Governance Structure The Academy shall be organized and administered under the direction of the Academy Board and pursuant to the governance structure as set forth in its Bylaws. The Academy’s Board of Directors shall meet at least six times per fiscal year, unless another schedule is mutually agreed upon by the University President or Designee and the Academy.
Changes to Fee Structure In the event of Listing, the Company and the Advisor shall negotiate in good faith to establish a fee structure appropriate for a perpetual-life entity.
Corporate Governance Matters (a) The Company, and to the Company's knowledge, each of its officers are in compliance in all material respects with (i) the applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the related rules and regulations promulgated under such act or the Exchange Act (in each case, as currently in effect, the "XXXXXXXX-XXXXX ACT"), (ii) the applicable qualification requirements and corporate governance rules and regulations promulgated by the National Association of Securities Dealers and (iii) any similar applicable Israeli securities laws, rules and regulations. The Company has delivered to Parent the final form of written information required to be disclosed prior to the date hereof by the Company and certain of its officers to the Company Board or any committee thereof pursuant to the certification requirements of Rule 13a-14 under the Exchange Act. Since the date such provisions became applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries, all auditing services and non-audit services provided to the Company and each Subsidiary have been approved by the audit committee of the Company Board in compliance with Section 10A(h) or Section 10A(i) of the Exchange Act and any similar applicable Israeli securities laws, and no registered public accounting firm or, to the Company's knowledge, any associate thereof that performs any audit of the Company or any Subsidiary has provided to the Company or any of its affiliates any service prohibited by paragraphs (1) through (9) of Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act. Except as permitted by the Exchange Act, including Sections 13(k)(2) and (3) thereof, since the enactment of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has, directly or indirectly, made, entered into, arranged, renewed, modified (in any material way) or forgiven any personal loans to any executive officer or director of the Company prohibited by Section 402 thereunder.
(b) The management of the Company has (i) in accordance with Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, designed disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its Subsidiaries, is made known to the management of the Company by others within those persons, and (ii) disclosed, based on its most recent evaluation prior to the date hereof, to the Company's auditors and the audit committee of the Company Board (A) any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting ("INTERNAL CONTROLS") which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information and has disclosed to the Company's auditors any material weaknesses in Internal Controls and (B) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company's Internal Controls. The Company has made available to Parent a summary of any such disclosure made by management to the Company's auditors and/or audit committee since December 31, 2003.
(c) To the Company's knowledge, it will be prepared to timely file the report required by Item 308(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC and its independent public accounting firm will be prepared to timely file the attestation required pursuant to Item 308(b) of Regulation S-K. The Company has not received any written or oral notice from its independent public accounting firm that such firm believes the Company is could not reasonably be expected to complete the evaluations necessary for such report and attestation to be completed and in the timeframe required by applicable law.
Governance Matters (a) The Company shall cause the Investor Designated Director to be elected or appointed on the Closing Date to the Board of Directors as well as the board of directors of the Bank (the “Bank Board”), subject to satisfaction of all legal and governance requirements regarding service as a member of the Board of Directors and the Bank Board. The Company shall recommend to its shareholders the election of the Investor Designated Director to the Board of Directors at the Company’s annual meeting, subject to satisfaction of all legal and governance requirements regarding service as a director of the Company. If the Investor no longer has the Qualifying Ownership Interest, it shall have no further rights under Sections 3.4(a), 3.4(b), 3.4(c) and 3.4(d) and, in each case, at the written request of the Board of Directors, the Investor shall use all reasonable best efforts to cause the Investor Designated Director to resign from the Board of Directors and the Bank Board as promptly as possible thereafter. The Board of Directors and the Bank Board shall cause the Investor Designated Director to be appointed to the committees of the Board of Directors and the Bank Board, as applicable, identified by the Investor, so long as the Investor Designated Director qualifies to serve on such committees subject to satisfaction of all legal and governance requirements regarding service as a committee member.
(b) For so long as the Investor owns, in the aggregate with its Affiliates, ten percent (10%) or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (as adjusted from time to time for any reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, or other like changes in the Company’s capitalization) (the “Qualifying Ownership Interest”), the Investor Designated Director shall, subject to applicable Law, be the nominee of the Company and the Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Nominating Committee”) to serve on the Board of Directors and on the Bank Board. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to have the Investor Designated Director elected as director of the Company by the shareholders of the Company and the Company shall solicit proxies for the Investor Designated Director to the same extent as it does for any of its other nominees to the Board of Directors.
(c) For so long as the Investor owns, in the aggregate with its Affiliates, the Qualifying Ownership Interest, the Investor Designated Director shall, subject to applicable Law (including the applicable rules of the NYSE), be appointed to the committees of the Board of Directors and the Bank Board (or any other committees performing similar functions of the foregoing committees) identified by the Investor.
(d) Subject to Section 3.4(a), upon the death, disability, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office of a Designated Investor Director, the Investor shall have the right to designate the replacement for the Investor Designated Director, which replacement shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company and shall satisfy all legal and governance requirements regarding service as a member of the Board of Directors and the Bank Board, as applicable. The Board of Directors shall use its reasonable best efforts to take all action required to fill the vacancy resulting therefrom with such person (including such person, subject to applicable Law, being the Company’s and the Nominating Committee’s nominee to serve on the Board of Directors, calling a special meeting of shareholders to vote on such person, using all reasonable best efforts to have such person elected as director of the Company by the shareholders of the Company and the Company soliciting proxies for such person to the same extent as it does for any of its other nominees to the Board of Directors).
(e) For so long the Investor with its Affiliates owns, in the aggregate with its Affiliates, five percent (5%) or more of the aggregate number of outstanding shares of Common Stock (as adjusted from time to time for any reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, or other like changes in the Company’s capitalization), the Company shall, subject to applicable Law, invite a person designated by the Investor and reasonably acceptable to the Board of Directors (the “Observer”) to attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and the Bank Board (including any meetings of committees thereof which the Investor Designated Director is a member) in a nonvoting observer capacity. If the Investor no longer beneficially owns the minimum number of Common Shares as specified in the first sentence of this Section 3.4(e), the Investor shall have no further rights under this Section 3.4(e). The Investor shall cause the Observer to agree to hold in confidence and trust and to act in a fiduciary manner with respect to all information provided to such Observer and the Company, the Board of Directors, the Bank Board and any committees thereof shall have the right to withhold any information and to exclude the Observer from any meeting or portion thereof (i) if doing so is, in the opinion of counsel to the Company, necessary to protect the attorney-client privilege between the Company and counsel or (ii) if the Board of Directors, the Bank Board or any committee thereof determines in good faith, after consultation with counsel, that fiduciary requirements under applicable Law would make attendance by the Observer inappropriate. The Observer shall have no right to vote on any matters presented to the Board of Directors, the Bank Board or any committee thereof.
(f) The Investor Designated Director shall be entitled to the same compensation, including fees, and the same indemnification and insurance coverage in connection with his or her role as a director as the other members of the Board of Directors or the Bank Board, as applicable, and the Investor Designated Director shall be entitled to reimbursement for documented, reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending meetings of the Board of Directors or the Bank Board, or any committee thereof, to the same extent as the other members of the Board of Directors or the Bank Board, as applicable. The Company shall notify the Investor Designated Director of all regular meetings and special meetings of the Board of Directors or the Bank Board and of all regular and special meetings of any committee of the Board of Directors or the Bank Board of which the Investor Designated Director is a member in accordance with the applicable bylaws. The Company and the Bank shall provide the Investor Designated Director with copies of all notices, minutes, consents and other material that they provide to all other members of their respective boards of directors concurrently as such materials are provided to the other members.
(g) Each of the Company and the Bank acknowledges that the Designated Investor Director may have certain rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses and/or insurance provided by the Investor and/or certain of its Affiliates (collectively, the “Investor Indemnitors”). Each of the Company and the Bank hereby agrees (1) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to the Designated Investor Director are primary and any obligation of the Investor Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by the Designated Investor Director are secondary), and (2) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by the Designated Investor Director and shall be liable for the full amount of all expenses and liabilities incurred by the Designated Investor Director, in each case to the extent legally permitted and as required by the terms of this Agreement and the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Company and the Bank (and any other agreement regarding indemnification between the Company and/or the Bank, on the one hand, and the Designated Investor Director, on the other hand), without regard to any rights the Designated Investor Director may have against any Investor Indemnitor. The Company further agrees that no advancement or payment by any Investor Indemnitor on behalf of the Designated Investor Director with respect to any claim for which the Designated Investor Director has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing and the Investor Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of the Designated Investor Director against the Company. The Company agrees that the Investor Indemnitors are express third party beneficiaries of the terms of this Section 3.4(g).
(h) For the purposes of the definition of “Change in Control” under the Benefit Plans, the Company acknowledges and agrees that the Investor Designated Director shall be deemed to be an “Incumbent Director” as defined in the applicable Benefit Plans.
Master Feeder Structure If permitted by the 1940 Act, the Board of Trustees, by vote of a majority of the Trustees, and without a Shareholder vote, may cause the Trust or any one or more Series to convert to a master feeder structure (a structure in which a feeder fund invests all of its assets in a master fund, rather than making investments in securities directly) and thereby cause existing Series of the Trust to either become feeders in a master fund, or to become master funds in which other funds are feeders.
Proposed Policies and Procedures Regarding New Online Content and Functionality By October 31, 2017, the School will submit to OCR for its review and approval proposed policies and procedures (“the Plan for New Content”) to ensure that all new, newly-added, or modified online content and functionality will be accessible to people with disabilities as measured by conformance to the Benchmarks for Measuring Accessibility set forth above, except where doing so would impose a fundamental alteration or undue burden.
a) When fundamental alteration or undue burden defenses apply, the Plan for New Content will require the School to provide equally effective alternative access. The Plan for New Content will require the School, in providing equally effective alternate access, to take any actions that do not result in a fundamental alteration or undue financial and administrative burdens, but nevertheless ensure that, to the maximum extent possible, individuals with disabilities receive the same benefits or services as their nondisabled peers. To provide equally effective alternate access, alternates are not required to produce the identical result or level of achievement for persons with and without disabilities, but must afford persons with disabilities equal opportunity to obtain the same result, to gain the same benefit, or to reach the same level of achievement, in the most integrated setting appropriate to the person’s needs.
b) The Plan for New Content must include sufficient quality assurance procedures, backed by adequate personnel and financial resources, for full implementation. This provision also applies to the School’s online content and functionality developed by, maintained by, or offered through a third-party vendor or by using open sources.
c) Within thirty (30) days of receiving OCR’s approval of the Plan for New Content, the School will officially adopt, and fully implement the amended policies and procedures.
SERVICE LEVEL DESCRIPTION The Fund Accounting Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the Service Level Description attached thereto and replacing it in its entirety with the Service Level Description attached hereto.
Service Level Agreements If a Service or a Plan includes a Service Level Agreement (‘SLA’):
(a) we are liable for any remedy or rebate allowed to you under the SLA; and
(b) subject to clauses 34 to 38, and to the express terms of the SLA, our liability for breach of the SLA is limited to such remedy or rebate.
Attachment A, Scope of Services The scope of services is amended as follows:
Topic Description Notices All notices must be in writing (with electronic mail or Xxxxxx Xxx postings to Xxxxxx Mae internet sites deemed to be a "writing" for this purpose) and delivered by (a) hand, (b) a reputable overnight courier (fees prepaid), (c) first class United States mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested (postage prepaid), (d) electronic mail, or (e) posting by Xxxxxx Xxx to an applicable Xxxxxx Mae internet site. Any notice directed to Xxxxxx Xxx shall be addressed to "Xxxxxx Mae Legal Department, Attn: Official Contract Notice,” at Xxxxxx Mae’s corporate headquarters or to an e‐mail address confirmed in writing by Xxxxxx Mae as valid for receipt of notices. Except as provided in (e) above, any notice directed to Licensee shall be addressed to a Corporate Administrator at an address or electronic mail address provided to Xxxxxx Xxx by Licensee or Licensee’s corporate headquarters. Issued Bulletins; Amendments Xxxxxx Mae may issue hard‐copy bulletins or electronic bulletins (via electronic mail or posted to an applicable Xxxxxx Xxx internet site) amending the Agreement on a prospective basis, effective on the date specified by Xxxxxx Mae in the bulletin. Each bulletin will be issued at least 20 calendar days before its effective date, except for bulletins granting license rights in additional licensed applications and those relating to software and other materials provided by Third‐Party Licensors, which may be issued at any time prior to their effective date. Licensee may reject any bulletin by providing written notice to Xxxxxx Xxx within 15 calendar days after receipt of such bulletin, in which case Xxxxxx Mae may terminate the Agreement or any affected Schedule(s) effective as of the effective date of the bulletin. Unless Licensee provides such rejection notice within the 15‐ day period, Licensee is deemed to have accepted such amendments, and such amendments will form part of the Agreement as of the effective date of such bulletin. Licensee’s continued use of any affected Licensed Application is an acknowledgment of its acceptance. Otherwise, the terms of the Agreement may be amended solely by a writing executed by a duly authorized representative of each party to be bound thereby. The Agreement may not be amended by any purchase order or other written instrument submitted by Licensee, whether or not formally rejected by Xxxxxx Xxx. Entire Agreement; Priority The Agreement constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between the parties regarding the subject matter of each Schedule (or, if no Schedule has been entered into, regarding access to Xxxxxx Mae’s Topic Description technology and systems), and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications, proposals or agreements, oral or written, relating to the subject matter of the Agreement. Without further action on the part of either party, any (a) schedules entered into pursuant to such agreement(s) are deemed to be Schedules under the Master Terms and (b) references in any Schedules and associated forms to “Licensed Software” are deemed to be references to “Licensed Application.” If there is any conflict between a term or condition of any Schedule and the Master Terms, the term or condition contained in the Schedule will take precedence over the conflicting term or condition of the Master Terms, but only in connection with the Licensed Materials that are governed by that Schedule. Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial All disputes between the parties that cannot be settled by mutual agreement must be resolved solely and exclusively in the courts located within the state of New York, and Licensee hereby consents to the jurisdiction of such courts and irrevocably waives any objections thereto, including on the basis of improper venue or forum non conveniens. EACH OF THE PARTIES IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT. Third‐Party Beneficiaries Applicable Third‐Party Licensors are intended beneficiaries of the Agreement and may rely upon and directly enforce the terms and conditions of the Agreement to the extent it affects their rights or obligations. There are no other third party beneficiaries of the Agreement. U.S. Government If Licensee is any unit or agency of the U.S. Government, the Licensed Materials are provided as “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” respectively, under FAR 12.212 and, accordingly, use, duplication, and disclosure of the Licensed Materials by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions set forth in the Agreement. Foreign Users Licensee is responsible for ensuring that the Licensed Materials are not used by any national (citizen or lawful permanent resident) of “Country Group E,” as that term is defined by the Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. 740 et. seq., nor may Licensee take any steps to facilitate such use. No Implied Waiver No term, provision or clause of the Agreement will be deemed waived and no breach excused unless such waiver or excuse is in writing and executed by a duly authorized representative of the party to be bound by it. Any waiver by a party of a breach by the other does not constitute a consent to, waiver of, or excuse for any different or subsequent breach. Independent Parties The parties are independent contractors. Nothing in the Agreement will be construed to make the parties partners, joint venturers, representatives or agents of each other, nor may either party so represent to any third person. Third‐Party Providers and Xxxxxx Xxx are not partners, joint venturers, representatives or agents of each other.
