FDA Regulatory. (a) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company is, and has been, in compliance in all materials respects with all applicable Laws in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business including but not limited to, as applicable (i) preclinical and clinical testing, (ii) application for marketing approval of, manufacture, distribution, promotion and sale of the Products, (iii) the requirement for and the terms of all necessary permits, (iv) establishment registration, (v) payment of all establishment fees, (vi) Good Clinical Practices, (vii) Good Manufacturing Practices, and (viii) recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The Company is not in default with respect to any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree of any Governmental Entity or arbitrator applicable to it, or any of its assets. The Company has not received, at any time during the prior five (5) years from the actual date of this Agreement, any written notice from any Governmental Entity regarding any actual, alleged, or potential violation of, or failure to comply with, any Law applicable to the Company in any material respect. (b) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company and any suppliers, manufacturers, or other companies with which the Company contracts for services related to the Products, holds all certificates, authorizations, registrations, reports, documents, permits or notices required to be filed, maintained or furnished under FDA Law and all other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations of the relevant Governmental Entity engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials in the jurisdictions in which the Company performs clinical trials and/or markets its Products (“FDA Permits”). All FDA Permits are in full force and effect in all material respects and no suspension, revocation, cancellation, or withdrawal of such FDA Permits is threatened and there is no reasonable basis for believing that such FDA Permits will not be renewable upon expiration or will be suspended, revoked, cancelled, or withdrawn. (c) The Company has not received any written notices or statements from the FDA, the EMEA or any other Governmental Entity, and otherwise has no knowledge or reason to believe, that (i) any drug, including the Products or other product candidate of the Company (each a “Potential Product”) may or will be rejected or determined to be non-approvable; (ii) a delay in time for review and/or approval of a marketing authorization application or marketing approval application in any jurisdiction for any Potential Product is or may be required, requested or being implemented; (iii) one or more clinical studies for any Potential Product shall or may be requested or required in addition to the clinical studies submitted to the FDA prior to the date hereof as a precondition to or condition of issuance or maintenance of a marketing approval for any Potential Product; (iv) any license, approval, permit or authorization to conduct any clinical trial of or market any product or Potential Product of the Company has been, will be or may be suspended, revoked, modified or limited. The Company has not marketed Potential Products in a manner in any way suggesting that a Potential Product has been approved for an indication that exceeds the scope of the approved product label. The Company is not aware of the results of any studies, tests or trials the which reasonably call into question the results of the tests and trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company with respect to Potential Products. (d) The Company has not received any written notice or communication from any Governmental Entity of any actual or threatened investigation, inquiry, or administrative, judicial, or regulatory action, hearing, or enforcement proceeding against the Company regarding any violation of applicable FDA Law or other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations of the relevant Governmental Entity engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials, including but not limited to a notice of adverse finding, warning letter, clinical hold notice, recall, field correction, market withdrawal or replacement, safety alert, “dear doctor” letter, investigator notice, or other notice or action relating to an alleged or potential lack of safety or efficacy of any Products of the Company, any alleged product defect of any Products of the Company, or any violation of any material applicable law, rule, regulation or any clinical trial or marketing license, approval, permit or authorization for any Products of the Company, and the Company is not aware of any facts or information that would cause it to initiate any such notice or action and has no knowledge or reason to believe that the FDA, the EMEA or any other Governmental Entity or authority or any institutional or ethical review board or other non-governmental authority intends to impose, require, request or suggest any material obligation arising under an investigation, inquiry, or administrative, judicial, or regulatory action, hearing, or enforcement proceeding. (e) In the last five (5) years, the Company has not been party to any corporate integrity agreement, monitoring agreement, consent decree, settlement order, or other similar written agreement, in each case, entered into with or imposed by the FDA. Neither the Company no, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, employees, or agents, or any manufacturers, distributor, or other entity in the Company’s supply chain, has been or is currently disqualified or debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or suspensions, deemed non-responsible, or otherwise excluded from the award of contracts or from participating in any Federal healthcare program by any Federal agency or other Governmental Entity. Neither the Company nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, employees, or agents has made an untrue statement of a material fact or a fraudulent statement to the FDA or failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA, in each of the foregoing cases on behalf of the Company. (f) No officer, employee, or agent of the Company is or has been, or has been threatened to be: (a) debarred under FDA proceedings pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 335a; (b) disqualified under FDA investigator qualification proceedings; (c) subject to the FDA’s Application Integrity Policy; or (d) subject to any enforcement proceeding arising from material false statements to the FDA pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1001. (g) Neither the Company nor any of its managers, directors, officers, agents, or employees have (i) used any corporate funds of the Company for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payments to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds or violated any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any other U.S. or foreign Laws concerning corrupt payments applicable to its business or (iii) made or received any other payment, contribution, gift, bribe, rebate, payoff or kick-back prohibited under any applicable Law. Neither the Company nor any of its managers, directors, officers, stockholders, agents, or employees is or has been the subject of any investigation, inquiry or enforcement Proceeding by any Governmental Entity regarding any offense or alleged offense under anti-bribery, anti-corruption, or anti-fraud Law in any jurisdiction and, no such investigation, inquiry or Proceedings have been threatened.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Evofem Biosciences, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Aditxt, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Evofem Biosciences, Inc.)
FDA Regulatory. Except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole:
(a) To The Company and its Subsidiaries are conducting and during the Knowledge past three (3) years have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable Laws governing the design, development, laboratory testing, clinical investigation, manufacture, labeling, storage, packaging, distribution, import, export, promotion, marketing, advertising, sale and commercialization of the Company, the Company ismedical devices, and has beenProducts, in compliance in all materials respects with all applicable Laws in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business including but not limited to, as the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., and implementing regulations promulgated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”), and similar applicable Laws, including FDA Regulatory Approvals, administered or enforced by any Governmental Entity (icollectively, “FDA Laws”). During the past three (3) preclinical and clinical testingyears, (ii) application for marketing approval of, manufacture, distribution, promotion and sale none of the ProductsCompany, (iii) the requirement for and Subsidiaries, or any Company Employee, has received written notice of any Action against the terms of all necessary permits, (iv) establishment registration, (v) payment of all establishment fees, (vi) Good Clinical Practices, (vii) Good Manufacturing Practices, and (viii) recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The Company is not in default with respect or any Subsidiary related to any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree of FDA Laws from any Governmental Entity or arbitrator applicable to it, or any of its assets. The Company has not received, at any time during the prior five (5) years from the actual date of this Agreement, any written notice from any Governmental Entity regarding any actual, alleged, or potential violation of, or failure to comply with, any Law applicable to the Company in any material respectPayor.
(b) To the Knowledge Except as disclosed on Section 4.22(b) of the CompanyCompany Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice of, or has been subject to, any Form FDA-483 or comparable notice of adverse inspectional findings or observations issued by any other Governmental Entity, safety alerts, FDA Untitled Letter or Warning Letter, mandatory or voluntary recall, investigation, injunction, or any other compliance or enforcement action under applicable FDA Laws, and is not subject to any investigation by the FDA or any other applicable Governmental Entity. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any obligation arising under an administrative or regulatory action, FDA inspection, FDA warning letter, FDA notice of violation letter or other notice, response or commitment made to or with the FDA or any comparable Governmental Entity. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has made all notifications, submissions, responses and reports required by FDA Laws, including any supplierssuch obligation arising under any FDA inspection, manufacturersFDA warning letter, or FDA notice of violation letter, or comparable actions by other companies with which Governmental Entities, and all such notifications, submissions, responses and reports were true, complete and correct as of the Company contracts for services related date of submission to the Products, holds all certificates, authorizations, registrations, reports, documents, permits FDA or notices required to be filed, maintained or furnished under FDA Law and all other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations of the relevant any comparable Governmental Entity engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials in the jurisdictions in which the Company performs clinical trials and/or markets its Products (“FDA Permits”). All FDA Permits are in full force and effect in all material respects and no suspension, revocation, cancellation, or withdrawal of such FDA Permits is threatened and there is no reasonable basis for believing that such FDA Permits will not be renewable upon expiration or will be suspended, revoked, cancelled, or withdrawnEntity.
(c) The Company has not received any written notices or statements from the FDA, the EMEA or any other Governmental Entity, and otherwise has no knowledge or reason to believe, that (iExcept as disclosed on Section 4.22(c) any drug, including the Products or other product candidate of the Company Disclosure Schedule, during the past three (each a “Potential Product”3) may or will be rejected or determined to be non-approvable; (ii) a delay in time for review and/or approval of a marketing authorization application or marketing approval application in any jurisdiction for any Potential Product is or may be required, requested or being implemented; (iii) one or more clinical studies for any Potential Product shall or may be requested or required in addition to the clinical studies submitted to the FDA prior to the date hereof as a precondition to or condition of issuance or maintenance of a marketing approval for any Potential Product; (iv) any license, approval, permit or authorization to conduct any clinical trial of or market any product or Potential Product of the Company has been, will be or may be suspended, revoked, modified or limited. The Company has not marketed Potential Products in a manner in any way suggesting that a Potential years no Product has been approved for an indication that exceeds the scope of the approved product label. The Company is not aware of the results of any studiesseized, tests withdrawn, recalled or trials the which reasonably call into question the results of the tests and trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company with respect to Potential Products.
(d) The Company has not received any written notice or communication from any Governmental Entity of any actual or threatened investigation, inquiry, or administrative, judicial, or regulatory action, hearing, or enforcement proceeding against the Company regarding any violation of applicable FDA Law or other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations of the relevant Governmental Entity engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials, including but not limited subject to a notice suspension of adverse findingmanufacturing, warning letter, clinical hold notice, recall, field correction, market withdrawal or replacement, safety alert, “dear doctor” letter, investigator notice, or other notice or action relating to an alleged or potential lack of safety or efficacy of any Products of the Company, any alleged product defect of any Products of the Company, or any violation of any material applicable law, rule, regulation or any clinical trial or marketing license, approval, permit or authorization for any Products of the Company, and the Company is not aware of any facts or information that would cause it to initiate any such notice or action and has no knowledge or reason to believe that the FDA, the EMEA or any other Governmental Entity or authority or any institutional or ethical review board or other non-governmental authority intends to impose, require, request or suggest any material obligation arising under an investigation, inquiry, or administrative, judicial, or regulatory action, hearing, or enforcement proceeding.
(e) In the last five (5) years, the Company has not been party to any corporate integrity agreement, monitoring agreement, consent decree, settlement order, or other similar written agreement, in each case, entered into with or imposed by the FDA. Neither the Company noand, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or circumstances reasonably likely to cause: (i) the seizure, withdrawal, recall, import detention, field correction, safety alert or suspension of manufacturing relating to any of its officers, employees, or agents, or any manufacturers, distributor, or other entity such product; (ii) a change in the Company’s supply chainlabeling of any such product; or (iii) a termination, has been modification or suspension of the marketing or distribution (including for commercial or investigational use) of any such product. No Action seeking the withdrawal, recall, correction, suspension, import detention, seizure or similar action of any Product is currently disqualified or debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or suspensions, deemed non-responsible, or otherwise excluded from the award of contracts or from participating in any Federal healthcare program by any Federal agency or other Governmental Entity. Neither the Company norpending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its officers, employees, or agents has made an untrue statement of a material fact or a fraudulent statement to the FDA or failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA, in each Subsidiaries. As of the foregoing cases on behalf of the Company.
(f) No officerdate hereof, employee, or agent of the Company is or has been, or has been threatened to be: (a) debarred under FDA proceedings pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 335a; (b) disqualified under FDA investigator qualification proceedings; (c) subject to the FDA’s Application Integrity Policy; or (d) subject to any enforcement proceeding arising from material false statements to the FDA pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
(g) Neither neither the Company nor any of its managersSubsidiaries has received any notice from FDA or any comparable Governmental Entity that any Product cannot be developed, directorstested, officersinvestigated, agentsproduced, manufactured, labeled, distributed, marketed, stored, sold, imported or employees have (i) used any corporate funds exported substantially in the manner presently performed or contemplated by or on behalf of the Company for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payments to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds or violated any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any other U.S. or foreign Laws concerning corrupt payments applicable to its business or (iii) made or received any other payment, contribution, gift, bribe, rebate, payoff or kick-back prohibited under any applicable Law. Neither the Company nor any of its managers, directors, officers, stockholders, agents, or employees is or has been the subject of any investigation, inquiry or enforcement Proceeding by any Governmental Entity regarding any offense or alleged offense under anti-bribery, anti-corruption, or anti-fraud Law in any jurisdiction and, no such investigation, inquiry or Proceedings have been threatenedSubsidiaries.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (Colfax CORP), Merger Agreement (DJO Finance LLC)
FDA Regulatory. (a) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company is, and has been, in compliance in all materials respects with all applicable Laws in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business including but not limited to, as applicable (i) preclinical and clinical testing, (ii) application for marketing approval of, manufacture, distribution, promotion and sale of the Products, (iii) the requirement for and the terms of all necessary permits, (iv) establishment registration, (v) payment of all establishment fees, (vi) Good Clinical Practices, (vii) Good Manufacturing Practices, and (viii) recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The Company is not in default with respect to any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree of any Governmental Entity or arbitrator applicable to it, or any of its assets. The Company has not received, at any time during the prior five (5) years from the actual date of this Agreement, any written notice from any Governmental Entity regarding any actual, alleged, or potential violation of, or failure to comply with, any Law applicable to the Company in any material respect.
(b) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company and any suppliers, manufacturers, or other companies with which the Company contracts for services related to the Products, holds all certificates, authorizations, registrations, reports, documents, permits or notices required to be filed, maintained or furnished under FDA Law and all other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations of the relevant Governmental Entity engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials in the jurisdictions in which the Company performs clinical trials and/or markets its Products (“FDA Permits”). All FDA Permits are in full force and effect in all material respects and no suspension, revocation, cancellation, or withdrawal of such FDA Permits is threatened and there is no reasonable basis for believing that such FDA Permits will not be renewable upon expiration or will be suspended, revoked, cancelled, or withdrawn.
(c) The Company has not received any written notices or statements from the FDA, the EMEA or any other Governmental Entity, and otherwise has no knowledge or reason to believe, that (i) any drug, including the Products or other product candidate of the Company (each a “Potential Product”) may or will be rejected or determined to be non-approvable; (ii) a delay in time for review and/or approval of a marketing authorization application or marketing approval application in any jurisdiction for any Potential Product is or may be required, requested or being implemented; (iii) one or more clinical studies for any Potential Product shall or may be requested or required in addition to the clinical studies submitted to the FDA prior to the date hereof as a precondition to or condition of issuance or maintenance of a marketing approval for any Potential Product; (iv) any license, approval, permit or authorization to conduct any clinical trial of or market any product or Potential Product of the Company has been, will be or may be suspended, revoked, modified or limited. The Company has not marketed Potential Products in a manner in any way suggesting that a Potential Product has been approved for an indication that exceeds the scope of the approved product label. The Company is not aware of the results of any studies, tests or trials the which reasonably call into question the results of the tests and trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company with respect to Potential Products.
(d) The Company has not received any written notice or communication from any Governmental Entity of any actual or threatened investigation, inquiry, or administrative, judicial, or regulatory action, hearing, or enforcement proceeding against the Company regarding any violation of applicable FDA Law or other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations of the relevant Governmental Entity engaged in the regulation of pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials, including but not limited to a notice of adverse finding, warning letter, clinical hold notice, recall, field correction, market withdrawal or replacement, safety alert, “dear doctor” letter, investigator notice, or other notice or action relating to an alleged or potential lack of safety or efficacy of any Products of the Company, any alleged product defect of any Products of the Company, or any violation of any material applicable law, rule, regulation or any clinical trial or marketing license, approval, permit or authorization for any Products of the Company, and the Company is not aware of any facts or information that would cause it to initiate any such notice or action and has no knowledge or reason to believe that the FDA, the EMEA or any other Governmental Entity or authority or any institutional or ethical review board or other non-non- governmental authority intends to impose, require, request or suggest any material obligation arising under an investigation, inquiry, or administrative, judicial, or regulatory action, hearing, or enforcement proceeding.
(e) In the last five (5) years, the Company has not been party to any corporate integrity agreement, monitoring agreement, consent decree, settlement order, or other similar written agreement, in each case, entered into with or imposed by the FDA. Neither the Company no, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, employees, or agents, or any manufacturers, distributor, or other entity in the Company’s supply chain, has been or is currently disqualified or debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or suspensions, deemed non-responsible, or otherwise excluded from the award of contracts or from participating in any Federal healthcare program by any Federal agency or other Governmental Entity. Neither the Company nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, employees, or agents has made an untrue statement of a material fact or a fraudulent statement to the FDA or failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA, in each of the foregoing cases on behalf of the Company.
(f) No officer, employee, or agent of the Company is or has been, or has been threatened to be: (a) debarred under FDA proceedings pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 335a; (b) disqualified under FDA investigator qualification proceedings; (c) subject to the FDA’s Application Integrity Policy; or (d) subject to any enforcement proceeding arising from material false statements to the FDA pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
(g) Neither the Company nor any of its managers, directors, officers, agents, or employees have (i) used any corporate funds of the Company for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payments to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds or violated any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any other U.S. or foreign Laws concerning corrupt payments applicable to its business or (iii) made or received any other payment, contribution, gift, bribe, rebate, payoff or kick-back prohibited under any applicable Law. Neither the Company nor any of its managers, directors, officers, stockholders, agents, or employees is or has been the subject of any investigation, inquiry or enforcement Proceeding by any Governmental Entity regarding any offense or alleged offense under anti-bribery, anti-corruption, or anti-fraud Law in any jurisdiction and, no such investigation, inquiry or Proceedings have been threatened.
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