Trust Agreement The Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company, in accordance with its terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and by equitable principles of general applicability.
The Trust Agreement The Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
No Voting Agreements The Purchaser is not a party to any agreement or arrangement, whether written or oral, between the Purchaser and any other Purchaser and any of the Company’s shareholders as of the date hereof, regulating the management of the Company, the shareholders’ rights in the Company, the transfer of shares in the Company, including any voting agreements, shareholder agreements or any other similar agreement even if its title is different or has any other relations or agreements with any of the Company’s shareholders, directors or officers.
Voting Trust The voting trust hereby created shall commence on the date hereof and continue through and including December 31, 2005. Throughout such period the Trustee shall have the exclusive right to vote upon such shares or to give written consents in lieu of voting thereon, subject to any limitation on the right to vote contained in the Articles of Incorporation or other certificate filed pursuant to law, in person or by proxy at all meetings of the shareholders of the Corporation, and in all proceedings wherein the vote or written consent of shareholders may be required or authorized by law.
No Voting Trusts Shareholder agrees that Shareholder will not, nor will Shareholder permit any entity under Shareholder's control to, deposit any Shares in a voting trust or subject the Shares to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to the voting of the Shares inconsistent with this Agreement.
Termination of Trust Agreement Section 9.01.
Execution of Supplemental Trust Agreements No amendment to or modification or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement otherwise permitted hereunder shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by all of the parties hereto. From time to time ExchangeCo (when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors), Parent (when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors) and Trustee may, subject to the provisions of these presents, and they shall, when so directed by these presents, execute and deliver by their proper officers, trust agreements or other instruments supplemental hereto, which thereafter shall form part hereof, for any one or more of the following purposes:
Voting Trust Certificates The Trustee shall issue to each of the Shareholders a Voting Trust Certificate for the number of shares represented by the certificates of Common Stock by such Shareholder transferred to the Trustee. Each such Voting Trust Certificate shall state that it is issued under the Agreement, and shall set forth the nature and proportional amount of the beneficial interest thereunder of the person to whom it is issued, and shall be assignable, subject to the provisions of the Shareholders' Agreement, in the manner of certificates of stock on books to be kept by the Trustee. The Trustee shall keep a list of the shares of the Trust transferred to them, and shall also keep a record of all Voting Trust Certificates issued or transferred on its books, which records shall contain the names of the Voting Trust Certificate holders and the number of shares of Common Stock represented by each such certificate. Such list and record shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection upon the books of the Trustee by any Voting Trust Certificate holder. The Voting Trust Certificate shall be substantially in the following form: VOTING TRUST CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the undersigned Trustee has received a certificate or certificates issued in the name of _______________________, evidencing the ownership of _______ shares of Class A Common Stock of Eagle-Picher Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and that such shares are held subject to all the terms and conditions of the Voting Trust Agreement, dated as of November 16, 1998, by and between Granaria Industries B.V., as Trustee, and certain shareholders of the Company. During the term of the voting trust, the Trustee, or its successors, shall, as provided in said agreement, possess and be entitled to exercise the voting power and otherwise represent all of the said shares for all purposes, being agreed that no voting right shall pass to the holder hereof by virtue of the ownership of this certificate. Upon the termination of said voting trust, this certificate shall be surrendered to the Trustee by the holder hereof upon delivery to such holder of a stock certificate representing a like number of shares. The undersigned Trustee has executed this certificate as of the ___ day of __________________, ____. GRANARIA HOLDINGS, B.V., Trustee By: ________________________________
Voting Trusts, etc To join with other holders of any securities or debt instruments in acting through a committee, depository, voting trustee or otherwise, and in that connection to deposit any security or debt instrument with, or transfer any security or debt instrument to, any such committee, depository or trustee, and to delegate to them such power and authority with relation to any security or debt instrument (whether or not so deposited or transferred) as the Trustees shall deem proper, and to agree to pay, and to pay, such portion of the expenses and compensation of such committee, depository or trustee as the Trustees shall deem proper;
Declaration of Trust The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Act and that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust. The Trust is not intended to be a business trust within the meaning of Section 101(9)(A)(v) of the Bankruptcy Code. It is also the intention of the parties hereto that, solely for Federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, on and after the Closing Date, (a) so long as the Trust has only one Certificateholder, the Trust shall be disregarded as a separate entity and (b) at such time as the Trust has more than one Certificateholder, the Trust will be treated as a partnership, with the assets of the partnership being the Receivables and other assets held by the Trust, the partners of the partnership being the Certificateholders, and the Notes being non-recourse debt of the partnership. The Depositor (and any future Certificateholder by the purchase of the Trust Certificate will be deemed to have agreed) and the Owner Trustee agree to take no action inconsistent with such tax treatment. The Trust shall not elect to be treated as an association under Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(a). The parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the sole Certificateholder or the Trust, as applicable, will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with the foregoing characterization of the Trust for such tax purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee, shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and, to the extent not inconsistent herewith, in the Statutory Trust Act with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. Any action taken on behalf of the Trust prior to the date hereof with respect to the filing of financing statements, the Certificate of Trust, a qualification to do business in the State of Alabama or any other similar qualification or license in any other state or jurisdiction, if applicable, is hereby ratified.