Effective Date, Term and Approval This Agreement shall become effective with respect to a Fund, if approved by the shareholders of such Fund, on the Effective Date for such Fund, as set forth in Appendix A attached hereto. If so approved, this Agreement shall thereafter continue in force and effect until June 30, 2021, and may be continued from year to year thereafter, provided that the continuation of the Agreement is specifically approved at least annually:
(a) (i) by the Board of Trustees or (ii) by the vote of “a majority of the outstanding voting securities” of such Fund (as defined in Section 2(a)(42) of the 0000 Xxx); and
(b) by the affirmative vote of a majority of the trustees who are not parties to this Agreement or “interested persons” (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) of a party to this Agreement (other than as trustees of the Trust), by votes cast in person at a meeting specifically called for such purpose.
Consolidation and Merger; Asset Acquisitions The Borrower will not consolidate with or merge into any Person, or permit any other Person to merge into it, or acquire (in a transaction analogous in purpose or effect to a consolidation or merger) all or substantially all the assets of any other Person.
Tax Periods Ending on or Before the Closing Date Buyer shall prepare or cause to be prepared and file or cause to be filed all Tax Returns for the Company and the Company Subsidiary for all periods ending on or prior to the Closing Date which are required to be filed (taking into account all extensions properly obtained) after the Closing Date.
Fundamental Changes and Asset Sales (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all of its assets, or all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (in each case, whether now owned or hereafter acquired), or liquidate or dissolve, except that:
(i) any Person may merge into the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving corporation;
(ii) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge into (i) the Borrower or (ii) one or more Restricted Subsidiaries (provided that when a Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging with a Restricted Subsidiary, the Loan Party shall be the surviving entity);
(iii) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if a transferor in such a transaction is a Loan Party, then the transferee must be a Loan Party;
(iv) the Borrower or any Subsidiary may transfer, sell and/or pledge Permitted Receivables Related Assets under Permitted Receivables Facilities (subject to the limitation that the Attributable Receivables Indebtedness thereunder shall not exceed an aggregate amount permitted under Section 6.01(h));
(v) any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders;
(vi) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may dispose of property and assets, including Equity Interests of a Subsidiary, either directly or through a merger or consolidation, to the extent permitted by clause (c) of this Section; and
(vii) so long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, a Subsidiary Guarantor may merge or consolidate with any other Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving entity or (ii) if the Person formed by or surviving any such merger or consolidation (any such Person, the “Successor Company”) is not such Subsidiary Guarantor, (A) the Successor Company shall be an entity organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state or commonwealth thereof, the District of Columbia or any territory thereof, (B) the Successor Company shall expressly assume all the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under the Subsidiary Guaranty and the other Loan Documents to which the Subsidiary Guarantor is a party pursuant to a supplement hereto or thereto in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (C) such Subsidiary Guarantor shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer’s certificate stating that such merger or consolidation and such supplement to the Subsidiary Guaranty comply with this Agreement; provided, further, that if the foregoing are satisfied, the Successor Company will succeed to, and be substituted for, such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement.
(b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, engage to any material extent in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the date of execution of this Agreement and any business reasonably related, incidental or ancillary thereto or that is a reasonable extension thereof.
(c) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any of its property or assets, including any Equity Interests owned by it (it being understood that the grant or existence of a Lien on any property shall not constitute a sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of such property), except:
(i) dispositions or sales of inventory, used, obsolete or surplus equipment and Permitted Investments in the ordinary course of business;
(ii) as long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of property to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that any such sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions involving a Restricted Subsidiary shall be made in compliance with Section 6.06;
(iii) any transaction permitted under Section 6.03(a), any Investment permitted under Section 6.04 or any Restricted Payment permitted under Section 6.07;
(iv) the disposition or sale of accounts receivable pursuant to a Permitted Receivables Facility permitted by Section 6.01(h);
(v) sales, transfers and other dispositions of Investments in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements or rights of first refusal between the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements;
(vi) the lapse or abandonment of intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business which, in the reasonable good faith determination of the Borrower, is not material to the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(vii) dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings;
(viii) any surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release, recovery on or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind in the ordinary course of business;
(ix) dispositions of leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of any operating lease;
(x) the unwinding or termination of any Swap Agreements; and
(xi) in addition to the dispositions permitted by the other clauses of this Section 6.03(c), leases, sales or other dispositions of property, either directly or through a merger or consolidation, that, together with all other property of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries previously disposed of pursuant to this clause (xi) during the twelve-month period ending with the month in which any such other disposition occurs (the “Calculation Period”), do not constitute a Substantial Portion of the property of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of property made pursuant to this clause (xi) shall be made for fair value and, if the sale, transfer, lease or disposition in question, involves assets that have a fair value of more than $50,000,000, then at least 75% of the consideration therefor shall be in cash or cash equivalents. The term “Substantial Portion” means, on any date, property with a net book value that represents more than 15% of the Consolidated Total Assets as of the last day of the last month before the start of the applicable Calculation Period.
Xxxxx Period After payment of the first Dues, the Subscriber is entitled to a grace period of 30 days for the payment of any Dues due. During this grace period, the Agreement will remain in force. However, the Subscriber will be liable for payment of Dues accruing during the period the Agreement continues in force.
Consolidation, Merger, Sale of Assets, etc If at any time while this Warrant, or any portion hereof, is outstanding and unexpired, there shall be (i) a reorganization (other than a combination, reclassification, exchange or subdivision of shares otherwise provided for herein), (ii) a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another corporation in which the Company is not the surviving entity, or a reverse triangular merger in which the Company is the surviving entity but the shares of the Company’s capital stock outstanding immediately prior to the merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash, or otherwise, or (iii) a sale or transfer of the Company’s properties and assets as, or substantially as, an entirety to any other person, then, as a part of such reorganization, merger, consolidation, sale or transfer, lawful provision shall be made so that the Holder of this Warrant shall thereafter be entitled to receive upon exercise of this Warrant, during the period specified herein and upon payment of the Exercise Price then in effect, the number of shares of stock or other securities or property of the successor corporation resulting from such reorganization, merger, consolidation, sale or transfer that a holder of the shares deliverable upon exercise of this Warrant would have been entitled to receive in such reorganization, consolidation, merger, sale or transfer if this Warrant had been exercised immediately before such reorganization, merger, consolidation, sale or transfer, all subject to further adjustment as provided in this Section 11. The foregoing provisions of this Section 11.1 shall similarly apply to successive reorganizations, consolidations, mergers, sales and transfers and to the stock or securities of any other corporation that are at the time receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant. If the per-share consideration payable to the Holder hereof for shares in connection with any such transaction is in a form other than cash or marketable securities, then the value of such consideration shall be determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors. In all events, appropriate adjustment (as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors) shall be made in the application of the provisions of this Warrant with respect to the rights and interests of the Holder after the transaction, to the end that the provisions of this Warrant shall be applicable after that event, as near as reasonably may be, in relation to any shares or other property deliverable after that event upon exercise of this Warrant. In addition, if at any time while this Warrant, or any portion hereof, is outstanding and unexpired, (A) there shall be any transaction (other than the occurrence of conversion of the Bridge Loan as of the Warrant Exercisability Date) as described in clauses (ii) or (iii) above that constitutes a Sale of the Company and also constitutes either (x) a Liquidation Event, (y) an Acquisition or (z) an Asset Transfer (as each such term is defined in the Certificate of Designation for the Series A-1 Preferred Stock) for the Series A-1 Preferred Stock and the Series A-1 Preferred Stock is converted or redeemed for the Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Certificate of Designation for the Series A-1 Preferred Stock), and (B) this Warrant has not been exercised prior to the consummation thereof, this Warrant shall be deemed to be automatically exercised in whole through Net Issue Exercise as described in Section 3(c) hereof. The Company agrees that such shares to be issued to the Holder upon Net Issue Exercise as a result of a transaction described in clauses (ii) or (iii) above shall be deemed to be issued to the Holder as the record owner of such shares as of the close of business on the date of such transaction. A “Sale of the Company” shall mean the sale of the Company to an independent third party or group of independent third parties pursuant to which such party or parties acquire (a) Capital Stock (as defined in the Preferred Stock Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement) of the Company possessing the voting power under normal circumstances to elect a majority of the Company’s Board of Directors (whether by merger, consolidation or sale or transfer of the Capital Stock) or (b) all or substantially all of the Company’s assets determined on a consolidated basis. For purposes of this definition, “independent third party” means any Person who, immediately prior to such contemplated transaction, (w) does not own or have any voting or economic rights with respect to more than five percent (5%) of the Capital Stock on a fully-diluted and as converted to Common Stock basis, (x) is not an Affiliate of any Person who owns or has any voting or economic right with respect to more than five percent (5%) of the Capital Stock on a fully-diluted and as converted to Common Stock basis, (y) is not Parent, and (z) is not an Affiliate of Parent.
Xxxxxx, Sale of Assets, etc If the Borrower at any time shall consolidate with or merge into or sell or convey all or substantially all its assets to any other corporation, this Note, as to the unpaid principal portion thereof and accrued interest thereon, shall thereafter be deemed to evidence the right to purchase such number and kind of shares or other securities and property as would have been issuable or distributable on account of such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, upon or with respect to the securities subject to the conversion or purchase right immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance. The foregoing provision shall similarly apply to successive transactions of a similar nature by any such successor or purchaser. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the anti-dilution provisions of this Section shall apply to such securities of such successor or purchaser after any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance.
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Purchase of Assets, etc Holdings and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any of their respective Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of (or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time) all or any part of its property or assets (other than inventory in the ordinary course of business, including sales of inventory on consignment in the ordinary course of business), or enter into any partnerships, joint ventures or sale-leaseback transactions, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one or a series of related transactions) any part of the property or assets (other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials and equipment in the ordinary course of business) of any Person, except that the following shall be permitted:
(a) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may, as lessee or lessor, enter into operating leases in the ordinary course of business with respect to real or personal property;
(b) Capital Expenditures by Holdings and its Subsidiaries to the extent not in violation of Section 9.07;
(c) the advances, investments and loans permitted pursuant to Section 9.05;
(d) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof;
(e) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may sell or exchange specific items of machinery or equipment, so long as the proceeds of each such sale or exchange is used to acquire (and results within 180 days of such sale or exchange in the acquisition of) replacement items of machinery or equipment which are the functional equivalent of the item of equipment so sold or exchanged;
(f) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary course of business, license, as licensor or licensee, patents, trademarks, copyrights and know-how to third Persons and to one another, so long as any such license by Holdings or its Subsidiaries in its capacity as licensor is permitted to be assigned pursuant to the Security Agreement (to the extent that a security interest in such patents, trademarks, copyrights and know- how is granted thereunder) and does not otherwise prohibit the granting of a Lien by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the Security Agreement in the intellectual property covered by such license;
(g) any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may transfer assets to the Borrower or to any other Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as (i) if the transferee is a Subsidiary, such Subsidiary is a Guarantor and (ii) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets so transferred shall remain in full force and effect and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such transfer);
(h) any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, the Borrower so long as (i) the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (ii) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets of such Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall remain in full force and effect and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, dissolution or liquidation);
(i) any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower so long as (i) such Wholly Owned Subsidiary is a Guarantor and is the surviving corporation of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (ii) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets of such Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall remain in full force and effect and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, dissolution or liquidation);
(j) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom (including giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and --- ----- any additional Indebtedness resulting therefrom or incurred or assumed in connection therewith as if such acquisition had occurred and such Indebtedness had been incurred as of the first day of the most recently completed Test Period (including any other Permitted Acquisition that occurred, and related Indebtedness that was incurred, during or subsequent to such Test Period)), Holdings or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may consummate a Permitted Acquisition; provided that (i) Holdings shall have -------- delivered to the Administrative Agent, at the time of delivery of the Permitted Acquisition Notice, a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of Holdings showing compliance (in reasonable detail as to pro forma calculations) with all of the provisions of this paragraph (j), and (ii) Holdings or the Borrower shall have given the Agents and the Banks at least 30 days prior notice of any Permitted Acquisition (each such notice a "Permitted Acquisition Notice"); -----------------------------
(k) leases or subleases granted by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to third Persons not interfering in any material respect with the business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries;
Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets, Cash Flow or Earning Power (a) In the event that, following the Stock Acquisition Date, directly or indirectly, (x) the Company shall consolidate with, or merge with and into, any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), and the Company shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger, (y) any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof) shall consolidate with, or merge with or into, the Company, and the Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger and, in connection with such consolidation or merger, all or part of the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be changed into or exchanged for stock or other securities of any other Person or cash or any other property, or (z) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, assets, cash flow or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets, cash flow or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any Person or Persons (other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that: (i) each holder of a Right, except as provided in Section 7(e) hereof, shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such number of validly authorized and issued, fully paid, non-assessable and freely tradeable shares of Common Stock of the Principal Party (as such term is hereinafter defined), not subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of first refusal or other adverse claims, as shall be equal to the result obtained by (1) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the number of one one-thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right is exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event (or, if a Section 11(a)(ii) Event has occurred prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, multiplying the number of such one one-thousandths of a share for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event by the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event), and (2) dividing that product (which, following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, shall be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and for all purposes of this Agreement) by 50% of the Current Market Price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d)(i) hereof) per share of the Common Stock of such Principal Party on the date of consummation of such Section 13 Event; (ii) such Principal Party shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such Section 13 Event, all the obligations and duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) the term “Company” shall thereafter be deemed to refer to such Principal Party, it being specifically intended that the provisions of Section 11 hereof shall apply only to such Principal Party following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event; (iv) such Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of shares of its Common Stock) in connection with the consummation of any such transaction as may be necessary to assure that the provisions hereof shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to its shares of Common Stock thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights; and (v) the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii) hereof shall be of no effect following the first occurrence of any Section 13 Event.
Closing Date Balance Sheet a. Not later than sixty (60) days after the Closing, Seller shall prepare a balance sheet of the Company as of the close of business on the Closing Date (the "Closing Date Balance Sheet"), in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") applied in a manner consistent with the accounting principles and practices applied in the preparation of the Financial Statements (as defined herein). Seller agrees to use reasonable efforts to cause the Closing Date Balance Sheet to be prepared and delivered to Purchaser within sixty (60) days after the Closing, unless such inability to deliver the Closing Date Balance Sheet is as a result of Purchaser's failure to give Seller reasonable access to the necessary books, records and/or personnel, in which event the requirement to deliver the Closing Date Balance Sheet shall be tolled until Seller is given reasonable access to the necessary documentation or personnel. The date of delivery of the Closing Date Balance Sheet to Purchaser is referred to herein as the "Delivery Date".
b. Without charge by Purchaser, Purchaser shall cause its and the Company's employees to cooperate reasonably and on a timely basis and to assist Seller with the preparation of the Closing Date Balance Sheet, and shall make reasonably available to Seller and its authorized representatives the books, records, and personnel of the Company which Seller reasonably requires in order to prepare and deliver the Closing Date Balance Sheet. Purchaser and Seller shall, throughout the entire period from the date of this Agreement to the Delivery Date, meet and discuss any and all financial and business matters relating to such process and the preparation of the Closing Date Balance Sheet, and Seller shall make available its work papers for confidential inspection and review by Purchaser and Purchaser's accountants; provided, however, that Seller may omit or redact information that contains competitively sensitive information concerning Seller's or any of Seller's Affiliate's unrelated operations, contracts, customers, pricing, costs, or related matters.
