion letter with respect to such Employee Program under Section 401(a) of the Code; (iii) the most recently filed IRS Forms 5500; (iv) the most recent summary plan description for such Employee Program (or other descriptions of such Employee Program provided to employees) and all modifications thereto; (v) all correspondence with the Department of Labor or the IRS; and (vi) any insurance policy information related to such Employee Program.
(c) Each Employee Program has been administered in accordance with the requirements of applicable Law, including ERISA and the Code, except as would not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect, and has been administered and operated in all material respects in accordance with its terms. No Employee Program is no accumulated funding deficiency subject to Title IV of ERISA, is an employee stock ownership plan within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code, is a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association or is a multiemployer plan within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(37).
(d) Full payment has been made, or otherwise properly accrued on the books and records of the Company and any ERISA Affiliate, of all amounts that the Company and any ERISA Affiliate are required under the terms of the Employee Programs to have paid as contributions to such Employee Programs on or prior to the date hereof (excluding any amounts not yet due) and the contribution requirements, on a prorated basis, for the current year have been made or otherwise properly accrued on the books and records of the Company through the Closing Date.
(e) Neither the Company, an ERISA Affiliate or any person appointed or otherwise designated to act on behalf of the Company, or an ERISA Affiliate, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other “disqualified person” or “party in interest” (as defined in Section 302 4975(e)(2) of the Code and Section 3(14) of ERISA, respectively) has engaged in any transactions in connection with any Employee Program that is reasonably expected to result in the imposition of a material penalty pursuant to Section 502(i) of ERISA, material damages pursuant to Section 409 of ERISA and or a material Tax pursuant to Section 412 4975(a) of the Code).
(f) No material liability, whether claim, action or not waivedlitigation has been made, and no waiver commenced or, to the knowledge of the minimum funding standards Company, threatened with respect to any Employee Program (other than claims for benefits payable in the ordinary course of business).
(g) Except as set forth in Section 3.10(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, no Employee Program provides for medical, life insurance or other welfare plan benefits (other than under Section 4980B of the Code or state health continuation Laws) to any current or future retiree or former employee and all such sections has been requested from plans have effectively reserved the IRSright to amend or terminate such plans without participant consent.
(h) Except as set forth in Section 3.10(h) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, (c) neither Crestar the Company nor any of the Crestar Company Subsidiaries has providedis a party to any contract, agreement, plan or arrangement covering any persons that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible by reason of Section 280G of the Code, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to would constitute compensation in excess of the limitations set forth in Section 401(a)(29162(m) of the Code, .
(di) the fair market value Except as set forth in Section 3.10(i) of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value Company Disclosure Schedule, none of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning execution of Section 4001(a)(16) this Agreement, shareholder approval of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as this Agreement or consummation of the end Merger or the other the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (i) entitle any employee of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Company or any Company Subsidiary to the date hereof, calculated on the basis severance pay or any increase in severance pay upon any termination of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of employment after the date hereof, (eii) no reportable event described accelerate the time of payment or vesting or trigger any payment or funding (through a grantor trust or otherwise) of compensation or benefits under, any Employee Program (other than as contemplated by Section 2.1(e)), (iii) result in any breach or violation of, or a default under, any Employee Program or (iv) result in any payment that would be a “parachute payment” to a “disqualified individual” as those terms are defined in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 280G of the Code, except without regard to whether such payment is reasonable compensation for premiums all of which havepersonal services performed or to be performed in the future.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Section 5.17(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, correct and complete list, as of the date of this Agreement, of all material Employee Plans. For purposes of this Agreement, “Employee Plan” shall mean (collectively) (i) all “employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan ” (as defined in Section 3(23(3) of ERISA): ), whether or not subject to ERISA; and (aii) all other employment, individual natural person consultant or other service, bonus, stock option, stock purchase or other equity-based, post-employment or retiree welfare benefit, incentive compensation, profit sharing, savings, retirement, disability, insurance, life insurance, deferred compensation, severance, termination, leave, salary continuation, retention, change in control compensation, fringe, medical, welfare or other benefit or compensation plans, programs, agreements, contracts, policies or arrangements (whether or not in writing), (x) in each pension plan as amended case that are sponsored, maintained or contributed to (or required to be contributed to) by any member of the Company Group; or (y) otherwise, under or with respect to which the Company Group has or would reasonably be expected to have any current or contingent obligation or liability. With respect to each material Employee Plan, to the extent applicable, the Company has made available to Parent true, correct and complete copies of: (A) the most recent annual report on Form 5500, including all schedules thereto; (B) the most recent determination or opinion letter, if any, from the IRS for any trust relating thereto) Employee Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under qualify pursuant to Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, Code; (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (dC) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan and trust documents (as defined in Section 3(35and all amendments thereto) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of and the most recent summary plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis descriptions (and all summaries of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings material modifications); and (gD) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" all material non-routine correspondence with any Governmental Authority dated within the meaning of Section 3(37past three (3) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveyears.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.18(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, Company Disclosure Schedule contains a correct and administered in all complete list of each material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with Company Benefit Plan subject to the applicable requirements laws of ERISAthe United States. No later than thirty (30) days following the date of this Agreement, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Company shall provide or make available to Parent a complete list of each material Foreign Company Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has provided or made available to Parent with respect to each Crestar Employee and every material Company Benefit Plan which subject to the laws of the United States a true and complete copy of all plan documents, if any, including related trust agreements, funding arrangements, and insurance contracts and all amendments thereto; and, to the extent applicable, (i) the most recent determination letter received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the IRS regarding the tax-qualified status of such Company Benefit Plan; (ii) the most recent financial statements for such Company Benefit Plan; (iii) the most recent actuarial valuation report; (iv) the current summary plan description and any summaries of material modifications; and (v) Form 5500 Annual Returns/Reports, together with all schedules thereto, for the most recent plan year. No later than thirty (30) days following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall provide or make available to Parent all plan documents with respect to each material Foreign Company Benefit Plan or a written summary of such plan.
(c) With respect to each Company Benefit Plan that is a pension plan “single-employer plan” (as defined in within the meaning of Section 3(23(41) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended is subject to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified Title IV or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and or Section 412 or 4971 of the Code): (i) the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Sections 412 and 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) are satisfied, whether or not waived, and no application for a waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections standard has been requested from submitted to the IRS, ; (cii) neither Crestar nor no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) for which the 30-day notice requirement has not been waived has occurred; (iii) no liability other than for premiums to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (“PBGC”) under Title IV of ERISA has been or is reasonably expected to be incurred by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates, and all premiums to the Crestar Subsidiaries PBGC have been timely paid in full; (iv) the PBGC has providednot instituted proceedings to terminate any such plan, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no condition exists that presents a risk that such proceedings will be instituted or which would constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any such plan; (v) no such plan is currently, or is required reasonably expected to providebe, security to any pension plan pursuant to in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 401(a)(29303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code, ); (dvi) the fair market value of the assets and liabilities of such plan has been reported in accordance with GAAP by the Company on the most recent financial statements of the Company; and (vii) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have engaged in a “substantial cessation of operations” within the meaning of Section 4062(e) of ERISA, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the occurrence of any such event. None of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has, at any time during the last six years, contributed to or been obligated to contribute to a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA (a “Multiemployer Plan”), or a plan that has two or more contributing sponsors at least two of whom are not under common control, within the meaning of Section 4063 of ERISA. None of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has withdrawn at any time within the preceding six years from any Multiemployer Plan, or incurred any withdrawal liability which remains unsatisfied, and no events have occurred and no circumstances exist that would reasonably be expected to result in any such liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(d) With respect to each defined benefit Company Benefit Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code, such plan, and its related trust, has received, has an application pending or remains within the remedial amendment period for obtaining, a determination letter from the IRS that it is so qualified and that its trust is exempt from Tax under Section 501(a) of the Code, or such plan has been adopted under a prototype plan or volume submitter plan approved by the IRS, and nothing has occurred with respect to the operation of any such plan which would reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or exemption or the imposition of any material liability, penalty or Tax under ERISA or the Code.
(e) There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened material actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to any Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States or against any fiduciary of any Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States with respect to the operation of such plan (other than routine benefits claims). Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect, there are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to any Foreign Company Benefit Plan or against any fiduciary of any Foreign Company Benefit Plan with respect to the operation of such plan (other than routine benefits claims).
(f) Each Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States has been established and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms, and in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other applicable laws, and all contributions required to have been made under any of the Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of the United States to any funds or trusts established thereunder or in connection therewith have been made or have been accrued and reported on the Company’s financial statements.
(g) None of the Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of the United States provide retiree health or life insurance benefits except as may be required by Section 4980B of the Code and Section 601 of ERISA or any other applicable law or at the expense of the participant or the participant’s beneficiary. There has been no material violation of the “continuation coverage requirement” of “group health plans” as set forth in Section 4980B of the Code and Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA with respect to any Company Benefit Plan to which such continuation coverage requirements apply.
(h) Except as provided in this Agreement (and, with respect to Foreign Company Benefit Plan or employees of the Company outside of the United States only, to the Knowledge of the Company), neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation or benefits due, to any current or former employee of the Company and its Subsidiaries or with respect to any Company Benefit Plan; (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Benefit Plan; (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits; or (iv) trigger any payment or funding (through a grantor trust or otherwise) of any compensation or benefits under any Company Benefit Plan.
(i) No Company Benefit Plan provides for the gross-up or reimbursement of Taxes under Section 409A or 4999 of the Code.
(j) Except as set forth on Section 3.18(j) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will (either alone or in combination with another event) result in the payment of any amount that would, individually or in combination with any other such payment, not be deductible as a result of Section 280G of the Code.
(k) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or its Subsidiaries, each Company Benefit Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c409A(d)(1) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor ) is in documentary compliance with, and has been administered (i) in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code for the period beginning October 1, 2004 through December 31, 2008, and (ii) in compliance with Section 409A of the Code since January 1, 2009.
(l) With respect to any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred Company RSU Award, (i) each grant of a Company RSU Award was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Company RSU Award was by its terms to be effective (the “Grant Date”) by all necessary corporate action, including, as applicable, approval by the Board of Directors of the Company, or a committee thereof, or a duly authorized delegate thereof, and any required approval by the stockholders of the Company by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and the award agreement governing such grant, if any, was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto within a reasonable time following the Grant Date, and (ii) each such grant was made in accordance with the terms of the applicable Company Benefit Plan (including the applicable Company Stock Plan), the Exchange Act and all other applicable law, including the rules of NYSE.
(m) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the PBGC with respect Company or its Subsidiaries, all Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 jurisdiction outside of the CodeUnited States (each a “Foreign Company Benefit Plan”) (i) have been maintained in accordance with all applicable requirements, except (ii) that are intended to qualify for premiums special Tax treatment, meet all requirements for such treatment, and (iii) that are intended to be funded and/or book-reserved, are fully funded and/or book-reserved, as appropriate, based upon reasonable actuarial assumptions.
(n) As of October 14, 2016, there are (i) 302,877 shares of Company Common Stock underlying outstanding and unvested Company RSU Awards granted (A) prior to April 1, 2014 and (B) to non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company, in each case, all of which haveCompany RSU Awards are service-based, (ii) 3,463,845 shares of Company Common Stock underlying outstanding and unvested service-based Company RSU Awards granted on or after April 1, 2014 (other than any Company RSU Award granted to a non-employee member of the Board of Directors of the Company), (iii) 1,577,767 shares of Company Common Stock underlying outstanding and unvested performance-based Company RSU Awards granted on or after April 1, 2014, assuming target performance (or actual performance to the extent the performance criteria has already been satisfied), and (iv) 2,666,136 shares of Company Common Stock underlying unvested performance-based Company RSU Awards granted on or after April 1, 2014, assuming maximum performance.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Schedule 5.20(a) sets forth: (i) all "employee benefitbenefit plans", welfareas defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, bonusand all other material employee benefit programs, policies, arrangements or payroll practices, including, without limitation, any such programs, policies, arrangements or payroll practices providing severance pay, sick leave, vacation pay, salary continuation for disability, retirement benefits, deferred compensation, pensionbonus pay, profit sharingincentive pay, stock optionoptions, employee stock ownershiphospitalization insurance, consultingmedical insurance, severancelife insurance, cafeteria benefits, dependent care reimbursements, prepaid legal benefits, scholarships or fringe benefit planstuition reimbursements, formal maintained by the Company or informal, written any of its Subsidiaries or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to which the Company or any present of its Subsidiaries is obligated to contribute thereunder for current or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Company and its Subsidiaries (the "Crestar Employee Benefit Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated), and administered in (ii) all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply"employee pension plans", and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): , maintained or sponsored by the Company or any trade or business (awhether or not incorporated) each pension plan which is or since the effective date of the reorganization contemplated by the Modified Third Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization dated as amended of April 7, 2004 (and any trust relating theretothe "Plan Effective Date") intended to be has been under control or treated as a qualified plan single employer with the Company under Section 401(a414(b), (c), (m), or (o) of the Code either (an "ERISA Affiliate") or to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has contributed or has since the Plan Effective Date been determined by obligated to contribute thereunder (the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, "Pension Plans").
(b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA True, correct and Section 412 complete copies of the Code)following documents, whether or not waivedwith respect to each of the Employee Benefit Plans and Pension Plans, have been made available to Parent, to the extent applicable: (i) all plans and related trust documents, and no waiver of amendments thereto; (ii) Forms 5500 filed for the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, three most recent plan years; (ciii) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent IRS determination letter; (iv) the most recent summary plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofdescriptions, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in annual reports and material modifications; (v) the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereofreport, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings if any; and (gvi) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning written descriptions of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability all non-written agreements relating to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveEmployee Benefit Plans.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.13(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered Disclosure Schedule lists each "employee benefit plan," as defined in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements Section 3(3) of ERISA, the Codewhether or not subject to ERISA, and each other benefit plan, policy, agreement or arrangement (including, without limitation, any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Lettercollective bargaining agreement) that is, with respect to Seller's own employees, (i) maintained, administered, contributed to or required to be contributed to by the Seller, or any entity that, together with the Seller, would be treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code (an "ERISA Affiliate") or to which the Seller or any ERISA Affiliate is a party; and (ii) covers any employee or former employee of the Seller or any of its ERISA Affiliates who provides or has provided services to or in connection with the Business (the "Business Employees"). Each such plan, policy, agreement or arrangement is referred to herein as an "Employee Plan."
(b) Seller has delivered to NMHC and the Purchaser true, correct and complete copies of the following documents with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is (where applicable): (i) each contract, plan document, policy statement, summary plan description and other written material governing or describing the Employee Plan and/or any related funding arrangements (including, without limitation, any related trust agreement or insurance company contract) or, if there are no such written materials, a pension plan summary description of the Employee Plan, and (as defined in Section 3(2ii) of ERISA): where applicable, (a) each pension plan as amended the last annual report (and any trust relating thereto5500 series) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) filed with the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, Labor; (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA the most recent balance sheet and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, financial statement; (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, most recent actuarial report or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, valuation statement; and (d) the fair market value most recent determination letter issued by the Internal Revenue Service, as well as any other determination letter, private letter ruling, opinion letter or prohibited transaction exemption issued by the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of the assets of each defined benefit plan Labor since inception and any application therefor which is currently pending.
(as defined in Section 3(35c) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" The Seller has no funded employee pension plans within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have3(2)
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Samples: Asset Purchase Agreement (National Medical Health Card Systems Inc)
Employee Plans. All (a) Schedule 4.17 contains a complete list of Employee Plans. With respect to each such Employee Plan, the Company has provided to Sub true and complete copies of (i) all plan documents and related trust agreements, annuity contracts or other funding instruments, (ii) all summary plan descriptions, summary of material modifications, all material employee benefitcommunications, welfarethe number of and a general description of the level of employees covered by each Benefit Arrangement and a complete description of any Employee Plan which is not in writing, bonus(iii) the most recent determination letter issued by the Internal Revenue Service and any opinion letter issued by the Department of Labor with respect to each Pension Plan and each voluntary employees' beneficiary association as defined under Section 501(c)(9) of the Code (other than a Multiemployer Plan), deferred compensation(iv) for the three most recent plan years, pensionthe Internal Revenue Service Form 5500 including all schedules and attachments thereto for each Pension Plan and Welfare Plan, profit sharing(v) all actuarial reports prepared for the last three plan years for each Pension Plan, stock optionand (vi) a description setting forth the amount of any liability of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date for payments more than thirty (30) calendar days past due with respect to any Welfare Plan.
(i) Each Employee Plan including any related trust agreement, employee stock ownershipannuity contract or other funding instrument is legal, consultingvalid and binding and in full force and effect.
(ii) Each Pension Plan and each related trust agreement, severanceannuity contract or other funding instrument which has been operated as a qualified plan has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service stating that such Pension Plan and each related trust is qualified and tax-exempt under the provisions of Code Sections 401(a) and 501(a) and has been so qualified during the period from its adoption to the date of such determination letter.
(iii) Each Employee Plan is subject only to the laws of the United States or a political subdivision thereof.
(iv) Each Employee Plan has been maintained in compliance in all material respect to its terms and operation, with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations which are applicable to such Employment Plan, including, without limitation, ERISA and the Code.
(v) Except as provided by law or in any employment agreement set forth on Schedule 4.17, the employment of all persons presently employed or retained by the Company or its Subsidiaries is terminable at will.
(i) None of the Employee Plans is a plan that is or has ever been subject to Title IV of ERISA, Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code. (ii) None of the Employee Plans is a plan or arrangement described under Section 4(b)(5) or 401(a)(1) of ERISA, or fringe benefit plansa plan maintained in connection with a trust described in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(iii) Neither the Company nor any ERISA affiliate has, formal at any time, maintained, contributed to or informalhad any obligation to maintain or contribute to any Multiemployer Plan.
(i) Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in, written or oral is a successor or parent corporation to an entity that has engaged in, a transaction described in Section 4212(c) of ERISA.
(ii) None of the Company, or its Subsidiaries or any plan fiduciary of any Employee Plan has engaged in, or has any liability in respect of, any transaction in violation of Sections 404 or 406 of ERISA or any "prohibited transaction," as defined in Section 4975(c)(1) of the Code, for which no exemption exists under Section 408 of ERISA or Section 4975(c)(2) or (d) of the Code, or has otherwise
(iii) The Company and all its Subsidiaries have not been assessed any civil penalty under Section 502(l) of ERISA.
(iv) No Employee Plan (or trust agreements related or other funding vehicle pursuant thereto) has incurred any liability under Code Section 511.
(e) Except as required by Section 4980B of the Code or Part 6 of Title 1, relating Subtitle B of ERISA, neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate or any Welfare Plan has any present or future obligation to make any payment to, or with respect to any present or former directorsemployee of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate pursuant to any retiree medical benefit plan, officers or other retiree Welfare Plan, and no condition exists which would prevent the Company or an ERISA affiliate from amending or terminating any such benefit plan or such Welfare Plan.
(f) There is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement covering any employee or former employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries that, individually or collectively, requires the payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of any amount (i) that is not deductible under Section 162(a)(1) or 404 of the Code or (ii) that is an "excess parachute payment" pursuant to Section 280G of the Code.
(g) Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has announced to employees, former employees or directors an intention to create, or has otherwise created, a legally binding commitment to adopt any additional Employee Plans which are intended to cover employees or former employees of Crestar the Company or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect subsidiary or to each Crestar amend or modify any existing Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) covers or has covered employees or former employees of the Code either has been determined Company or any subsidiary.
(h) Neither the Company nor any Employee Plan holds as an asset any interest in any annuity contract, guaranteed investment contract or any other investment or insurance contract issued by the IRS to be so qualified or an insurance company that is the subject of a pending application bankruptcy, conservatorship or rehabilitation proceedings. The insurance policies or other funding instruments, if any, for such determination that was timely filedeach Welfare Plan provide coverage for each employee, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 consultant, independent contractor or retiree of the Code)Company or its Subsidiaries (and, if applicable, their respective dependents) who has been advised by the Company or its Subsidiaries, whether through an Employee Plan or not waivedotherwise, that he or she is covered by such Welfare Plan.
(i) Neither the execution and no waiver delivery of this Agreement or other related agreements by the Company nor the consummation of the minimum funding standards transactions contemplated hereby or the related transactions will result in the acceleration or creation of any rights of any person to benefits under any Employee Plan (including, without limitation, the acceleration of the vesting or exercisability of any share options, the acceleration of the vesting of any restricted stock, the acceleration of the accrual or vesting of any benefits under any Pension Plan or the acceleration or creation of any rights under any severance, parachute or change in control agreement).
(j) No event has occurred in connection with which the Company or any Employee Plan, directly or indirectly, could be subject to any material liability (A) under any statute, regulation or governmental order relating to any Employee Plan or (B) pursuant to any obligation of the Company to indemnify any person against liability incurred under any such sections has been requested from statute, regulation or order as they relate to the IRS, Employee Plans.
(ck) neither Crestar nor The Company is not a party to any severance or similar arrangement in respect of any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, Personnel that will result in any obligation (absolute or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29contingent) of the Code, (d) Company or Sub after the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Closing to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute make any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect payment to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) such Personnel following termination of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveemployment.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Odyssey Investment Partners Fund LLC)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedules sets forth a true, welfareaccurate and complete list of all Employee Benefit Plans. With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, bonusthe Group Companies have provided CHP with true, deferred compensationaccurate and complete copies of, pensionas applicable: (i) if the plan has been reduced to writing, profit sharingthe underlying plan document together with all amendments thereto (and no material Employee Benefit Plan is unwritten), stock option(ii) any related trust agreements, employee stock ownershipcustodial agreements, consultinginsurance policies administrative agreements and similar Contracts, severance(iii) the most recent summary plan description (and any summaries of material modifications thereto), (iv) in the case of any Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, the most recent opinion or fringe benefit plansdetermination letter received from the IRS or U.S. Department of Labor relating to such Employee Benefit Plan, formal or informal(v) Form 5500 filed for the most recent plan year, written or oral and all trust agreements related with schedules attached thereto, relating (vi) with respect to any present year during which the Group Companies were an “applicable large employer” (within the meaning of the ACA), IRS Forms 1094-C, with respect to 2015 to 2020 and (vii) all non-routine or former directors, officers material correspondence (including any applications or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"submissions under any voluntary correction programs) are listed with any Governmental Entity in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterlast six (6) years.
(b) Each Employee Benefit Plan, including any associated trust or fund, has been established and at all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been relevant times maintained, operatedfunded, operated and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms and in compliance with their terms all applicable Laws, including ERISA and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code. None of the Group Companies nor any ERISA Affiliate thereof have ever, and sponsored, maintained, contributed to or had an obligation to contribute to or has had any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Liability with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is (i) a pension plan (“defined benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(23(35) of ERISA or other plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, (ii) a pension plan subject to the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, (iii) a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or Section 414(f) of the Code, (iv) a “multiple employer plan” as described in Section 413(c) of the Code, or (v) a “multiple employer welfare arrangement” within the meaning of Section 3(40) of ERISA): . No Group Company nor any of their respective ERISA Affiliates have any Liabilities to provide any retiree or post-termination health or life insurance or other welfare-type benefits to any Person other than health continuation coverage pursuant to COBRA or similar applicable Law and for which the recipient pays the full cost of coverage.
(ac) each pension plan as amended (Each Employee Benefit Plan and any related trust relating thereto) that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either or exempt from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code is so qualified and has been determined by timely received a favorable determination or opinion or advisory letter from the IRS Internal Revenue Service upon which it may rely, and, to the Company’s knowledge, nothing has occurred since the date of such letter that would reasonably be expected to result in the revocation of such qualified or exempt status of any such Employee Benefit Plan or related trust or result in material Liability to any of the Group Companies. No Group Company has incurred, or is reasonably expected to incur or to be so qualified subject to, any tax, penalty or is other Liability that may be imposed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the “ACA”). As of the date of this Agreement, there are no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, claims or Proceedings with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan (other than routine claims for benefits in the ordinary course of business). No Employee Benefit Plan is, or has been, the subject of an inquiry, examination, or audit by a pending Governmental Entity or the subject of an application for such determination or filing under, or a participant in, a government-sponsored amnesty, voluntary compliance, self-correction or similar program in the last three (3) years. There have been no non-exempt “prohibited transactions” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA and no breaches of fiduciary duty (as determined under ERISA) with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan. With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, all contributions, distributions, reimbursements and premium payments that was are due have been timely filedmade or, if not yet made, have been properly accrued under GAAP.
(bd) there is no accumulated funding deficiency Each Employee Benefit Plan that constitutes in any part a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 409A of the Code), whether or not waived, ) complies and no waiver has complied in all material respects (both in form and in operation) with the requirements of Section 409A of the minimum funding standards Code and the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder.
(e) The execution and delivery of such sections has been requested from this Agreement and the IRSconsummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (alone or in combination with any other event) (i) result in any payment or benefit becoming due to or result in the forgiveness of any indebtedness of any current or former officer, (c) neither Crestar nor employee, director or individual independent contractor of any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedGroup Companies, (ii) create or increase the amount or value of any compensation or benefits payable to any current or former officer, employee, director or individual independent contractor of any of the Group Companies, (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting, or is required to provide, security trigger any payment or funding (or increase in funding) of any compensation or benefits to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) current or former officer, employee, director or individual independent contractor of any of the CodeGroup Companies, (div) limit or restrict the fair market value right of any of the assets Group Companies, CHP, or any of each defined their respective Affiliates to merge, amend or terminate any Employee Benefit Plan or any related Contract, or (v) cause the payment or provision of any amount or benefit plan (that, individually or in combination with any other payment or benefit, could be characterized as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" an “excess parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as 280G of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, Code.
(f) The Group Companies have no defined benefit plan has been terminatedobligation to make a “gross-up” or similar payment to any current or former officer, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan employee, director or to appoint a trustee independent contractor in respect of any taxes or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and interest or penalty related thereto.
(g) no pension plan No Employee Benefit Plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveForeign Benefit Plan.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Sellers have provided Buyer with a correct and complete list of their employees as of December 31, 1998, including their names and base salary or hourly wage rate. Sellers shall update such list as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the Closing Date, which will include each new employee's date of hire on record with Seller and provide Buyer with such updated list prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Schedule 6.10(b) sets forth all "employee benefitbenefit plans," as ---------------- defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended ("ERISA") and all other employee benefit plans or other benefit arrangements, bonusincluding all bonus and other incentive compensation, deferred compensation, pensiondisability, profit sharingseverance, retention, salary continuation, stock and stock-related award, stock option, employee stock ownershippurchase, consultingcollective bargaining or workers' compensation agreements, severanceplans, policies and arrangements which Primestar or any of its Subsidiaries maintains, is a party to, contributed to or has any obligation to or liability for in respect of current or former employees and directors (each, a "Benefit Plan" and collectively, the "Benefit Plans"). None of the Benefit Plans is subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(c) True, correct and complete copies of the most recent summary plan description for each Benefit Plan have been delivered to Buyer for review prior to the date hereof.
(d) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on Primestar, (i) all payments required to be made by or under any Benefit Plan, any related trusts, insurance policies or ancillary agreements, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans collective bargaining agreement have been maintainedtimely made, operated(ii) Primestar and its Subsidiaries have performed all obligations required to be performed by them under any Benefit Plan, and administered (iii) the Benefit Plans comply in all material respects and have been maintained in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws, and (iv) there are no actions, suits, arbitrations or claims (other than routine claims for benefits) pending or, to the Knowledge of either Seller, threatened with respect to any Benefit Plan.
(e) Each Benefit Plan and its related trust which are intended to be "qualified" within the meaning of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code, respectively, have been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be so "qualified" under such Sections, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and neither Seller has Knowledge of any fact which would adversely affect the qualified status of any such Benefit Plan and its related trust.
(f) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (i) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Benefit Plan, or (ii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits. Except as set forth in on Schedule 6.10(f), neither the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) execution and delivery of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) this ---------------- Agreement nor the consummation of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined transactions contemplated hereby will result in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedpayment becoming due, or is required to provideincrease the compensation due, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) current or former employee or director of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan Primestar or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveits Subsidiaries.
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Samples: Asset Purchase Agreement (Tci Satellite Entertainment Inc)
Employee Plans. All (a) Sellers have provided Buyer with a correct and complete list of their employees as of December 31, 1998, including their names and base salary or hourly wage rate. Sellers shall update such list as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the Closing Date, which will include each new employee's date of hire on record with Seller and provide Buyer with such updated list prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Schedule 6.10(b) sets forth all "employee benefitbenefit plans," as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended ("ERISA") and all other employee benefit plans or other benefit arrangements, bonusincluding all bonus and other incentive compensation, deferred compensation, pensiondisability, profit sharingseverance, retention, salary continuation, stock and stock-related award, stock option, employee stock ownershippurchase, consultingcollective bargaining or workers' compensation agreements, severanceplans, policies and arrangements which Primestar or any of its Subsidiaries maintains, is a party to, contributed to or has any obligation to or liability for in respect of current or former employees and directors (each, a "Benefit Plan" and collectively, the "Benefit Plans"). None of the Benefit Plans is subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(c) True, correct and complete copies of the most recent summary plan description for each Benefit Plan have been delivered to Buyer for review prior to the date hereof.
(d) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on Primestar, (i) all payments required to be made by or under any Benefit Plan, any related trusts, insurance policies or ancillary agreements, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans collective bargaining agreement have been maintainedtimely made, operated(ii) Primestar and its Subsidiaries have performed all obligations required to be performed by them under any Benefit Plan, and administered (iii) the Benefit Plans comply in all material respects and have been maintained in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws, and (iv) there are no actions, suits, arbitrations or claims (other than routine claims for benefits) pending or, to the Knowledge of either Seller, threatened with respect to any Benefit Plan.
(e) Each Benefit Plan and its related trust which are intended to be "qualified" within the meaning of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code, respectively, have been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be so "qualified" under such Sections, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and neither Seller has Knowledge of any fact which would adversely affect the qualified status of any such Benefit Plan and its related trust.
(f) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (i) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Benefit Plan, or (ii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits. Except as set forth in on Schedule 6.10(f), neither the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) execution and delivery of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) this Agreement nor the consummation of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined transactions contemplated hereby will result in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedpayment becoming due, or is required to provideincrease the compensation due, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) current or former employee or director of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan Primestar or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveits Subsidiaries.
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Employee Plans. All (i) Schedule 4.1(w) lists all the employee benefit, health, welfare, supplemental unemployment benefit, bonus, profit sharing, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharingstock compensation, stock optionpurchase, employee stock ownershiphospitalization insurance, consultingmedical, severancedental, legal, disability and similar plans or fringe benefit plans, formal arrangements or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, practices relating to any present the Employees or former directors, officers employees which are currently maintained or employees of Crestar or were maintained at any time in the Crestar Subsidiaries past ("Crestar the “Employee Plans"”). Atmos has never had any retirement or pension funds, arrangements or similar plans. With respect to its Employee Plans, Atmos has not been required by any Legal Requirement to prepare or distribute to its Employees any: (A) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all annual report; (B) actuarial valuation; (C) annual audited financial statement and opinion; or (D) annual and periodic accounting of plan assets.
(ii) All of the Crestar Employee Plans are and have been established, registered, qualified, invested and administered in all respects in accordance with all laws, regulations, orders or other legislative, administrative or judicial promulgations applicable to the Employee Plans (“Applicable Employee Benefit Laws”). Atmos has no tax-exempt Employee Plan.
(iii) All obligations regarding the Employee Plans have been maintainedsatisfied, operatedthere are no outstanding defaults or violations by any party to any Employee Plan and no Taxes, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently complypenalties or fees are owing under any of the Employee Plans.
(iv) Atmos may unilaterally amend, and have at all relevant times compliedmodify, vary, revoke or terminate, in all material respects whole or in part, each Employee Plan and may merge any Employee Plan or the assets transferred from any Employee Plan with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except plan, arrangement or fund.
(v) Atmos has furnished to MoSys true, correct and complete copies of all the Employee Plans as set forth in amended as of the Crestar Disclosure Letterdate hereof together with all related documentation including funding agreements, actuarial reports, funding and financial information returns and statements, all professional opinions (whether or not internally prepared) with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) Plan, all material internal memoranda concerning the Employee Plans, copies of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC material correspondence with all regulatory authorities with respect to any "single-employer plan" within each Employee Plan and plan summaries, booklets and personnel manuals. No material changes have occurred to the meaning of Employee Plans or are expected to occur which would affect the actuarial reports or financial statements required to be provided to MoSys pursuant to this Section 4001(a)(154.1(w).
(vi) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 None of the CodeEmployee Plans enjoys any special tax status under Applicable Employee Benefit Laws, except nor have any advance tax rulings been sought or received in respect of the Employee Plans.
(vii) All employee data necessary to administer each Employee Plan has been provided by Atmos to MoSys and is true and correct.
(viii) No insurance policy or any other contract or agreement affecting any Employee Plan requires or permits a retroactive increase in premiums or payments due thereunder. The level of insurance reserves under each insured Employee Plan is reasonable and sufficient to provide for premiums all incurred but unreported claims.
(ix) Except as disclosed in Schedule 4.1(w), none of which havethe Employee Plans provides benefits to retired employees or to the beneficiaries or dependants of retired employees.
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Samples: Share Purchase Agreement (Monolithic System Technology Inc)
Employee Plans. All With respect to every "employee benefitpension plan" or "employee welfare benefit plan", welfareas defined in ERISA, bonussponsored by Seller or in which any employee of Seller participates (singly, deferred compensationa "Plan" and collectively, the "Plans"), Seller and Shareholder have heretofore delivered to the Buyer true, correct and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letters relating to each Plan which is a pension, profit profit-sharing, or stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, bonus plan qualified (or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating intended to any present or former directors, officers or employees be qualified) under Section 401(c) of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, listed in Exhibit 4.3(n) hereto for which a determination letter was obtained;
(ii) the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 series) and accompanying schedules of each Plan currently sponsored by any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterof them, with respect to which the same are required, as filed pursuant to applicable law;
(iii) the most recent annual, quarterly and monthly financial statements or reports for each Crestar Employee and all Plans; and
(iv) all plan documents, as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of material modifications and all plan termination documentation with respect to each Plan presently or in the past sponsored by any member of the Selling Group, except for the multi-employer plans referred to below. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. Seller and Shareholder do not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2) 406 of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, which has ever been engaged in by Shareholder or Seller, or by any Plan sponsored by Seller, any trust relating thereto) intended created thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to be a qualified plan under the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 401(a) 4975 of the Code either has been determined by Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the IRS to be so qualified best of Seller's or is Shareholder's knowledge, after due inquiry, threatened, against any of the subject Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no the Plans nor any of said trusts have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency (deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA and or Section 412 412(a) of the Code), Code (whether or not waived), since the effective date of ERISA. The terms and operation of each of the Plans have complied to the extent required with the provisions of the Code and ERISA, and no waiver all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been duly filed or given. Seller and Shareholder shall deliver to the Buyer a list of all of the minimum funding standards members of the Seller's Plans subject to Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is defined in Section 4043 of ERISA. Except as may be specified in Exhibit 4.3(n) hereto, none of such sections Plans and no such trust has been requested from terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such Plans since the IRSeffective date of ERISA. The present value, (c) neither Crestar nor any on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by Seller and subject to Title IV of ERISA did not, as of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedmost recent valuation date, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit such Plan as of such date. Seller has never been a sponsor of, and/or a contributing employer to, a multi-employer pension plan (as defined in subject to the provisions of Section 3(35) 4201, et seq., of ERISA) exceeds the value ; or if it has, it has never incurred any withdrawal liability thereunder, nor will it incur any such liability as a result of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning consummation of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as any of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if it will, at or prior to the date hereofClosing Date, calculated on it will pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond in an appropriate amount with respect to the basis same with an escrow agent and/or a bonding company reasonably satisfactory to the Buyer and in a manner agreeable to applicable law. Seller has never been a sponsor of, or a contributing employer to, a single employer pension plan subject to the provisions of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as Section 4041, et seq., of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, ERISA; nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has it ever incurred any liability thereunder or under Section 4062, et seq., of ERISA, nor will it incur any such liability as a result of the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if it will, at or prior to the PBGC Closing Date, it will pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of same as provided in the Code, except for premiums all of which havepreceding sentence.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Section 3.20(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth: (i) all “employee benefitbenefit plans,” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, welfareand all material employee benefit programs, bonuspolicies, or arrangements, including, without limitation, any such programs, policies, or arrangements providing severance pay, sick leave, vacation pay, salary continuation, disability, retirement benefits, deferred compensation, pensionbonus pay, profit sharingincentive pay, equity or equity-based compensation, stock optionpurchase, employee stock ownershiphospitalization insurance, consultingmedical insurance, severancelife insurance, cafeteria benefits, dependent care reimbursements, prepaid legal benefits, scholarships or fringe benefit planstuition reimbursements, formal currently sponsored or informal, written maintained by the Company or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present which the Company is obligated to contribute thereunder for current or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries Company ("Crestar the “Company Employee Benefit Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated”), and administered in (ii) all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a “employee pension plan (plans,” as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): , currently maintained or sponsored by the Company or any trade or business (awhether or not incorporated) each pension plan which is under control or treated as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan single employer with the Company under Section 401(a414(b), (c), (m), or (o) of the Code either has been determined by (a “Company ERISA Affiliate”) or to which the IRS Company or any Company ERISA Affiliate is obligated to be so qualified or is contribute thereunder (the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, “Company Pension Plans”).
(b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA True, correct and Section 412 complete copies of the Code)following documents, whether or not waivedwith respect to each of the Company Employee Benefit Plans and Company Pension Plans, have been made available to Parent, to the extent applicable: (i) all plans and related trust documents, and no waiver of amendments thereto; (ii) Forms 5500 filed for the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, three most recent plan years; (ciii) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent IRS determination letter; (iv) the most recent summary plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofdescriptions, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in annual reports and material modifications; (v) the most recent actuarial valuation report, if any; and (vi) written descriptions of all non-written agreements relating to the Company Employee Benefit Plans. In addition, the most recent financial statements and actuarial valuations for such defined benefit plan as the Company Pension Plans have been made available to Parent.
(c) None of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate Company Employee Benefit Plans or Company Pension Plans is a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit multiemployer plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code. The Company has not incurred any liability due to a "multiple complete or partial withdrawal from a multiemployer plan or due to the termination or reorganization of a multiemployer plan (except for any such liability that has been satisfied in full), and no events have occurred and no circumstance exists, to the Knowledge of the Company, that would reasonably be expected to result in any liability to the Company or a Company ERISA Affiliate.
(d) Each Company Pension Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401 of the Code has received a determination letter from the IRS, or can rely on an opinion letter, that it so qualifies and that the trust is exempt from taxation under Section 501 of the Code, and to the Knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred since the date of determination that would reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or exemption or the imposition of any material liability, penalty or tax under ERISA or the Code.
(e) All contributions (including all employer plan" contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) and all premiums required to have been paid under any of the Company Employee Benefit Plans or Company Pension Plans or by law (without regard to any waivers granted under Section 412 of the Code) to any funds or trusts established thereunder or in connection therewith have been made by the due date thereof (including any valid extension).
(f) There are no pending actions, claims or lawsuits which have been asserted or instituted against the Company Employee Benefit Plans or Company Pension Plans, the assets of any of the trusts under such plans or the plan sponsor or the plan administrator, or against any fiduciary of the Company Employee Benefit Plans or Company Pension Plans with respect to the operation or administration of such plans or the investment of plan assets (other than routine benefit claims), nor does the Company have Knowledge of facts which could form the basis for any such claim or lawsuit. No Company Employee Benefit Plan or Company Pension Plan has been the subject of an audit, investigation or examination by any Governmental Entity to the Knowledge of the Company.
(g) None of the Company Employee Benefit Plans provide retiree life or retiree health benefits except as may be required under COBRA or any similar state or local law.
(h) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will, either alone or together with the occurrence of subsequent events, (i) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Employee Benefit Plan or Company Pension Plan, (ii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any benefits including, but not limited to, benefits under any Company Employee Benefit Plan or Company Contract to any current or former employee, or (iii) entitle any current or former employee, officer, director or independent contractor of the Company to a payment or benefit that is not deductible by reason of Section 280G of the Code.
(i) With respect to each Company Option and Other Stock Award, (i) each such Company Option and Other Stock Award has been granted with an exercise price no lower than “fair market value” (within the meaning of Section 413(c409A of the Code) as of the grant date, (ii) the “grant date” of such Company Option and Other Stock Award as reflected in the Company’s option and stock ledger is the same date of grant as determined in accordance with applicable tax laws and GAAP, and (iii) such option has been properly expensed by the Company in accordance with GAAP.
(j) Each “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer the Company has been operated, since January 1, 2005, in good faith compliance with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 409A of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveIRS Notice 2005-1, and other applicable notices required by law.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Oracle Healthcare Acquisition Corp.)
Employee Plans. All (a) Section 3.10(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true, correct and complete list of each employee benefitbenefit plan, welfarewithin the meaning of ERISA Section 3(3) whether or not subject to ERISA, bonusand each other benefit program, deferred policy, agreement, understanding, arrangement, policy, practice or plan (whether written or oral) providing compensation or benefits to any current or former director, employee or consultant (or any dependent or beneficiary thereof), including employment agreements, bonuses, incentive compensation, pensionchange in control benefits, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consultingvacation, severance, or fringe benefit insurance, cafeteria, medical, disability, restricted stock, stock options, employee discounts, company cars, tuition reimbursement, stock purchase, stock appreciation, phantom stock, other stock-based compensation plans, formal programs or informalpolicies, written holiday, deferred compensation or oral and all trust agreements related theretoany other perquisite or benefit (collectively, relating to any present the “Employee Programs”), which is currently, or former directorssince the Company’s formation was, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, sponsored or contributed to (or with respect to each Crestar which any obligation to contribute has been undertaken) by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate. Each Employee Plan which Program that is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by received a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) regarding its qualification thereunder and, to be so qualified or the Company’s knowledge, no event has occurred and no condition exists that is reasonably expected to result in the subject revocation of a pending application for any such determination that was timely filed, determination.
(b) With respect to each Employee Program, the Company has provided, or made available, to Parent (if applicable to such Employee Program) true, correct and complete copies of: (i) all documents embodying or governing such Employee Program (or, if not written, a written summary of its material terms), and any funding medium for the Employee Program (including, without limitation, trust agreements); (ii) the most recent IRS determination or opinion letter with respect to such Employee Program under Code Section 401(a); (iii) the three (3) most recently filed IRS Form 5500, if applicable; (iv) the most recent summary plan description for such Employee Program (or other descriptions of such Employee Program provided to employees) and all modifications thereto; (v) all material correspondence with the Department of Labor or the IRS; (vi) any insurance policy information related to such Employee Program and (vii) the most recent actuarial report or financial statements relating to such Employee Program, if any.
(c) Each Employee Program complies with and has been administered in accordance with its terms and the requirements of applicable law, including, without limitation, ERISA and the Code (including, without limitation, Section 409A of the Code), except as would not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect. With respect to each Employee Program, all tax, annual reporting and other governmental filings required by ERISA and the Code have been timely filed with the appropriate governmental entity and all notices and disclosures have been timely provided to participants. With respect to the Employee Programs, no event has occurred and, to the knowledge of Company, there exists no condition or set of circumstances in connection with which the Company could be subject to any liability (other than for routine benefit liabilities) under the terms of, or with respect to, such Employee Programs, ERISA, the Code or any other applicable Law, except as would not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect. No Employee Program is subject to Title IV of ERISA, is an employee stock ownership plan within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code, a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association or is a multiemployer plan, within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(37).
(d) Except as set forth in Section 3.10(d) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, full payment has been made, or otherwise properly accrued on the books and records of the Company and any ERISA Affiliate, of all amounts that the Company and any ERISA Affiliate are required under the terms of the Employee Programs to have paid as contributions to such Employee Programs on or prior to the Closing Date (excluding any amounts not yet due) and the contribution requirements, on a prorated basis, for the current year have been made or otherwise properly accrued on the books and records of the Company through the Closing Date.
(e) No material liability, claim, action or litigation has been made, commenced or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any Employee Program (other than for benefits payable in the ordinary course of business).
(f) Except as set forth in Section 3.10(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, no Employee Program provides for medical, life insurance or other welfare plan benefits (other than under Section 4980B of the Code or state health continuation laws) to any current or future retiree or former employee and all such plans have effectively reserved the right to amend or terminate such plans without participant consent.
(g) All Company Stock Options have an exercise price per share that was not less than the “fair market value” of a Company Share on the date of grant, as determined in accordance with the terms of the applicable Employee Program and, to the extent applicable, Sections 409A and 422 of the Code. All Company Stock Options have been properly accounted for by the Company in accordance with GAAP, and no change is expected in respect of any prior Company financial statement relating to expenses for stock compensation. To the Company’s knowledge, there is no accumulated funding deficiency pending or threatened audit, investigation or inquiry by any governmental agency or by the Company with respect to the Company’s stock option granting practices or other equity compensation practices.
(h) Except as would not reasonably be likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect, the Company has withheld and paid all amounts required by applicable Law or by agreement to be withheld from the wages, salaries, and other payments to employees, independent contractors and other service providers, and is not liable for any arrears of wages or any taxes or any penalty for failure to withhold or pay such amounts. The Company has properly classified all individuals providing services to the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries as employees or non-employees for all relevant purposes.
(A) Except as set forth in Section 3.10(i)(A) of the Company Disclosure Schedule or as contemplated in Section 2.1(e) hereof, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will result in any payment, acceleration or creation of any rights of any person to benefits under any Employee Program; (B) except as set forth in Section 3.10(i)(B) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, no amount that could be received (whether in cash, property, the vesting of property or otherwise) as a result of or in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (either alone or in combination with any other event), by any employee, officer, director or other service provider of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries who is a “disqualified individual” (as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.280G-1) could reasonably be expected to be characterized as an “excess parachute payment” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 280G(b)(1) of the Code), whether or not waived, ; and no waiver (C) except as set forth in Section 3.10(i)(C) of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from Company Disclosure Schedule, neither the IRS, (c) neither Crestar Company nor any Company Subsidiary is a party to any contract, agreement, plan or arrangement covering any persons that, individually or collectively, would reasonably be expected to give rise to the payment of any amount that would constitute compensation in excess of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to limitations set forth in Section 401(a)(29162(m) of the Code, .
(dj) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c3.10(j) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true, correct and complete list of (i) all Company Restricted Shares that are subject to vesting conditions on the PBGC with respect date hereof and will be vested and no longer subject to any "single-employer plan" within repurchase by the meaning Company at the Effective Time, and (ii) all Company Stock Options, including the exercise price thereof, that are unexercised and outstanding on the date hereof and will be vested and exercisable at the Effective Time, assuming in the case of Section 4001(a)(15clauses (i) of ERISA currently and (ii) above, that no other event or formerly maintained circumstance occurs that would cause such Company Restricted Shares or Company Stock Options to be forfeited by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA the holder, exercised by the holder or Section 414 of repurchased by the Code, except for premiums all of which haveCompany.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 5.11(a) of the Crestar Company Disclosure Schedules sets forth a true and complete list of all Employee Benefit Plans have been maintained(including, operatedfor each such Employee Benefit Plan, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable lawsidentifying its jurisdiction). Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan Benefit Plan, the Group Companies have made available to SPAC true and complete copies of the material documents pursuant to which the plan is a pension maintained, funded and administered, including, for each Employee Benefit Plan, to the extent applicable, (i) the most recent plan document and all amendments thereto, (as defined in Section 3(2ii) of ERISA): the most recent funding agreement (a) each pension plan as amended (and including any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified Contract or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedinsurance Contract), (biii) there is no accumulated funding deficiency the most recent service provider Contracts (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA including third-party administrative services, record-keeper, investment management and Section 412 of the Codeother services Contracts), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (civ) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end copies of the most recent summary plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofdescription and any summaries of material modifications, calculated on the basis (v) copies of the IRS Form 5500 annual report and accompanying schedules and nondiscrimination testing results, in each case, for the two (2) most recent plan years, (vi) copies of the most recently received IRS determination, opinion or advisory letter for each such Employee Benefit Plan,(vii) the most recently prepared actuarial assumptions used in valuation report, (viii) all material correspondence with any applicable Governmental Entity for the current year and the previous three (3) years, and (ix) the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan employee booklet or employee handbook.
(b) Except as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurredor would not reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Group Companies, taken as a whole, no member of the Group Companies nor any ERISA Affiliate currently sponsors, maintains or contributes to, nor has, within the past six (f6) no defined benefit plan has years, sponsored, maintained or been terminatedrequired to contribute to, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate any liability or obligation (contingent or otherwise) under (i) a defined benefit multiemployer plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c4001(a)(3) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-ERISA), (ii) a single employer plan" pension plan (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA) subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, (iii) a multiple employer plan subject to Section 413(c) of the Code or (iv) a multiple employer welfare arrangement under ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it as defined under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have3(40)
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 4.12
(a) Within forty-five (45) days after the Signing Date, welfarethe Seller will deliver to the Buyer Schedule 4.12(a), bonuswhich will list each Business Employee Plan (other than de minimis Plans) in effect on the Signing Date and each Subsidiary of Seller with Business Employees covered by such plan, deferred compensationas well as the nation or territory each such plan covers (and whether such plan provides for retiree medical or other retiree welfare benefits), pensionand also separately will list each other material Business Employee Plan in effect within the preceding two (2) years.
(b) With respect to each Business Employee Plan (other than de minimis Plans) in effect on the Signing Date, profit sharingthe Seller will make available to the Buyer within sixty (60) days after the Signing Date, stock optionto the extent applicable, employee stock ownershipcomplete and accurate copies of: (i) each plan document, consultingtrust, severanceinsurance contract and amendment to each of them; (ii) summaries of material terms provided, or fringe required to be provided under applicable Legal Requirements, to participants and beneficiaries; (iii) solely with respect to the Transferred Plans, licenses, certificates, stamps, letters (including favorable determination letters) or similar items issued by a governmental, quasi-governmental or administrative organization approving its form or required for its lawful maintenance or operation; (iv) solely with respect to the Transferred Plans, the most recently filed governmental report or reports; and (v) solely with respect to the Transferred Plans for which all of the liability is being transferred to the Buyer, the two most recent financial, actuarial, valuation and similar reports. The Seller shall provide the Buyer with a written description of the material terms of any Business Employee Plan which is not in written form.
(c) Except as disclosed in Schedule 4.12(c), each Transferred Plan has been maintained, operated and administered in compliance in all material respects with its terms and the applicable Legal Requirements of the relevant jurisdiction (including the requirements for any funding and Tax-favored treatment intended for such plan or applicable to plans of its type). To the Seller's knowledge, no event, transaction or condition exists or has occurred that is reasonably likely to result in the loss or material limitation of such Tax-favored treatment.
(d) All material contributions, premiums and benefit planspayments in respect of the Transferred Employees under or in connection with the Business Employee Plans due prior to the date hereof have been timely made.
(e) There have been no acts or omissions by any party with respect to the Business Employee Plans which have given rise to or may give rise to material fines, formal penalties, taxes or informalrelated charges under applicable Legal Requirements for which after the Closing Date the Companies, written Buyer or oral any of its other Subsidiaries could reasonably be expected to be liable.
(f) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.12(f), there are no actions, suits, claims (other than routine claims for benefits) or investigations pending or, to Seller's Knowledge, threatened, involving any Business Employee Plan or their assets for which after the Closing Date the Companies, Buyer or any of its other Subsidiaries could reasonably be expected to incur any material Liability and all trust agreements related theretono event, relating transaction or condition exists or has occurred which could give rise to any present such actions, suits, claims (other than routine claims for benefits) or investigations. The Companies have no material Liability with respect to any Plan other than for contributions, payments or benefits due in the ordinary course of business under the current Business Employee Plans.
(g) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.12(g)(i), neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (i) result in any material payment becoming due on or after the Closing Date to any director, officer, employee, or former directorsemployee under any Transferred Plan, officers (ii) materially increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Transferred Plan, (iii) result in any acceleration of the time of payment or employees vesting of Crestar any material benefits under any Transferred Plan, or (iv) with respect to any of the Crestar Subsidiaries Business Employees subject to taxation by the United States, result in any excess parachute payments ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed as defined in Section 280G of the Crestar Disclosure LetterCode (without regard to subsection 280G(b)(4))). Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISASchedule 4.12(g)(ii), the CodeCompany and its Subsidiaries have made no agreement, and undertaking or commitment with any other applicable laws. employee, director, officer, service provider or agent (whether written or oral) to make such person fully or partially whole with respect to any adverse Tax consequences relating to any Transferred Plan.
(h) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.12(h) or in the Crestar Disclosure LetterXxxxxx Xxxxx Report, with respect to each Crestar Employee no Transferred Plan which is a pension plan provides any post retirement medical, dental, vision, life, disability or other welfare benefits or insurance coverage except as required by Legal Requirements.
(i) Except as defined set forth in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (Schedule 4.12(i), the Companies and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) all other sponsors of the Code either has been determined Transferred Plans have retained the right to unilaterally amend or terminate each Transferred Plans to the fullest extent reasonably permitted by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 Legal Requirements of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (crelevant jurisdiction. The Seller will deliver Schedule 4.12(i) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on Buyer within forty-five (45) days after the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveSigning Date.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 5.18(a) contains a correct and complete list of each Employee Plan established, welfaresponsored, bonusmaintained, deferred compensationcontributed to or required to be contributed to by any Group Company for the benefit of current or former employees of any Group Company or under which any Group Company has any current or contingent liability that is more than a de minimis amount with respect to any Person (each, pensiona “Company Plan” and collectively, profit sharingthe “Company Plans”). Each Company Plan that is maintained primarily for the benefit of employees working outside of the United States shall be referred to herein as a “Non-U.S. Company Plan”.
(b) The Group Companies have provided or made available to the Buyers or their counsel with respect to each Company Plan a true and complete copy of all plan documents, stock optionif any, employee stock ownershipincluding related trust agreements, consultingfunding arrangements, severanceand insurance contracts and all amendments thereto, or fringe benefit plansif such Company Plan is unwritten, formal a written summary of its material terms, and to the extent applicable, (i) the most recent determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) regarding the tax-qualified status of such Company Plan and any other notices, letters or informalother correspondence, written if any, received by the Group Companies from the IRS or oral the Department of Labor; (ii) the most recent financial statements for such Company Plan, if any; (iii) the most recent actuarial valuation report, if any; (iv) the current summary plan description and all trust agreements any summaries of material modifications related thereto; and (v) Form 5500 Annual Returns/Reports, relating to any present or former directorsincluding all schedules and attachments, officers or employees of Crestar or including the Crestar Subsidiaries certified audit opinions, for the most recent plan year.
("Crestar Employee Plans"c) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure LetterEach Company Plan has been funded, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, established and administered in all material respects in compliance accordance with their terms and currently complyits terms, and have at all relevant times complied, is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable lawsLaws. Except as set forth All contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) and payments required to have been made under or on account of any of the Company Plans have been made by the due date thereof and all contributions for any period ending on or before the Closing Date which are not yet due are properly accrued in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, accordance with GAAP.
(d) With respect to each Crestar Employee Company Plan which that is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either Code, such plan, and its related trust, has been determined by received a determination letter (or opinion letters in the case of any prototype plans) from the IRS to be that it is so qualified or and that its trust is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in exempt from tax under Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29501(a) of the Code, and nothing has occurred with respect to the operation of any such Company Plan which could reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or exemption or the imposition on any Group Company of any material liability, penalty or tax under ERISA or the Code. With respect to the Xxxxxxx International 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (dthe “401(k) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan Plan”), (as defined in Section 3(35i) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end date of this Agreement, there are no participant loans outstanding thereunder, (ii) participation under the 401(k) Plan is limited solely to eligible persons, and (iii) since December 31, 2014, no employer matching contributions have been made under the 401(k) Plan.
(e) No Company Plan is subject to Title IV or Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412, 430 or 4971 of the most recent plan year thereof ending Code. No Group Company or any ERISA Affiliates of any Group Company has, in the six (6) years prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis maintained an Employee Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 or Section 430 of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereofCode, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "“multiemployer plan" ” within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA. No event has occurred and no condition exists that would subject any Group Company to any liability under Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 or Section 430 of the Code by reason of its affiliation with an ERISA Affiliate or otherwise (excluding any liability as an ERISA Affiliate of the Buyers and their respective Subsidiaries and ERISA Affiliates from and after the Closing).
(f) Neither the execution and delivery of any Transaction Document nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) result in any payments becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation or benefits due, from any Group Company to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of any Group Company or with respect to any Company Plan; (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Plan or require any Group Company to adopt or institute any Employee Plan that would be a "multiple employer plan" Company Plan if it were in existence on the date hereof; (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such compensation or benefits; or (iv) except as provided by applicable Law, limit or restrict the Buyers from merging, amending or terminating any of the Company Plans without incurring any liability other than ordinary administrative costs.
(g) Neither the execution and delivery of any Transaction Document nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will (either alone or in combination with another event) result in the payment of any amount that would, individually or in combination with any other such payment, not be deductible as a result of Section 280G of the Code.
(a) No Group Company or, to the knowledge of the Sellers, any other “disqualified person” (within the meaning of Section 413(c) 4975 of the Code. Neither Crestar nor ) or any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" “party in interest” (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(153(14) of ERISA currently ERISA) has engaged in any “prohibited transaction” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or formerly maintained by Section 406 of ERISA) with respect to any entity considered one employer with it of the Company Plans that could subject any of the Company Plans, any Group Company or any current or former officer, director, manager or employee of any Group Company to a material penalty or Tax under Section 4001 of ERISA or the Code.
(b) There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Sellers, threatened actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to the Company Plans, the assets of any of the trusts under such plans or the plan sponsor or the plan administrator, or against any fiduciary of the Company Plans with respect to the operation of such Company Plans (other than routine benefits claims).
(a) Except as required under Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, Section 414 4980B of the Code, except any similar state Law or any other applicable Law, no Company Plan provides benefits or coverage in the nature of health, life or disability insurance following retirement or other termination of employment.
(b) No equity holder of any Group Company nor, to the knowledge of the Sellers, any officer or director thereof, has made any promises or commitments, whether legally binding or not, to create any additional Employee Plan, or to modify or change any existing Company Plan (other than as contemplated by this Agreement or a modification or change required by a Company Plan or applicable Law, including ERISA or the Code).
(c) All payments made by any Group Company or its Affiliates to current or former employees, partners, or Associated Partners, of any Group Company that have been denominated or otherwise treated by such Group Company as loans were properly characterized as such for premiums Tax purposes and all income Taxes, social security, unemployment and other Taxes in respect thereof (regardless of which havewhether such payments were properly characterized as loans) have been duly and timely withheld, remitted and reported by such Group Company and its Affiliates in compliance with applicable Law as of the Closing Date, other than participant loans pursuant to any tax-qualified plan, no loans or other extensions of credit by any Group Company or its Affiliates to any current or former employees, partners, or Associated Partners of any Group Company or its Affiliates are outstanding.
(d) Each Non-U.S. Company Plan (i) if intended to qualify for special tax treatment, meets in all material respects all requirements for such treatment, and (ii) if intended to be funded and/or book-reserved, is fully funded and/or book-reserved in accordance with GAAP, as appropriate, based upon reasonable actuarial assumptions. Except as required by applicable Law or maintained by a Governmental Entity, no Non-U.S. Company Plan is a defined benefit pension plan.
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (Cowen Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 23(a) of the Corporation Disclosure Letter sets out a true, welfarecorrect and complete list of all material Employee Plans. The Corporation has made available to the Parent true, bonuscorrect and complete copies of the documents governing all such Employee Plans, deferred compensationas amended, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and to the extent applicable with respect to each such Employee Plan:
(i) the two (2) most recent annual reports on Form 5500 and all schedules thereto;
(ii) the most recent accounting and certified financial statement for which such statement is made;
(iii) the most recent summary plan description and summary of material modifications, as well as all similar employee communications;
(iv) each plan text, current trust agreements related theretoagreement, relating insurance contract or policy, group annuity contract and any other funding arrangement documents (including all amendments, restatements or replacements since their establishment);
(v) the most recent actuarial reports, financial statements or valuation reports;
(vi) with respect to any present Employee Plan that meets or former directorspurports to meet the requirements of Section 401(a) of the Code, officers a current Internal Revenue Service opinion or employees of Crestar favourable determination letter;
(vii) the most recent annual information returns filed with Governmental Entities for which such filing is required by applicable Law.
(viii) all material or non-routine correspondence to or from any Governmental Entity since December 31, 2021; and
(ix) all nondiscrimination tests for the Crestar Subsidiaries three ("Crestar 3) most recent plan years.
(b) Other than entitlements provided under the Employee Plans") are Plans listed in Section 23(a) of the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Corporation Disclosure Letter, all including continuation of benefits under such Employee Plans or as required by applicable Law on termination of service, there are no arrangements or agreements for the benefit of current or former Corporation Employees or Contractors of the Crestar type described in the definition of “Employee Plans have Plans”.
(c) No Employee Plan is or is intended to be a “registered pension plan”, a “retirement compensation arrangement”, a “deferred profit sharing plan”, a “tax-free savings account”, a “salary deferral arrangement” or a “pooled registered pension plan” as such terms are defined under the Tax Act. No Employee Plan contains a “defined benefit provision” as such term is defined under the Tax Act.
(i) Each Employee Plan is and has been maintainedestablished, operatedregistered, funded (where required), administered and administered maintained in accordance with applicable Law, including ERISA, the Code and the Tax Act, as applicable, in accordance with its terms, in each case, in all material respects respects. Each Employee Plan that is a “non-qualified deferred compensation plan” (as such term is defined in Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code) has been administered, maintained, and operated in both documentary and operational compliance with their terms Section 409A of the Code and/or the Tax Act and currently comply, applicable guidance issued thereunder in all material respects. The Corporation and each of its Subsidiaries have at all relevant times complied, complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of ERISA1985, the CodeHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993. To the knowledge of the Corporation, and no fact or circumstance exists which would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the registered status of any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar such Employee Plan which is required to be registered.
(e) All contributions, premiums or Taxes required to be made or paid by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, under the terms of each Employee Plan or by applicable Law have been made, in accordance with the terms of the applicable Employee Plan and as required by all applicable Law. There are no material unpaid contributions due prior to the date of this Agreement with respect to any Employee Plan that are required to have been made in accordance with such Employee Plan, any related insurance contract or any Law and all material contributions due have been timely made, or to the extent not yet due, have been properly accrued on the applicable balance sheet in accordance with the applicable Employee Plan and Law.
(f) There are no material Actions or claims pending or, to the knowledge of the Corporation, threatened with respect to the Employee Plans (other than routine claims for benefits) and to the knowledge of the Corporation, no event has occurred or facts or circumstances exists that could result in such a pension plan material Action.
(g) No insurance policy or any other agreement with respect to any Employee Plan requires or permits a retroactive increase in contributions, premiums or other payments due under such insurance policy or agreement.
(h) No Employee Plan is or, in the past six (6) years has been, the subject to any investigation, examination, audit or other proceeding, or Action initiated by any Governmental Entity, is the subject of an application or filing under, or is a participant in, a government-sponsored amnesty, voluntary compliance, self-correction or similar program, and, to the knowledge of the Corporation, there exists no state of facts which after notice or lapse of time or both would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such Action or to affect the registration of any Employee Plan required to be registered.
(i) The Corporation and its Subsidiaries do not have any obligation or any liability to provide retiree or post-termination benefits or benefits to retired or terminated employees or to the beneficiaries or dependents of retired or terminated employees, except (i) as defined specifically required by Part 6 of Title I of ERISA or similar state law for which the covered Person pays the full premium cost of coverage or (ii) coverage through the end of the calendar month in which a termination of employment occurs.
(j) Except as disclosed in Section 3(223(j) of ERISA): the Corporation Disclosure Letter, the execution and delivery of, and performance by the Corporation of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by it will not (aeither alone or in connection with any other event) each pension plan as amended (i) accelerate the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefit to any current or former Corporation Employee or Contractor; (ii) result in the payment of or an obligation to fund (through a trust or otherwise) any compensation or benefit to any current or former Corporation Employee or Contractor; (iii) increase the amount payable of any compensation or benefit to any current or former Corporation Employee or Contractor; (iv) result in the acceleration of any other material obligation pursuant to any Employee Plan; (v) result in the payment or provision of any amount (whether of compensation, termination, or severance pay or otherwise) that could individually or in combination with any other payment constitute an “excess parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code or otherwise be nondeductible under Section 280G of the Code; (vi) limit or restrict the ability of the Corporation, the Parent or any of their respective affiliates to merge, amend or terminate any of the Employee Plans or any related contract in accordance with its terms; or (vii) result in the forgiveness of any indebtedness of any current or former Corporation Employee or Contractor.
(k) No Person other than the Corporation and its Subsidiaries is or has been a participating employer under any trust relating theretoEmployee Plan.
(l) To the knowledge of the Corporation, there have been no improper withdrawals or improper applications or transfers of funds or assets to or from any Employee Plan.
(m) Each Employee Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by received a favourable determination letter or can rely on an opinion letter for a prototype plan from the IRS to be Internal Revenue Service that such plan is so qualified and exempt from taxation in accordance with Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code, and, to the knowledge of the Corporation, no condition exists that would be expected to adversely affect such qualification or is result in material liability to the subject Corporation.
(n) None of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedthe Employee Plans are, and none of the Corporation, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has ever sponsored, maintained, contributed to or had an obligation to contribute to or has had any liability, contingent or otherwise, with respect to, (bi) there a plan that is no accumulated funding deficiency subject to Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, (ii) a “multiple employer plan” (within the meaning of Sections 4063 or 4064 of ERISA) or “multiple employer welfare arrangement” (within the meaning of Section 3(40) of ERISA), (iii) a “welfare benefit fund” (as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 419 of the Code), whether (iv) a “multiemployer plan” (within the meaning of Sections (3)(37) or not waived, and no waiver 4001(a)(3) of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, ERISA) (cv) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association in accordance with Section 401(a)(29501(c)(9) of the Code, or (dvi) a health or other welfare arrangement that is self-insured. There does not now exist, nor do any circumstances exist that would reasonably be expected to result in, following the fair market value Effective Time, any liability under Title IV of ERISA to the assets Corporation or any Subsidiary.
(o) Neither the Corporation nor any of each defined benefit plan its Subsidiaries has engaged in a non-exempt “prohibited transaction” (as such term is defined in Section 3(35) 406 of ERISA) exceeds the value ERISA and Section 4975 of the "benefit liabilities" within Code) that has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the meaning Corporation or any of Section 4001(a)(16) its Subsidiaries. No event has occurred with respect to any Employee Plan, and there has been no failure to act on the part of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as either the Corporation, any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofCorporation, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of any Employee Plan, that could subject the Corporation, such Subsidiary or such trustee or administrator of the Employee Plan to the imposition of any material Tax, penalty, penalty Tax or other liability, whether by way of indemnity or otherwise.
(p) With respect to any Employee Plan, there is no material Action, audit or investigation pending or threatened in writing, with or by a current or former Corporation Employee or Contractor, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Canada Revenue Agency, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario, or any other Governmental Entity, other than routine claims for benefits.
(q) No Person is entitled to any gross-up, make-whole, or other additional payment from the Corporation or any Subsidiary with respect to any Tax or interest or penalty related thereto, including under Sections 4999 or 409A of the Code.
(r) Neither the Corporation, any of its Subsidiaries nor any ERISA Affiliate has used the services or workers provided by third Person contract labor suppliers, temporary employees, “leased employees” (as that term is defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under in Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c414(n) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor ).
(s) No promises or commitments have been made in writing by the Corporation to amend any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred Employee Plan, to provide increased benefits or to establish any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer new benefit plan" within the meaning of , except as required by applicable Laws or as set out in Section 4001(a)(1523(s) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveCorporation Disclosure Letter.
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Samples: Arrangement Agreement (Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.14(a) of the Crestar Company Disclosure Schedules sets forth a true and complete list of each Employee Plans have been maintainedBenefit Plan. None of the Group Companies, operated, and administered in all any ERISA Affiliate of the Group Companies or Merger Sub maintain or contribute to or has any material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Liability with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code)Benefit Plan, whether or not waivedsubject to ERISA, which is not set forth on Section 3.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedules.
(b) With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan on Section 3.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedules, the Company has delivered or made available to SPAC and its Representatives correct and complete copies of, if applicable (i) all plan documents and related trust agreements or annuity Contracts (including any amendments, modifications or supplements thereto), and no waiver written descriptions of any Employee Benefit Plans which are not in writing; (ii) the minimum funding standards most recent annual and periodic accounting of such sections plan assets; (iii) the most recent actuarial valuation; and (iv) all material communications with any Governmental Entity concerning any matter that is still pending or for which any Group Company has been requested from the IRS, any outstanding Liability or obligation.
(c) neither Crestar nor any of Except as would not, individually or in the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedaggregate, or is required to providehave a Company Material Adverse Effect, security to any pension plan pursuant to (i) each Employee Benefit Plan set forth on Section 401(a)(293.14(a) of the CodeCompany Disclosure Schedules has been administered and enforced in accordance with its terms and the requirements of all applicable Laws, and has been maintained, where required, in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities and Governmental Entities; (ii) no breach of fiduciary duty has occurred; (iii) no Proceeding is pending or threatened; (iv) all contributions, premiums and other payments (including any special contribution, interest or penalty) required to be made with respect to an Employee Benefit Plan have been timely made; (v) all benefits accrued under any unfunded Employee Benefit Plan have been paid, accrued, or otherwise adequately reserved in accordance with GAAP and are reflected on the Audited Financial Statements; (vi) no Employee Benefit Plan provides for retroactive increases in contributions, premiums or other payments in relation thereto; and (vii) none of the Group Companies has incurred any Liability in connection with the termination of, or withdrawal from, any Employee Benefit Plan.
(d) Except as would not, individually or in the fair market aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, to the extent applicable, the present value of the assets of accrued benefit Liabilities (whether or not vested) under each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan Employee Benefit Plan, determined as of the end of the Company’s most recent plan recently ended fiscal year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of reasonable actuarial assumptions, each of which is reasonable, did not exceed the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as current value of the date hereof, assets of such Employee Benefit Plan allocable to such benefit Liabilities.
(e) no reportable event described The consummation of the Transactions will not, either alone or in Section 4043 combination with another event: (i) entitle any individual to severance pay, unemployment compensation or other benefits or compensation under any Employee Benefit Plan; or (ii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount of any compensation due, or in respect of, any director, officer, employee or independent contractor of any of the Group Companies or their ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, Affiliates under any Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) no defined benefit plan has been terminatedExcept to the extent required by applicable Law, nor has none of the PBGC instituted proceedings Group Companies or their ERISA Affiliates provide health or welfare benefits to terminate a defined benefit plan any former or retired employee or is obligated to appoint a trustee provide such benefits to any active employee following such employee’s retirement or administrator other termination of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and employment or service.
(g) no pension plan No Employee Benefit Plan provides for the gross-up of any Taxes that may be imposed by any applicable Law.
(h) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, (a) each Foreign Benefit Plan that is a "multiemployer plan" within required to be registered or intended to be Tax exempt or receive favorable tax treatment has been registered (and, where applicable, accepted for registration) and is Tax exempt and has been maintained in good standing, to the meaning of extent applicable, with each Governmental Entity; (b) except as set forth under Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c3.14(h) of the Code. Neither Crestar Company Disclosure Schedules, no Foreign Benefit Plan has any material unfunded or underfunded Liabilities, nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability are such unfunded Liabilities reasonably expected to arise in connection with the PBGC Transactions; and (c) all material contributions required to have been made by or on behalf of the Group Companies with respect to any "single-employer plan" within plans or arrangements maintained or sponsored a Governmental Entity (including severance, termination indemnities or other similar benefits maintained for employees outside of the meaning of U.S.) have been timely made or fully accrued.
(i) Except as set forth in Section 4001(a)(153.14(i) of ERISA the Company Disclosure Schedules, there are no facts that would reasonably be expected to give rise to, any material changes to the Employee Benefit Plans resulting from disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or COVID-19 Measures, nor are any such changes currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havecontemplated.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 2.10(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedules sets forth all material Company Employee Benefit Plans and material Company Employee Agreements (collectively, welfarethe “Company Plans”), bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or identifies the Crestar Subsidiaries country in which such Company Plan is maintained.
("Crestar Employee Plans"b) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 2.10(b) of the Crestar Company Disclosure Schedules, with respect to each Company Plan, the Company has made available to Parent a true, correct and complete copy of: (i) each written Company Plan and all amendments thereto, if any (but not Company Employee Plans have Agreements); (ii) the current summary plan description and any material modifications thereto, if any, or a written summary with respect to any plan for which no summary plan description exists; (iii) the most recent determination letter (or if applicable, advisory or opinion letter) from the Internal Revenue Service, if any; (iv) the Form 5500 Annual Return/Report and accompanying schedules and attachments for the most recently completed plan year, if any; (v) the most recently prepared actuarial reports and financial statements, if any; and (vi) all material correspondence within the preceding three (3) years to or from the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or other governmental agency relating to any audit, investigation or voluntary correction of such Company Plan.
(c) Each Company Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to be “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code is the subject of a favorable determination letter (or, if applicable, is entitled to rely on an advisory or opinion letter) from the Internal Revenue Service that has not been maintainedrevoked, operatedand to the Knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred and no condition exists that would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the qualified status of any such Company Employee Benefit Plan or result in the imposition of any material liability, penalty or Tax under ERISA or the Code.
(d) (i) Each Company Plan has been operated and administered in all material respects in accordance with its provisions and in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 provisions of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether ; and (ii) all payments and contributions required to be made under the terms of any Company Plan have been made or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards amount of such sections payment or contribution obligation has been requested from reflected in the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of financial statements included in the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending currently applicable Available Company SEC Documents which are publicly available prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, this Agreement.
(e) no reportable event described In the last six (6) years, neither the Company nor any Company Affiliate has maintained, established, participated in Section 4043 of ERISA or contributed to, or is or has occurred for which been obligated to contribute to, and neither the 30 day reporting requirement Company nor any Company Affiliates otherwise has not been waived has occurredany liability (including any contingent liability) with respect to, (fi) no defined benefit a plan has been terminatedthat is subject to Sections 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate or (ii) a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "“multiemployer plan" ” within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or ERISA. No Company Employee Benefit Plan is a "“multiple employer plan" welfare arrangement” (as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA).
(f) Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or as set forth in Section 2.10(f) of the Company Disclosure Schedules, neither the execution of this Agreement, Company Stockholder Approval nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or together with any other event) (i) entitle any current or former Company Employee to any payment or benefit, including any bonus, retention, severance or retirement payment or benefit; or (ii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting or trigger any payment or funding (through a grantor trust or otherwise) of compensation or benefits under, or increase the amount payable or trigger any other obligation under, any Company Plan.
(g) Neither the execution of this Agreement, Company Stockholder Approval nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (either alone or together with any other event) will, or would reasonably be expected to, result in the payment of any “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 413(c) 280G of the Code. Neither Crestar No Company Plan, and neither the Company nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred Company Subsidiary, provides for a “gross-up” or similar payment in respect of any liability to Taxes that may become payable under Sections 409A or 4999 of the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer Code.
(h) Each Company Plan that is or forms part of a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan" ” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15409A of the Code complies in all material respects with, and the Company and all Company Subsidiaries have materially complied in practice and operation with, all applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
(i) None of ERISA currently the Company, any Company Subsidiary or formerly maintained any Company Plan provides or has an obligation to provide any post-retirement medical benefits (whether insured or self-insured) to any current or former Company Employee (other than coverage mandated by any entity considered one employer with it applicable Law, including benefits required to be provided to avoid excise Tax under Section 4001 4980B of the Code). The Company and each Company Affiliate have complied in all material respects with Section 4980B of the Code or Part 6 of Subtitle B under Title I of ERISA or Section 414 similar applicable Law.
(j) There is no action, suit, investigation, audit, proceeding or claim pending or, to the Knowledge of the CodeCompany, except threatened against any Company Plan before any court or arbitrator or any Governmental Authority, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
(k) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has been a party to, a sponsoring employer of, or otherwise is under any liability or obligation with respect to any defined benefit pension scheme, final salary scheme or any death, disability or retirement benefit calculated by reference to age, salary or length of service or any of them, for premiums all employees working outside of the US. To the Knowledge of the Company, no employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary has any claim or right in respect of any benefit payable on early retirement or redundancy under an occupational pension scheme which havehas transferred to the Company or any Company Subsidiary by operation of the UK Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 or 2006 (as amended) or any equivalent Laws in any jurisdiction which has implemented the Acquired Rights Directive 2001 or provides for the automatic transfer of employees’ employment. To the Knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has discriminated against, or in relation to, any employees on grounds of age, sex, disability, marital status, hours of work, fixed-term or temporary agency worker status, sexual orientation, or religion or belief in providing pension, lump-sum, death, ill-health, disability or accident benefits (to the extent such grounds are legally protected categories locally) such that the Company or any Company Affiliate could reasonably be subject to material liability relating thereto.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Xura, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance4.21.1 Schedule 4.21 contains a complete list of each Employee Plan. Such schedule identifies the Employee Plan (i) sponsored by Seller and (ii) those which Seller provides or offers to its employees, or fringe benefit plansformer employees (or their dependents or other beneficiaries), formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees but which is sponsored by one of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure LetterSeller's ERISA Affiliates. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.21, (i) the costs of all such Employee Plans which are paid currently by Seller are reflected as expenses in the Crestar Disclosure LetterFinancial Statements; and (ii) the cost of such Employee Plans which are, all in whole or in part, not paid currently by Seller are adequately reserved for in the balance sheet contained in the Financial Statements.
4.21.2 Seller has made available to Buyer accurate and complete copies of, to the extent applicable, (i) the most recent annual report on Form 5500 filed with the Internal Revenue Service with respect to any Employee Plan (if required), (ii) each trust agreement and group annuity contract relating to any Employee Plan, (iii) the most recent certified financial statements, if any, for any Employee Plan and (iv) the most recent actuarial report, if any, prepared in connection with any Employee Plan and its funded status.
4.21.3 All contributions to the Employee Plans required to have been made in accordance therewith and, if applicable, ERISA Section 302 or Code Section 412, have been timely made by the applicable date. None of the Crestar Employee Acquired Assets are subject to any lien under ERISA Section 302 of Code Section 412.
4.21.4 Except as set forth on Schedule 4.21, each of the Pension Plans have (and any related trust agreement or annuity contract or any other funding instrument)
(i) has been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, the CodeCode and all other applicable requirements of law (including Code Section 410(b) relating to coverage), where required in order to be tax-qualified under Code Section 401(a); (ii) all legally required governmental approvals for such plan have been obtained; and (iii) if applicable, has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that the such plan is qualified under Code Section 401(a) which covers all amendments thereto for which the remedial amendment period (within the meaning of Code Section 401(b) of the Code and applicable regulations) has expired, and no such determination letter has been revoked nor, to the knowledge of Seller, has such revocation been threatened, nor has such plan been amended since the date of its most recent determination letter or application therefore in any other applicable laws. respect which would adversely affect its qualification.
4.21.5 Seller does not, and has not within the last six years, contributed to or been required to contribute to any "multiemployer pension plan" (as defined in ERISA Section 3(37)).
4.21.6 Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letteron Schedule 4.21, no Employee Plan provides medical, health, welfare or death benefits (whether or not insured) with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (current or former employees of Seller beyond their retirement or other termination of service, except as defined in required under Code Section 3(2) 4980B, Part 6 of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) Subtitle B of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) Title I of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveother applicable law.
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Employee Plans. All employee (i) Schedule 4.1(gg)(i) of the CRH Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, complete, up-to-date and accurate list of all Employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, executive compensation, current or deferred compensation, incentive compensation, stock compensation, stock purchase, stock option, employee stock ownershipappreciation, consultingphantom stock option, severancesavings, severance or fringe benefit planstermination pay, formal retirement, supplementary retirement, hospitalization insurance, salary continuation, legal, health or informalother medical, dental, life, disability or other insurance (whether insured or self-insured) plan, program, agreement or arrangement, and every other written or oral and all trust agreements related theretobenefit plan, relating program, agreement or arrangement sponsored, maintained or contributed to or required to be contributed to by CRH or any present Affiliate of CRH for the benefit of the Employees or former directorsEmployees and their dependants or beneficiaries at any time in the last three (3) years or as provided by any collective agreement to which CRH is a party or by which it is, officers or employees of Crestar was at any time in the last five years, bound or with respect to which CRH participates or has any actual or potential liability or obligations, other than plans established pursuant to statute (collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar “Employee Plans") are listed in ”). CRH has made available to Purchaser current, true, correct and complete copies of each Employee Plan (as applicable, and including any subsequent amendments or changes), including without limitation the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as plan document, trust agreement, summary plan description, latest available favorable determination or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), and most recently filed Form 5500 with all schedules, and for any Employee Plan not set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterwriting, a written description of all material terms thereof.
(ii) All of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedestablished, operatedregistered, sponsored, qualified, funded, invested and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently complyaccordance with, and are in good standing under, all Applicable Benefits Laws. None of the Employee Plans enjoys any special Tax status under Applicable Benefits Law, nor have at all relevant times complied, any advance Tax rulings been sought or received in all material respects with respect of the applicable requirements of ERISA, the CodeEmployee Plans.
(iii) No Employee Plan is, and CRH does not have any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, liability with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is to: an “employee pension benefit plan”, a “multiemployer plan”, a “multiple employer plan”, a “multiple employer welfare arrangement”, a “registered pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be plan” or a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" “retirement compensation arrangement” within the meaning of Applicable Benefits Laws. No Employee Plan provides for post-employment or post-retirement health, life or other welfare benefits to Employees or former Employees (or their beneficiaries or dependents).
(iv) Each Employee Plan that is intended to qualify under Code Section 4001(a)(16401(a) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan so qualifies and can rely on a current favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to its qualified status and, to the date hereofknowledge of CRH, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within such Employee Plan which would reasonably be expected to result in the meaning revocation or loss of Section 4001(a)(15such qualified status.
(v) No amendments have been made to any Employee Plan and no amendments or improvements to any Employee Plan will be made or promised prior to Effective Date.
(vi) All of the material obligations of CRH regarding the Employee Plans have been satisfied and, to the knowledge of CRH, there are no outstanding defaults or violations by any party thereto and no Taxes, penalties or fees are owing or exigible under any of the Employee Plans other than in the ordinary course of business.
(vii) All contributions or premiums required to be made by CRH under the terms of each Employee Plan or by Applicable Benefits Laws have, to the knowledge of CRH, been made.
(viii) To the knowledge of CRH, no Employee Plan, nor any related trust or other funding medium thereunder, is subject to any pending, threatened or anticipated investigation, examination or other Legal Proceeding initiated by any Governmental Authority or by any other Person (other than routine claims for benefits), and, to the knowledge of CRH, there exists no state of facts which after notice or lapse of time or both would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such investigation, examination or other Legal Proceeding or to affect the registration of any Employee Plan required to be registered.
(ix) Except as disclosed in Schedule 4.1(gg)(ix) of ERISA currently the CRH Disclosure Letter, neither the execution of this Agreement nor the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby will constitute an event under any Employee Plan that will result in any material payment (whether of severance pay or formerly maintained by otherwise), acceleration of material payment or vesting of material benefits, forgiveness of material indebtedness, vesting, distribution, material restriction on funds, material increase in benefits or obligation to fund material benefits with respect to any entity considered one employer Employee. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (either alone or together with it under any other event or transaction) will not result in any “excess parachute payments” (as such term is defined in Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 280G of the Code, except ) or in the imposition of Tax under Section 4999 of the Code.
(x) All data necessary to administer each Employee Plan is in the possession of CRH and is in a form which is sufficient for premiums the proper administration of such Employee Plan in accordance with its terms and all of which haveapplicable Laws and such data is complete and correct.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 4.14(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all material Employee Plans. None of the Employee Plans has undergone within the last six years or is undergoing an audit or investigation (nor has notice been received of a potential audit or examination) by either the IRS, welfarethe United States Department of Labor or any other Authority.
(b) With respect to each Employee Plan, bonuscomplete and correct copies of the following documents have been made available to Purchaser: (i) the most recent plan documents or written agreements thereof, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all amendments thereto and all related trust agreements or other funding vehicles with respect to each such Employee Plan and, in the case of any Employee Plan that is not in written form, a description of all material aspects of such plan; (ii) the most recent summary plan description, and all related summaries of material modifications thereto, if applicable; (iii) the three most recent annual reports on Form 5500 (including schedules and attachments), financial statements and actuarial reports for the past three years, if applicable; (iv) the nondiscrimination testing results for the past three plan years; (v) the most recent IRS determination letter and any pending application with respect to each such Employee Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code; and (vi) for the last three years, all material correspondence with the IRS, the United States Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, SEC or any other Authority regarding the operation or the administration of any Employee Plan, other than correspondence relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed matters in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all ordinary course of the Crestar business.
(c) With respect to each Employee Plans have Plan: (i) each has been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complywith all applicable Laws, including ERISA and have at all relevant times compliedthe Code; (ii) no Legal Actions (other than routine claims for benefits) are pending, in or to the Company’s Knowledge threatened; (iii) all material respects premiums, contributions, or other payments required to have been made by Law or under the terms of any Employee Plan or any Contract or agreement relating thereto as of the Signing Date have been made or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP; (iv) all material reports, returns and similar documents required to be filed with any Authority or distributed to any plan participant have been duly filed or distributed; and (v) no “prohibited transaction” or “reportable event” has occurred within the meaning of the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, ERISA or the Code, and Code that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or Purchaser or any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with of its Affiliates.
(d) With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either Code, (i) the IRS has issued a favorable determination letter or opinion letter or advisory letter upon which the Company is entitled to rely under IRS pronouncements, and (ii) no such determination letter, opinion letter or advisory letter has been determined by revoked nor has revocation been threatened and, no event has occurred since the IRS date of such qualification or exemption that would reasonably be expected to be so qualified adversely affect such qualification or exemption.
(e) No Employee Plan is nor was within the past six years, nor do Seller, the Company or any of their ERISA Affiliates have or reasonably expect to have any liability or obligation under (i) any employee benefit plan subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and to Section 412 of the Code), whether Code or not waived, and no waiver Section 302 or Title IV of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRSERISA; or (ii) any Multiemployer Plan, (ciii) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension a multiple employer plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as 413 of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such Code or (iv) a multiple employer welfare arrangement as defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have3(40)
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Samples: Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All (a) Section 4.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth an accurate and complete list of all Company Employee Benefit Plans.
(b) With respect to each Company Employee Benefit Plan, the Company has made available to Parent an accurate and complete copy of (as applicable): (i) each plan document, including all amendments thereto, and all related trusts agreements; (ii) the current summary plan description, including any summaries of material modifications, all summaries of benefits and coverage, and any other summaries or material employee benefitcommunications; (iii) the most recent determination letter (or if applicable, welfareadvisory or opinion letter) from the Internal Revenue Service, bonusif any, deferred compensationand any pending applications for a determination or opinion letter; (iv) the annual reports on Forms 5500 for the last three plan years to the extent required under applicable Law; (v) any actuarial valuations; (vi) material Contracts including insurance contracts and administrative services agreements, pensionas applicable; and (vii) all notices or other non-routine written correspondence regarding such Company Employee Benefit Plan between a plan fiduciary, profit sharingthe Company or any ERISA Affiliate and the Internal Revenue Service, stock optionDepartment of Labor, employee stock ownership, consulting, severancePension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, or fringe benefit plansother Governmental Authority in the last three years.
(c) Each Company Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to be “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code has been the subject of a favorable and up-to-date determination, formal advisory or informalopinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service on which the Company is entitled to rely, written and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred, no condition, facts or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating circumstances exist that would reasonably be expected to any present or former directors, officers or employees cause the loss of Crestar such qualification or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in imposition of material liability, penalty or Tax under ERISA, the Crestar Disclosure LetterCode or other applicable Law. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all All assets of the Crestar Company Employee Plans have Benefit Plans, if applicable, consist of cash or actively traded securities.
(d) Each Company Employee Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, established, maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance accordance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at with all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth Laws.
(e) The Company has not engaged in any non-exempt prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA that would be reasonably expected to result in the Crestar Disclosure Letterimposition of material liability, penalty or Tax on the Company, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no such prohibited transaction has occurred with respect to each Crestar any Company Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) No Company Employee Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2i) subject to Title IV of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and ERISA, or Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (cii) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "“multiemployer plan" ” within the meaning of Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, (iii) a “multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of plan subject to Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar , (iv) a “multiple employer welfare arrangement” (as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA or applicable state law) or (v) any health or other welfare arrangement that is self-insured, and neither the Company nor any Crestar Subsidiary ERISA Affiliate of the Company has ever sponsored, maintained, contributed to, been required to contribute to, or had any obligations or incurred any liability to under any plan described in the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" foregoing clauses (i) through (v). No Company Employee Benefit Plan is or has ever been, or currently funds or has ever been funded by, a “voluntary employees’ beneficiary association” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15501(c)(9) of ERISA currently the Code or formerly maintained other funding arrangement for the provision of welfare benefits.
(g) The Company does not offer, or have any liability or obligation to provide life, health or medical benefits or insurance coverage to any individual, or to the dependent of any individual, for any period extending beyond the termination of the individual’s employment, except to the extent required by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or similar provisions of state Law for which the individual pays for the full cost of coverage or for a limited period of time following a termination of employment pursuant to the terms of an existing employment, severance or similar agreement, in each case, (i) in effect as of the date hereof and (ii) set forth on Section 4.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter.
(h) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Transactions, alone or in combination with any entity considered one employer other event (such as a termination of employment), will (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation due, to any current or former employee or other service provider of the Company; (ii) result in any payment becoming due under any Company Employee Benefit Plan; (iii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Employee Benefit Plan; (iv) except as provided in Section 3.4, result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits; or (v) result in the payment of any amount that would, individually or in combination with it any other such payment, reasonably be expected to constitute an “excess parachute payment,” as defined in Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code; (vi) result in the triggering or imposition of any restrictions or limitations on the rights of the Company to amend or terminate any Company Employee Benefit Plan, or (vii) entitle the recipient of any payment or benefit to receive a “gross up” payment for any income or other Taxes, including under Section 4001 of ERISA 409A or Section 414 4999 of the Code. The Company does not have any obligation to pay any “gross up” or other reimbursement payment for any income or other Taxes, including under Section 409A or Section 4999 of the Code.
(i) All Company Stock Options, Company RSUs, and all other equity or equity-based awards granted under any Stock Plan have been granted in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the applicable Stock Plan and have been administered in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the applicable award agreement. Each Company Stock Option has an exercise price that is no less than the fair market value of the underlying Company Common Stock on the date of grant, as determined in accordance with Section 409A of the Code, except and is otherwise exempt from Section 409A of the Code. Each Company Stock Option (or option to purchase Company Common Stock that has previously been exercised) intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Code so qualifies. The Company has made available to Parent accurate and complete copies of (i) each Stock Plan; (ii) the forms of standard award agreement under the Stock Plans; (iii) copies of any award agreements that materially deviate from such forms and (iv) a list of all outstanding equity and equity-based awards granted under any Stock Plan, together with the recipient and the material terms of each such award (including but not limited to grant date, exercise price, vesting terms, form of award, expiration date, and number of shares underlying such award).
(j) At all times, the ESPP has qualified as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code, and has been administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms and all applicable Laws. All options to purchase shares under the ESPP (now outstanding or previously exercised or forfeited) have satisfied applicable Law, including the requirements of Section 423 of the Code.
(k) Each Company Employee Benefit Plan or other arrangement that constitutes a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the Code has been written, executed and operated in compliance with Section 409A of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(l) No Company Employee Benefit Plan is subject to any Laws other than those of the United States or any state, county, or municipality in the United States, nor is any Company Employee Benefit Plan maintained outside of the United States or for the benefit of employees, directors, consultants or other independent contractors located outside of the United States, and the Company does not contribute to or have any obligation to contribute to any scheme, plan or arrangement mandated by a government other than the United States federal government.
(m) Other than routine claims for benefits, no actions, investigations, suits, or claims with respect to any Company Employee Benefit Plan are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no facts that reasonably would be expected to give rise to any such actions, suit or claims against any Company Employee Benefit Plan, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any fiduciary with respect to a Company Employee Benefit Plan or the assets of a Company Employee Benefit Plan.
(n) There has been no amendment to, or written interpretation of or announcement by the Company relating to, or change in employee participation or coverage under, any Company Employee Benefit Plan that would materially increase the expense of maintaining such Company Employee Benefit Plan above the level of expense incurred in respect thereof for the most recent fiscal year ending prior to the Closing Date.
(o) For each Company Employee Benefit Plan, all contributions, premiums all and payments have been made or accrued in accordance with the terms of which havesuch plan and applicable Law.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the 16 18 Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havehave been paid when due. Neither Crestar nor any of its subsidiaries has incurred any withdrawal liability with respect to a multiemployer plan under Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. Neither Crestar nor any of its subsidiaries has an obligation to institute any Employee Plan or any such other arrangement, agreement or plan. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, there are no outstanding grants of restricted stock with respect to Crestar Common Stock and no outstanding stock appreciation rights with respect to Crestar Common Stock. With respect to any insurance policy that heretofore has or currently does provide funding for benefits under any Crestar Employee Plan, (A) there is no liability on the part of Crestar or any of its subsidiaries in the nature of a retroactive or retrospective rate adjustment, loss sharing arrangement, or other actual or contingent liability, nor would there be any such liability if such insurance policy was terminated, and (B) no insurance Crestar issuing such policy is in receivership, conservatorship, liquidation or similar proceeding and, to the knowledge of Crestar, no such proceeding with respect to any such insurer is imminent. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, neither the execution of this Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby will (A) constitute a stated triggering event under any Crestar Employee Plan that will result in any payment (whether of severance pay or otherwise) becoming due from Crestar or any of its subsidiaries to any present or former officer, employee, director, shareholder, consultant or dependent of any of the foregoing or (B) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to any present or former officer, employee, director, shareholder, consultant, or dependent of any of the foregoing. The material terms of the Executive Agreements (as defined below) are reflected in the Crestar SEC Reports, as amended in the manner reflected in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has any obligations for retiree health and life benefits under any Crestar Employee Plan, except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, there are no restrictions on the rights of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries to amend or terminate any such Crestar Employee Plan without incurring any liability thereunder.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance(i) The Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete list of Employee Plans. The Company has deli vered or made available to the Purchaser complete and up -to- date copies of the Employee Plans, or fringe written descriptions of the material terms thereof if unwritten, including to the extent applicable: (i) the plan documents (as amended) and current employee booklets for the Employee Plans , (ii) trust agreements, funding agreements, insurance contracts and policies, investment management agreements, subscription and participation agreements, benefit plansadministration contracts, formal or informalfinancial administration contracts, written or oral record keeping and other service agreements for the Employee Plans; (iii) the most recent annual report and accompanying schedule; (iv) the current summary plan description and any modifications t hereto; (v ) the most recent annual financial, accountings a nd actuarial statements, and all trust agreements related theretoreports, relating statements, valuations, returns and correspondence for each of the last three years which affect premiums, contributions, refunds, deficits or reserves under any Employee Plan ; (vi) statements of premiums, contribu tions, or benefits paid by the Company for each of the past two complete financial years an d year to date; and (vii) material communications between the Company and past or present participants in the Employee Plans, as well as between the Company and Xxxx rnmental Entities .
(ii) All of the Employee Plans are and have been established, registered, funded , qualified and administered in material compliance with all Laws and their terms. To the knowledge of the Company, no fact or circumstance exists which could adversely affect the registered status (if any) of any such Employee Plan , and neither the Company nor any of its agents or delegates has breached any fiduciary obligation with respect to the administration or investment of any Employee Plan . Each Employee Plan that is intended to qualify for tax -preferred or tax -exempt treatment has been registered in accordance wit h applicable Laws, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred with respect to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar such Employee Plans") are listed Plan that could result in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. revocation of the registration of such Employee Plan or which could otherwise reasonably be expected to adversely affect the tax status of such Employee Plan .
(iii) Except as set forth disclosed in the Crestar Company Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans are fully funded . All benefits accrued under any Employee Plan not required to be funded by the terms of such plan or applicable Law have been maintainedpaid, operatedaccrued or otherwise adequately reserved to the extent required by, and administered in all accordance with, IFRS .
(iv) No Employee Plan is subje ct to any actual or , to the knowledge of the Company, pending Action initiated by any Governmental Entity, or by any other party (other than routine claims for benefits) which, if adversely determined, would be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect , and, to the knowledge of the Company, there exists no state of facts which could reasonably be expected to give rise to any such action.
(v) Except as provided in this Agreement, the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Arrangement will not (A) result in any material respects payment (including, without limitation, bonus, golden parachute, retirement, severance, or other benefit or enhanced benefit) becoming due or payable to any of the Company Employees (present or former), (B) increase the compensation or benefits otherwise payable to any Company Employee (present or former), or (C) result in compliance with their terms and currently complythe acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any material benefits or e ntitlements otherwise available pursuant to any Employee Plan (except for outstanding Company Options, and have at all relevant times compliedRSUs).
(vi) Each Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Closing in accordance with its terms, without liability to the Purch aser, the Company or any of its affiliates other than ordinary administrative expenses typically incurred in a termination event. To the knowledge of the Company , no fact, condition or circumstance has arisen or occurred since the date of the documents pro vided in accordance with paragraph (r) of Schedule C of this Agreement which would materially affect the information contained therein and, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Codeparticular, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in without limiting the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) generality of the Code either foregoing, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been determined by the IRS made any commitment or obligation or any representations to be so qualified any employee, officer, director, independent contractor or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code)consultant, whether or not waivedlegally binding, and no waiver to materially adopt, amend, modify or terminate any Employee Plan, in connection with th e consummation of the minimum funding standards transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise.
(vii) None of such sections the Employee Plans, or any insurance contract relating thereto, require or permit a material retroactive increase in premiums or payments, or require additional materia l premiums or payments on termination of the Employee Plan or any insurance contact relating thereto. Nothing has been requested from done or omitted to be done by the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor Company or any of its Subsidiaries which could make any policy or insurance contract void or voidable. All contracts in respect of the Crestar Employee Plans are valid and the Company or its Subsidiaries has providedcan enforce such contracts or cause such contracts to be enforced.
(viii) Except as disclosed in the Company Disclosure Letter, none of the Employee 3 O D Q V V W H U L H G LS VH Q DV L R‡ UQ H XX XX D Q · or is required to provide, security to any be registered under federal or provincial minimum pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) standards legislation in Canada; L L L V D ‡ V D O D U of section 248 of the Code, (d) the fair market value Tax Act; L L L L V D ‡ U H W L purposes of section 248 of the assets Tax Act; or (iv) provide for retiree or post - employment benefits for retired or former employees, including to the beneficiaries or depend ents of retired or former Company Employees , other than for a statutory, common law, civil law or contractual notice period .
(ix) There exists no losses or Taxes in connection with any former employee benefit plan relating to current or former employees, directors, officers or independent cont ractors of the Company (or the respective spouse, beneficiaries or dependents of such individuals) that has terminated, and all procedures for termination of each defined such former employee benefit plan have been properly followed in accordance with the terms of such former employee benefit plans and applicable Law.
(as defined in Section 3(35x) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement The Company has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings taken any action in connection with events and/or circumstances related to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC COVID -19 with respect to any "single-employer plan" within Employee Plan or the meaning compensation or benefits of Section 4001(a)(15any employee that is not in the Ordinary Course consistent with past practice , or except as approved by an insurer in respect of insured plans .
(xi) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 All data necessary to administer each Employee Plan is in the possession of the Code, except for premiums Company or an agent and is in a form which is sufficient fo r the proper administration of the Employee Plan in accordance with its terms and all of which haveapplicable Laws and such data is complete and correct in all material respects.
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Samples: Arrangement Agreement
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 4.9(a) sets forth a true and complete list of each Employee Benefit Plan, welfareand, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except except as set forth therein, the Company has not created, maintained, offered or incurred any obligation under any other Employee Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has delivered the following documents to Purchaser with respect to each of its Employee Benefit Plan: (i) true, correct and complete copies of all documents embodying such Employee Benefit Plan, including all amendments thereto, and all related trust documents, (ii) a written description of any Employee Benefit Plan that is not set forth in a written document, (iii) the most recent summary plan description together with the summary or summaries of material modifications thereto, if any, (iv) the three most recent annual actuarial valuations, if any, (v) all IRS or DOL determination, opinion, notification and advisory letters, (vi) the three most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, (vii) all material correspondence to or from any Governmental Entity received in the Crestar Disclosure Letterlast three (3) years, (viii) all of discrimination tests for the Crestar most recent three (3) plan years, and (ix) all material written agreements and contracts currently in effect, including administrative service agreements, group annuity contracts, and group insurance contracts.
(c) Each Employee Plans have Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in material compliance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements prescribed by Applicable Law, including the timely and accurate filing of ERISAall reports and returns. All contributions, reserves or premium payments required to be made or accrued as of the Code, and any other applicable lawsdate hereof to the Employee Benefit Plans have been timely made or accrued. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Each Employee Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code is so qualified and has obtained a currently effective favorable determination notification, advisory or opinion letter, as applicable, as to its qualified status (or the qualified status of the master or prototype form on which it is established) from the IRS covering the amendments to the Code effected by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all subsequent legislation for which the IRS will currently issue such a letter, and no amendment to such Employee Benefit Plan has been determined adopted since the date of such letter covering such Employee Benefit Plan that would adversely affect such favorable determination. The most recent determination notification, advisory or opinion letter for each such Employee Benefit Plan has not been revoked, and, to the Sellers’ Knowledge, no fact or event exists that could reasonably be expected to result in the revocation of such qualified status.
(d) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9(d), no plan currently or ever in the past maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to by the IRS to be so qualified Company or its current or former ERISA Affiliates is or ever in the subject of past was (i) a pending application for such determination that was timely filedMultiemployer Plan, (bii) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined a plan described in Section 302 413 of ERISA and the Code, (iii) a plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, (iv) a plan subject to the minimum funding standards of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or (v) a plan maintained in connection with any trust described in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(e) The Company is not subject to any liability or penalty under Sections 4975 through 4980B of the Code or Title I of ERISA. The Company has materially complied with all applicable health care continuation requirements under COBRA. No “Prohibited Transaction,” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9(f), no Employee Benefit Plan provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, benefits (including death or medical benefits), whether or not waivedinsured, and no waiver with respect to any former or current employee, or any spouse or dependent of any such employee, beyond the minimum funding standards employee’s retirement or other termination of such sections has been requested from employment with the IRSCompany other than (i) coverage mandated by COBRA, (cii) neither Crestar nor retirement or death benefits under any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required plan intended to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to be qualified under Section 401(a)(29401(a) of the Code, (diii) the fair market value of the assets of each defined disability benefits that have been fully provided for by insurance under an Employee Benefit Plan that constitutes an “employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16(3)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as ERISA, or (iv) benefits in the nature of severance pay with respect to one or more of the end employment contracts set forth on Schedule 4.9(f).
(g) There is no contract, plan or arrangement covering any officer, employee or former officer or employee of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Company that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the date hereof, calculated on the basis payment as a result of the actuarial assumptions used transactions contemplated by this Agreement of any amount that would not be deductible by the Company by reason of Section 280G of the Code. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the term “payment” shall include any payment, acceleration, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, increase in benefits or obligation to fund benefits. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9(g), execution of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (alone or together with any other event which, standing alone, would not by itself trigger such entitlement or acceleration) will not (i) entitle any Person to any payment, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, or increase in benefits under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) otherwise trigger any acceleration (of vesting or payment of benefits or otherwise) under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, or (iii) trigger any obligation to fund any Employee Benefit Plan.
(h) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9(h), no Proceeding (excluding claims for benefits incurred in the most recent actuarial valuation ordinary course) has been brought or is pending or threatened against or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets or any fiduciary thereof (in that Person’s capacity as a fiduciary of such Employee Benefit Plan). There are no Proceedings pending or threatened by the IRS, DOL, or other Governmental Entity with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(i) With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined for such defined benefit plan as purposes of Section 409A(d)(1) of the date hereofCode), (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit such plan has been terminated, nor has maintained and operated in compliance with Section 409A of the PBGC instituted proceedings Code and the applicable IRS guidance promulgated thereunder to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any extent such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code and so as to avoid any tax, interest or penalty thereunder. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9(i), no Securities or Equity Interests in the Company are subject to a "multiemployer plan" substantial risk of forfeiture within the meaning of Section 3(37) 83 of ERISA or the Code with respect to which a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of valid election under Section 413(c83(b) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor Code has not been made.
(j) The Company has, and after Closing will have, all power and authority necessary to amend or terminate its participation in each Employee Benefit Plan not mandated to be provided under Applicable Law without incurring any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently penalty or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveliability.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 4.10(a) sets forth a true and complete list of each Employee Benefit Plan, welfareand, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except except as set forth therein, no Company has ever created, maintained, offered or incurred any obligation under any other Employee Benefit Plan.
(b) Each Company has delivered the following documents to Purchaser with respect to each of its Employee Benefit Plan: (i) true, correct and complete copies of all documents embodying such Employee Benefit Plan, including all amendments thereto, and all related trust documents, (ii) a written description of any Employee Benefit Plan that is not set forth in a written document, (iii) the most recent summary plan description together with the summary or summaries of material modifications thereto, if any, (iv) all IRS or DOL determination, opinion, notification and advisory letters, (v) the three most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, (vi) all material correspondence to or from any Governmental Entity received in the Crestar Disclosure Letterlast three (3) years, (vii) all of discrimination tests for the Crestar most recent three (3) plan years (if any), and (viii) all material written agreements and contracts currently in effect, including administrative service agreements, group annuity contracts, and group insurance contracts.
(c) Each Employee Plans have Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in material compliance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements prescribed by Applicable Law, including the timely and accurate filing of ERISAall reports and returns. All contributions, reserves or premium payments required to be made or accrued as of the Code, and any other applicable lawsdate hereof to the Employee Benefit Plans have been timely made or accrued. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Each Employee Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code is so qualified and has obtained a currently effective favorable determination notification, advisory or opinion letter, as applicable, as to its qualified status (or the qualified status of the master or prototype form on which it is established) from the IRS covering the amendments to the Code effected by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all subsequent legislation for which the IRS will currently issue such a letter, and no amendment to such Employee Benefit Plan has been determined by adopted since the IRS date of such letter covering such Employee Benefit Plan that would adversely affect such favorable determination. The most recent determination notification, advisory or opinion letter for each such Employee Benefit Plan intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code has not been revoked, and, to Stephan’s Knowledge, no fact or event exists that could reasonably be expected to result in the revocation of such qualified status.
(d) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(d), no plan currently or ever in the past maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be so qualified contributed to by any Company or its current or former ERISA Affiliates is or ever in the subject of past was (i) a pending application for such determination that was timely filedMultiemployer Plan, (bii) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined a plan described in Section 302 413 of ERISA and the Code, (iii) a plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, (iv) a plan subject to the minimum funding standards of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or (v) a plan maintained in connection with any trust described in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(e) No Company is subject to any liability or penalty under Sections 4975 through 4980B of the Code or Title I of ERISA. REV-US has materially complied with all applicable health care continuation requirements under COBRA. No “Prohibited Transaction,” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(f), no Employee Benefit Plan of REV-US provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, benefits (including death or medical benefits), whether or not waivedinsured, and no waiver with respect to any former or current employee, or any spouse or dependent of any such employee, beyond the minimum funding standards employee’s retirement or other termination of such sections has been requested from the IRSemployment with any Company other than (i) coverage mandated by COBRA, (cii) neither Crestar nor retirement or death benefits under any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required plan intended to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to be qualified under Section 401(a)(29401(a) of the Code, (diii) the fair market value of the assets of each defined disability benefits that have been fully provided for by insurance under an Employee Benefit Plan that constitutes an “employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16(3)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as ERISA, or (iv) benefits in the nature of severance pay with respect to one or more of the end employment contracts set forth on Schedule 4.10(f).
(g) There is no contract, plan or arrangement covering any officer, employee or former officer or employee of REV-US that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the payment as a result of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis transactions contemplated by this Agreement of any amount that would not be deductible by such Company by reason of Section 280G of the actuarial assumptions used Code. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the term “payment” shall include any payment, acceleration, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, increase in benefits or obligation to fund benefits. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(g), execution of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (alone or together with any other event which, standing alone, would not by itself trigger such entitlement or acceleration) will not (i) entitle any Person to any payment, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, or increase in benefits under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) otherwise trigger any acceleration (of vesting or payment of benefits or otherwise) under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, or (iii) trigger any obligation to fund any Employee Benefit Plan.
(h) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(h), no Proceeding (excluding claims for benefits incurred in the most recent actuarial valuation ordinary course) has been brought or is pending or threatened against or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets or any fiduciary thereof (in that Person’s capacity as a fiduciary of such Employee Benefit Plan). There are no Proceedings pending or threatened by the IRS, DOL, or other Governmental Entity with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(i) With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined for such defined benefit plan as purposes of Section 409A(d)(1) of the date hereofCode), (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit such plan has been terminated, nor has maintained and operated in compliance with Section 409A of the PBGC instituted proceedings Code and the applicable IRS guidance promulgated thereunder to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any extent such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code and so as to avoid any tax, interest or penalty thereunder. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(i), no Securities or Equity Interests in any Company are subject to a "multiemployer plan" substantial risk of forfeiture within the meaning of Section 3(37) 83 of ERISA or the Code with respect to which a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of valid election under Section 413(c83(b) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary Code has incurred any liability not been made.
(j) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(j), all payments to funds and schemes for the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 benefit of the Codeemployees of REV-India as mandated under Applicable Indian Law have been made by REV-India, except including any payments made towards employees’ state insurance, employees’ provident fund and any other pension scheme instituted or mandated for premiums its employees.
(k) Each Company has, and after Closing will have, all power and authority necessary to amend or terminate its participation in each Employee Benefit Plan not mandated to be provided under Applicable Law without incurring any penalty or liability when done in compliance with the requirements of which haveApplicable Law.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.18(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, Company Disclosure Schedule contains a correct and administered in all complete list of each material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with Company Benefit Plan subject to the applicable requirements laws of ERISAthe United States. No later than thirty (30) days following the date of this Agreement, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Company shall provide or make available to Parent a complete list of each material Foreign Company Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has provided or made available to Parent with respect to each Crestar Employee and every material Company Benefit Plan which subject to the laws of the United States a true and complete copy of all plan documents, if any, including related trust agreements, funding arrangements, and insurance contracts and all amendments thereto; and, to the extent applicable, (i) the most recent determination letter received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the IRS regarding the tax-qualified status of such Company Benefit Plan; (ii) the most recent financial statements for such Company Benefit Plan; (iii) the most recent actuarial valuation report; (iv) the current summary plan description and any summaries of material modifications; and (v) Form 5500 Annual Returns/Reports, together with all schedules thereto, for the most recent plan year. No later than thirty (30) days following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall provide or make available to Parent all plan documents with respect to each material Foreign Company Benefit Plan or a written summary of such plan.
(c) With respect to each Company Benefit Plan that is a pension plan “single-employer plan” (as defined in within the meaning of Section 3(23(41) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended is subject to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified Title IV or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and or Section 412 or 4971 of the Code): (i) the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Sections 412 and 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) are satisfied, whether or not waived, and no application for a waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections standard has been requested from submitted to the IRS, ; (cii) neither Crestar nor no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) for which the 30-day notice requirement has not been waived has occurred; (iii) no liability other than for premiums to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (“PBGC”) under Title IV of ERISA has been or is reasonably expected to be incurred by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates, and all premiums to the Crestar Subsidiaries PBGC have been timely paid in full; (iv) the PBGC has providednot instituted proceedings to terminate any such plan, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no condition exists that presents a risk that such proceedings will be instituted or which would constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any such plan; (v) no such plan is currently, or is required reasonably expected to providebe, security to any pension plan pursuant to in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 401(a)(29303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code, ); (dvi) the fair market value of the assets and liabilities of such plan has been reported in accordance with GAAP by the Company on the most recent financial statements of the Company; and (vii) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have engaged in a “substantial cessation of operations” within the meaning of Section 4062(e) of ERISA, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the occurrence of any such event. None of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has, at any time during the last six years, contributed to or been obligated to contribute to a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA (a “Multiemployer Plan”), or a plan that has two or more contributing sponsors at least two of whom are not under common control, within the meaning of Section 4063 of ERISA. None of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has withdrawn at any time within the preceding six years from any Multiemployer Plan, or incurred any withdrawal liability which remains unsatisfied, and no events have occurred and no circumstances exist that would reasonably be expected to result in any such liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(d) With respect to each defined benefit Company Benefit Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code, such plan, and its related trust, has received, has an application pending or remains within the remedial amendment period for obtaining, a determination letter from the IRS that it is so qualified and that its trust is exempt from Tax under Section 501(a) of the Code, or such plan has been adopted under a prototype plan or volume submitter plan approved by the IRS, and nothing has occurred with respect to the operation of any such plan which would reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or exemption or the imposition of any material liability, penalty or Tax under ERISA or the Code.
(e) There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened material actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to any Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States or against any fiduciary of any Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States with respect to the operation of such plan (other than routine benefits claims). Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect, there are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to any Foreign Company Benefit Plan or against any fiduciary of any Foreign Company Benefit Plan with respect to the operation of such plan (other than routine benefits claims).
(f) Each Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States has been established and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms, and in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other applicable laws, and all contributions required to have been made under any of the Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of the United States to any funds or trusts established thereunder or in connection therewith have been made or have been accrued and reported on the Company’s financial statements.
(g) None of the Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of the United States provide retiree health or life insurance benefits except as may be required by Section 4980B of the Code and Section 601 of ERISA or any other applicable law or at the expense of the participant or the participant’s beneficiary. There has been no material violation of the “continuation coverage requirement” of “group health plans” as set forth in Section 4980B of the Code and Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA with respect to any Company Benefit Plan to which such continuation coverage requirements apply.
(h) Except as provided in this Agreement (and, with respect to Foreign Company Benefit Plan or employees of the Company outside of the United States only, to the Knowledge of the Company), neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation or benefits due, to any current or former employee of the Company and its Subsidiaries or with respect to any Company Benefit Plan; (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Benefit Plan; (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits; or (iv) trigger any payment or funding (through a grantor trust or otherwise) of any compensation or benefits under any Company Benefit Plan.
(i) No Company Benefit Plan provides for the gross-up or reimbursement of Taxes under Section 409A or 4999 of the Code.
(j) Except as set forth on Section 3.18(j) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will (either alone or in combination with another event) result in the payment of any amount that would, individually or in combination with any other such payment, not be deductible as a result of Section 280G of the Code.
(k) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or its Subsidiaries, each Company Benefit Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c409A(d)(1) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor ) is in documentary compliance with, and has been administered (i) in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code for the period beginning October 1, 2004 through December 31, 2008, and (ii) in compliance with Section 409A of the Code since January 1, 2009.
(l) With respect to any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred Company RSU Award, (i) each grant of a Company RSU Award was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Company RSU Award was by its terms to be effective (the “Grant Date”) by all necessary corporate action, including, as applicable, approval by the Board of Directors of the Company, or a committee thereof, or a duly authorized delegate thereof, and any required approval by the stockholders of the Company by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and the award agreement governing such grant, if any, was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto within a reasonable time following the Grant Date, and (ii) each such grant was made in accordance with the terms of the applicable Company Benefit Plan (including the applicable Company Stock Plan), the Exchange Act and all other applicable law, including the rules of NYSE.
(m) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the PBGC with respect Company or its Subsidiaries, all Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 jurisdiction outside of the CodeUnited States (each a “Foreign Company Benefit Plan”) (i) have been maintained in accordance with all applicable requirements, except (ii) that are intended to qualify for premiums special Tax treatment, meet all requirements for such treatment, and (iii) that are intended to be funded and/or book-reserved, are fully funded and/or book-reserved, as appropriate, based upon reasonable actuarial assumptions
(n) As of October 14, 2016, there are (i) 302,877 shares of Company Common Stock underlying outstanding and unvested Company RSU Awards granted (A) prior to April 1, 2014 and (B) to non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company, in each case, all of which haveCompany RSU Awards are service-based, (ii) 3,463,845 shares of Company Common Stock underlying outstanding and unvested service-based Company RSU Awards granted on or after April 1, 2014 (other than any Company RSU Award granted to a non-employee member of the Board of Directors of the Company), (iii) 1,577,767 shares of Company Common Stock underlying outstanding and unvested performance-based Company RSU Awards granted on or after April 1, 2014, assuming target performance (or actual performance to the extent the performance criteria has already been satisfied), and (iv) 2,666,136 shares of Company Common Stock underlying unvested performance-based Company RSU Awards granted on or after April 1, 2014, assuming maximum performance.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Centurylink, Inc)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.18(a) of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, Company Disclosure Schedule contains a correct and administered in all complete list of each material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with Company Benefit Plan subject to the applicable requirements laws of ERISAthe United States. No later than thirty (30) days following the date of this Agreement, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Company shall provide or make available to Parent a complete list of each material Foreign Company Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has provided or made available to Parent with respect to each Crestar Employee and every material Company Benefit Plan which subject to the laws of the United States a true and complete copy of all plan documents, if any, including related trust agreements, funding arrangements, and insurance contracts and all amendments thereto; and, to the extent applicable, (i) the most recent determination letter received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the IRS regarding the tax-qualified status of such Company Benefit Plan; (ii) the most recent financial statements for such Company Benefit Plan; (iii) the most recent actuarial valuation report; (iv) the current summary plan description and any summaries of material modifications; and (v) Form 5500 Annual Returns/Reports, together with all schedules thereto, for the most recent plan year. No later than thirty (30) days following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall provide or make available to Parent all plan documents with respect to each material Foreign Company Benefit Plan or a written summary of such plan.
(c) With respect to each Company Benefit Plan that is a pension plan “single-employer plan” (as defined in within the meaning of Section 3(23(41) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended is subject to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified Title IV or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and or Section 412 or 4971 of the Code): (i) the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Sections 412 and 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) are satisfied, whether or not waived, and no application for a waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections standard has been requested from submitted to the IRS, ; (cii) neither Crestar nor no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) for which the 30-day notice requirement has not been waived has occurred; (iii) no liability other than for premiums to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (“PBGC”) under Title IV of ERISA has been or is reasonably expected to be incurred by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates, and all premiums to the Crestar Subsidiaries PBGC have been timely paid in full; (iv) the PBGC has providednot instituted proceedings to terminate any such plan, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no condition exists that presents a risk that such proceedings will be instituted or which would constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any such plan; (v) no such plan is currently, or is required reasonably expected to providebe, security to any pension plan pursuant to in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 401(a)(29303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code, ); (dvi) the fair market value of the assets and liabilities of each defined benefit such plan (as defined has been reported in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds accordance with GAAP by the value Company on the most recent financial statements of the "benefit liabilities" Company; and (vii) neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries have engaged in a “substantial cessation of operations” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(164062(e) of ERISA, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the occurrence of any such event. None of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has, at any time during the last six years, contributed to or been obligated to contribute to a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA (a “Multiemployer Plan”), or a plan that has two or more contributing sponsors at least two of whom are not under such defined benefit plan as common control, within the meaning of Section 4063 of ERISA. None of the end Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has withdrawn at any time within the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofpreceding six years from any Multiemployer Plan, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereofor incurred any withdrawal liability which remains unsatisfied, (e) and no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has events have occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds would reasonably be expected to result in any such liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(d) With respect to each Company Benefit Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c401(a) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary , such plan, and its related trust, has incurred any liability received, has an application pending or remains within the remedial amendment period for obtaining, a determination letter from the IRS that it is so qualified and that its trust is exempt from Tax under Section 501(a) of the Code, or such plan has been adopted under a prototype plan or volume submitter plan approved by the IRS, and nothing has occurred with respect to the PBGC operation of any such plan which would reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or exemption or the imposition of any material liability, penalty or Tax under ERISA or the Code.
(e) There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened material actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to any Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States or against any fiduciary of any Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States with respect to the operation of such plan (other than routine benefits claims). Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect, there are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened actions, claims or lawsuits against or relating to any Foreign Company Benefit Plan or against any fiduciary of any Foreign Company Benefit Plan with respect to the operation of such plan (other than routine benefits claims).
(f) Each Company Benefit Plan subject to the laws of the United States has been established and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms, and in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other applicable laws, and all contributions required to have been made under any of the Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of the United States to any funds or trusts established thereunder or in connection therewith have been made or have been accrued and reported on the Company’s financial statements.
(g) None of the Company Benefit Plans subject to the laws of the United States provide retiree health or life insurance benefits except as may be required by Section 4980B of the Code and Section 601 of ERISA or any other applicable law or at the expense of the participant or the participant’s beneficiary. There has been no material violation of the “continuation coverage requirement” of “group health plans” as set forth in Section 4980B of the Code and Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of Company Benefit Plan to which havesuch continuation coverage requirements apply.
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Samples: Merger Agreement
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(i) Schedule 3.18 identifies each Employee Plan which is not a ------------- Multiemployer Plan or otherwise provided for in a collective bargaining agreement referred to in Schedule 3.17. The Sellers shall, welfareno later than ten ---- (10) business days prior to the Closing Date make available to the Purchaser copies of all Employee Plans listed on Schedule 3.18 (and, bonusif applicable, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral ---- related trust agreements) and all trust agreements amendments thereto together with the three most recent annual reports (Forms 5500 including, if applicable, Schedule B thereto) and the most recent actuarial valuation report, if any, prepared in connection with any Employee Plan listed on Schedule 3.18. The Sellers will ---- make available to the Purchaser complete age, salary, service and related thereto, relating to any present or data for all employees and former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or covered under the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans".
(ii) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except Other than as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure LetterSchedule 3.17, all neither any Seller ---- nor Star Management nor any of the Crestar their ERISA Affiliates has any obligation to contribute to a Multiemployer Plan; and no Employee Plans have Plan listed on Schedule 3.18 is or will be subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(iii) Each Employee Plan listed on Schedule 3.18 has been maintained, operated, established ---- and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complyall applicable laws, statutes, orders, rules and have at all relevant times compliedregulations, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISAincluding, but not limited to, ERISA and the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Each Employee Plan which listed on Schedule 3.18 that is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by received a favorable letter of determination from the IRS to be so qualified or is Internal Revenue Service that the subject form of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (bEmployee Plan meets the requirements of Section 401(a) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, Code and no waiver that the form of the minimum funding standards corresponding trust meets the requirements for exemption under Section 501(a) of the Code and to the knowledge of any Star Company, nothing has occurred since the date of each such letter that could result in the disqualification of such sections plans. No Star Company or Seller has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor knowledge that any of the Crestar Subsidiaries Multiemployer Plans to which it or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates contributes on behalf of its employees has provided, been established or is required to provide, security to administered in violation of any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) provisions of ERISA or the Code, or the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(div) the fair market value Neither any Star Company nor any or their ERISA Affiliates has any current or projected liability in respect of post-employment or post-retirement health or medical or life insurance benefits for retired, former or current employees of the assets Sellers or any of each defined benefit plan their Affiliates, other than as may be required to avoid excise tax under Section 4980B of the Code or as a result of an obligation to contribute to a Multiemployer Plan.
(v) Except as defined set forth in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value 3.16 and as provided for in Section 10.02(a), no employee or former employee of the "Star Companies or any of their Affiliates will become entitled to any bonus, retirement, severance, job security or similar benefit liabilities" within the meaning or enhanced such benefit (including acceleration of Section 4001(a)(16vesting or exercise of an incentive award) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as a result of the end transactions contemplated hereby.
(vi) No Star Company other than Star Management has any employees nor, other than as an ERISA Affiliate of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Star Management, any obligations or liabilities related to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan employment or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveemployee benefits.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Schedule 4.13(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists all "employee benefitbenefit plans," as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended ("ERISA"), bonusand all other employee benefit plans or other benefit arrangements, including but not limited to all employment and consulting agreements and all bonus and other incentive compensation, deferred compensation, pensiondisability, profit sharingseverance, retention, salary continuation, vacation, stock award, stock option, employee stock ownershippurchase, consultingcollective bargaining or workers' compensation agreements, severanceplans, policies and arrangements which the Company or any trade or business, whether or not incorporated (an "ERISA Affiliate"), that together with the Company would be deemed a "single employer" within the meaning of Section 4001(b) of ERISA, maintains, is a party to, has contributed to or has any obligation to or liability for current or former employees and directors of the Company (each an "Employee Benefit Plan" and collectively, the "Employee Benefit Plans"). Schedule 4.13(a) separately identifies each of such plans and arrangements Employee Benefit Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(b) True, correct and complete copies of the following documents with respect to each of the Employee Benefit Plans (as applicable) have been delivered or made available to Buyer: (i) the most recent plan, document or agreement, related trust documents and all amendments thereto, (ii) the most recent summary plan description and all related summaries of material modifications, (iii) the annual report on Form 5500 and attached schedules filed with the Internal Revenue Service in the last three years, (iv) the most recent actuarial report, (v) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter, and (vi) a description of any nonwritten Employee Benefit Plan.
(c) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, (i) all payments required to be made by or under any Employee Benefit Plan, any related trusts, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans collective bargaining agreement have been maintained, operated, timely made; (ii) the Company and administered its ERISA Affiliates have performed all material obligations required to be performed by them under any Employee Benefit Plan; (iii) the Employee Benefit Plans comply in all material respects and have been maintained in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws. ; and (iv) there are no actions, suits, arbitrations or claims (other than routine claims for benefits) pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(d) The Company and its ERISA Affiliates have not incurred any unsatisfied withdrawal liability with respect to any "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
(e) Each Employee Benefit Plan and its related trust which are intended to be "qualified" within the meaning of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as from time to time amended (the "Code"), respectively, have been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be so "qualified" under such Sections, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Company knows of no fact which would adversely affect the qualified status of any such Employee Benefit Plan and its related trust.
(f) Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(aon Schedule 4.13(f) of the Code either Company Disclosure Schedule, or as contemplated by this Agreement, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of compensation due, to any current or former employee or director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employment Benefit Plan; or (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits.
(g) No Employee Benefit Plan has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no an "accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in deficiency" within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, nor has any waiver of the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has Code been requested from of or granted by the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security Internal Revenue Service with respect to any pension Employee Benefit Plan, nor has any lien in favor of any such plan pursuant to arisen under Section 401(a)(29412(n) of the CodeCode or Section 302(f) of ERISA.
(h) The "benefits liabilities," as defined in Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, of each of the Employee Benefit Plans subject to Title IV of ERISA using the actuarial assumptions that were used in the most recent actuarial valuation (da true and complete copy of which has been provided to Buyer) in the event it terminated each such plan, do not exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan such plan.
(i) No stock or other security issued by the Company forms or has formed a material part of the assets of any Employee Benefit Plan.
(j) No Employee Benefit Plan provides medical, surgical, hospitalization, death or similar benefits (whether or not insured) for current or former employees or directors of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates for periods extending beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) coverage mandated by applicable Laws, (ii) death benefits under any "pension plan" as defined in Section 3(353(2) of ERISA, or (iii) exceeds benefits, the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all full cost of which haveis borne by such current or former employee or director (or his or her beneficiary).
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Clientlogic Corp)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 4.14(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all material Employee Plans. None of the Employee Plans has undergone within the last six years or is undergoing an audit or investigation (nor has notice been received of a potential audit or examination) by either the IRS, welfarethe United States Department of Labor or any other Authority.
(b) With respect to each Employee Plan, bonuscomplete and correct copies of the following documents have been made available to Purchaser, deferred compensationto the extent applicable: (i) the most recent plan documents or written agreements thereof, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all amendments thereto and all related trust agreements or other funding vehicles with respect to each such Employee Plan and, in the case of any Employee Plan that is not in written form, a description of all material aspects of such plan; (ii) the most recent summary plan description, and all related summaries of material modifications thereto, if applicable; (iii) the three most recent annual reports on Form 5500 (including schedules and attachments), financial statements and actuarial reports for the past three years, if applicable; (iv) the nondiscrimination testing results for the past three plan years; (v) the most recent IRS determination letter and any pending application with respect to each such Employee Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code; and (vi) for the last three years, all material correspondence with the IRS, the United States Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, SEC or any other Authority regarding the operation or the administration of any Employee Plan, other than correspondence relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed matters in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all ordinary course of the Crestar business.
(c) With respect to each Employee Plans have Plan: (i) each has been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complywith all applicable Laws, including ERISA and have at all relevant times compliedthe Code; (ii) no Legal Actions (other than routine claims for benefits) are pending, in or to the Seller’s knowledge threatened; (iii) all material respects premiums, contributions, or other payments required to have been made by Law or under the terms of any Employee Plan or any Contract or agreement relating thereto as of the Closing Date have been made or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP; (iv) all material reports, returns and similar documents required to be filed with any Authority or distributed to any plan participant have been duly filed or distributed; and (v) no “prohibited transaction” or “reportable event” has occurred within the meaning of the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, ERISA or the Code, and Code that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or Purchaser or any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with of its Affiliates.
(d) With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either Code, (i) the IRS has issued a favorable determination letter or opinion letter or advisory letter upon which the Company is entitled to rely under IRS pronouncements, and (ii) no such determination letter, opinion letter or advisory letter has been determined by revoked nor has revocation been threatened and, no event has occurred since the IRS date of such qualification or exemption that would reasonably be expected to be so qualified adversely affect such qualification or exemption.
(e) No Employee Plan is nor was within the subject past six years, nor do Seller, the Company or any of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedtheir ERISA Affiliates have or reasonably expect to have any liability or obligation under, (bi) there any employee benefit plan subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA; or (ii) any Multiemployer Plan.
(f) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) entitle any current or former employee, consultant, officer or director of the Company to severance pay, (ii) result in any payment from the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation due, to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company, (iii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employee Plan, (iv) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits from the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company or (v) result in any forgiveness of indebtedness, trigger any funding obligation under any Employee Plan or impose any restrictions or limitations on the Company’s right to administer, amend or terminate any Employee Plan.
(g) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not (either alone or in combination with another event) result in any payment or deemed payment (whether in cash, property, the vesting of property or otherwise) to any “disqualified individual” (as such term is no accumulated funding deficiency defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.280G-1) that could reasonably be construed, individually or in combination with any other such payment, to constitute an “excess parachute payment” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 280G(b)(1) of the Code), whether . No Person is entitled to receive any additional payment (including any tax gross-up or not waived, and no waiver other payment) from the Company or its Affiliates as a result of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any imposition of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedexcise Taxes required by Section 4999 of the Code or any Taxes required by Section 409A of the Code.
(h) No Employee Plan provides health, medical, or is death benefits to current or former employees of the Company beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than coverage mandated by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or as required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to avoid the excise Tax under Section 401(a)(29) 4980B of the Code, or coverage mandated by any similar state group health plan continuation Law, the cost of which is fully paid by such current or former employees or their dependents.
(di) the fair market value of the assets of The Company and each defined benefit plan (Employee Plan that is a “group health plan” as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16733(a)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of (each, a “Health Plan”) (i) is currently in compliance, in all material respects, with the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havePub.
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Samples: Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans"a) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all Section 3.18(a) of the Crestar Seller Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of each material Seller Employee Plans have been maintainedPlan and the name of its sponsor or, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISAwhere applicable, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in name of the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with entity that is party to the Seller Employee Plan.
(b) With respect to each Crestar material Seller Employee Plan, Seller has provided or made available to Purchaser a copy (or a true, complete and current summary description) thereof (including amendments) and, to the extent applicable: (i) the most recent IRS determination, opinion or advisory letter; (ii) the most recent summary plan description (and any subsequent summaries of material modifications); and (iii) the most recent Form 5500 and attached schedules.
(c) Except as has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Seller Employee Plan has been maintained and operated in substantial compliance with its terms and with any applicable provisions of ERISA and/or the Code; and (ii) each Seller Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by received a current favorable determination letter (or the prototype or volume submitter form plan document on which such Seller Employee Plan is based has received a current opinion letter or advisory letter) from the IRS as to its qualification, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, that would reasonably be so qualified expected to cause the loss of such qualification.
(d) Except as has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or is in the subject of aggregate, a pending application for such determination that was timely filedMaterial Adverse Effect, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (and except as defined disclosed in Section 302 3.18(d) of the Seller Disclosure Letter, none of the Share Sellers, any Acquired Company, any Asset Seller or any of their respective ERISA and Affiliates has any direct or indirect Liability with respect to any plan subject to Section 412 of the Code), whether Section 302 of ERISA or not waivedTitle IV of ERISA, and no waiver including, without limitation, any “multiemployer plan” (within the meaning of the minimum funding standards Sections 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, ERISA or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29414(f) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "“single-employer plan" ” (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently ERISA).
(e) Except as disclosed in Section 3.18(e) of the Seller Disclosure Letter, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement alone, or formerly maintained in combination with any other event, will not give rise to any material liability under any Seller Employee Plan, or accelerate the time of payment or vesting or increase the amount of compensation or benefits due to any employee, officer, director or other service provider of the Share Sellers, any Acquired Company or any Asset Seller. No amount that could be received (whether in cash or property or the vesting of property), as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, by any entity considered one employer with it employee or other service provider of the Share Sellers, any Acquired Company or any Asset Seller under any Seller Employee Plan or otherwise would not be deductible by reason of Section 280G of the Code or would be subject to an excise tax under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 4999 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefitShareholders have heretofore delivered to the Buyer true, welfarecorrect and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each of CC, bonus, deferred compensation, CCT and each Joint Venture Company's pension, profit profit-sharing, stock optionbonus or other deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownershipif any, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral listed in EXHIBIT 3.3(m) hereto for which a letter was obtained except for any multi-employer plans sponsored by any of them (each a "Plan" and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans");
(ii) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 series) and accompanying schedules of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and each Plan currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements sponsored by any of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterthem, with respect to which the same are required, as filed pursuant to applicable law; and
(iii) all plan documents, as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of material modifications and all plan termination documentation with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan and employee welfare plan presently or in the past sponsored by CC, CCT or any of the Joint Venture Companies, as well as the most recent financial statements of each of such plans, except for the multi-employer plans referred to below. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. Shareholders do not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, which has ever been engaged in by any Shareholder, CC, CCT or any of the Joint Venture Companies, or by any Plan sponsored by any of them, any trust created thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the best of Shareholders' knowledge after due inquiry, threatened, against any of the Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of the Plans nor any of said trusts have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) of the Code (whether or not waived), since the date of ERISA): (a) . The terms and operation of each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended of the Plans have complied to be a qualified plan under the extent required with the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code either has and with ERISA, and all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been determined by duly filed or given. Shareholders shall deliver to the IRS Buyer a list of all of CC, CCT and all the Joint Venture Companies Plans subject to be so qualified or Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 4043 of ERISA and Section 412 ERISA. Except as may be specified in EXHIBIT 3.3(m) hereto, none of the Code), whether or not waived, such Plans and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections trust has been requested from terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such Plans since the IRSeffective date of ERISA. The present value, (c) neither Crestar nor on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by CC, CCT or any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedJoint Venture Companies and subject to Title IV of ERISA did not, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) as of the Codemost recent valuation date, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit such Plan as of such date. CC, CCT and the Joint Venture Companies have never been sponsors of, and/or a contributing employer to, a multi-employer pension plan (as defined in subject to the provisions of Section 3(35) 4201, ET SEQ., of ERISA) exceeds the value ; or if they have, they have never incurred any withdrawal liability thereunder, nor will they incur any such liability as a result of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning consummation of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as any of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if they will, at or prior to the date hereofClosing Date, calculated on they will pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond in an appropriate amount with respect to the basis same with an escrow agent and/or a bonding company reasonably satisfactory to the Buyer and in a manner agreeable to applicable law. Neither CC, CCT nor any of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereofJoint Venture Companies have ever been a sponsor of, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurredor a contributing employer to, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no single employer pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within subject to the meaning provisions of Section 3(37) 4041, ET SEQ., of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar ERISA; nor any Crestar Subsidiary has have they ever incurred any liability thereunder or under Section 4062, ET SEQ., of ERISA, nor will any of them incur any such liability as a result of the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if any of them will, at or prior to the PBGC Closing Date, they will pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of same as provided in the Code, except for premiums all of which havepreceding sentence.
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Employee Plans. All Except as set forth on Schedule 6.2(i) of the Intek Disclosure Schedules, all employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral oral, and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar Intek or the Crestar Subsidiaries any Intek Subsidiary (collectively, "Crestar Intek Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in substantial compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, ERISA and the Code, to the extent applicable, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with With respect to each Crestar Intek Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a), except as set forth in Schedule 6.2(i) of the Intek Disclosure Schedules: each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) 4042 of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havePension Benefit Guaranty
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Samples: Sale of Assets and Trademark Agreement (Intek Diversified Corp)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 4.10(a) sets forth a true and complete list of each Employee Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has delivered the following documents to Purchaser with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan: (i) correct and complete copies of all documents embodying such Employee Benefit Plan, welfareincluding all amendments thereto, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all related trust agreements related theretodocuments, relating to (ii) a written description of any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as Benefit Plan that is not set forth in a written document, (iii) the Crestar Disclosure Lettermost recent summary plan description together with the summary or summaries of material modifications thereto, if any, (iv) the three most recent annual actuarial valuations, if any, (v) all of IRS or DOL determination, opinion, notification and advisory letters, (vi) the Crestar three most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, (vii) all material correspondence to or from any Governmental Authority received in the last three (3) years, (viii) all discrimination tests for the most recent three (3) plan years, and (ix) all material written agreements and contracts currently in effect, including administrative service agreements, group annuity contracts, and group insurance contracts.
(c) Each Employee Plans have Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in material compliance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISAprescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations (foreign and domestic), including ERISA and the Code, and any other which are applicable lawsto such Employee Benefit Plans. Except All contributions, reserves or premium payments required to be made or accrued as set forth in of the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect date hereof to each Crestar the Employee Benefit Plans have been timely made or accrued. Each Employee Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code is so qualified and has obtained a currently effective favorable determination notification, advisory or opinion letter, as applicable, as to its qualified status (or the qualified status of the master or prototype form on which it is established) from the IRS covering the amendments to the Code effected by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all subsequent legislation for which the IRS will currently issue such a letter, and no amendment to such Employee Benefit Plan has been determined adopted since the date of such letter covering such Employee Benefit Plan that would adversely affect such favorable determination. The most recent determination notification, advisory or opinion letter for each such Employee Benefit Plan has not been revoked, and, to the Company’s Knowledge, no fact or event exists that could reasonably be expected to result in the revocation of such qualified status.
(d) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(d), no plan currently or ever in the past maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to by the IRS to be so qualified Company or its current or former ERISA Affiliates is or ever in the subject of past was (i) a pending application for such determination that was timely filedMultiemployer Plan, (bii) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined a plan described in Section 302 413 of ERISA and the Code, (iii) a plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, (iv) a plan subject to the minimum funding standards of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or (v) a plan maintained in connection with any trust described in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(e) The Company is not subject to any liability or penalty under Sections 4975 through 4980B of the Code or Title I of ERISA. The Company has materially complied with all applicable health care continuation requirements under COBRA. No “Prohibited Transaction,” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(f), no Employee Benefit Plan provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, benefits (including death or medical benefits), whether or not waivedinsured, and no waiver with respect to any former or current employee, or any spouse or dependent of any such employee, beyond the minimum funding standards employee’s retirement or other termination of such sections has been requested from employment with the IRSCompany other than (i) coverage mandated by COBRA, (cii) neither Crestar nor retirement or death benefits under any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required plan intended to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to be qualified under Section 401(a)(29401(a) of the Code, (diii) the fair market value of the assets of each defined disability benefits that have been fully provided for by insurance under an Employee Benefit Plan that constitutes an “employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16(3)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as ERISA, or (iv) benefits in the nature of severance pay with respect to one or more of the end employment contracts set forth on Schedule 4.10(f).
(g) There is no contract, plan or arrangement covering any officer, employee or former officer or employee of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Company that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the date hereof, calculated on the basis payment as a result of the actuarial assumptions used transactions contemplated by this Agreement of any amount that would not be deductible by the Company by reason of Section 280G of the Code. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the term “payment” shall include any payment, acceleration, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, increase in benefits or obligation to fund benefits. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(g), execution of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (alone or together with any other event which, standing alone, would not by itself trigger such entitlement or acceleration) will not (i) entitle any Person to any payment, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, or increase in benefits under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) otherwise trigger any acceleration (of vesting or payment of benefits or otherwise) under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, or (iii) trigger any obligation to fund any Employee Benefit Plan.
(h) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(h), no action, suit or claim (excluding claims for benefits incurred in the most recent actuarial valuation ordinary course) has been brought or is pending or threatened against or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets or any fiduciary thereof (in that Person’s capacity as a fiduciary of such Employee Benefit Plan). There are no audits, inquiries or proceedings pending or threatened by the IRS, DOL, or other Governmental Entity with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(i) With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined for such defined benefit plan as purposes of Section 409A(d)(1) of the date hereofCode), (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit such plan has been terminated, nor has maintained and operated in compliance with Section 409A of the PBGC instituted proceedings Code and the applicable IRS guidance promulgated thereunder to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any extent such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code and so as to avoid any tax, interest or penalty thereunder. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.10(i), no member of the Company holds Interests that are non-forfeitable and subject to a "multiemployer plan" substantial risk of forfeiture within the meaning of Section 3(37) 83 of ERISA or the Code with respect to which a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of valid election under Section 413(c83(b) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary Code has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havenot been made.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefitThe Rock of Ages Group will make made available upon request for examination by Robexx Xxxx Xxxlds, welfareIII true, bonus, deferred compensation, correct and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each of the Rock of Ages Group's pension, profit profit-sharing, stock optionbonus or other deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownershipif any, consultingfor which a letter was obtained except for any multi-employer plans sponsored by any number of the Rock of Ages Group, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral (each a "Plan" and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans");
(ii) the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 Series) and accompanying schedules of each Plan sponsored by the Rock of Ages Group with respect to which the same are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except required, as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterfiled pursuant to applicable law; and
(iii) all plan documents, all as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, modifications with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan sponsored by a member of the Rock of Ages Group, as well as the most recent financial statements of each of such plans. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. Buyer does not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, ("ERISA") and Section 4975 of ERISA): (a) each pension plan the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (and the "Code"), which has been engaged in by any member of the Rock of Ages Group or by any Plan sponsored by any member of the Rock of Ages Group, any trust relating theretocreated thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the best of Buyer's knowledge, after due inquiry, threatened against any of the Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of the Plans nor any said trust have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) intended of the Code (whether or not waived), since the Closing Date of ERISA. The terms and operation of each of the Plans have complied to be a qualified plan under the extent required with the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code either has and with ERISA, and all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been determined duly filed or given. Buyer shall make available for examination by Robexx Xxxx Xxxlds, III a list of all of the IRS Rock of Ages Group's Plans subject to be so qualified or Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 4043 of ERISA, if any. Except as may be specified in Rock of Ages Group Disclosure Schedule hereto, none of the Rock of Ages Group's Plans and no such trust has been terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such Plans since the effective date of ERISA. The present value, on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by a member of the Rock of Ages Group and subject to Title IV of ERISA and Section 412 did not, as of the Code)most recent valuation date, whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havedate.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefitSchedule 4.18 hereto sets forth a complete list of all Employee Plans and Benefit Arrangements maintained, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severanceadministered or contributed to, or fringe benefit plansotherwise participated in, formal by Company. True and complete copies of each such Employee Plan or informalBenefit Arrangement, written or oral and all trust agreements related including amendments thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedprovided to FNFI, operated, together with true and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements complete copies of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2i) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application annual reports for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent three (3) years (Form 5500 Series including, if applicable, Schedules A and B thereto); (ii) all plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in documents and the most recent actuarial valuation summary plan description of each such Employee Plan, together with any modifications thereto; and (iii) the most recent favorable determination letter (if applicable) from the Internal Revenue Service for each such defined benefit plan as Employee Plan. None of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan Employee Plans is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within as covered in Section 412(c) of the meaning Code, and the Company has not been obligated to make a contribution to any such multiemployer or multiple employer plan. All contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) which are due have been paid to each such Employee Plan or Benefit Arrangement and all contributions for any period ending on or before the Closing Date which are not yet due have been paid to each such Employee Plan or Benefit Arrangement or accrued in accordance with past custom and practice of Company. Each Employee Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 413(c401(a) of the Code is so qualified and each trust maintained pursuant thereto is exempt from income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code. Neither Crestar Company nor any Crestar Subsidiary Employee Plan, nor any trusts created thereunder, nor any trustee, administrator nor any other fiduciary thereof, has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any engaged in a "single-employer planprohibited transaction," within the meaning of as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) 406 of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under and Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 4975 of the 19 Code, except for premiums all or any breach of which havefiduciary duty as defined in Part 4 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) There is no (nor has there ever been) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated), welfareunder common control with the Seller within the meaning of Sections 414(b), bonus(c), deferred compensation, (m) or (o) of the Code. Schedule 5.20 sets forth all pension, profit sharingsavings, stock optionretirement, health, insurance, severance and other employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, benefit or fringe benefit plansplans maintained or sponsored by the Seller, formal or informalwith respect to which the Seller has any responsibility or liability (including any contingent liability) (collectively referred to herein as the “Plans”). With respect to the Plans, written or oral the Seller has delivered to the Buyer copies of: (i) the plan documents, and, where applicable, related trust agreements, and all trust any related agreements related thereto, which are in writing; (ii) summary plan descriptions; (iii) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to any present or former directorseach Plan for which a letter of determination was obtained; (iv) to the extent required to be filed, officers or employees the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 Series and accompanying schedules of Crestar or each Plan and applicable financial statements) as filed with the Crestar Subsidiaries Internal Revenue Service; and ("Crestar Employee Plans"v) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. audited financial statements, if any.
(b) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.20, (i) Each Plan conforms to, and its administration is in compliance with, all applicable requirements of law, including, without limitation, ERISA and the Crestar Disclosure LetterInternal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) and (ii) all of the Crestar Employee Plans are in full force and effect as written, and all premiums, contributions and other payments required to be made by the Seller under the terms of any Welfare Plan (as hereinafter defined) have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with made or accrued.
(c) Each Plan maintained by the applicable requirements Seller that is required to be qualified under Section 401(a) of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable lawseach trust maintained pursuant thereto has been determined to be exempt from federal taxation by the Internal Revenue Service and has a favorable determination letter that has been issued by the Internal Revenue Service with respect to each such Plan. No Plan that is an employee welfare benefit plan as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA (a “Welfare Plan”) is funded through a voluntary employee beneficiary association as defined in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(d) Except as set forth in on Schedule 5.20, the Crestar Disclosure LetterSeller has never maintained, contributed to or incurred any liability with respect to each Crestar Employee any Plan which is subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code. The Seller has no material liability under Section 4062 of ERISA to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or to a pension plan trustee appointed under Section 4042 of ERISA. The Seller has not engaged in any transaction described in Section 4069 of ERISA.
(e) There are no multiemployer plans (as defined in Section 3(2Subsection 3(37) of ERISA): ) (a“Multiemployer Plans”) each pension plan as amended to which the Seller is or has been required to make a contribution or other payment. The Seller has not withdrawn in a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan, nor has the Seller incurred any material liability due to the termination or reorganization of a Multiemployer Plan.
(and f) There has been no non-exempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Part 4 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA) with respect to any trust relating theretoPension Plan or penalty under Section 502(i) intended to be a of ERISA.
(g) The Seller does not maintain any Plan providing post-retirement benefits qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either (“Post-Retirement Benefits”). The Seller is not liable for Post-Retirement Benefits under any plan not maintained by the Seller. The Seller has complied in all material respects with the requirements of Section 4980B of the Code and Sections 601 to 608 of ERISA relating to continuation coverage for group health plans.
(h) There has been determined by no material violation of ERISA or the IRS Code with respect to be so qualified the filing of applicable reports, documents and notices regarding the Plans with the Secretary of Labor or is the subject Secretary of a the Treasury or the furnishing of required reports, documents or notices to the participants or beneficiaries of the Plans.
(i) There are no pending application for actions, claims or lawsuits which have been asserted, instituted or, to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, threatened, against the Plans, the assets of any of the trusts under such determination that was timely filedPlans or the Plan sponsor or the Plan administrator, or, to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, against any fiduciary of the Plans with respect to the operation of such Plans (bother than routine benefit claims).
(j) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (Except as defined set forth on Schedule 5.20, the Plans have been maintained, in Section 302 all material respects, in accordance with their terms and with all provisions of ERISA and Section 412 the Code (including rules and regulations thereunder) and other applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
(k) There has been no mass layoff or plant closing as defined by W.A.R.N. or any similar state or local “plant closing” law with respect to the employees of the CodeSeller.
(l) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.20, the execution of, and performance of the transactions contemplated in, this Agreement will not, either alone or upon the occurrence of subsequent events, result in any payment (whether of severance pay or otherwise), whether acceleration, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, increase in benefits or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required obligation to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC fund benefits with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 employee of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveSeller.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Schedule 4.13(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists all "employee benefitbenefit plans," as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended ("ERISA"), bonusand all other employee benefit plans or other benefit arrangements, including but not limited to all employment and consulting agreements and all bonus and other incentive compensation, deferred compensation, pensiondisability, profit sharingseverance, retention, salary continuation, vacation, stock award, stock option, employee stock ownershippurchase, consultingcollective bargaining or workers' compensation agree ments, severanceplans, policies and arrangements which the Company or any trade or business, whether or not incorporated (an "ERISA Affiliate"), that together with the Company would be deemed a "single employer" within the meaning of Sec tion 4001(b) of ERISA, maintains, is a party to, has contributed to or has any obligation to or liability for current or former employees and directors of the Company (each an "Employee Benefit Plan" and collectively, the "Employee Benefit Plans"). Schedule 4.13(a) separately identifies each of such plans and arrangements Employee Benefit Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.
(b) True, correct and complete copies of the following documents with respect to each of the Em ployee Benefit Plans (as applicable) have been delivered or made available to Buyer: (i) the most recent plan, document or agreement, related trust documents and all amendments thereto, (ii) the most recent summary plan description and all related summaries of material modifi cations, (iii) the annual report on Form 5500 and at tached schedules filed with the Internal Revenue Service in the last three years, (iv) the most recent actuarial report, (v) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter, and (vi) a description of any non- written Employee Benefit Plan.
(c) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, (i) all payments required to be made by or under any Employee Benefit Plan, any related trusts, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans collective bargaining agreement have been maintained, operated, timely made; (ii) the Company and administered its ERISA Affiliates have performed all material obligations required to be performed by them under any Employee Benefit Plan; (iii) the Employee Bene fit Plans comply in all material respects and have been maintained in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws. ; and (iv) there are no actions, suits, arbitrations or claims (other than routine claims for benefits) pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(d) The Company and its ERISA Affiliates have not incurred any unsatisfied withdrawal liability with respect to any "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
(e) Each Employee Benefit Plan and its related trust which are intended to be "qualified" within the meaning of Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as from time to time amended (the "Code"), respectively, have been determined by the Inter nal Revenue Service to be so "qualified" under such Sec tions, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Company knows of no fact which would adversely affect the qualified status of any such Employee Benefit Plan and its related trust.
(f) Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(aon Schedule 4.13(f) of the Code either Company Disclosure Schedule, or as contem plated by this Agreement, neither the execution and de livery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of compensa tion due, to any current or former employee or director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employment Bene fit Plan; or (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits.
(g) No Employee Benefit Plan has been determined by an "ac cumulated funding deficiency" within the IRS to be so qualified meaning of Sec tion 302 of ERISA or is Section 412 of the subject Code, nor has any waiver of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated the minimum funding deficiency (as defined in standards of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has Code been requested from of or granted by the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security Internal Revenue Service with respect to any pension Employee Benefit Plan, nor has any lien in favor of any such plan pursuant to arisen under Section 401(a)(29412(n) of the CodeCode or Section 302(f) of ERISA.
(h) The "benefits liabilities," as de fined in Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, of each of the Employee Benefit Plans subject to Title IV of ERISA using the actuarial assumptions that were used in the most recent actuarial valuation (da true and complete copy of which has been provided to Buyer) in the event it termi nated each such plan, do not exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan such plan.
(i) No stock or other security issued by the Company forms or has formed a material part of the assets of any Employee Benefit Plan.
(j) No Employee Benefit Plan provides medical, surgical, hospitalization, death or similar benefits (whether or not insured) for current or former employees or directors of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates for periods extending beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) coverage mandated by applicable Laws, (ii) death benefits under any "pension plan" as defined in Section 3(353(2) of ERISA, or (iii) exceeds benefits, the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all full cost of which haveis borne by such current or former employee or director (or his or her beneficiary).
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Employee Plans. All (i) Other than those plans, policies or programs required to be maintained by applicable law, Section 4.11(a) of the CR Disclosure Letter lists each “employee benefitbenefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA and all other pension, welfareretirement, bonussupplemental retirement, deferred compensation, pensionexcess benefit, profit sharing, bonus, incentive, stock purchase, stock ownership, stock option, employee stock ownershipappreciation right, consultingprofits interest, employment, severance, or salary continuation, termination, change-of-control, health, life, disability, group insurance, vacation, holiday and fringe benefit plansplan, formal program, contract, or informal, arrangement (whether written or oral unwritten, qualified or nonqualified, funded or unfunded and including any that have been frozen or terminated) maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by:
(A) the CR Group; or
(B) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is an ERISA Affiliate, under which any member of the CR Group or any ERISA Affiliate thereof has any Liability with respect to any current or former employee, director, officer or independent contractor of any member of the CR Group (the “CR Plans”).
(ii) CR has made available to Aegis, as applicable:
(A) correct and complete copies of all documents embodying each CR Plan including (without limitation) all amendments thereto, all related trust documents, and all trust material written agreements related and contracts relating to each such CR Plan;
(B) the three (3) most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, required under ERISA or the Code in connection with each CR Plan;
(C) the most recent summary plan description together with the summary(ies) of material modifications thereto, relating to any present or former directorsif any, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, required under ERISA with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan CR Plan;
(as defined in Section 3(2D) of ERISA): all IRS determination, opinion, notification and advisory letters;
(aE) each pension plan as amended (and to the extent available, all material correspondence to or from any trust Governmental Entity relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant CR Plan;
(F) to Section 401(a)(29) of the Codeextent available, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" all COBRA forms and related notices within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16last three (3) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of years;
(G) to the end of extent available, all discrimination tests for each CR Plan for the most recent three (3) plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in years;
(H) the most recent annual actuarial valuation valuations, if any, prepared for such defined benefit plan as each CR Plan;
(I) the most recent annual and periodic accounting of the date hereofeach CR Plan assets;
(J) all material written agreements and contracts relating to each CR Plan, including, but not limited to, administrative service agreements, group annuity contracts and group insurance contracts;
(eK) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings all material communications generally distributed to terminate a defined benefit plan all employees or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" former employees within the meaning of Section 3(37last three (3) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect years relating to any "single-employer plan" within amendments, terminations, establishments, increases or decreases in benefits, acceleration of payments or vesting schedules or other events which would result in any material Liability under any CR Plan or proposed CR Plan;
(L) all policies pertaining to fiduciary liability insurance covering the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15fiduciaries for each CR Plan; and
(M) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by all registration statements, annual reports and prospectuses prepared in connection with any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveCR Plan.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Code Rebel Corp)
Employee Plans. All (a) Section 3.17(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete and accurate list of each (i) “employee benefitbenefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), welfarewhether or not subject to ERISA, and (ii) employment, bonus, deferred stock option, stock purchase or other equity-based, benefit, incentive compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock optionsavings, employee stock ownershipretirement, disability, vacation, deferred compensation, consulting, severance, termination, retention, change of control and other similar fringe, welfare or fringe other employee benefit plansplan, formal program, agreement, contract, policy or informalbinding arrangement (whether or not in writing and whether or not covering a single individual or group of individuals) sponsored, written maintained, contributed to or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating required to be contributed to for the benefit of any present current or former directorsemployee, officers non-employee service provider or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all director of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedCompany, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects any of its Subsidiaries or any other trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which would be treated as a single employer with the applicable requirements Company or any of ERISAits Subsidiaries under Section 414 of the Code (an “ERISA Affiliate”), the Codeor any of their dependents or beneficiaries, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, or with respect to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries currently has or could have any material liability (including contingent liability), other than governmentally administered plans and plans mandated by applicable Law (together the “Employee Plans”). With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which other than an Employee Plan that is a pension plan maintained in any non-U.S. jurisdiction (as defined in Section 3(2together, the “International Employee Plans”), to the extent applicable the Company has Made Available to Parent complete and accurate copies of: (A) of ERISA): the three (a3) most recently filed annual reports on Form 5500 required to have been filed with the IRS for each pension plan as amended Employee Plan, including all schedules thereto; (and B) the most recent determination or opinion letter, if any, from the IRS for any trust relating thereto) Employee Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by Code; (C) the current plan documents and summary plan descriptions, or a written description of the terms of any Employee Plan that is not in writing; (D) any related trust agreements, insurance contracts, insurance policies or other documents of any funding arrangements; and (E) any notices or other communications to or from the IRS or DOL relating to any material compliance issues in respect of any such Employee Plan. With respect to each International Employee Plan, to the extent applicable, the Company has Made Available to Parent complete and accurate copies of (x) the most recent annual report or similar compliance documents required to be so qualified or is filed with any Governmental Authority with respect to such plan and (y) any document comparable to the subject determination letter referenced under clause (B) above issued by a Governmental Authority relating to the satisfaction of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, Law necessary to obtain the most favorable tax treatment.
(b) there No Employee Plan is no accumulated funding deficiency (i) a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 302 3(37) of ERISA and Section 412 of the CodeERISA), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (cii) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan a “multiple employer plan” (as defined in Section 3(35) 4063 or 4064 of ERISA) exceeds or (iii) subject to Section 302 of ERISA, Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has ever incurred any liability with respect to a multiemployer plan, multiple employer plan or other employee benefit plan subject to Section 302 of ERISA, Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA
(c) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, each Employee Plan has been established, maintained, operated and administered in compliance with its terms and with all applicable Law, including the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code.
(d) (i) Each Employee Plan that is subject to Section 409A of the Code has been operated and administered in material compliance with Section 409A of the Code and all applicable IRS guidance promulgated thereunder so as to avoid any Tax, interest or penalty thereunder, (ii) the document or documents that evidence each such plan or arrangement have conformed to the provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the final regulations under Section 409A of the Code since December 31, 2008; and (iii) any Employee Plan in existence prior to January 1, 2005, and not subject to Section 409A of the Code has not been “materially modified” (within the meaning of IRS Notice 2005 1) at any time after October 3, 2004. No Person is entitled to receive any Table of Contents additional payment (including any Tax gross-up payment) from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of the imposition of additional Taxes under Section 409A of the Code.
(e) As of the date hereof, there are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened on behalf of or against any Employee Plan, the assets of any trust under any Employee Plan, or the plan sponsor, plan administrator or any fiduciary or any Employee Plan with respect to the administration or operation of such plans, other than routine claims for benefits.
(f) None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents has, with respect to any Employee Plan, engaged in or been a party to any non-exempt “prohibited transaction,” as such term is defined in Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA, which could reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of a material penalty assessed pursuant to Section 502(i) of ERISA or a tax imposed by Section 4975 of the Code, in each case applicable to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Employee Plan or for which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any indemnification obligation.
(g) No Employee Plan provides health, medical or other welfare benefits to former employees of the Company or its ERISA Affiliates, other than pursuant to Section 4980B of the Code or any similar Law.
(h) Each Employee Plan that is intended to be “qualified” under Section 401 of the Code has received a favorable determination letter or prototype opinion letter from the IRS as to its qualifications and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no fact or event has occurred since the date of such determination letter or prototype opinion letter that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of any such Employee Plan.
(i) Each International Employee Plan (A) that is intended to qualify for special tax treatment has, to the Knowledge of the Company, met all requirements for such tax treatment, (B) does not have material unfunded liabilities or liabilities that could reasonably be imposed upon the assets of the Company or any Subsidiary by reason of such International Employee Plan, (C) is in material compliance with all applicable Laws, and (D) if intended or required to be qualified, approved or registered with a Governmental Authority, is and has been to the Knowledge of the Company so qualified, approved or registered and nothing has occurred that could reasonably be expected to result in the loss of such qualification, approval or registration, as applicable.
(j) Neither the execution or delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will, either alone or in connection with any other event (A) result in any severance or payment or benefit becoming due or payable, or required to be provided, to any current or former director, officer, employee or independent contractor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (B) increase the amount or value of any benefit or compensation otherwise payable or required to be provided to any such current or former director, officer, employee or independent contractor, or (C) result in the "acceleration of the time of payment, vesting or funding (through a grantor trust or otherwise) of any such benefit liabilities" or compensation, or (D) limit or restrict the right of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to merge, amend or terminate any Employee Plan.
(k) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, all contributions, premiums and other payments required to be made with respect to any Employee Plan have been timely made, accrued or reserved for.
(l) Except as required by applicable Law or the terms of any Employee Plans as in effect on the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any plan or commitment to amend in any material respect or establish any new Employee Plan or to continue or materially increase any benefits under any Employee Plan. Table of Contents (m) No amount paid or payable by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in connection with the Merger or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (either alone or in combination with any other event) will be an “excess parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) 280G of the Code. Neither Crestar nor No Person is entitled to receive any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred additional payment (including any liability to Tax gross-up payment) from the PBGC with respect to Company or any "single-employer plan" within of its Subsidiaries as a result of the meaning imposition of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it additional Taxes under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 4999 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Xcerra Corp)
Employee Plans. All employee benefitSchedule 4.18 hereto sets forth a complete list of all Employee Plans and Benefit Arrangements maintained, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severanceadministered or contributed to, or fringe benefit plansotherwise participated in, formal by Company. True and complete copies of each such Employee Plan or informalBenefit Arrangement, written or oral and all trust agreements related including amendments thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedprovided to FNFI, operated, together with true and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements complete copies of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2i) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application annual reports for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent three (3) years (Form 5500 Series including, if applicable, Schedules A and B thereto); (ii) all plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in documents and the most recent actuarial valuation summary plan description of each such Employee Plan, together with any modifications thereto; and (iii) the most recent favorable determination letter (if applicable) from the Internal Revenue Service for each such defined benefit plan as Employee Plan. None of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan Employee Plans is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within as covered in Section 412(C) of the meaning Code, and the Company has not been obligated to make a contribution to any such multiemployer or multiple employer plan. All contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) which are due have been paid to each such Employee Plan or Benefit Arrangement and all contributions for any period ending on or before the Closing Date which are not yet due have been paid to each such Employee Plan or Benefit Arrangement or accrued in accordance with past custom and practice of Company. Each Employee Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 413(c401(a) of the Code is so qualified and each trust maintained pursuant thereto is exempt from income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code. Neither Crestar Company nor any Crestar Subsidiary Employee Plan, nor any trusts created thereunder, nor any trustee, administrator nor any other fiduciary thereof, has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any engaged in a "single-employer planprohibited transaction," within the meaning of as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) 406 of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under and Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 4975 of the Code, except for premiums all or any breach of which havefiduciary duty as defined in Part 4 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Fidelity National Financial Inc /De/)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 4.14(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all material Employee Plans. None of the Employee Plans has undergone within the last six years or is undergoing an audit or investigation (nor has notice been received of a potential audit or examination) by either the IRS, welfarethe United States Department of Labor or any other Authority.
(b) With respect to each Employee Plan, bonuscomplete and correct copies of the following documents have been made available to Purchaser: (i) the most recent plan documents or written agreements thereof, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all amendments thereto and all related trust agreements or other funding vehicles with respect to each such Employee Plan and, in the case of any Employee Plan that is not in written form, a description of all material aspects of such plan; (ii) the most recent summary plan description, and all related summaries of material modifications thereto, if applicable; (iii) the three most recent annual reports on Form 5500 (including schedules and attachments), financial statements and actuarial reports for the past three years, if applicable; (iv) the nondiscrimination testing results for the past three plan years; (v) the most recent IRS determination letter and any pending application with respect to each such Employee Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code; and (vi) for the last three years, all material correspondence with the IRS, the United States Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, SEC or any other Authority regarding the operation or the administration of any Employee Plan, other than correspondence relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed matters in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all ordinary course of the Crestar business.
(c) With respect to each Employee Plans have Plan: (i) each has been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complywith all applicable Laws, including ERISA and have at all relevant times compliedthe Code; (ii) no Legal Actions (other than routine claims for benefits) are pending, in or to the Company’s Knowledge threatened; (iii) all material respects premiums, contributions, or other payments required to have been made by Law or under the terms of any Employee Plan or any Contract or agreement relating thereto as of the Closing Date have been made or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP; (iv) all material reports, returns and similar documents required to be filed with any Authority or distributed to any plan participant have been duly filed or distributed; and (v) no “prohibited transaction” or “reportable event” has occurred within the meaning of the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, ERISA or the Code, and Code that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or Purchaser or any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with of its Affiliates.
(d) With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either Code, (i) the IRS has issued a favorable determination letter or opinion letter or advisory letter upon which the Company is entitled to rely under IRS pronouncements, (ii) no such determination letter, opinion letter or advisory letter has been determined by revoked nor, to the IRS Company’s Knowledge, has revocation been threatened and, no event has occurred since the date of such qualification or exemption that would reasonably be expected to be so qualified adversely affect such qualification or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedexemption, (biii) there a multiple employer plan within the meaning of Section 413 of the Code or (iv) a multiple employer welfare arrangement as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA.
(e) No Employee Plan is no accumulated nor was within the past six years, nor do Sellers, the Company or any of their ERISA Affiliates have or reasonably expect to have any liability or obligation under (i) any employee benefit plan subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA; or (ii) any Multiemployer Plan.
(f) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) entitle any current or former employee, consultant, officer or director of the Company to severance pay, (ii) result in any payment from the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation due, to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company, (iii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employee Plan, (iv) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits from the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company or (v) result in any forgiveness of indebtedness, trigger any funding deficiency obligation under any Employee Plan or impose any restrictions or limitations on the Company’s right to administer, amend or terminate any Employee Plan.
(g) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not (either alone or in combination with another event) result in any payment or deemed payment (whether in cash, property, the vesting of property or otherwise) to any “disqualified individual” (as such term is defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.280G-1) that could reasonably be construed, individually or in combination with any other such payment, to constitute an “excess parachute payment” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 280G(b)(1) of the Code), whether . No Person is entitled to receive any additional payment (including any Tax gross-up or not waived, and no waiver other payment) from the Company or its Affiliates as a result of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any imposition of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedexcise Taxes required by Section 4999 of the Code or any Taxes required by Section 409A of the Code.
(h) No Employee Plan provides health, medical, or is death benefits to current or former employees of the Company beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than coverage mandated by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or as required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to avoid the excise Tax under Section 401(a)(29) 4980B of the Code, or coverage mandated by any similar state group health plan continuation Law, the cost of which is fully paid by such current or former employees or their dependents.
(di) the fair market value of the assets of The Company and each defined benefit plan (Employee Plan that is a “group health plan” as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16733(a)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of (each, a “Health Plan”) (i) is currently in compliance, in all material respects, with the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereofPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havePub.
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Samples: Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All (a) Section 3.10 of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of each "employee benefitbenefit plan," as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended ("ERISA"), bonusand each other material written, unwritten, formal or informal plan, agreement, program, policy or other arrangement involving direct or indirect compensation to employees or other service providers (other than workers' compensation, unemployment compensation and other government programs), including employment, severance, consulting, disability benefits, supplemental unemployment benefits, vacation benefits, retirement benefits, deferred compensation, pension, profit profit-sharing, bonuses, stock optionoptions, employee stock ownershipappreciation rights, consultingother forms of incentive compensation, severancepost-retirement insurance benefits, or fringe benefit plansother benefits, formal entered into, maintained or informalcontributed to by the Company or the Company Subsidiary or with respect to which the Company or the Company Subsidiary has or may in the future have any liability (contingent or otherwise). Each such plan, written agreement, program, policy or oral arrangement required to be set forth on the Disclosure Schedule pursuant to the foregoing is referred to herein as a "BENEFIT PLAN."
(b) The Company has made available the following documents to Parent with respect to each Benefit Plan: (1) correct and complete copies of all documents embodying such Benefit Plan, including (without limitation) all amendments thereto, and all related trust agreements related theretodocuments, relating to (2) a written description of any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as Benefit Plan that is not set forth in a written document, (3) the Crestar Disclosure Lettermost recent summary plan description together with the summary or summaries of material modifications thereto, if any, (4) the three most recent annual actuarial valuations, if any, (5) all Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") or Department of Labor ("DOL") determination, opinion, notification and advisory letters, (6) the Crestar Employee Plans have three most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, (7) all material correspondence to or from any Governmental Authority received in the last three years, (8) all discrimination tests for the most recent three plan years, and (9) all material written agreements and contracts currently in effect, including (without limitation) administrative service agreements, group annuity contracts, and group insurance contracts.
(c) Each Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISAprescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations (foreign and domestic), including (without limitation) ERISA and the Code, and any other which are applicable lawsto such Benefit Plans. Except All contributions, reserves or premium payments required to be made or accrued as set forth in of the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect date hereof to each Crestar Employee the Benefit Plans have been timely made or accrued. Each Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code is so qualified and either:
(1) has obtained a currently effective favorable determination notification, advisory and/or opinion letter, as applicable, as to its qualified status (or the qualified status of the master or prototype form on which it is established) from the IRS covering the amendments to the Code effected by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all subsequent legislation for which the IRS will currently issue such a letter, and no amendment to such Benefit Plan has been determined adopted since the date of such letter covering such Benefit Plan that would adversely affect such favorable determination; or (2) still has a remaining period of time in which to apply for or receive such letter and to make any amendments necessary to obtain a favorable determination.
(d) No plan currently or ever in the past six (6) years maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to by the IRS to be so qualified Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective current or former ERISA Affiliates is or ever in the subject of past six (6) years was (1) a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency ("multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 302 3(37) of ERISA and ERISA, (2) a plan described in Section 412 413 of the Code), whether or not waived(3) a plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, and no waiver of (4) a plan subject to the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any Section 412 of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedCode or Section 302 of ERISA, or is required to provide, security to (5) a plan maintained in connection with any pension plan pursuant to trust described in Section 401(a)(29501(c)(9) of the Code. The term "ERISA AFFILIATE" means any Person that, (d) together with the fair market value Company or any of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the its Subsidiaries, would be deemed a "benefit liabilitiessingle employer" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof414(b), (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurredc), (fm) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(co) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) The Seller Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of each material U.S. Warner Employee Plan.
(b) With respect to each material U.S. Warner Employee Plan, welfarethe Seller has provided or made available to the Purchaser a copy (or a true, bonuscomplete and current summary description) thereof and, deferred compensationto the extent applicable: (i) the most recent IRS determination letter; (ii) a summary of any material proposed changes anticipated to be made at any time within the twelve months immediately following the date hereof; and (iii) for the two most recent years (A) the Form 5500 and attached schedules and (B) summary financial data. Seller has also provided to Purchaser a true and complete list of all Warner Employees whose total guaranteed annual compensation currently exceeds $750,000 and the aggregate termination costs if such Warner Employees who currently earn more than $750,000 annually were terminated effective July 1, pension2004. For purposes of this Section 3.18, profit sharinga Warner Employee Plan is “material” if (x) it is a defined benefit pension plan maintained in Germany or Japan or a defined benefit pension plan maintained in a country other than Germany or Japan with respect to which, stock optionas of the date of this Agreement, employee stock ownershipthere is an accrued liability (on a “PBO” basis) of $25 million or more (regardless of whether such liability is funded) or (y) it is a defined contribution pension plan with respect to which there is, consultingas of the date of this Agreement, severancean unfunded accrued liability that (A) exceeds $10 million or (B) does not exceed $10 million but, when taken together with such unfunded accrued liabilities of all Warner Employee Plans that are defined contribution pension plans (other than those described in clause (A)), exceeds $50 million. Copies of all Warner Employee Plans and all Seller Employee Plans (or, in each case, if no plan document exists, a true, complete and current summary plan description or, if none exists, a true, complete and current summary description) in each case under which any severance or vacation benefits are provided will be delivered or made available to Purchaser as soon as practicable after the date hereof.
(c) Except as has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Warner Employee Plan, each Material Contract that is a Warner Employment Agreement and each Seller Employee Plan with respect to which the Acquired Companies have any obligation under Section 5.01(b) hereof, has been maintained in substantial compliance with its terms and with the requirements prescribed by any and all applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including any applicable requirements of any relevant regulatory or fiscal body; (ii) each Warner Employee Plan which is intended to be qualified within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and has received a favorable determination letter as to its qualification, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, that could reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification; and (iii) no event has occurred and no condition exists that would subject the Acquired Companies, either directly or by reason of their affiliation with any member of their “Controlled Group” (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of organizations within the meaning of Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code), to any Tax, fine, lien or penalty imposed by applicable Law in connection with a Seller Employee Plan. For each pension Warner Employee Plan with respect to which a Form 5500 has been filed, no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the most recent Form since the date thereof.
(d) With respect to any Seller Employee Plan that is a U.S. multiemployer plan (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA), except as has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Acquired Companies has incurred any liability under Title IV of ERISA which remains unsatisfied or would be subject to such liability as of the Closing Date if any Acquired Company were to engage as of the Closing Date in a complete withdrawal (as defined in Section 4203 of ERISA) or partial withdrawal (as defined in Section 4205 of ERISA) from any such U.S. multiemployer plan.
(e) Neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates (including the Acquired Companies) has any knowledge of any material (i) strikes, (ii) slowdowns, (iii) work stoppages, (iv) lockouts or (v) threats of any of the foregoing, by or with respect to any Warner Employees.
(f) Schedule 3.18(f) of the Seller Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of each material Warner Employee Plan maintained outside the jurisdiction of the United States, or fringe benefit plans, formal which covers any employee residing or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating working outside the United States (the “Foreign Benefit Plans”). With respect to any present Foreign Benefit Plans, except as has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letteraggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (i) all of the Crestar Employee Foreign Benefit Plans have been maintainedestablished, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified statutes or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveLaws; and
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Samples: Purchase Agreement (CPP/Belwin, Inc)
Employee Plans. All employee benefitThe Rock of Ages Group will make made available upon request for examination by Target and Shareholder true, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, correct and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each of the Rock of Ages Group's pension, profit profit-sharing, stock optionbonus or other deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownershipif any, consultingfor which a letter was obtained except for any multi-employer plans sponsored by any number of the Rock of Ages Group, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral (each a "Plan" and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans");
(ii) the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 Series) and accompanying schedules of each Plan sponsored by the Rock of Ages Group with respect to which the same are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except required, as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterfiled pursuant to applicable law; and
(iii) all plan documents, all as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, modifications with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan sponsored by a member of the Rock of Ages Group, as well as the most recent financial statements of each of such plans. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. The Rock of Ages Group does not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, ("ERISA") and Section 4975 of the Code, which has been engaged in by any member of the Rock of Ages Group or by any Plan sponsored by any member of the Rock of Ages Group, any trust created thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the best of the Rock of Ages Group's knowledge, after due inquiry, threatened against any of the Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of the Plans nor any said trust have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) of the Code (whether or not waived), since the Effective Time of ERISA): (a) . The terms and operation of each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended of the Plans have complied to be a qualified plan under the extent required with the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code either has and with ERISA, and all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been determined duly filed or given. The Rock of Ages Group shall make available for examination by Target and Shareholder a list of all of the IRS Rock of Ages Group's Plans subject to be so qualified or Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 4043 of ERISA, if any. Except as may be specified in Rock of Ages Group Disclosure Schedule hereto, none of the Rock of Ages Group's Plans and no such trust has been terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such as a share of common stock of Acquiror. Plans since the effective date of ERISA. The present value, on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by a member of the Rock of Ages Group and subject to Title IV of ERISA and Section 412 did not, as of the Code)most recent valuation date, whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havedate.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Rock of Ages Corp)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 4.14(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all material Employee Plans. None of the Employee Plans has undergone within the last six years or is undergoing an audit or investigation (nor has notice been received of a potential audit or examination) by either the IRS, welfarethe United States Department of Labor or any other Authority.
(b) With respect to each Employee Plan, bonuscomplete and correct copies of the following documents have been made available to Purchaser: (i) the most recent plan documents or written agreements thereof, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all amendments thereto and all related trust agreements or other funding vehicles with respect to each such Employee Plan and, in the case of any Employee Plan that is not in written form, a description of all material aspects of such plan; (ii) the most recent summary plan description, and all related summaries of material modifications thereto, if applicable; (iii) the three most recent annual reports on Form 5500 (including schedules and attachments), financial statements and actuarial reports for the past three years, if applicable; (iv) the nondiscrimination testing results for the past three plan years; (v) the most recent IRS determination letter and any pending application with respect to each such Employee Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code; and (vi) for the last three years, all material correspondence with the IRS, the United States Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, SEC or any other Authority regarding the operation or the administration of any Employee Plan, other than correspondence relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed matters in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all ordinary course of the Crestar business.
(c) With respect to each Employee Plans have Plan: (i) each has been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complywith all applicable Laws, including ERISA and have at all relevant times compliedthe Code; (ii) no Legal Actions (other than routine claims for benefits) are pending, in or to Sellers’ Knowledge threatened; (iii) all material respects premiums, contributions, or other payments required to have been made by Law or under the terms of any Employee Plan or any Contract or agreement relating thereto as of the Closing Date have been made or properly accrued in accordance with GAAP; (iv) all material reports, returns and similar documents required to be filed with any Authority or distributed to any plan participant have been duly filed or distributed; and (v) no “prohibited transaction” or “reportable event” has occurred within the meaning of the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, ERISA or the Code, and Code that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or Purchaser or any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with of its Affiliates.
(d) With respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either Code, (i) the IRS has issued a favorable determination letter or opinion letter or advisory letter upon which the Company is entitled to rely under IRS pronouncements, and (ii) no such determination letter, opinion letter or advisory letter has been determined by revoked nor has revocation been threatened and, to Sellers’ Knowledge, no event has occurred since the IRS date of such qualification or exemption that would reasonably be expected to be so qualified adversely affect such qualification or exemption.
(e) No Employee Plan is nor was within the past six years, nor do Sellers, the Company or any of their ERISA Affiliates have or reasonably expect to have any liability or obligation under (i) any employee benefit plan subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and to Section 412 of the Code), whether Code or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, Section 302 or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) Title IV of ERISA; or (ii) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, any Multiemployer Plan.
(f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) consummation of the Code. Neither Crestar nor transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (either alone or in combination with another event) (i) entitle any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred current or former employee, consultant, officer or director of the Company to severance pay, (ii) result in any liability to payment from the PBGC with respect Company or any of their respective Affiliates becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation due, to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently current or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA former employee, officer, director or Section 414 consultant of the CodeCompany, except for premiums all (iii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employee Plan, (iv) result in the acceleration of which havethe time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefits from the Company or any of their respective Affiliates to any current or former employee, officer, director or consultant of the Company or
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Samples: Share Purchase Agreement (Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 4.10(a) sets forth a true and complete list of each Employee Benefit Plan.
(b) The Company has made available to Parent prior to the date hereof the following documents with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan: (1) correct and complete copies of all documents embodying such Employee Benefit Plan, welfareincluding (without limitation) all amendments thereto, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all related trust agreements related theretodocuments, relating to (2) a written description of any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar such Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as Benefit Plan that is not set forth in a written document, (3) the Crestar Disclosure Lettermost recent summary plan description together with the summary or summaries of material modifications thereto, if any, (4) the three most recent annual actuarial valuations, if any, (5) all of IRS or DOL determination, opinion, notification and advisory letters, (6) the Crestar three most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, (7) all material correspondence to or from any Governmental Authority received in the last three years, (8) all discrimination tests for the most recent three plan years, and (9) all material written agreements and contracts currently in effect, including (without limitation) administrative service agreements, group annuity contracts, and group insurance contracts.
(c) Each Employee Plans have Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISAprescribed by any and all statutes, orders, rules and regulations (foreign and domestic), including (without limitation) ERISA and the Code, and any other which are applicable lawsto such Employee Benefit Plans. Except All contributions, reserves or premium payments required to be made or accrued as set forth in of the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect date hereof to each Crestar the Employee Benefit Plans have been timely made or accrued. Each Employee Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code (i) to the Knowledge of the Company, is so qualified and (ii) has obtained a currently effective favorable determination notification, advisory and/or opinion letter, as applicable, as to its qualified status (or the qualified status of the master or prototype form on which it is established) from the IRS covering the amendments to the Code effected by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and all subsequent legislation for which the IRS will currently issue such a letter, and no amendment to such Employee Benefit Plan has been determined adopted since the date of such letter covering such Benefit Plan that would adversely affect such favorable determination. The most recent determination notification, advisory and/or opinion letter for each such Employee Benefit Plan has not been revoked, and no fact or event exists that would reasonably be expected to result in the revocation of such qualified status.
(d) No plan currently or ever in the past maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to by the IRS to be so qualified Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective current or former ERISA Affiliates is or ever in the subject of past was (1) a pending application for such determination that was timely filedMultiemployer Plan, (b2) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined a plan described in Section 302 413 of ERISA and the Code, (3) a plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, (4) a plan subject to the minimum funding standards of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or (5) a plan maintained in connection with any trust described in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(e) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any material liability, penalty or tax under Sections 4975 through 4980B of the Code or Title I of ERISA. The Company and its Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with all applicable health care continuation requirements in Section 4980B of the Code and in ERISA. No “Prohibited Transaction,” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) No Employee Benefit Plan provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, benefits (including, without limitation, death or medical benefits), whether or not waivedinsured, with respect to any former or current employee, or any spouse or dependent of any such employee, beyond the employee’s retirement or other termination of employment with the Company and no waiver its Subsidiaries other than (1) coverage mandated by Part 6 of Title I of ERISA or Section 4980B of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRSCode, (c2) neither Crestar nor retirement or death benefits under any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required plan intended to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to be qualified under Section 401(a)(29401(a) of the Code, (d3) the fair market value of the assets of each defined disability benefits that have been fully provided for by insurance under a Benefit Plan that constitutes an “employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16(3)(1) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as ERISA, or (4) benefits in the nature of severance pay with respect to one or more of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated employment contracts set forth on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and Schedule 4.10(f).
(g) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10(g), there is no pension contract, plan or arrangement covering any employee or former employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or collectively, could give rise to the payment as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement of any amount that would not be deductible by the Company or such Subsidiary by reason of Section 280G of the Code. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the term “payment” shall include (without limitation) any payment, acceleration, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, increase in benefits or obligation to fund benefits. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10(g), the execution of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (alone or together with any other event which, standing alone, would not by itself trigger such entitlement or acceleration) will not (1) entitle any Person to any payment, forgiveness of indebtedness, vesting, distribution, or increase in benefits under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, (2) otherwise trigger any acceleration (of vesting or payment of benefits or otherwise) under or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan, or (3) trigger any obligation to fund any Employee Benefit Plan.
(h) No action, suit or claim (excluding claims for benefits incurred in the ordinary course) has been brought or is pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened against or with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets or any fiduciary thereof (in that Person’s capacity as a fiduciary of such Employee Benefit Plan). Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10(h), there are no audits, inquiries or proceedings pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened by the IRS, DOL, or other Governmental Entity with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(i) With respect to each Employee Benefit Plan that is a "multiemployer “nonqualified deferred compensation plan" within the meaning ” (as defined for purposes of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c409A(d)(1) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary ), such plan has incurred any liability been maintained and operated in material compliance with Section 409A of the Code and the applicable IRS guidance promulgated thereunder to the PBGC with respect extent such plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code and so as to avoid any tax, interest or penalty thereunder. No stock option granted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (whether currently outstanding or previously exercised) is, has been or would be, as applicable, subject to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently tax, penalty or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it interest under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 409A of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Employee Plans. All (a) Section 3.16(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete list, as of the date of this Agreement, of each material “employee benefitbenefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA and any other material plan, welfarepolicy, program, or agreement (including any employment, bonus, incentive or deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consultingequity or equity-based compensation, severance, retention, supplemental retirement, change in control or fringe benefit planssimilar plan, formal policy, program or informalagreement) providing compensation or other benefits to any current or former director, officer, individual consultant or employee, which are maintained, sponsored or contributed to by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, or to which the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries is a party or has or may have any liability, and in each case whether or not (i) subject to the Laws of the United States, (ii) in writing or (iii) funded, but excluding in each case any statutory plan, program or arrangement that is both required under applicable Law and maintained by any Governmental Authority (each, an “Employee Plan”). The Company has delivered to Parent, to the extent applicable, true, complete and correct copies of (v) each Employee Plan (or, if not written a written summary of its material terms), including all plan documents, trust agreements, insurance Contracts or oral other funding vehicles and all trust agreements related amendments thereto, (w) the most recent summary plan descriptions, including any summary of material modifications (x) the most recent annual report (Form 5500 series) filed with the IRS with respect to such Employee Plan, (y) the most recent actuarial report or other financial statement relating to such Employee Plan, and (z) the most recent determination or opinion letter, if any, issued by the IRS with respect to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries Employee Plan and any pending request for such a determination letter.
("Crestar Employee Plans"b) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterwould not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, all of the Crestar each Employee Plans have Plan has been maintainedestablished, operated, funded and administered in all material respects in compliance with their its terms and currently complyall applicable Laws, including ERISA and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar .
(c) No Employee Plan which is a multiemployer pension plan (as defined in Section 3(23(37) of ERISA): ) (aa “Multiemployer Plan”) each or other pension plan as amended that is or was subject to Title IV of ERISA or Sections 412 or 430 of the Code (“Title IV Plan”) and neither the Company nor any trust relating theretoof its ERISA Affiliates has sponsored or contributed to, been required to contribute to, or has any actual or contingent liability under, a Multiemployer Plan or Title IV Plan, including at any time within the previous six (6) years. Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred any withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA that has not been fully satisfied.
(d) Each Employee Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be is so qualified and has received a current favorable determination letter from the IRS. No member of the Company Group has any obligation to provide any post-employment, post-service or is post-ownership health or welfare benefits to any Person (except as required by Section 4980B of the subject Code and for which the covered Person pays the full premium cost of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedcoverage). No member of the Company Group has incurred (whether or not assessed) any material Tax or penalty under Sections 4980B, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 4980D, 4980H, 6721 or 6722 of the Code.
(e) Except as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, with respect to each Employee Plan, no Legal Proceedings, actions, suits or claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the ordinary course) are pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(f) Except as set forth on Section 3.16(f) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will, either alone or in combination with another event (such as termination following the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby), whether (i) entitle any current or not waivedformer employee, and no waiver officer or other service provider of the minimum funding standards Company or any Subsidiary of such sections has been requested from the IRSCompany to any severance pay or any other compensation or benefits payable or to be provided by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (cii) neither Crestar accelerate the time of payment, funding or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation or benefits (including Company Options, Company RSUs and Company SARs) due to any such employee, officer or other individual service provider by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, (iii) limit or restrict the right of Parent to merge, amend or terminate any Employee Plan on or after the Effective Time, or (iv) result in any “excess parachute payment” under Section 280G of the Code.
(g) Neither the Company nor any of the Crestar its Subsidiaries has providedany obligation to provide any Person a Tax gross-up, make whole or is required similar payment with respect to provideTaxes, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) including those imposed under Sections 409A or 4999 of the Code.
(h) Except as would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, with respect to each Employee Plan subject to the Laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States, (di) all employer contributions to each such Employee Plan required by applicable Law or by the fair market value terms of such Employee Plan have been made, (ii) each such Employee Plan required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities and, to the Knowledge of the assets of Company, and (iii) each defined benefit plan such Employee Plan required to be fully funded or fully insured, is fully funded or fully insured, including any back-service obligations, on an ongoing and termination or solvency basis (as defined determined using reasonable actuarial assumptions) in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior compliance with applicable Laws. Each Employee Plan subject to the date hereof, calculated on Laws of any jurisdiction outside the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for United States which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate provides retirement benefits is a defined benefit contribution plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC all contributions have been timely made with respect to any "single-employer statutory plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently , program or formerly arrangement that is required under applicable Law and maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveGovernmental Authority.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Augmedix, Inc.)
Employee Plans. All (a) The Company has made available to Parent all "employee benefitbenefit plans," as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, welfareand all material bonus or other incentive compensation, bonusequity or equity-based compensation, deferred compensationcompensation and severance pay, pensionplans or policies that the Company or any of its subsidiaries has any obligation to or liability for (each an "Employee Benefit Plan" and collectively, profit sharingthe "Employee Benefit Plans").
(b) True, stock optioncorrect and complete copies of the following documents, employee stock ownershipwith respect to each of the Employee Benefit Plans (other than a Multiemployer Plan) have been made available or delivered to Parent by the Company (i) the most recent plan document and related trust documents, consultingand amendments thereto; (ii) the most recent Forms 5500 and schedules thereto; (iii) the most recent Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") determination letter; (iv) the most recent financial statements and actuarial valuations, severanceif applicable; and (v) the most recent summary plan descriptions.
(c) As of the date hereof, except for such non-compliance which would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, (i) all payments required to be made by or under any Employee Benefit Plan, any related trusts, or fringe benefit plans, formal any collective bargaining agreement or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating pursuant to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans Law have been maintainedmade by the due date thereof (including any valid extension); (ii) the Employee Benefit Plans (other than any multiemployer plans), operated, and have been administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws. Laws; and (iii) to the Company's knowledge, there are no actions, suits, arbitrations or claims (other than routine claims for benefit) pending or threatened with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan.
(d) Except as set forth in Section 3.11(d) or the Crestar Company Disclosure LetterSchedule, there has been no "reportable event" as that term is defined in Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations thereunder with respect to each Crestar any Employee Benefit Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA which would require the giving of notice or any event requiring disclosure under Section 4041(c)(3)(C) or 4063(a) of ERISA which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.
(e) Each of the Employee Benefit Plans which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is qualify, and the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in trusts maintained pursuant thereto are exempt from federal income taxation under Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 501 of the Code), and the Company knows of no fact which would adversely affect the qualified status of any such pension plan or the exemption of such trust and which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.
(f) Except as set forth in Section 3.11(f) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, will except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, (i) result in any material payment becoming due, or materially increase the amount of compensation due, to any current or former employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (ii) materially increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Employee Benefit Plan; or (iii) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such material benefits.
(g) Other than as set forth in Section 3.11(g) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any rights plan, preferred stock plan, deferred compensation plan or similar Contract which applies to or provides for the grant or acceleration of any benefits as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(h) Except as set forth in Section 3.11(h) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, there are no material unfunded benefit liabilities with respect to any defined benefit plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, as determined under reasonable actuarial assumptions. No pension plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries has incurred an accumulated funding deficiency, whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have
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Employee Plans. All employee benefitSellers and Principal Shareholders have heretofore delivered to the Buyer true, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, correct and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each member of the KMC Group's pension, profit profit-sharing, stock optionbonus or other deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownershipif any, consulting, severance, listed in EXHIBIT 3.3(m) hereto for which a determination letter was obtained or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral for which no such letter was obtained except for any multi-employer plans sponsored by any of them (each a "Plan" and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans");
(ii) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 series) and accompanying schedules of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and each Plan currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements sponsored by any of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterthem, with respect to which the same are required, as filed pursuant to applicable law; and
(iii) all plan documents, as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of material modifications and all plan termination documentation with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan and employee welfare plan presently or in the past sponsored by any member of the KMC Group, as well as the most recent financial statements of each of such plans, except for the multi-employer plans referred to below. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. Sellers and Principal Shareholders do not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, which has ever been engaged in by any shareholder, or any member of the KMC Group, or by any Plan sponsored by any member of the KMC Group, any trust created thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the best of Sellers and Principal Shareholders' knowledge after due inquiry, threatened, against any of the Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of the Plans nor any of said trusts have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) of the Code (whether or not waived), since the date of ERISA): (a) . The terms and operation of each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended of the Plans have complied to be a qualified plan under the extent required with the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code either has and with ERISA, and all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been determined by duly filed or given. Sellers and Principal Shareholders shall deliver to the IRS Buyer a list of all of the members of the KMC Group's Plans subject to be so qualified or Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 4043 of ERISA. Except as may be specified in EXHIBIT 3.3(m) hereto, none of such Plans and no such trust has been terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such Plans since the effective date of ERISA. The present value, on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by any member of the KMC Group and subject to Title IV of ERISA and Section 412 did not, as of the Code)most recent valuation date, whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit such Plan as of such date. No members of the KMC Group have ever been sponsors of, and/or a contributing employer to, a multi-employer pension plan (as defined in subject to the provisions of Section 3(35) 4201, ET SEQ., of ERISA) exceeds the value ; or if they have, they have never incurred any withdrawal liability thereunder, nor will they incur any such liability as a result of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning consummation of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as any of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if they will, at or prior to the date hereofClosing Date, calculated on they will pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond in an appropriate amount with respect to the basis same with an escrow agent and/or a bonding company reasonably satisfactory to the Buyer and in a manner agreeable to applicable law. No member of the actuarial assumptions used in KMC Group has ever been a sponsor of, or a contributing employer to, a single employer pension plan subject to the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as provisions of the date hereofSection 4041, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 ET SEQ., of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, ERISA; nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has it ever incurred any liability thereunder or under Section 4062, ET SEQ., of ERISA, nor will it incur any such liability as a result of the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if any of them will, at or prior to the PBGC Closing Date, they will pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of same as provided in the Code, except for premiums all of which havepreceding sentence.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefitSchedule 4.1.18 to the Disclosure Schedule hereto sets forth a complete list of all Employee Plans and Benefit Arrangements maintained, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severanceadministered or contributed to, or fringe benefit plansotherwise participated in, formal by Company. True and complete copies of each such Employee Plan or informalBenefit Arrangement, written or oral and all trust agreements related including amendments thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedprovided to FNFI, operated, together with true and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements complete copies of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2i) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application annual reports for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent three (3) years (Form 5500 Series including, if applicable, Schedules A and B thereto); (ii) all plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in documents and the most recent actuarial valuation summary plan description of each such Employee Plan, together with any modifications thereto; and (iii) the most recent favorable determination letter (if applicable) from the Internal Revenue Service for each such defined benefit plan as Employee Plan. None of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan Employee Plans is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within as covered in Section 412(c) of the meaning Code, and the Company has not been obligated to make a contribution to any such multiemployer or multiple employer plan. All contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) which are due have been paid to each such Employee Plan or Benefit Arrangement and all contributions for any period ending on or before the Closing Date which are not yet due have been paid to each such Employee Plan or Benefit Arrangement or accrued in accordance with past custom and practice of Company. Each Employee Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 413(c401(a) of the Code is so qualified and each trust maintained pursuant thereto is exempt from income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code. Neither Crestar Company nor any Crestar Subsidiary Employee Plan, nor any trusts created thereunder, nor any trustee, administrator nor any other fiduciary thereof, has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any engaged in a "single-employer planprohibited transaction," within the meaning of as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) 406 of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under and Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 4975 of the Code, except for premiums all or any breach of which havefiduciary duty as defined in Part 4 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Fidelity National Financial Inc /De/)
Employee Plans. All (a) Section 4.18 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true, correct and complete list of:
(i) all “employee benefitbenefit plans,” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, welfareas amended (“ERISA”), bonuswith respect to which the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation or liability, deferred compensationcontingent or otherwise (the “Parent Benefit Plans”). Parent Benefit Plans that cover current or former employees, pensionconsultants, profit sharingcontractors, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severanceofficers, or fringe benefit plansdirectors (or their equivalent) of the Parent and its Subsidiaries are separately identified, formal or informalby the applicable country, written or oral on Section 4.19 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule.
(b) In respect of each Parent Benefit Plan, a complete and correct copy of each of the following documents (if applicable) has been made available to the Company and the APAR Holders: (i) the most recent plan and related trust documents, and all trust agreements amendments thereto; (ii) the most recent summary plan description, and all related summaries of material modifications thereto, relating (iii) the most recent Form 5500 (including, schedules and attachments); (iv) the most recent Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) determination, opinion or notification letter; and (v) the most recent actuarial reports (including for purposes of Financial Accounting Standards Board report nos. 87, 106 and 112).
(c) None of the Parent Benefit Plans or Parent Employee Arrangements is subject to Title IV of ERISA, constitutes a defined benefit retirement plan or is a multiemployer plan described in Section 3(37) of ERISA, and neither the Parent nor any present of its Subsidiaries has any obligation or liability (contingent or otherwise) in respect of any such plans.
(d) The Parent Benefit Plans and their related trusts intended to qualify under Section 401 and 501(a) of the code, respectively, have either received a favorable determination, opinion or notification letter from the IRS with respect to each such Parent Benefit Plan as to its qualified status under the Code, or has remaining a period of time under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations or IRS pronouncements in which to apply for such a letter and make any amendments necessary to obtain a favorable determination as to the qualified status of each such Parent Benefit Plan. Any voluntary employee benefit association that provides benefits to current or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, or their beneficiaries, is and has been qualified under Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(e) All contributions or other payments required to have been made by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries to or under any Parent Benefit Plan or Parent Employee Arrangement by applicable Law or the Crestar Subsidiaries terms of such Parent Benefit Plan or Parent Employee Arrangement ("Crestar Employee Plans"or any agreement relating thereto) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, timely and properly made.
(f) The Parent Benefit Plans and Parent Employee Arrangements have been maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance accordance with their terms and currently complyapplicable Laws. In particular, and have at all relevant times compliedno individual who has performed services for Parent or any of its Subsidiaries has been improperly excluded from participation in any Parent Benefit Plan or Parent Employee Arrangement.
(g) There are no pending or, in all material respects with to Parent’s knowledge, threatened actions, claims, or proceedings against or relating to any Parent Benefit Plan or Parent Employee Arrangement (other than routine benefit claims by persons entitled to benefits thereunder) and, to the applicable requirements knowledge of Parent, there are no facts or circumstances which could form the basis for any of the foregoing.
(h) Neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation or liability (contingent or otherwise) to provide post-retirement life insurance or health benefits coverage for current or former officers, directors, employees, consultants or contractors of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries except (i) as may be required under Part 6 of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a medical expense reimbursement account plan pursuant to Section 125 of the Code, or (iii) through the last day of the calendar month in which the participant terminates employment with Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.
(i) None of the assets of any Parent Benefit Plan is stock of Parent or any of its affiliates, or property leased to or jointly owned by Parent or any of its affiliates.
(j) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions will (i) result in any other applicable laws. Except as set forth payment becoming due to any employee, consultant or contractor (current, former, or retired) of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) increase any benefits under any Parent Benefit Plan or Parent Employee Arrangement or (iii) result in the Crestar Disclosure Letteracceleration of the time of payment of vesting of, with or other rights in respect to each Crestar Employee of any such benefits (except as which may be required by the partial or full termination of any Parent Benefit Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 401 of the Code).
(k) To the knowledge of Parent, whether or not waived, and no waiver all employees of the minimum funding standards Parent and each of such sections has been requested from its Subsidiaries who are not United States citizens but who are assigned to the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor United States operations of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise travel, from time to time, to the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedUnited States on behalf of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, or is possess all applicable passports, visas and other authorizations required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) by the Laws of the Code, (d) the fair market value United States and have otherwise complied with all applicable immigration and similar Laws of the assets United States.
(l) To the knowledge of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) Parent, all employees of ERISA) exceeds Parent or any of its Subsidiaries assigned to work outside the value United States possess all applicable passports, visas and other authorizations required by the Laws of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior respective countries to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which havethey are assigned.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Schedule 5.16(a) identifies each Employee Plan and Employee Benefit Arrangement. Seller has furnished or made available to Buyer copies of the Employee Plans, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral Employee Benefit Arrangements and all trust agreements related amendments thereto together with, where applicable, (i) the most recent annual report prepared in connection with any Employee Plan (Form 5500 including, if applicable, Schedule B thereto), relating to and (ii) each Employee Plan's summary plan description and any present or former directorssummaries of material modifications thereto. For the past six (6) years, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar each Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Plan and each Employee Plans have Benefit Arrangement is and has been maintained, operatedadministered, operated and administered funded in all material respects in accordance with it terms and in <PAGE> 27 compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of all applicable Laws, including, without limitation, ERISA and the Code.
(b) Neither Seller, nor any entity aggregated with Seller under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA (each such entity, a "Related Employer"), except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, has incurred (i) any liability under Title IV of ERISA arising in connection with the termination of any plan covered or previously covered by Title IV of ERISA, (ii) any liability under Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, or (iii) any liability as a result of the failure to comply with the continuation of coverage requirements of Section 601 et. seq. of ERISA and Section 4980B of the Code, that in any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in such case would become a Liability of Buyer after the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Closing Date.
(c) No Employee Plan which is or Employee Benefit Arrangement covering Business Employees provides any Business Employee with medical or death benefits beyond termination of service or retirement, other than (i) coverage mandated by law, or (ii) death or retirement benefits under a pension benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS Code.
(d) Each Employee Plan, which is intended to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in under Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29401(a) of the Code, is so qualified, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, there is no reason why any such plan would not be or remain qualified in form or operation. Each such Employee Plan (di) is the fair market value subject of an unrevoked favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") with respect to such Employee Plan's qualified status under the Code (as amended by all legislation to date) or (ii) has remaining a period of time under the Code or applicable treasury regulations promulgated thereunder or IRS pronouncements in which to apply to the IRS for such a letter and to make any amendments necessary to obtain such a letter from the IRS. Seller has furnished Buyer with a copy of the assets of most recent such letter issued with respect to each defined benefit such Employee Plan.
(e) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.16(e), no Employee Plan covering any Business Employee is a multiemployer plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(164001(a)(3) of ERISA ("Multiemployer Plan"); and neither Seller, nor any entity aggregated with Seller under such defined benefit plan as Section 414(b) or (c) of the end Code or Section 4001 of ERISA, has at any time during the most recent plan six (6) year thereof ending prior period preceding the Closing Date, participated in, contributed to the date hereofor been obligated to contribute to any Multiemployer Plan on behalf of Non-Union Business Employees, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement or incurred any withdrawal liability that has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan satisfied in full. Seller and each Related Employer have timely made all contributions that each of them has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings required to terminate a defined benefit plan make by operation Law or by contract to each Multiemployer Plan covering any Business Employees in which any of them participates (or to appoint which any of them contributes or is obligated to contribute). The consummation of the Transactions in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or any related agreement will not result in a trustee complete or administrator of a defined benefit planpartial withdrawal, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) 4203 or 4205 of ERISA ERISA, by Seller or any Related Employer from any Multiemployer Plan so as to result in any Liability of Buyer after the Closing Date. To the Knowledge of Seller (after consulting with a "multiple employer plan" representative of the IAMAW Pension Plan), were Seller and all Related Employers to completely withdraw, within the meaning of Section 413(c4203 of ERISA, from all Multiemployer Plans covering Business Employees in which any of them participates (or to which any of them contributes or is obligated to contribute) on the date hereof, none of the Codethem <PAGE> 28 would incur any withdrawal liability under Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. Neither Crestar nor There has been no decline in contributions by Seller or any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect Related Employer to any "single-employer plan" Multiemployer Plan that, if continued, could result in a complete or partial withdrawal, within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(154203 or 4205 of ERISA, from such Multiemployer Plan in the future. To the Knowledge of Seller (after consulting with a representative of the IAMAW Pension Plan), no Multiemployer Plan covering Business Employees in which any Seller or Related Employer participates (or to which Seller or any Related Employer contributes or is obligated to contribute) is in reorganization status, within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA, or insolvent, within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA. Neither Seller nor any ERISA currently or formerly maintained Affiliate has been notified by any entity considered one employer with it Multiemployer Plan covering Business Employees that such plan intends to terminate or has been terminated under Section 4001 4041A of ERISA ERISA.
(f) There are no actions, suits or claims (other than routine claims for benefits) pending or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened with respect to (or against the assets of) any Employee Plan or Employee Benefit Arrangement. Seller has not been notified by the IRS, the Department of Labor ("DOL") or any other Governmental or Regulatory Body, that any Employee Plan or Employee Benefit Arrangement is currently under investigation, audit or review, directly or indirectly, by such Governmental or Regulatory Body, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no such investigation, audit or review is under way or threatened by the IRS, the DOL or any other Governmental or Regulatory Body.
(g) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 414 5.16 to the contrary, the representations and warranties set forth in the last sentence of Section 5.16(a), Section 5.16(d) and the first sentence of Section 5.16(f) are limited to the Knowledge of Seller (after consulting with a representative of the Code, except for premiums all of which haveIAMAW Pension Plan) insofar as they pertain to the IAMAW Pension Plan.
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Samples: Asset Purchase Agreement (Esterline Technologies Corp)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, (a) Schedule 5.20(a) sets forth all pension, profit sharingsavings, stock optionretirement, health, insurance, severance and other employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, benefit or fringe benefit plansplans maintained or sponsored by either Seller or any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with either Seller within the meaning of Sections 414(b), formal (c), (m) or informal(o) of the Code (the “Controlled Group”), written or oral with respect to which either Seller or any other member of the Controlled Group has any responsibility or liability (including any contingent liability) (collectively referred to herein as the “Plans”). With respect to the Plans, the Sellers have delivered to the Buyer copies of: (i) the Plan documents, and, where applicable, related trust agreements, and any related agreements which are in writing; (ii) summary plan descriptions; (iii) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each Plan for which a letter of determination was obtained; (iv) to the extent required to be filed, the most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 Series and accompanying schedules of each Plan and applicable financial statements) as filed with the Internal Revenue Service; and (v) audited financial statements, if any.
(b) Each Plan conforms to, has been maintained in accordance with and its administration is in compliance with, its terms and all trust agreements related theretoapplicable requirements of federal, relating to any present or former directorsstate and local law, officers or employees of Crestar or including, without limitation, ERISA and the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, Code and all of the Crestar Employee Plans are in full force and effect as written.
(c) All premiums, contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary reduction contributions) and other payments required to be made under the terms of any Plan have been maintained, operated, made or accrued by the due date thereof (including any allowed extension) and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and contributions for any period ending on or before the Closing Date which are not yet due will have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with been paid or accrued on or prior to the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Crestar Employee Closing Date.
(d) Each Plan which that is a pension plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be is so qualified or and each trust maintained pursuant thereto is the subject of a pending application for such determination exempt from federal taxation. No Plan that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (an employee welfare benefit plan as defined in Section 302 3(1) of ERISA and (a “Welfare Plan”) is funded through a voluntary employee beneficiary association as defined in Section 501(c)(9) of the Code.
(e) Neither either Seller nor any member of the Controlled Group has ever maintained, contributed to or incurred any liability with respect to any Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver . Neither either Seller nor any member of the minimum funding standards Controlled Group has any liability under Section 4062 of such sections has been requested from ERISA to the IRS, (c) neither Crestar Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or to a trustee appointed under Section 4042 of ERISA. Neither either Seller nor any member of the Crestar Subsidiaries Controlled Group has provided, or is required to provide, security to engaged in any pension plan pursuant to transaction described in Section 401(a)(294069 of ERISA.
(f) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan There are no multiemployer plans (as defined in Section 3(35Subsection 3(37) of ERISA) exceeds the value (“Multiemployer Plans”) to which either Seller or any other member of the "benefit liabilities" Controlled Group is or has been required to make a contribution or other payment. Neither either Seller nor any member of the Controlled Group has withdrawn in a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan, nor have any of them incurred any liability due to the termination or reorganization of a Multiemployer Plan.
(g) There has been no non-exempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as 4975 of the end Code or Part 4 of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis Subtitle B of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as Title I of the date hereof, (eERISA) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Plan nor any penalty under Section 4001(a)(15502(i) of ERISA currently relating to any Plan.
(h) None of the Plans provides or formerly has ever provided post-retirement health or life insurance benefits except as may be required under Section 4980B of the Code or Section 601 of ERISA at the expense of the participant or the participant’s beneficiary. Neither Seller is liable for Post-Retirement Benefits under any plan not maintained by any entity considered one employer either Seller. The Sellers and all other members of the Controlled Group have at all times complied in all material respects with it under the requirements of Section 4001 4980B of the Code and Sections 601 to 608 of ERISA relating to continuation coverage for group health plans.
(i) There are no pending actions, claims or Section 414 lawsuits which have been asserted, instituted or, to the Knowledge of each Seller, threatened, against the Plans, the assets of any of the Codetrusts under such Plans or the Plan sponsor or the Plan administrator, except for premiums all or, to the Knowledge of which haveeach Seller, against any fiduciary of the Plans with respect to the operation of such Plans (other than routine benefit claims).
(j) There has been no “mass layoff” or “plant closing” as defined by WARN or any similar state or local “plant closing” law with respect to the current or former employees of either Seller.
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Employee Plans. All employee benefit, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, (a) Schedule 5.10(a) lists all Benefit Plans. Neither the Representing Party nor any entity aggregated therewith under Code Section 414(b) or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral 414(c) has had an "obligation to contribute" (as defined in ERISA Section 4212) to a "multiemployer plan" (as defined in ERISA Sections 4001(a)(3) and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or the Crestar Subsidiaries 3(37)(A)) ("Crestar Employee PlansMultiemployer Plan") are listed in ). Representing Party has not incurred and is reasonably expected not to incur prior to the Crestar Disclosure LetterClosing Date, any liability under Title I or Title IV of ERISA or under Code Section 412 other than routine funding obligations and routine claims for benefits. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10(a), all liabilities arising out of or related to Benefit Plans and ERISA Plans of Representing Party and of its affiliates in the Crestar Disclosure Lettersame controlled group of corporations or who are under common control with the Representing Party (within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code) (an "ERISA Affiliate") are reflected in its financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
(b) True, correct and complete copies of all written Benefit Plans, as currently in effect (or as otherwise requested by Purchasing Party), listed on Schedule 5.10(a) and all trust agreements or other funding arrangements, including insurance contracts, all of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintainedamendments thereto and, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterwhere applicable, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a pension any such plans or plan amendments, the most recent determination letters issued by the IRS, any private letter rulings issued by the IRS with respect to any such plan, the annual reports or returns, audited or unaudited financial statements, actuarial valuations, and summary annual reports for the most recent three plan years, the most recent summary plan descriptions and any summary of material modifications, summary of material reduction or notice under ERISA Section 204(h) thereto have been provided or made available to the Purchasing Party.
(c) Except as defined listed on Schedule 5.10(c), all the Benefit Plans and the related trusts subject to ERISA comply with and have been administered in Section 3(2) material compliance with, the provisions of ERISA): (a, all provisions of the Code relating to qualification and tax exemption under Code Section 401(a) each pension plan and 501(a) or otherwise applicable to secure intended tax consequences, and all collective bargaining agreements. Except as amended (and listed on Schedule 5.10(c), all material governmental approvals for the Benefit Plans have been obtained, timely determination letters have been obtained or sought on a timely basis on the qualification of any trust relating thereto) ERISA Plans intended to be a qualified plan qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either and on the tax exemption of related trusts, the failure of which to obtain or seek would have a material adverse effect on the Representing Party's Facility, or on the Purchasing Party, and no such governmental approvals have been revoked. Neither the Representing Party nor, to the Representing Party's Knowledge, any administrator or fiduciary of any such Benefit Plan (or agent of any of the foregoing) has engaged in any transaction or acted or failed to act in any manner which could subject any such entity to any material liability (by indemnity or otherwise) for a breach of any fiduciary, co-fiduciary or other duty under ERISA. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10(c), to the Representing Party's knowledge, no written representation or communication with respect to any material aspect of the Benefit Plans has been determined by made to employees of Representing Party or any of its predecessors prior to or on the IRS Closing Date that is not in accordance with the written terms and provisions of such Benefit Plans in effect immediately prior to be so qualified the Closing Date. There are no unresolved claims or is disputes (other than routine claims for benefits) under the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filedterms of, or in connection with, the Benefit Plans, and no action, legal or otherwise, has been commenced, to the Representing Party's Knowledge, with respect to any claim.
(bd) there is All annual reports or returns, audited or unaudited financial statements, actuarial valuations, summary annual reports and summary plan descriptions issued with respect to the Benefit Plans are correct, complete and accurate in all material respects.
(e) Since January 1, 1996, no accumulated funding deficiency "party in interest" (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(293(14) of the Code, (dERISA) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan or "disqualified person" (as defined in Section 3(354975(e)(2) of ERISAthe Code) exceeds the value of the any ERISA Plan has engaged in any "benefit liabilitiesprohibited transaction" (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(164975(c) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as the Code or Section 406 of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior ERISA) that could have a material adverse effect on Representing Party.
(f) No liability exists, and no event, to the date hereofRepresenting Party's Knowledge, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used that could result in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived a liability has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within Benefit Plan that individually or in the meaning aggregate could have a material adverse effect on the Facility or the Assets Transferred to Purchasing Party.
(g) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10(g), Representing Party has not maintained, and does not currently maintain, a Benefit Plan providing welfare benefits (as defined in ERISA Section 3(l)) to employees after retirement or other separation of Section 4001(a)(15) service except to the extent required under Part 6 of Title I of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under and Code Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 498OB(f).
(h) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10(h), the consummation of the CodeTransaction will not entitle any current or former employee of the Representing Party to severance pay or any similar payment, except for premiums all and will not accelerate the time of which havepayment or vesting, or increase the amount, of compensation due any such employee or former employee.
(i) All Benefit Plans subject to Section 4980B of the Code or Part 6 of Title I of ERISA, or both, have been maintained in material compliance with the requirements of such laws and any regulations (proposed or otherwise) issued thereunder.
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Samples: Asset Exchange Agreement (Childrens Comprehensive Services Inc)
Employee Plans. (i) Schedule 4.15(b)(i) lists (i) all employment agreements of employees of the Company at the level of Vice President or more senior and (ii) all Employee Plans other than employment agreements separately by jurisdiction. The Company has furnished or made available to Parent true, correct and complete copies of all material Employee Plans, as amended to the date hereof, together with a current (A) summary plan description, (B) Form 5500 and schedules thereto and the most recent actuarial report, if any, (C) favorable determination or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service and (D) related trust documents.
(ii) All material contributions or premiums (including employer contributions and employee benefitsalary reduction contributions) required to be paid under the terms of each Employee Plan have been made by the applicable due date (including any valid extension), welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, pension, profit sharing, stock option, employee stock ownership, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to such contributions for any present period ending on or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or before the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") Closing Date that are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all of the Crestar Employee Plans not yet due will have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and currently comply, and have at all relevant times compliedpaid or accrued on the balance sheet on or prior to the Closing Date, in all material respects cases in accordance with the terms of the applicable requirements Employee Plan.
(iii) Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries, nor any of ERISA, the Code, its Affiliates and any other applicable laws. Except trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is or has ever been under common control, or that is or has ever been treated as set forth a single employer, with any of them under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code has in the Crestar Disclosure Letterlast six years contributed or has been obligated to contribute, or has any material liability, whether contingent or otherwise, with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan which is a any “employee pension plan (plan,” as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA): (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended , that is subject to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code either has been determined by the IRS to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 Title IV of ERISA and or Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor including any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (“multiemployer plan,” as defined in Section 3(353(37) of ERISA.
(iv) exceeds the value None of the "benefit liabilities" within Employee Plans provide for post-employment life or health insurance, benefits or coverage for any participant or any beneficiary of a participant except (i) as may be required under the meaning Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan 1985, as amended, or and at the sole expense of the end participant or the participant’s beneficiary, (ii) for any continuation of benefits for a period of two years or less under any employment agreement that is listed on Schedule 4.15(b)(i) or (iii) as set forth on Schedule 4.15(b)(iv).
(v) Each Employee Plan has been operated and maintained in all material respects in accordance with its terms and with all provisions of ERISA, the Code and other applicable Laws. Any Employee Plan intended to qualify under Section 401 of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior Code is so qualified, the trusts maintained pursuant thereto are exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501 of the Code and to the date hereofKnowledge of the Company nothing has occurred with respect to the operation of such Employee Plan that could reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or exemption or the imposition of any liability, calculated on penalty or Tax under ERISA or the Code.
(vi) Other than routine benefit claims, no material Action has been asserted or instituted against any Employee Plan or the assets of any trust under any such Employee Plan, nor does the Company have Knowledge of facts that could reasonably be expected to form the basis for any such Action.
(vii) With respect to each material Employee Plan maintained outside of the actuarial assumptions used United States (each, a “Foreign Plan”), except as set forth on Schedule 4.15(b)(vii):
(A) all employer and employee contributions to each Foreign Plan required by Law or by the terms of such Foreign Plan have been made, or, if applicable, accrued in accordance with normal accounting practices in all material respects;
(B) each Foreign Plan required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities.
(viii) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.15(b)(viii), neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will, either alone or together with any other event, (A) result in any material payment becoming due to any current or former Employee or member of the Company Board of Directors, (B) materially increase any benefits under any Employee Plan, (C) result in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as acceleration of the date hereoftiming of payment, vesting or funding of any such benefits or (eD) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which give rise to any payment that is nondeductible to the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds payor under Section 4042(a)(2) 280G of ERISA entitling the PBGC Code or that is subject to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within tax to the meaning of recipient under Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) 4999 of the Code. Neither Crestar nor any Crestar Subsidiary has incurred any liability to the PBGC with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of the Code, except for premiums all of which have.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.)
Employee Plans. All employee benefitTarget has heretofore delivered to the Rock of Ages Group true, welfare, bonus, deferred compensation, correct and complete copies of:
(i) the most recent Internal Revenue Service determination letter relating to each of Target's and each Joint Venture Company's pension, profit profit-sharing, stock optionbonus or other deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownershipif any, consulting, severance, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, written or oral listed in EXHIBIT 5.3(m) hereto for which a letter was obtained except for any multi-employer plans sponsored by any of them (each a "Plan" and all trust agreements related thereto, relating to any present or former directors, officers or employees of Crestar or collectively the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans");
(ii) are listed in the Crestar Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letter, all most recent Annual Report (Form 5500 series) and accompanying schedules of the Crestar Employee Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in compliance with their terms and each Plan currently comply, and have at all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements sponsored by any of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth in the Crestar Disclosure Letterthem, with respect to which the same are required, as filed pursuant to applicable law; and
(iii) all plan documents, as amended to date, summary plan descriptions and summaries of material modifications and all plan termination documentation with respect to each Crestar Employee Plan and employee welfare plan presently or in the past sponsored by Shareholder, Target or any of the Joint Venture Companies, as well as the most recent financial statements of each of such plans, except for the multi-employer plans referred to below. With respect to each of such Plans as to which an Annual Report (Form 5500 series) is a pension plan (required to be filed, no liabilities as of the date of such Annual Report exist unless specifically referred to in the most recent such Annual Report, and no material change has occurred with respect to the matters covered by the last Annual Report since the date thereof. Target does not know, nor have any reasonable grounds to know, of any "prohibited transaction," as such term is defined in Section 3(2406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, which has ever been engaged in by Shareholder, Target or any of the Joint Venture Companies, or by any Plan sponsored by Target, Shareholder or any such company, any trust created thereunder or any trustee, administrator or other fiduciary thereof, or which would subject such Plan or any such entity, or any party dealing with such Plan or any such trust, to the sanctions imposed by ERISA or the tax on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code. There are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the best of Target's knowledge after due inquiry, threatened, against any of the Plans or any administrator or fiduciary thereof. Neither any of the Plans nor any of said trusts have incurred any "accumulated funding deficiency," as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) of the Code (whether or not waived), since the Effective Time of ERISA): (a) . The terms and operation of each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended of the Plans have complied to be a qualified plan under the extent required with the provisions of Section 401(a) of the Code either has and with ERISA, and all reports and notices required by ERISA or the Code have been determined by duly filed or given. Target shall deliver to the IRS Rock of Ages Group a list of all of Shareholder, Target and all the Joint Venture Companies Plans subject to be so qualified or Title IV of ERISA and all trusts created thereunder which have been terminated, and all "reportable events," as that term is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 4043 of ERISA and Section 412 ERISA. Except as may be specified in EXHIBIT 5.3(m) hereto, none of the Code), whether or not waived, such Plans and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections trust has been requested from terminated, nor has any such "reportable event" occurred with respect to any such Plans since the IRSeffective date of ERISA. The present value, (c) neither Crestar nor on a plan termination basis, of all benefits accrued under each Plan sponsored or contributed to by Shareholder, Target or any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has providedJoint Venture Companies and subject to Title IV of ERISA did not, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) as of the Codemost recent valuation date, (d) exceed the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit such Plan as of such date. Shareholder, Target and the Joint Venture Companies have never been sponsors of, and/or a contributing employer to, a multi-employer pension plan (as defined in subject to the provisions of Section 3(35) 4201, ET SEQ., of ERISA) exceeds the value ; or if they have, they have never incurred any withdrawal liability thereunder, nor will they incur any such liability as a result of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning consummation of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as any of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if they will, Target will, at or prior to the date hereofClosing Date, calculated on pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond in an appropriate amount with respect to the basis same with an escrow agent and/or a bonding company reasonably satisfactory to the Rock of Ages Group and in a manner agreeable to applicable law. Neither Shareholder, Target nor any of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereofJoint Venture Companies have ever been a sponsor of, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurredor a contributing employer to, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no single employer pension plan is a "multiemployer plan" within subject to the meaning provisions of Section 3(37) 4041, ET SEQ., of ERISA or a "multiple employer plan" within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code. Neither Crestar ERISA; nor any Crestar Subsidiary has have they ever incurred any liability thereunder or under Section 4062, ET SEQ., of ERISA, nor will any of them incur any such liability as a result of the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this agreement; or if any of them will, Target will, at or prior to the PBGC Closing Date, pay or otherwise satisfy such liability in full and/or establish an escrow fund or secure a bond with respect to any "single-employer plan" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 of same as provided in the Code, except for premiums all of which havepreceding sentence.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Rock of Ages Corp)
Employee Plans. All employee benefit(a) Section 5.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth an accurate and complete list of all Company Employee Benefit Plans.
(b) With respect to each Company Employee Benefit Plan, welfarethe Company has made available to Parent an accurate and complete copy of: (i) each plan document, bonusincluding all amendments thereto, deferred compensationand all related trusts or service agreements, pensionand written summaries of the material terms of all unwritten Company Employee Benefit Plans, profit sharing(ii) the three most recent annual reports (Form 5500 Series) for each Company Employee Benefit Plan that is subject to such reporting requirements, stock option(iii) the current summary plan description, employee stock ownership, consulting, severanceincluding any material modifications, or fringe benefit plans, formal or informal, any written or oral and all trust agreements related thereto, relating summary provided to participants with respect to any present plan for which no summary plan description exists, and any other material employee communications (iv) the most recent determination letter (or former directorsif applicable, officers advisory or employees opinion letter) from the Internal Revenue Service, if any, and any pending applications for a determination or opinion letter and (v) all notices or other written correspondence regarding such Company Employee Benefit Plan between a plan fiduciary, the Company, or any ERISA Affiliate and the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Crestar Labor, Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, or other Governmental Authority.
(c) Each Company Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to be “qualified” within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code has been the subject of a favorable and up-to-date determination, advisory or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service on which the Company is entitled to rely, and no event has occurred, no condition, facts or circumstances exist that would reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such qualification or the Crestar Subsidiaries ("Crestar Employee Plans") are listed in imposition of material liability, penalty or Tax under ERISA, the Crestar Disclosure LetterCode or other applicable Law. Except as set forth in Section 5.11(c) of the Crestar Company Disclosure Letter, all assets of the Crestar Company Employee Benefit Plans have consist of cash or actively traded securities.
(d) Each Company Employee Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, established, maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance accordance with their its terms and currently comply, and have at with all relevant times complied, in all material respects with the applicable requirements provisions of ERISA, the Code, Code and any other applicable laws. Except as set forth Laws.
(e) Neither the Company nor the Company Subsidiary has engaged in any non-exempt material prohibited transaction, within the Crestar Disclosure Lettermeaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no such prohibited transaction has occurred with respect to each Crestar any Company Employee Plan which is a pension plan (as defined in Benefit Plan. No fiduciary, within the meaning of Section 3(23(21) of ERISA): , has breached his or her fiduciary duty with respect to a Company Employee Benefit Plan or otherwise has any liability in connection with any acts taken (a) each pension plan as amended (and any trust relating thereto) intended or failed to be a qualified plan under Section 401(ataken) with respect to the administration or investment of the Code either has been determined by the IRS assets of any Company Employee Benefit Plan.
(f) No Company Employee Benefit Plan is subject to be so qualified or is the subject of a pending application for such determination that was timely filed, (b) there is no accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 Title IV of ERISA and or Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards of such sections has been requested from the IRS, (c) neither Crestar nor any of the Crestar Subsidiaries has provided, or is required to provide, security to any pension plan pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code, (d) the fair market value of the assets of each defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA) exceeds the value of the "benefit liabilities" within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA under such defined benefit plan as of the end of the most recent plan year thereof ending prior to the date hereof, calculated on the basis of the actuarial assumptions used in the most recent actuarial valuation for such defined benefit plan as of the date hereof, (e) no reportable event described in Section 4043 of ERISA has occurred for which the 30 day reporting requirement has not been waived has occurred, (f) no defined benefit plan has been terminated, nor has the PBGC instituted proceedings to terminate a defined benefit plan or to appoint a trustee or administrator of a defined benefit plan, and no circumstances exist that constitute grounds under Section 4042(a)(2) of ERISA entitling the PBGC to institute any such proceedings and (g) no pension plan is a "“multiemployer plan" ” within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA or a "“multiple employer plan" ” within the meaning of Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA, and none of the Company, the Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of the Company or the Company Subsidiary has ever sponsored, maintained, contributed to, been required to contribute to, or had any obligations or incurred any liability under any plan that is, or was, subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code, or is, or was, a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA. Neither the Company nor the Company Subsidiary would reasonably be expected to have any material liability under a “multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section 4063 and 4064 of ERISA or Section 413(c) of the Code. .
(g) Neither Crestar the Company nor any Crestar the Company Subsidiary offers, has incurred any liability or obligation to provide life, health or medical benefits or insurance coverage to any individual, or to the PBGC dependent of any individual, for any period extending beyond the termination of the individual’s employment, except to the extent required by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 or similar provisions of state Law.
(h) Except as set forth in Section 5.11(h) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Transactions, alone or in combination with any other event (such as a termination of employment) will (i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the amount of any compensation due, to any employee or former employee of the Company or the Company Subsidiary, (ii) result in any payment becoming due under any Company Employee Benefit Plan, (iii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Employee Benefit Plan, (iv) except as provided in Section 4.4, result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such compensation or benefits, (v) result in the payment of any amount that would, individually or in combination with any other such payment, constitute an “excess parachute payment,” as defined in Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code, (vi) result in the triggering or imposition of any restrictions or limitations on the rights of the Company or the Company Subsidiary to amend or terminate any Company Employee Benefit Plan or (vii) entitle the recipient of any payment or benefit to receive a “gross up” payment for any income or other Taxes that might be owed with respect to such payment or benefit.
(i) All Company Stock Options and Company RSUs have been granted in accordance with the terms of the applicable Stock Plan and applicable Law. Each Company Stock Option has an exercise price that is no less than the fair market value of the underlying Company Common Stock on the date of grant, as determined in accordance with Section 409A of the Code, and is otherwise exempt from Section 409A of the Code. The Company has made available to Parent accurate and complete copies of (i) the forms of standard award agreement under the Stock Plans and (ii) copies of any award agreements that materially deviate from such forms. The treatment of the Company Stock Options and Company RSUs under this Agreement does not violate the terms of the Stock Plans or any Contract governing the terms of such awards and will not cause adverse tax consequences under Section 409A of the Code.
(j) No Company Employee Benefit Plan is subject to any Laws other than those of the United States or any state, county, or municipality in the United States, nor is maintained outside of the United States or for the benefit of employees located outside of the United States, and neither the Company nor the Company Subsidiary contributes to or has any obligation to contribute to any scheme, plan or arrangement mandated by a government other than the United States federal government.
(k) Other than routine claims for benefits, no actions, investigations, suits, or claims with respect to any "single-employer plan" within Company Employee Benefit Plan are pending or, to the meaning of Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA currently or formerly maintained by any entity considered one employer with it under Section 4001 of ERISA or Section 414 knowledge of the CodeCompany, except threatened, and there are no facts that reasonably would be expected to give rise to any such actions, suit or claims against any Company Employee Benefit Plan, any fiduciary with respect to a Company Employee Benefit Plan or the assets of a Company Employee Benefit Plan.
(l) There has been no amendment to, or written interpretation of or announcement by the Company or any of its Affiliates relating to, or change in employee participation or coverage under, any Company Employee Benefit Plan that would materially increase the expense of maintaining such Company Employee Benefit Plan above the level of expense incurred in respect thereof for premiums all of which havethe most recent fiscal year ending prior to the Closing Date.
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