General Obligations of the Parties A. Recognition of Higher Education Partner, Promotion, Marketing, and Advertising
1) When reporting and publicizing high school students’ completion of dual credit courses, degrees, or certificates, Xxxxxxx ISD will recognize Collin College as their higher education partner awarding college credit. Both Parties agree not to use the other Party’s name, logo, or likeness in any press release, marketing materials, or other public announcements without receiving prior written approval from an authorized designee.
B. Understanding of the Parties
1) Both parties understand the safety and security risks inherent with minors and agree that certain risks may be unforeseeable. Further, the Parties agree that the public safety departments from both Collin College and Xxxxxxx ISD will collaborate to develop and/or review safety and security standards and/or guidelines, including emergency response.
2) In accordance with FERPA, Collin College and Xxxxxxx ISD will protect students’ privacy and guard against the unauthorized release of identifying student information and records, and comply with all applicable requirements of FERPA.
Your General Obligations 6.1 Full information You must give us any information we reasonably require for the purposes of this contract. The information must be correct, and you must not mislead or deceive us in relation to any information provided to us.
6.2 Updating information You must tell us promptly if information you have provided to us changes, including if your billing address changes or if your use of energy changes (for example, if you start running a business at the premises).
General Obligation Except as permitted by Clause 14.2, all Confidential Information shall be held confidential during and after the continuance of this contract and shall not be divulged in any way to any third party without the prior written approval of the other party.
General Obligations 1. Each Party shall apply its measures relating to the provisions of this Chapter in accordance with Article 116 (General Principles) and, in particular, shall expeditiously apply those measures so as to avoid unduly impairing or delaying trade in goods or services or conduct of investment activities under this Agreement.
2. Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to prevent a Party from applying measures to regulate the entry of natural persons into, or their temporary stay in, its territory, including those measures necessary to protect the integrity of, and to ensure the orderly movement of natural persons across, its borders, provided that such measures are not applied in such a manner as to unduly impair or delay trade in goods or services or conduct of investment activities under this Agreement.
Additional Obligations of the Company The Company shall:
(a) At least three (3) Business Days before filing the Mandatory Registration Statement, furnish to counsel selected by the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement copies of all such documents proposed to be filed (except for Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K and any similar or successor reports that have been filed via XXXXX which may be incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference thereto), and the Company shall in good faith consider any reasonable comments of such counsel received at least one (1) Business Day prior to filing.
(b) Promptly notify the Holders when the Mandatory Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission. The Company shall respond as promptly as reasonably practicable to any comments received from the Commission with respect to the registration statement or any amendments thereto and shall furnish to the Holders, upon request, any comments of the Commission staff regarding the Holders. The Company shall promptly file with the Commission a request for acceleration of effectiveness in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act after the Company concludes that the staff of the Commission has no further comments on the filing.
(c) Furnish to the Holders such number of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them.
(d) Use commercially reasonable efforts to register and qualify the securities covered by the Mandatory Registration Statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such U.S. jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders unless an exemption from registration and qualification exists; provided that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto to qualify to do business, file a general consent to service of process or subject itself to general taxation in any such states or jurisdictions.
(e) Promptly notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by the Mandatory Registration Statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances then existing (provided that in no event shall such notice contain any material, non-public information regarding the Company) and, when such state of facts no longer exists whether due to passage of time or filing of supplemental disclosure by the Company, the Company shall promptly furnish to each such Holder a reasonable number of copies of any supplement or amendment to such prospectus filed by the Company.
(f) Use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or other suspension of effectiveness of the Mandatory Registration Statement, or the suspension of the qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction in the United States, and in the event of the issuance of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of such registration statement, or any order suspending or preventing the use of any related prospectus or suspending the qualification of any equity securities included in such registration statement for sale in any jurisdiction, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain promptly the withdrawal of such order.
(g) Use commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Shares to be listed on each securities exchange on which the same class of securities issued by the Company are then listed (collectively, the “Trading Markets”), including, without limitation, by the filing of any required additional listing applications.
(h) Use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Holders who hold Registrable Securities being offered and, to the extent applicable, facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates (not bearing any restrictive legend) representing the Registrable Securities sold pursuant to the Mandatory Registration Statement, and enable such certificates to be in such denominations or amounts, as the case may be, as the Holders may reasonably request and registered in such names as the Holders may request.
(i) Provide and cause to be maintained a registrar and transfer agent for all Registrable Securities covered by any registration statement from and after a date not later than the effective date of the Mandatory Registration Statement.
(j) Not, nor shall any subsidiary or affiliate thereof, identify any Holder as an underwriter in any public disclosure or filing with the SEC or the NASDAQ Stock Market or any other securities exchange or market without the consent of such Holder except as required by law.
Conditions of Obligations of the Underwriters The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Securities will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of Issuer and Japan herein, to the accuracy of the statements of officials of Issuer and Japan made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by Issuer and Japan of their obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, as amended from time to time, shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of Issuer, Japan or the Representatives, shall be contemplated by the Commission; the Final Prospectus shall have been filed or transmitted for filing with the Commission in accordance with Section 5(a)(i) hereof not later than 5:00 P.M. New York City time on the business day following the date of this Agreement; and the Term Sheet and all other material (if any) required to be filed by Issuer or Japan with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) shall have been filed with the Commission or transmitted for filing with the Commission by the time applicable to such filing pursuant to said Rule.
(b) Subsequent to the date hereof, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting particularly the business or properties of Issuer or the financial, political or economic condition of Japan which, in the judgment of the Representatives, materially impairs the investment quality of the Securities, or (ii) (A) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or Luxembourg Stock Exchange, (B) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in the United States, New York or Japan declared by either Federal or New York State authorities or by Japanese authorities, or (C) the engagement by the United States or Japan in hostilities which have resulted in the declaration, on or after the date hereof, of a national emergency or war; provided that the effect of any such event specified in this subsection (ii), in the judgment of the Representatives, after consultation with Issuer and Japan, would materially adversely affect the marketing of the Securities.
(c) The Representatives shall have received an opinion of Xxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx, Japanese counsel for Issuer and Japan, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that:
(i) Issuer is a joint stock corporation validly existing under the laws of Japan and has full corporate power and authority to own its properties and assets and to conduct its business as described in the Latest Preliminary Final Prospectus and in the Final Prospectus, to issue the Securities and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the Fiscal Agency Agreement;
(ii) The number of authorized shares of Issuer is five trillion one hundred sixty four billion (5,164,000,000,000) shares, and all of the issued shares of common stock shall be owned and are owned by the Japanese government;
(iii) The issue and offering of the Securities by Issuer and the guarantee of the Securities by Japan pursuant to the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement and the Fiscal Agency Agreement, the execution and delivery by Issuer and Japan of this Agreement and the Fiscal Agency Agreement, and the compliance by Issuer and Japan with the terms thereof and the terms of the Securities (including the terms and conditions of the Securities) and the guarantee of the Securities do not contravene any provisions of applicable Japanese laws or the Articles of Incorporation or the Regulations of the Board of Directors of Issuer;
(iv) This Agreement and the Fiscal Agency Agreement have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Issuer and Japan, and constitute valid and legally binding obligations of Issuer and Japan, enforceable against Issuer and Japan in accordance with their respective terms assuming that this Agreement and the Fiscal Agency Agreement constitute valid and legally binding obligations of Issuer and Japan, enforceable against Issuer and Japan in accordance with their respective terms under the laws of the State of New York, by which it is expressly governed, and as to which such counsel renders no opinion;
(v) The issue and offering of the Securities have been duly authorized by Issuer, and, assuming that the Securities have been executed on behalf of Issuer by either the signature or the facsimile signature of the individual specified in the Fiscal Agency Agreement to act on behalf of Issuer, and assuming that the Securities have been duly authenticated by the Fiscal Agent, when the entire amount of the purchase price has been paid in full in accordance with this Agreement and the Securities have been delivered in the manner contemplated in this Agreement, the Securities will have been duly issued and delivered and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of Issuer enforceable against Issuer in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Securities, entitled to the benefits provided by the Fiscal Agency Agreement;
(vi) The Guarantee has been duly authorized by Japan, and, assuming it has been executed on behalf of Japan by either the signature or the facsimile signature or the official seal (or the facsimile thereof) of the Minister of Finance (including when affixed by the duly designated Minister of Finance ad interim), and assuming that the Securities have been duly authenticated by the Fiscal Agent, validly made in accordance with the Constitution and laws of Japan, and will constitute valid and legally binding, irrevocable and unconditional general obligation of Japan in accordance with its terms, for the payment and performance of which the full faith and credit of Japan has been pledged; and such Guarantee ranks pari passu in right of payment with all other general obligations of Japan without any preference one above the other by reason of priority of date of issue, currency of payment or otherwise;
(vii) Under the laws and regulations of Japan currently under force, no filings, consents, clearances, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications of any court, government or administrative agency in Japan are required (i) for the creation, offering, issue or delivery of the Securities by Issuer or the performance of its obligations thereunder, (ii) for the guarantee of the Securities by Japan or the performance of its obligation thereunder or (iii) for the execution, delivery and performance by Issuer of this Agreement and the Fiscal Agency Agreement, except for (A) such authorizations as have been duly obtained or made and are in full force and effect and (B) the ex post facto reports to be submitted pursuant to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law of Japan after the Closing Date; and
(viii) The statements in the Registration Statement, the Latest Preliminary Final Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto with respect to matters of Japanese law contained under the headings “Japan Bank for International Cooperation”; “Japan – Government”; “Financial System – Government Financial Institutions”; “Government Finance” and “Description of the Debt Securities and Guarantee” in the Base Prospectus and under the headings “Risk Factors – Risks Relating to Us”; “Recent Developments – Japan – General – Political Parties”; “Description of the Bonds and Guarantee”; “Taxation – Additional Japanese Taxation Considerations” and “General Information” in the preliminary prospectus supplement included in the Latest Preliminary Final Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement are, to the extent such statements relate to matters of, and insofar as they purport to constitute summaries of the material provisions (that are relevant to the purpose and context of the subject matters of such statements) of, the law and regulation of Japan and the Articles of Incorporation of Issuer, true and accurate in all material respects.
Conditions of the Obligations of the Underwriter The obligations of the Underwriter hereunder shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company set forth in Section 2 hereof, in each case as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date as though then made, to the timely performance by each of the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder on and as of such dates, and to each of the following additional conditions:
Termination of the Obligations of the Underwriters The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Notes on the Closing Date shall be terminable by the Representatives by written notice delivered to the Issuer and the Company if at any time on or before the Closing Date (a) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or materially limited, or there shall have been any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange, (b) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York or Virginia shall have been declared by any of Federal, New York state or Virginia state authorities, (c) there shall have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis, the effect of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in the Representatives’ reasonable judgment, impracticable to market the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus or (d) any change or any development involving a prospective change, materially and adversely affecting (i) the Trust Assets taken as a whole or (ii) the business or properties of the Issuer, the Company or the Seller occurs, which, in the Representatives’ reasonable judgment, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), makes it impracticable or inadvisable to market the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus. Upon such notice being given, the parties to this Agreement shall (except for the liability of the Issuer, the Company and the Seller under Section 9 and Section 10 of this Agreement and the liability of each Underwriter under Section 17 of this Agreement) be released and discharged from their respective obligations under this Agreement.
Instructions of the Company The Company shall have the right, by one or more instruments in writing executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for the realization of any right or remedy available to the Collateral Agent, or of exercising any power conferred on the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent or the Securities Intermediary, as the case may be, or to direct the taking or refraining from taking of any action authorized by this Agreement; provided, however, that (i) such direction shall not conflict with the provisions of any law or of this Agreement and (ii) the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Securities Intermediary shall be adequately indemnified as provided herein. Nothing in this Section 8.2 shall impair the right of the Collateral Agent in its discretion to take any action or omit to take any action which it deems proper and which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Representations of the Company The Company represents and warrants to the Committee and the Trustee as of the date hereof:
(i) The Company is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;
(ii) The Securities have been duly authorized and, when issued to and accepted by the Trust in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock;
(iii) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Registration Rights Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and each constitutes a valid legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles and except as to the enforceability of the indemnification or contribution provisions contained therein;
(iv) The issuance of the Securities to the Trust and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of the Registration Rights Agreement and this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as currently in effect, or Bylaws, as amended, by the Company or the charter or bylaws or similar governing documents of any of its subsidiaries or any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties;
(v) No commission within the meaning of Section 408(e)(2) of ERISA, brokerage fee or other charge will become due or payable in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the contribution of the Securities;
(vi) It is not necessary in connection with the offer, sale and delivery of the Securities by the Company to the Trust to register the Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under the securities laws of any state, because the Securities are exempt from such registration; the Securities have not been so registered; and the Company is issuing the Securities to the Trust in reliance upon an exemption from such registrations.
(vii) The Securities are qualifying employer securities (as defined in Section 407(d)(5)(B) of ERISA); and
(viii) Immediately after the Trust acquires the Securities, the fair market value of the Securities held by the Plan, together with the fair market value of other employer securities and employer real property held by the Plan, does not exceed 10 percent of the fair market value of the assets of the Plan, as required by Section 407(a)(2) of ERISA.