Information provision. 7.1 Until the date on which the Shareholder no longer needs such information in order to comply with any applicable laws or regulations or its required reporting to its debt and equity holders, Parent shall, upon the Shareholder’s reasonable request, provide the Shareholder with the following information (in each case consistent with materials otherwise provided to Parent’s Board of Directors and/or such documents in their final form for use by senior management): (a) periodic reports, consisting of unaudited quarterly (as soon as available and in any event within 45 days of the end of each quarter) and audited (by a nationally recognized accounting firm) annual (as soon as available and in any event within 75 days of the end of each year) financial statements prepared in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“U.S. GAAP”), which statements shall include: (i) the consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement of Parent; (ii) a comparison to the corresponding data for the prior period and the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year; and (iii) as appropriate, a reconciliation to International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) via a reporting package provided by the Shareholder identifying all differences between US GAAP and IFRS; (b) other requisite information for the Shareholder to perform its acquisition accounting procedure, which procedure must be completed within 12 months after Closing; (c) such other information not included pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above as the Shareholder may reasonably request as necessary to satisfy its own reporting requirements, provided that Parent shall not be required to incur significant incremental costs to obtain and provide such additional information; and (d) to the extent that Parent is required by law or pursuant to the terms of any outstanding indebtedness of Parent to prepare any annual reports, quarterly reports and other periodic reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, such reports actually prepared by Parent as soon as available, provided, that any such reports shall be deemed to have been provided when such reports are publicly available via the SEC’s XXXXX system or any successor to the XXXXX system. 7.2 The Shareholder and/or its external auditor will be provided reasonable access to Parent’s internal accounting, finance, tax and other personnel and its external auditors for the purposes set out in this Section 7, including in connection with the Shareholder’s completion of its acquisition accounting process. 7.3 For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the Nomination Period and/or the Designee Period has lapsed, the provisions of this Section 7 will continue and survive. 7.4 The Shareholder agrees to keep confidential any non-public information provided by Parent pursuant to this Section 7 and to use such non-public information solely for purposes of monitoring its investment in Parent. 7.5 For so as long as Parent is required by law to file with the SEC periodic reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the requirements to provide quarterly and annual financial statements described in Section 7.1(a) above will be deemed to be satisfied by Parent making such reports publicly available via the SEC’s XXXXX system or any successor to the XXXXX system.
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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement, Shareholder Rights Agreement (Centurylink, Inc), Shareholder Rights Agreement (Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte LTD)
Information provision. 7.1 8.1. Until the date on which the Shareholder Stockholder no longer needs such information in order to comply with any applicable laws or regulations or its required reporting to its debt and equity holders, Parent shall, upon the Shareholder’s reasonable request, shall provide the Shareholder Stockholder with the following information (in each case consistent with materials otherwise provided to Parent’s Board of Directors and/or such documents in their final form for use by senior management):
(a) periodic reports, consisting of unaudited quarterly (as soon as available and in any event within 45 days of the end of each quarter) and audited (by a nationally recognized accounting firm) annual (as soon as available and in any event within 75 days of the end of each year) financial statements prepared in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“U.S. GAAP”), which statements shall include:
(i) the consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement of Parent;
(ii) a comparison to the corresponding data for the prior period and the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year; and
(iii) as appropriate, a reconciliation to International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) via a reporting package provided by the Shareholder Stockholder identifying all differences between US GAAP and IFRS;
(b) other requisite information for the Shareholder Stockholder to perform its acquisition accounting procedure, which procedure must be completed within 12 months after Closing;
(c) such other information not included pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above as the Shareholder Stockholder may reasonably request as necessary to satisfy its own reporting requirements, provided that Parent shall not be required to incur significant incremental costs to obtain and provide such additional information; and
(d) to the extent that Parent is required by law or pursuant to the terms of any outstanding indebtedness of Parent to prepare any annual reports, quarterly reports and other periodic reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, such reports actually prepared by Parent as soon as available, provided, that any such reports shall be deemed to have been provided when such reports are publicly available via the SEC’s XXXXX system or any successor to the XXXXX system.
7.2 The Shareholder and/or its external auditor will be provided reasonable access to Parent’s internal accounting, finance, tax and other personnel and its external auditors for the purposes set out in this Section 7, including in connection with the Shareholder’s completion of its acquisition accounting process.
7.3 For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the Nomination Period and/or the Designee Period has lapsed, the provisions of this Section 7 will continue and survive.
7.4 The Shareholder agrees to keep confidential any non-public information provided by Parent pursuant to this Section 7 and to use such non-public information solely for purposes of monitoring its investment in Parent.
7.5 For so as long as Parent is required by law to file with the SEC periodic reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the requirements to provide quarterly and annual financial statements described in Section 7.1(a) above will be deemed to be satisfied by Parent making such reports publicly available via the SEC’s XXXXX system or any successor to the XXXXX system.
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Samples: Stockholder Rights Agreement (Level 3 Communications Inc), Stockholder Rights Agreement (Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte LTD)