Settlement of Dispute Any disputes under the Agreement shall be settled at first through friendly consultation between the parties hereto. In case no settlement can be reached through consultation, each party shall have the right to submit such disputes to China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing. The Place of arbitration is Beijing. The arbitration award shall be final and binding on both parties.
Settlement of Disputes All claims by the Executive for benefits under this Agreement shall be directed to and determined by the Board and shall be in writing. Any denial by the Board of a claim for benefits under this Agreement shall be delivered to the Executive in writing and shall set forth the specific reasons for the denial and the specific provisions of this Agreement relied upon. The Board shall afford a reasonable opportunity to the Executive for a review of the decision denying a claim and shall further allow the Executive to appeal to the Board a decision of the Board within sixty (60) days after notification by the Board that the Executive’s claim has been denied.
Payments of Post-Closing Adjustment Except as otherwise provided herein, any payment of the Post-Closing Adjustment, together with interest calculated as set forth below, shall (A) be due (x) within five (5) Business Days of acceptance of the applicable Closing Working Capital Statement or (y) if there are Disputed Amounts, then within five (5) Business Days of the resolution described in clause (v) above; and (B) be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such account(s) as is directed by Buyer or Sellers, as the case may be.
Reconciliation and Final Payment Seller and Buyer shall reasonably cooperate after Closing to make a final determination of the allocations and prorations required under this Contract within one hundred eighty (180) days after the Closing Date. Upon the final reconciliation of the allocations and prorations under this Section, the party which owes the other party any sums hereunder shall pay such party such sums within ten (10) days after the reconciliation of such sums. The obligations to calculate such prorations, make such reconciliations and pay any such sums shall survive the Closing.
Disputed Payments Within fifteen (15) calendar days after receipt of any invoice under this Contract, the Party receiving such invoice may, by notice to the Party rendering the invoice, dispute, in good faith, any amount set forth in such invoice; provided, however, that the disputing Party shall pay to the other Party the undisputed portion of the invoiced amount when due. Any dispute relating to any amount of an invoice that is not resolved by the Parties within fifteen (15) days after the receipt of the notice of such dispute shall be resolved as provided in Article 32. If the dispute (or any portion thereof) is resolved in favor of the disputing Party, the other Party shall, within five (5) Business Days after the date of such resolution, pay to the disputing Party amounts corresponding to such portion of the dispute that has been resolved in favor of the disputing Party plus interest at the Default Rate on such amounts from the date payable under the invoice to the date paid.
Post-Closing Reconciliation (i) As promptly as practicable, but no later than ninety (90) days following the Closing Date, Parent will prepare and deliver to the Stockholder Representative a statement (the “Closing Statement”) setting forth Parent’s good faith calculation of: (i) the Selling Expenses; (ii) the Closing Indebtedness; (iii) the Closing Cash; (iv) the Net Working Capital (as of the Measurement Time); (v) the Net Working Capital Adjustment Amount (as of the Measurement Time, in a manner consistent with and using only those specific line items set forth in the Preparation Methodology); (vi) the M&A Costs and the M&A Adjustment; (vii) the Final Provider Relief Adjustment and (viii) the Excess Capital Equipment Adjustment determined pursuant Section 2.8(a), and based thereon a calculation of the Aggregate Merger Consideration. The Closing Statement and the components thereof (and all calculations of Net Working Capital, the Net Working Capital Adjustment Amount, Closing Cash, Closing Indebtedness, Selling Expenses, M&A Costs, the M&A Adjustment, Final Provider Relief Adjustment and Aggregate Merger Consideration) shall be prepared and calculated in accordance with GAAP, the Preparation Methodology, and the definitions herein, except that the Closing Statement and the components thereof (and all calculations of Net Working Capital, the Net Working Capital Adjustment Amount, Closing Cash, Closing Indebtedness, Selling Expenses, M&A Costs, the M&A Adjustment, Final Provider Relief Adjustment and Aggregate Merger Consideration) shall: (A) not include any purchase accounting or other adjustment arising out of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; be based on facts and circumstances as they exist immediately prior to the Closing and shall exclude the effect of any act, decision or event occurring on or after the Closing except to the extent such act, decision or event provides information about circumstances that existed immediately prior to Closing; and (B) not reflect, directly or indirectly, any additional reserve or accrual that is not reflected on the Latest Balance Sheet, except those that (1) result from material developments occurring after the date of the Latest Balance Sheet but prior to the Closing or (2) would be required to be reflected on the face of a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, the Preparation Methodology, and the definitions herein. The Parties agree that the purpose of preparing the Closing Statement and components thereof (and all calculations of Net Working Capital, the Net Working Capital Adjustment Amount, Closing Cash, Closing Indebtedness, Selling Expenses, M&A Costs, the M&A Adjustment, Final Provider Relief Adjustment and Aggregate Merger Consideration) is solely to assess the accuracy of the amounts depicted in the Closing Statement and the calculation of the Aggregate Merger Consideration derived therefrom, and such processes are not intended to permit the introduction of different accounting methods, policies, practices, procedures, conventions, categorizations, definitions, principles, judgments, assumptions, techniques or estimation methods with respect to financial statements, their classification or presentation or otherwise (including with respect to the nature of accounts, level of reserves or level of accruals) from those used to calculate the amounts set forth in the Preparation Methodology.
Post-Closing Adjustments As soon as practicable after the Closing, but in no event later than one hundred eighty (180) days thereafter, Seller shall prepare and deliver to Purchaser a final settlement statement (the “Final Settlement Statement”) setting forth each adjustment or payment that was not finally determined as of the Closing and showing the calculation of such adjustments and the resulting Final Purchase Price. Seller shall make its workpapers and other information available to Purchaser to review in order to confirm the adjustments shown on Seller’s draft. As soon as practicable after receipt of the Final Settlement Statement, but in no event later than sixty (60) days thereafter, Purchaser shall deliver to Seller a written report containing any changes that Purchaser proposes to make to the Final Settlement Statement. Any failure by Purchaser to deliver to Seller the written report detailing Purchaser’s proposed changes to the Final Settlement Statement within sixty (60) days following Purchaser’s receipt of the Final Settlement Statement shall be deemed an acceptance by Purchaser of the Final Settlement Statement as submitted by Seller. The parties shall agree with respect to the changes proposed by Purchaser, if any, no later than sixty (60) days after Seller receives from Purchaser the written report described above containing Purchaser’s proposed changes. If the Purchaser and the Seller cannot then agree upon the Final Settlement Statement, the determination of the amount of the Final Settlement Statement shall be submitted to a mutually agreed firm of independent public accountants (the “Accounting Firm”). The determination by the Accounting Firm shall be conclusive and binding on the parties hereto and shall be enforceable against any party hereto in any court of competent jurisdiction. Any costs and expenses incurred by the Accounting Firm pursuant to this Section 12.1 shall be borne by the Seller and the Purchaser equally. The date upon which such agreement is reached or upon which the Final Purchase Price is established, shall be herein called the “Final Settlement Date.” In the event
Post-Closing Adjustment (i) Within sixty (60) days following the Closing Date, Seller shall prepare and deliver to Buyer a statement (the “Closing Statement”) that shall set forth in reasonable detail Seller’s calculation of the net amount of all adjustments to the Base Purchase Price required by Section 2.6(a) taking into account actual data (the “Purchase Price Adjustment”), together with reasonable supporting material regarding the computation thereof. Buyer shall have thirty (30) days to review the Closing Statement following receipt thereof. On or before the end of such 30-day review period, Buyer may object to the Closing Statement by written notice to Seller (the “Objection Notice”), setting forth Buyer’s specific objections to the calculation of the Purchase Price Adjustment. Such Objection Notice shall specify those items or amounts with which Buyer disagrees, together with a detailed written explanation of the reasons for disagreement with each such item or amount (and reasonable supporting material therefor), and shall set forth Buyer’s calculation of the Purchase Price Adjustment based on such objections. To the extent not set forth in a timely-delivered Objection Notice, Buyer shall be deemed to have agreed with Seller’s calculation of all other items and amounts contained in the Closing Statement and neither party may thereafter dispute any item or amount not set forth in such Objection Notice. If Buyer does not timely deliver any Objection Notice, Buyer shall be deemed to have agreed with and accepted Seller’s calculation of the Purchase Price Adjustment, and the Closing Statement shall be final and binding on the Parties as of the end of Buyer’s 30-day review period.
Final Settlement Statement On or before 120 days after Closing (the “Final Settlement Date”), a final settlement statement (the “Final Settlement Statement”) will be prepared by Buyer, based on actual income and expenses and which takes into account all final adjustments made to the Purchase Price, excluding all Title Defect and related title issues subject to pending dispute under Section 10.2, and shows the resulting final Purchase Price (the “Final Price”). The Final Settlement Statement shall set forth the actual proration of the amounts required by this Agreement. As soon as practicable, and in any event within thirty (30) days, after receipt of the Final Settlement Statement, Whitehorse, on behalf of the Whitehorse Sellers, and Siltstone II, on behalf of the Siltstone Sellers, shall return to Buyer a joint written report containing any proposed changes to the Final Settlement Statement and an explanation of any such changes and the reasons therefor (the “Dispute Notice”). Any changes not so specified in the Dispute Notice shall be deemed waived and Buyer’s determinations with respect to all such elements of the Final Settlement Statement that are not addressed specifically in the Dispute Notice shall prevail. If Whitehorse and Siltstone II fail to timely deliver a Dispute Notice to Buyer containing changes Sellers propose to be made to the Final Settlement Statement, the Final Settlement Statement as delivered by Buyer will be deemed to be correct and will be final and binding on all Parties and not subject to further audit or arbitration. If the Final Price set forth in the Final Settlement Statement is mutually agreed upon by Sellers and Buyer, the Final Settlement Statement and the Final Price shall be final and binding on the Parties (other than with respect to amounts not accounted for therein or settled thereby). Within ten (10) days after the earlier of (a) the expiration of Sellers’ thirty (30)-day review period without delivery of any written report or (b) the date on which the Parties finally determine the Final Price or the Accounting Arbitrator finally determines the disputed matters, as applicable, (i) Buyer shall pay to Sellers the amount by which the Final Price exceeds the Closing Cash Payment, or (ii) Sellers shall pay to Buyer the amount by which the Closing Cash Payment exceeds the Final Price; provided that, if applicable, any amount payable by one Party to the other under this Section 3.5 shall first be satisfied out of the portion of the Defect Escrow Amount the owning Party is entitled to at such time, and then, if applicable, the owning Party shall pay to the owed Party any outstanding amounts. All amounts paid pursuant to this Agreement shall be delivered in United States currency by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified in writing by the relevant Party.
Disputed Breach If the alleged breaching Party disputes in good faith the existence or materiality of a breach specified in a notice provided by the other Party in accordance with Section 15.3.1 and such alleged breaching Party provides the other Party notice of such dispute within such [***] or [***] period, as applicable, then the non-breaching Party will not have the right to terminate this Agreement under Section 15.3.1 unless and until the dispute resolution process set forth in Section 16.3 has be completed (including the tolling and cure periods set forth therein).
