Financing Sources Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, each of Trimble and the Company (on behalf of itself and their respective Subsidiaries) hereby: (i) agrees that any Action involving a Financing Source, arising out of or relating to, this Agreement, the Committed Financing, the Commitment Letter or any of the agreements entered into in connection with the Committed Financing, the Commitment Letter or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or the performance of any services thereunder shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, so long as such forum is and remains available, and any appellate court thereof, and each party hereto irrevocably submits itself and its property with respect to any such Action to the exclusive jurisdiction of such court, and such Action (except as otherwise expressly provided in any agreement relating to the Committed Financing or any Permanent Financing and except to the extent relating to the interpretation of any provisions in this Agreement (including any provision in any documentation related to the Committed Financing or any documentation related to any Permanent Financing that expressly specifies that the interpretation of such provisions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of Delaware)) shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York (without giving effect to any conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction), (ii) (x) knowingly, intentionally and voluntarily waives to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law any rights or claims against any Financing Source in any way arising out of or relating to, this Agreement, the Committed Financing, the Commitment Letter or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or the performance of any services thereunder and (y) agrees not to bring or support any Action of any kind or description, whether in law or in equity, whether in contract or in tort or otherwise, against any Financing Source in any way arising out of or relating to, this Agreement, the Committed Financing, the Commitment Letter or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or the performance of any services thereunder in any forum other than any federal or state court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, (iii) agrees that service of process upon the Company or its Subsidiaries in any such Action or proceeding shall be effective if notice is given in accordance with Section 13.7, (iv) irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such Action in any such court, (v) KNOWINGLY, INTENTIONALLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW ALL RIGHTS OF TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT AGAINST ANY FINANCING SOURCE IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO, THIS AGREEMENT, THE COMMITTED FINANCING OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY OR THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY SERVICES THEREUNDER, (vi) agrees that no Financing Source shall be subject to any special, consequential, punitive or indirect damages or damages of a tortious nature in connection with this Agreement, the Committed Financing or the Commitment Letter, (vii) agrees that this Agreement may not be enforced against any Financing Source and agrees that no Financing Source will have any liability to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Representatives (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, AGCO and its Affiliates), and hereby waives any rights or claims against any Financing Source, in connection with this Agreement, the Committed Financing, the Commitment Letter or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or the performance of any services thereunder, whether in law or in equity, whether in contract or in tort or otherwise (provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall affect the rights of AGCO or any of its Subsidiaries against the Financing Sources with respect to the Committed Financing or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or any services thereunder), and (viii) agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Financing Sources are express third party beneficiaries of, and may enforce, and shall be entitled to rely on, Sections 11.2, 13.5 and 13.8 and this Section 13.16, and any of the provisions in this Agreement reflecting the foregoing agreements in this Section 13.16, and such provisions and the definitions of “Financing Sources” and “Financing Sources Related Parties” (and any other provision of this Agreement to the extent an amendment, supplement, waiver or other modification of such provision would modify the substance of such provision) shall not be amended, modified, waived or terminated in any way adverse to the Financing Sources in any material respect without the prior written consent of the Financing Sources party to the Commitment Letter. For purposes of this Section 13.16, “Financing Sources” (other than the immediately preceding reference) includes all Financing Sources Related Parties.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH RELATED PERSONS Neither Seller, Acquired Company or any Related Person of each Seller or of either Acquired Company has, or since the first day of the next to last completed fiscal year of any Acquired Company has had, any interest in any property (whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible), used in or pertaining to any Acquired Company’s business. Neither Seller, Acquired Company or any Related Person of each Seller or of any Acquired Company is, or since the first day of the next to last completed fiscal year of any Acquired Company has owned (of record or as a beneficial owner) an equity interest or any other financial or profit interest in, a Person that has (i) had business dealings or a material financial interest in any transaction with any Acquired Company other than business dealings or transactions conducted in the Ordinary Course of Business with any Acquired Company at substantially prevailing market prices and on substantially prevailing market terms, or (ii) engaged in competition with any Acquired Company with respect to any line of the products or services of any Acquired Company (a “Competing Business”) in any market presently served by any Acquired Company except for less than one percent of the outstanding capital stock of any Competing Business that is publicly traded on any recognized exchange or in the over-the-counter market. Neither Seller or any Related Person of each Seller or of any Acquired Company is a party to any Contract with, or has any claim or right against, any Acquired Company.
Sharing Information With Affiliates of the Lenders Each Loan Party acknowledges that from time to time financial advisory, investment banking and other services may be offered or provided to the Borrower or one or more of its Affiliates (in connection with this Agreement or otherwise) by any Lender or by one or more Subsidiaries or Affiliates of such Lender and each of the Loan Parties hereby authorizes each Lender to share any information delivered to such Lender by such Loan Party and its Subsidiaries pursuant to this Agreement to any such Subsidiary or Affiliate subject to the provisions of Section 11.9.1 [General].
Obligations to Related Parties Except as set forth on Schedule 12(g), neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries has any obligations to their respective officers, directors, stockholders or employees other than:
(i) for payment of salary for services rendered and for bonus payments;
(ii) reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred on its or its Subsidiaries’ behalf;
(iii) for other standard employee benefits made generally available to all employees (including stock option agreements outstanding under any stock option plan approved by its and its Subsidiaries’ Board of Directors, as applicable); and
(iv) obligations listed in its and each of its Subsidiary’s financial statements or disclosed in any of the Parent’s Exchange Act Filings. Except as described above or set forth on Schedule 12(g), none of its officers, directors or, to the best of its knowledge, key employees or stockholders, any of its Subsidiaries or any members of their immediate families, are indebted to it or any of its Subsidiaries, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $50,000 or have any direct or indirect ownership interest in any Person with which it or any of its Subsidiaries is affiliated or with which it or any of its Subsidiaries has a business relationship, or any Person which competes with it or any of its Subsidiaries, other than passive investments in publicly traded companies (representing less than one percent (1%) of such company) which may compete with it or any of its Subsidiaries. Except as described above, none of its officers, directors or stockholders, or any member of their immediate families, is, directly or indirectly, interested in any material contract with it or any of its Subsidiaries and no agreements, understandings or proposed transactions are contemplated between it or any of its Subsidiaries and any such Person. Except as set forth on Schedule 12(g), neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries is a guarantor or indemnitor of any indebtedness of any other Person.
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Related Parties With respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
Agents and Affiliates Each Managing Agent and the Program Agent and their respective Affiliates may engage in any kind of business with the Borrower, any DT Entity or any Contract Debtor, any of their respective Affiliates and any Person who may do business with or own securities of Borrower, any DT Entity or any Contract Debtor or any of their respective Affiliates, all as if such Persons were not Managing Agents and/or Program Agent and without any duty to account therefor to any Lender.
Investigation; No Other Representations (a) Each of the Company Parties, on their own behalf and on behalf of their respective Representatives, acknowledges, represents, warrants and agrees that (i) they have conducted their own independent review and analysis of, and, based thereon, has formed an independent judgment concerning, the business, assets, condition, operations and prospects of, the Parent Parties and (ii) it has been furnished with or given access to such documents and information about the Parent Parties and their respective businesses and operations as the Company Parties and their respective Representatives have deemed necessary to enable it to make an informed decision with respect to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Ancillary Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(b) In entering into this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents to which they are or will be a party, the Company Parties have relied solely on their own investigation and analysis and the representations and warranties expressly set forth in Article 4 and in the Ancillary Documents to which they are or will be a party and no other representations or warranties of any Parent Party, any Parent Non-Party Affiliate or any other Person, either express or implied, and the Company Parties, on their own behalf and on behalf of their respective Representatives, acknowledge, represent, warrant and agree that, except for the representations and warranties expressly set forth in Article 4 and in the Ancillary Documents to which they are or will be a party, none of the Parent Parties, any Parent Non-Party Affiliate or any other Person makes or has made any representation or warranty, either express or implied, in connection with or related to this Agreement, the Ancillary Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
Indemnification by the Credit Parties The Credit Parties shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and the Issuing Bank, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the documented and reasonable out-of-pocket fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Credit Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby or otherwise in connection herewith or therewith, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) the execution or delivery of any commitment or fee letters in contemplation of this Agreement, the other Credit Documents and the transactions hereunder, the performance by the parties thereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Credit Document, if the Borrower or such Subsidiary has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. This Section 11.2(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.
CONSULTATION WITH OTHER SUB-ADVISERS In performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement, the Sub-Adviser shall not consult with any other sub-adviser to the Fund or a sub-adviser to a portfolio that is under common control with the Fund concerning transactions for the Fund, except as permitted by the policies and procedures of the Fund. The Sub-Adviser shall not provide investment advice to any assets of the Fund other than the assets managed by the Sub-Adviser.
