Holdings. Holdings shall not engage in any material operating or business activities; provided that the following and any activities incidental thereto shall be permitted in any event:
(1) its ownership of the Equity Interests of the Borrower and its other Subsidiaries, including receipt and payment of Restricted Payments and other amounts in respect of Equity Interests,
(2) the maintenance of its legal existence (including the ability to incur and pay, as applicable, fees, costs and expenses and Taxes relating to such maintenance) and the payment of any tax distributions pursuant to Section 7.05(2)(n)(ii)),
(3) the performance of its obligations with respect to the Transactions, the Acquisition Agreement, the Loan Documents and any other documents governing Indebtedness permitted hereby,
(4) any public offering of its common equity or any other issuance, registration or sale of its Equity Interests,
(5) financing activities, including the issuance of securities, incurrence of debt, receipt and payment of dividends and distributions, making contributions to the capital of its Subsidiaries and guaranteeing the obligations of the Borrower and its other Subsidiaries,
(6) if applicable, participating in Tax, accounting and other administrative matters on behalf of itself or as a member of any Tax Group and the provision of administrative and advisory services (including treasury and insurance services) to its Subsidiaries of a type customarily provided by a holding company to its Subsidiaries,
(7) holding any cash or property (but not operate any property),
(8) providing indemnification to officers and directors,
(9) merging, amalgamating or consolidating with or into any Person (in compliance with Section 7.03),
(10) repurchases of Indebtedness through open market purchases and Dutch auctions,
(11) activities incidental to Permitted Acquisitions or similar Investments consummated by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, including the formation of acquisition vehicle entities and intercompany loans and/or Investments incidental to such Permitted Acquisitions or similar Investments,
(12) any transaction with the Borrower and/or any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent expressly permitted under this Article VII, and
(13) any activities incidental or reasonably related to the foregoing.
Holdings. The term "Holdings" shall have the meaning set forth in the preface.
Holdings. If a Holdings Election Event shall occur, Holdings shall not (a) other than Indebtedness in respect of loans and advances by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 7.06, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness unless such Indebtedness (“Holdings Permitted Debt”) (i) is not guaranteed by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, (ii) will not mature prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Maturity Date of the Term Loans, (iii) has no scheduled amortization or payments of principal other than mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions customary for holding company debt securities, (iv) does not require any payments in cash of interest or other amounts in respect of the principal thereof prior to the earlier to occur of (A) the date that is four (4) years from the date of the issuance or incurrence thereof and (B) the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Maturity Date of the Term Loans, (v) has covenant, default and remedy provisions customary for holding company debt securities, but in no event more restrictive to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries than those set forth in the Senior Notes Indenture, as of the Closing Date, taken as a whole (determined in the context of, and subject to, then prevailing market conditions), other than provisions customary for senior discount notes of a holding company, (b) create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Liens on the Equity Interests of the Borrower except nonconsensual Liens imposed by operation of law or pursuant to the Loan Documents, and (c) conduct or engage in any operations or business other than through one or more Subsidiaries or those incidental to the performance of its existence and obligations under the Loan Documents or any Holdings Permitted Debt or in connection with a Qualifying IPO or otherwise in a manner consistent with transactions otherwise permitted under Article VII.
Holdings. Substantially concurrently with any Permitted Holdco Transaction, (i) the Borrower shall cause Holdings to enter into a Holdings Guaranty in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall receive the documentation required under Section 4.01(e) and (f) as if Holdings had been a Guarantor on the Effective Date (provided that references therein to the “Effective Date” shall be deemed references to the effective date of such Holdings Guaranty), (iii) the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall receive all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, (iv) the Borrower shall cause Holdings to deliver to the Administrative Agent any certificates representing the Collateral consisting of all Equity Interests owned by Holdings (other than any Excluded Collateral) and such joinder agreements, amendments and supplements to the relevant Security Documents or such other documents as the Administrative Agent shall deem necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a Lien on all Collateral owned by Holdings (other than Excluded Collateral) and take all actions necessary to cause such Lien to be duly perfected to the extent required by the Security Documents in accordance with all applicable laws and (v) the Administrative Agent shall receive an opinion of counsel for the Borrower (or local counsel to the Administrative Agent to the extent customary in an Applicable Foreign Jurisdiction) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in respect of matters reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent relating to any Holdings Guaranty or any such joinder agreements, amendments and supplements to the Security Documents or additional Security Documents delivered pursuant to this Section, dated as of the date of such Holdings Guaranty, joinder agreements, amendments and supplements or additional Security Documents.
Holdings. In the case of Holdings, conduct, transact or otherwise engage in any business or operations other than the following (and activities incidental thereto): (i) its direct ownership of the Equity Interests of the Borrower and its indirect ownership of the Equity Interests of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower, (ii) the maintenance of its legal existence (including the ability to incur fees, costs and expenses relating to such maintenance), (iii) the performance of its obligations with respect to the Loan Documents, the ABL Facilities, any Senior Notes, any Qualified Holding Company Debt, any Permitted Ratio Debt, any Term Loan Refinancing Debt or the Merger Agreement and the other agreements contemplated by the Merger Agreement, (iv) any public offering of its common stock or any other issuance of its Equity Interests or any transaction permitted under Section 7.04, (v) financing activities, including the issuance of securities, incurrence of debt, payment of dividends, making contributions to the capital of its Subsidiaries and guaranteeing the obligations of its Subsidiaries in each case solely to the extent permitted hereunder, (vi) participating in tax, accounting and other administrative matters as a member of the consolidated group of Holdings and the Borrower, (vii) holding any cash or property received in connection with Restricted Payments made by the Borrower in accordance with Section 7.06 pending application thereof by Holdings, (viii) providing indemnification to officers and directors and (ix) activities incidental to the businesses or activities described in clauses (i) to (viii) of this Section 7.13.
Holdings. From time to time after the Closing Date, Holdings may form one or more new Subsidiaries to become direct or indirect parent companies of the Borrower; provided that, prior to a Qualified IPO, contemporaneously with the formation of the new direct parent company of the Borrower (an “Intermediate Holdings”), such person enters into a supplement to the Holdings Guarantee and Pledge Agreement (or, at the option of such person, a new Holdings Guarantee and Pledge Agreement in substantially similar form or such other form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) duly executed and delivered on behalf of such person. Immediately after any Intermediate Holdings complying with the proviso in the foregoing sentence, the Guarantee incurred by the then existing Holdings of the Obligations shall automatically terminate and Holdings shall be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents, shall cease to be a Loan Party and any Liens created by any Loan Documents on any assets or Equity Interests owned by Holdings shall automatically be released (unless, in each case, the Borrower shall elect in its sole discretion that such release of Holdings shall not be effective), and thereafter Intermediate Holdings shall be deemed to be Holdings for all purposes of this Agreement (until any additional Intermediate Holdings shall be formed in accordance with this Section 1.09).
Holdings. Holdings shall not engage in any trade or business other than as a holding company for its Subsidiaries, or own any assets (other than Stock of its Subsidiaries) or incur any Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness (other than the Obligations and the High Yield Notes); provided, that Holdings may guarantee leases and other contractual obligations of its Subsidiaries.
Holdings. The headings in this Warrant are inserted for purposes of convenience only and shall have no substantive effect.
Holdings. Schedule 1 attached hereto reflects the holdings of the Company’s shares by the Investor and its affiliates as of the date hereof, and as of the Closing.
Holdings. (a) Holdings may not consolidate, amalgamate or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not Holdings is the surviving entity), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets, in one or more related transactions, to any Person unless:
(i) Holdings is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation, amalgamation or merger (if other than Holdings) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition will have been made is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of Holdings or under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction (Holdings or such Person, as the case may be, being herein called “Successor Holdings”);
(ii) Successor Holdings, if other than Holdings, expressly assumes all the obligations of Holdings under the Securities and this Indenture pursuant to a supplemental indenture;
(iii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iv) Successor Holdings, if other than Holdings, shall have delivered, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Guarantee to be provided by Successor Holdings has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Successor Holdings and constitutes the legal, valid and enforceable obligation of Successor Holdings; and
(v) Successor Holdings shall have delivered, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or transfer and such supplemental indenture, if any, comply with this Indenture; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing clause (iii), (A) any Subsidiary may consolidate or amalgamate with or merge with or into Holdings; (B) Holdings may consolidate or amalgamate with or merge with or into or wind up into an Affiliate of Holdings solely for the purpose of reincorporating Holdings in a Permitted Jurisdiction; and (C) Holdings may be converted into, or reorganized or reconstituted in a Permitted Jurisdiction.
(b) Successor Holdings (if other than Holdings) will succeed to, and be substituted for, Holdings under this Indenture and Holdings’s Guarantee and in such event Holdings will automatically be released and discharged from its obligation under this Indenture and Holdings’s Guarantee.
