Interim Operations and Post Closing Transition
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Post-Closing Cooperation (a) Purchaser and Seller shall cooperate with each other, and shall cause their officers, employees, agents, auditors, Affiliates and representatives to cooperate with each other, for a period of 180 days after the Closing to ensure the orderly transition of the Businesses from Seller to Purchaser and to minimize any disruption to the Businesses and the other respective businesses of Seller and Purchaser that might result from the transactions contemplated hereby. After the Closing, upon reasonable written notice, Purchaser and Seller shall furnish or cause to be furnished to each other and their employees, counsel, auditors and representatives access, during normal businesses hours, to such information and assistance relating to the Businesses (to the extent within the control of such party) as is reasonably requested for financial reporting and accounting matters. (b) After the Closing, upon reasonable written notice, Purchaser and Seller shall furnish or cause to be furnished to each other, as promptly as practicable, such information and assistance (to the extent within the control of such party) relating to the Acquired Assets (including access to books and records) as is reasonably requested for the filing of all Tax returns, and making of any election related to Taxes, the preparation for any audit by any Taxing authority, and the prosecution or defense of any claim, suit or proceeding related to any Tax return. Seller and Purchaser shall cooperate with each other in the conduct of any audit or other proceeding relating to Taxes involving the Businesses. Purchaser shall retain the books and records of Seller and its Affiliates included in the Acquired Assets for a period of seven years after the Closing. After the end of such seven-year period, before disposing of such books or records, Purchaser shall give notice to such effect to Seller and shall give Seller, at Seller's cost and expense, an opportunity to remove and retain all or any part of such books or records as Seller may select. (c) Each party shall reimburse the other for reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in assisting the other pursuant to this Section 4.17. Neither party shall be required by this Section 4.17 to take any action that would unreasonably interfere with the conduct of its business or unreasonably disrupt its normal operations (or, in the case of Purchaser, the Businesses).
Post-Closing Requirements Borrowers shall complete each of the post-closing obligations and/or provide to Agent each of the documents, instruments, agreements and information listed on Schedule 7.4 attached hereto on or before the date set forth for each such item thereon, each of which shall be completed or provided in form and substance satisfactory to Agent.
Operations Prior to the Closing Date (a) From the ------------------------------------ date hereof through the Closing Date, Parent shall cause the Companies to operate and carry on the Business in the ordinary course in accordance with past practice and in compliance with all applicable Requirements of Law, including Environmental Laws. Consistent with the foregoing, Parent shall cause each of the Companies to use its reasonable efforts consistent with good business practice to (i) maintain the business organization of the Companies intact, (ii) keep available the services of any key employees of the Companies and (iii) preserve the goodwill and beneficial relationships of the suppliers, contractors, licensors, employees, customers, distributors and others having business relations with the Companies. (b) Notwithstanding Section 7.4(a), except as set forth in Schedule -------------- -------- 7.4, except as contemplated by this Agreement or except with the express written --- approval of Buyer (which, in the case of clauses (ii), (iii), (vi), (ix), (x) and (xviii), Buyer agrees shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), Parent shall cause each of the Companies not to: (i) make any material change in the Business or its operations, except such changes as may be required to comply with any applicable Requirements of Law; (ii) make any capital expenditure or enter into any contract or commitment therefor, other than in the ordinary course of the Business, which is in excess of $50,000; (iii) other than in the ordinary course of the Business, enter into any contract, agreement, undertaking or commitment which would have been required to be set forth in Schedule 5.14(a) or 5.14(b) if in effect on the ---------------- ------- date hereof or amend any Business Agreement in any material respect; (iv) enter into any contract that contains a "change of control" provision that would give the other party a right to terminate such contract upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or under which the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby would constitute a default; (v) enter into any contract for the purchase of real property or exercise any option to extend a lease listed in Schedule 5.9; ------------ (vi) sell, lease (as lessor), transfer or otherwise dispose of (including any transfers to any of its Affiliates), or mortgage or pledge, or impose or suffer to be imposed any Encumbrance on, any of its properties, rights or assets, other than inventory and minor amounts of personal property sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice and other than Permitted Encumbrances; (vii) cancel any debts owed to or claims held by it or pay, settle or discharge any claims/litigation, proceedings, actions or liabilities, other than in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice; (viii) create, incur or assume, or agree to create, incur or assume, any Indebtedness for Borrowed Money (other than money borrowed or advances from any of its Affiliates in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice) or enter into, as lessee, any capitalized lease obligations (as defined in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 13); (ix) accelerate or delay collection of any notes or accounts receivable in advance of or beyond their regular due dates or the dates when the same would have been collected in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice; (x) delay or accelerate payment of any account payable or other liability beyond or in advance of its due date or the date when such liability would have been paid in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice; (xi) make, or agree to make, any distribution of assets (other than cash) to Parent or any of its Affiliates; (xii) institute any increase in any benefit provided, or loan or advance any money or property, to any present or former director, officer, consultant or employee of any of the Companies, other than in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice or as required by any Company Plan, Parent Plan or Requirements of Law; (xiii) make any material change in the compensation of its employees, other than changes made in accordance with normal compensation practices of the Companies or pursuant to existing contractual commitments and consistent with past compensation practices, or grant any severance or termination pay to any of its employees or amend the form of retention and severance agreement contained in Schedule 7.4; ------------ (xiv) establish, adopt, enter into, amend or terminate any Company Plan, or any plan, agreement, program, policy, trust, fund or other arrangement that would be a Company Plan if it were in existence on the date hereof, other than in the ordinary course of the Business consistent with past practice or as required by any Company Plan, Parent Plan or Requirement of Law; (xv) make any material change in the accounting policies applied in the preparation of the Interim Financial Statements, unless such change is required by GAAP; (xvi) make any change in its charter, by-laws or other organizational document or issue any capital stock (or securities exchangeable, convertible or exercisable for capital stock); (xvii) split, combine or reclassify any shares of its capital stock or partnership or membership interests or declare, set aside or pay any dividends or make any other distributions (whether in cash, stock or other property) in respect of such shares or interests, except for cash dividends and distributions payable by a Conveyed Companies Subsidiary to any of the Companies, Parent or Affiliates of Parent; (xviii) except as required by law, and except in cases where doing so would not have a material adverse consequence to Buyer Group Members with respect to taxable years or periods beginning after the Closing Date or, with respect to any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period beginning after the Closing Date, file any Tax Return in a manner inconsistent with past practice or take any position, make any election, or adopt any method that is inconsistent with positions taken, elections made or methods used in prior periods in filing Tax Returns (including any such position, election or method which would have the effect of deferring income to periods for which Buyer is liable or accelerating deductions to periods for which Parent is liable); (xix) amend any Tax Returns or settle or compromise any proceeding relating to Tax liabilities of any Company, in either case if doing so would, or would reasonably be expected to, materially adversely affect any Buyer Group Member with respect to taxable years or periods beginning after the Closing Date or, with respect to any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period beginning after the Closing Date; (xx) enter into or amend any aviation, manufacturing or transportation customer contract, other than new contracts with existing customers and amendments to existing contracts, in each case, where the terms of such new contract or amendment are not materially less favorable to the Companies than existing contracts with such customers; (xxi) enter into any joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement or acquire or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing a substantial portion of the assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture association or other business organization or division thereof; (xxii) merge or consolidate with or into any other Person or dissolve or liquidate; or (xxiii) authorize, commit or agree, whether in writing or otherwise, to do any of the foregoing.
Post-Closing Covenants The Parties agree as follows with respect to the period following the Closing.
Closing Transactions On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, the following transactions shall occur in the order set forth in this Section 2.1:
Pre-Closing Transactions Prior to the purchase of the Initial Securities on the Closing Date, the Pre-Closing Transactions shall have been duly consummated at the respective times and on the terms contemplated by this Agreement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and the Representatives shall have received such evidence that the Pre-Closing Transactions have been consummated as the Representatives may reasonably request.
Post-Closing Matters Execute and deliver the documents and complete the tasks set forth on Schedule 6.14, in each case within the time limits specified on such schedule, as such time limits may be extended from time to time by Agent in its reasonable discretion.
Post-Closing Covenant The Borrower shall (1) deliver each of the documents and other items, and perform each of the actions, listed on Schedule 4.03 hereto, in each case no later than the corresponding latest date specified thereon for each such delivery or other action (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall determine in its sole discretion, without any requirement for Lender consent), and (2) no later than 90 days following the Closing Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall determine in its sole discretion, without any requirement for Lender consent), furnish to the Administrative Agent: (a) evidence that mortgage amendments, supplements and restatements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (the “Mortgage Amendments”) with respect to each of the existing Mortgages have been duly executed, acknowledged and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the applicable Loan Party thereto on or before such date and are in form suitable for filing and recording in all filing or recording offices that the Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable; provided, however, Collateral Agent shall not require any opinions of local counsel that the Mortgage Amendments meet the conditions of this provision; (b) (i) date-down and modification endorsements to the title insurance policy issued in connection with each Mortgage or, where such date-down or modification endorsements are not available with respect to any Mortgage Amendment, a new title insurance policy with respect to the applicable Mortgage, as previously amended and as amended by such Mortgage Amendment, (or, in each case, a commitment to issue such endorsements or new policy having the effect of such policy so endorsed or such a new policy, as the case may be), each issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent which insure that such Mortgage, as previously amended and as amended by the applicable Mortgage Amendment, continues to create a valid first Lien on the applicable Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any other Liens except Permitted Liens, and (ii) evidence satisfactory to the Collateral Agent that all certificates and affidavits reasonably required by the Collateral Agent and/or the title company issuing the endorsements and/or title policies referenced above and relating to the Borrower, the Mortgages, the Mortgage Amendments and/or title endorsements (or if applicable, to such new title policies) have been delivered; and (c) evidence that all fees, costs and expenses have been paid in connection with the preparation, execution, filing and recordation of the Mortgage Amendments, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, filing and recording fees, title insurance company coordination fees, title insurance premiums, documentary stamp, mortgage and intangible taxes and title search charges and other charges incurred in connection with the recordation of the 113 QDI – A&R Credit Agreement (2014) Mortgage Amendments (it being agreed that the Administrative Agent shall cooperate as reasonably requested by the Borrower to minimize such amounts payable by the Borrower, so long as such cooperation is not inconsistent with the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (c)).
ADDITIONAL SPECIAL CONTRACT CONDITIONS Special Contract Conditions revisions: the corresponding subsections of the Special Contract Conditions referenced below are replaced in their entirety with the following:
Modifications and Updates to the Wire Center List and Subsequent Transition Periods 5.4.6.1 In the event AT&T identifies additional wire centers that meet the criteria set forth in Sections 5.4.2.1 or 5.4.2.2 above, but that were not included in the Master List of Unimpaired Wire Centers or AT&T’s List of Unimpaired Wire Centers, AT&T shall include such additional wire centers in a CNL. Each such list of additional wire centers shall be considered a Subsequent Wire Center List. AT&T will follow any limitations on the frequency with which it may issue such lists and notification procedures set forth in applicable Commission orders. 5.4.6.2 TWTC shall have thirty (30) business days to dispute the additional wire centers listed on AT&T’s CNL. Absent such dispute, effective thirty (30) business days after the date of a AT&T CNL providing a Subsequent Wire Center List, AT&T shall not be required to provide DS1 and DS3 Dedicated Transport, as applicable, in such additional wire center(s), except pursuant to the self-certification process as set forth in Section 1.9.1 of this Attachment. 5.4.6.3 For purposes of Section 5.4.6.1 above, AT&T shall make available DS1 and DS3 Dedicated Transport that were in service for TWTC in a wire center on the Subsequent Wire Center List as of the thirtieth (30th) business day after the date of AT&T’s CNL identifying the Subsequent Wire Center List (Subsequent Embedded Base) until one hundred eighty (180) days after the thirtieth (30th) business day Version: 4Q06 Standard ICA 11/30/06 from the date of AT&T’s CNL identifying the Subsequent Wire Center List (Subsequent Transition Period). 5.4.6.4 The rates set forth in Exhibit B shall apply to the Subsequent Embedded Base during the Subsequent Transition Period. 5.4.6.5 No later than one hundred eighty (180) days from AT&T’s CNL identifying the Subsequent Wire Center List, TWTC shall submit an LSR(s) or spreadsheet(s) as applicable, identifying the Subsequent Embedded Base of circuits to be disconnected or converted to other AT&T services. 5.4.6.5.1 In the case of disconnection, the applicable disconnect charges set forth in this Agreement shall apply. 5.4.6.5.2 If TWTC chooses to convert DS1 and/or DS3 Dedicated Transport to special access circuits in existence as of the Effective Date of this Agreement, AT&T will include such DS1 and/or DS3 Dedicated Transport within TWTC’s total special access circuits, and apply any discounts to which TWTC is entitled from the transition period of 3/11/2006 to the conversion date. Conversions will be subject to the switch-as-is charge set forth in Exhibit A to this Attachment 2. 5.4.6.5.3 AT&T shall not impose disconnect or nonrecurring installation charges when transitioning the Subsequent Embedded Base of DS1 and DS3 Dedicated Transport in existence as of the Effective Date of this Agreement. 5.4.6.6 If TWTC fails to submit the LSR(s) or spreadsheet(s) for all of its Subsequent Embedded Base by one hundred eighty (180) days after the date of AT&T’s CNL identifying the Subsequent Wire Center List, AT&T will identify TWTC’s remaining Subsequent Embedded Base, if any, and will transition such circuits to the equivalent tariffed AT&T service(s), or in the case of Georgia, to the equivalent 271 service(s) set forth in Exhibit 1. In the states of Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Carolina, those circuits identified and transitioned by AT&T shall be subject to the applicable disconnect charges as set forth in this Agreement and the full nonrecurring charges for installation of the equivalent tariffed AT&T service as set forth in AT&T’s tariffs. In the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, those circuits identified and transitioned by AT&T shall be subject to the applicable switch-as-is rates set forth in Exhibit A of Attachment
