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Hedging Strategies Sample Clauses

Hedging Strategies. (1) Seller shall hedge all Purchased Assets in accordance with the Hedging Strategy. Seller shall not make any material change to its Hedging Strategy without the prior written consent of Buyer, which shall be deemed given if written notice to the contrary, including the reason(s) therefor, is not received by Seller within five (5) Business Days following Seller’s written notice to Buyer, confirmed via telephone, of any such change, and Seller shall review the Hedging Strategy periodically to confirm that they are being complied with in all material respects and are adequate to meet Seller’s business objectives. (2) In the event Seller makes any amendment or modification to the Hedging Strategy, Seller shall within 30 days of such amendment or modification deliver to Buyer a complete copy of the amended or modified Hedging Strategy. Additionally, Buyer may in its reasonable discretion request a current copy of its Hedging Strategy at any time.
Hedging Strategies. The Administrative Agent shall have reviewed and be reasonably satisfied with the terms and provisions of, and arrangements relating to the Borrower's hedging strategies with respect to commodity prices.
Hedging StrategiesForward transactions form the basis of hedging (risk protection) strategies. Companies can use forward contracts to protect against unexpected market movements, making financial outcomes predictable and limiting potential losses.

Related to Hedging Strategies

  • Hedging (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, enter into any Interest Hedge Agreements (subject in each case to (i) satisfaction of the Rating Condition and (ii) unless the cost of such Interest Hedge Agreement is paid in full at the time it is executed, the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders). The Borrower will not amend or replace any Interest Hedge Agreement unless the Rating Condition shall have been satisfied in connection with such amendment or replacement and the Majority Lenders have provided their prior written consent thereto. The Borrower (or the Services Provider on behalf of the Borrower) shall promptly provide written notice of entry into, and the amendment or replacement of, any Interest Hedge Agreement to the Agents and the Lenders. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Borrower (or the Services Provider on behalf of the Borrower) shall not enter into any Interest Hedge Agreement (A) unless it obtains written advice of counsel that (1) the written terms of the derivative directly relate to the Collateral Loans and (2) such derivative reduces the interest rate and/or foreign exchange risks related to the Collateral Loans and the Loans and (B) that would cause the Borrower to be considered a “commodity pool” as defined in Section 1a(10) of the Commodity Exchange Act unless (i) the Services Provider, and no other party, including but not limited to the Collateral Agent, the Custodian and the Administrative Agent, is registered as a “commodity pool operator” as defined in Section 1(a)(11) of the Commodity Exchange Act and “commodity trading advisor” as defined in Section 1(a)(12) of the Commodity Exchange Act with the CFTC or (ii) with respect to the Borrower as the commodity pool, the Services Provider would be eligible for an exemption from registration as a commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor and all conditions for obtaining the exemption have been satisfied. The Services Provider agrees that for so long as the Borrower is a commodity pool, the Services Provider will take all actions necessary to ensure ongoing compliance with, as the case may be, either (x) the applicable exemption from registration as a commodity pool operator and/or a commodity trading advisor with respect to the Borrower or (y) the applicable registration requirements as a commodity pool operator and/or a commodity trading advisor with respect to the Borrower, and will in each case take any other actions required as a commodity pool operator and/or a commodity trading advisor with respect to the Borrower. (b) Each Interest Hedge Agreement shall contain appropriate limited recourse and non-petition provisions equivalent (mutatis mutandis) to those contained in Section 12.15. Each Interest Hedge Counterparty shall be required to satisfy, at the time that any Interest Hedge Agreement to which it is a party is entered into, the then-current S&P criteria for hedge counterparties with respect to any Interest Hedge Agreements shall be subject to the Priority of Payments specified in Section 9.1(a) and Section 6.4. Each Interest Hedge Agreement shall contain an acknowledgement by the Interest Hedge Counterparty that the obligations of the Borrower to the Interest Hedge Counterparty under the relevant Interest Hedge Agreement shall be payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments specified in Section 9.1(a) and Section 6.4 and the Borrower shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide that it may not be terminated due to the occurrence of an Event of Default until liquidation of the Collateral has commenced.

  • Strategies The ESC will seek to achieve employment stability strategies as follows: - current and multi-year strategies should be developed within the resources available. Such strategies could include, but not necessarily be limited to, planning, retraining, identifying ways of determining employees= skills, training and experience previously achieved, early retirement, voluntary exit programs, alternative assignment, secondment, employee career counselling, job sharing, job trading, job shadowing, and professional development; - discussions between the parties which explore these possible strategies would assist in the development of appropriate enhancements to Employment Stability; - data which is relevant to employment stability shall be made available to both parties.

  • Risk Management Except as required by applicable law or regulation, (i) implement or adopt any material change in its interest rate and other risk management policies, procedures or practices; (ii) fail to follow its existing policies or practices with respect to managing its exposure to interest rate and other risk; or (iii) fail to use commercially reasonable means to avoid any material increase in its aggregate exposure to interest rate risk.

  • Hedging Arrangements The Debtor shall (a) at or prior to the time of any Receivables Delivery, provide to the Note Insurer, and the Collateral Agent an Officer’s Certificate stating that the Servicer has Hedging Arrangements in place satisfying the conditions of this Section 5.3 as set forth below, and (b) in connection with any Servicer’s Certificate provided hereunder and to the extent not previously provided, provide an executed copy of all existing Hedging Arrangements, and with respect to which the Debtor shall be the beneficiary, in respect of an aggregate notional amount equal to the Required Notional Amount, and if such Hedging Arrangement is a swap, not greater than the Net Investment related to such swap. On each Delivery Date, the notional balance of the Hedging Arrangement shall be in an amount equal to the Required Notional Amount and, in the case of a swap, not exceeding the Net Receivables Balance (including any Receivables to be added in connection with such Funding). The form, structure and counterparty to each Hedging Arrangement shall be acceptable to the Note Insurer (and which, unless such Hedging Agreement is a cap agreement, shall be submitted to the Note Insurer for its prior review) and must be in full force and effect at all times during which the Net Receivables Balance is greater than zero (however such required amount may be reduced for the period of time between the pricing and the funding of a structured financing utilizing receivables released to the Debtor pursuant to Section 2.16 hereof by the Aggregate Outstanding Balance of such Receivables). Any counterparty to a Hedging Arrangement shall have a long-term unsecured debt rating from Moody’s and S&P of at least “A2” and “A,” respectively. With respect to any Hedging Arrangement, (i) on and after the occurrence of a Termination and Amortization Event or Potential Termination and Amortization Event, the Note Insurer shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to direct the Debtor’s actions with respect thereto and (ii) the related amortization schedule shall be approved by the Note Insurer. Any Hedging Arrangement relating to a Receivables Delivery which is an interest rate cap agreement shall consist of the following requirements (each interest rate cap agreement meeting the following requirements, an “Interest Rate Cap” and collectively, the “Interest Rate Caps”): (i) any such counterparty thereto not rated at least “A” by S&P or “A2” by Moody’s shall be approved in writing by the Note Insurer, Moody’s and S&P; (ii) each Interest Rate Cap shall be documented in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Note Insurer; (iii) the strike rate of any Interest Rate Cap shall be set at a level that will not result in a Net Spread Deficiency; (iv) all amounts payable by the counterparty thereunder shall be required to be paid by such counterparty directly to the Collection Account; (v) the notional amount thereunder shall amortize according to the scheduled amortization of the Receivables funded on the related Delivery Date assuming zero prepayments and zero defaults with respect to such Receivables; (vi) the aggregate notional amount of such Hedging Arrangement together with all other Hedging Arrangements then in effect must equal the Required Notional Amount; (vii) such Hedging Arrangement must be in effect for at least as long as the latest maturing Receivables securing the Net Investment; and (viii) the Effective Date shall be no later than the Delivery Date.

  • Hedging Agreements The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any Hedging Agreement, other than Hedging Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is exposed in the conduct of its business or the management of its liabilities.

  • Banking Services and Swap Agreements Each Lender or Affiliate thereof providing Banking Services for, or having Swap Agreements with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of a Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, promptly after entering into such Banking Services or Swap Agreements, written notice setting forth the aggregate amount of all Banking Services Obligations and Swap Agreement Obligations of such Loan Party or Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof to such Lender or Affiliate (whether matured or unmatured, absolute or contingent). In furtherance of that requirement, each such Lender or Affiliate thereof shall furnish the Administrative Agent, from time to time after a significant change therein or upon a request therefor, a summary of the amounts due or to become due in respect of such Banking Services Obligations and Swap Agreement Obligations. The most recent information provided to the Administrative Agent shall be used in determining which tier of the waterfall, contained in Section 2.18(b), such Banking Services Obligations and/or Swap Agreement Obligations will be placed.

  • Hedging Contracts No Restricted Person will be a party to or in any manner be liable on any Hedging Contract except: (a) Hedging Contracts (excluding Floor Contracts covered by the following subsection (b)) entered into with the purpose and effect of fixing prices on oil, natural gas, or natural gas liquids expected to be produced by Restricted Persons, provided that at all times: (i) no such Hedging Contract fixes a price for a period later than 60 months after such contract is entered into; (ii) the aggregate monthly production covered by all such contracts (determined, in the case of contracts that are not settled on a monthly basis, by a monthly proration acceptable to Administrative Agent) for any single month does not in the aggregate exceed 85% of Restricted Persons’ aggregate Projected Oil and Gas Production (calculated separately for oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids) anticipated (at the time such Hedging Contract is entered into) to be sold in the ordinary course of the Restricted Persons’ businesses for such month, determined separately with respect to oil and gas, (iii) except for the Collateral under the Security Documents with respect to Lender Hedging Obligations, no such contract requires any Restricted Person to put up money, assets, or other security against the event of its nonperformance prior to actual default by such Restricted Person in performing its obligations thereunder, and (iv) each such contract is with an Approved Counterparty; (b) Floor Contracts, provided that (i) no such contract has a term of more than 60 months after such contract is entered into, (ii) the aggregate monthly production covered by all such contracts for any single month does not in the aggregate exceed 100% of Restricted Persons’ aggregate Projected Oil and Gas Production anticipated (at the time such Hedging Contract is entered into) to be sold in the ordinary course of the Restricted Persons’ businesses for such month, and (iii) each such contract is with an Approved Counterparty; and (c) Hedging Contracts entered into by a Restricted Person with the purpose and effect of fixing interest rates on a principal amount of indebtedness of such Restricted Person that is accruing interest at a variable rate, provided that (i) at the time such Hedging Contract is entered into, the aggregate notional amount of such contracts does not exceed 75% of the anticipated outstanding principal balance of the indebtedness to be hedged by such contracts or an average of such principal balances calculated using a generally accepted method of matching interest swap contracts to declining principal balances, (ii) the floating rate index of each such contract generally matches the index used to determine the floating rates of interest on the corresponding indebtedness to be hedged by such contract and (iii) each such contract is with an Approved Counterparty.

  • Hedging Agreement Any termination payment shall be due by the Borrower under any Hedging Agreement and such amount is not paid within ten (10) Business Days of the due date thereof.

  • Hedge Transactions The Loan Parties will not, and will not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, enter into any Hedge Transaction, other than Hedge Transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Loan Parties are exposed in the conduct of their business or the management of their liabilities. Solely for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower acknowledges that a Hedge Transaction entered into for speculative purposes or of a speculative nature (which shall be deemed to include any Hedge Transaction under which any Loan Party is or may become obliged to make any payment (i) in connection with the purchase by any third party of any common stock or any Debt or (ii) as a result of changes in the market value of any common stock or any Debt) is not a Hedge Transaction entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate risks.

  • Hedging Obligations The Company shall not and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into any Hedging Arrangements evidencing Hedging Obligations, other than Hedging Arrangements entered into by the Company or its Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Company or such Subsidiary has hedged its reasonably estimated interest rate, foreign currency or commodity exposure, and which are non-speculative in nature.