Common use of Investments, Loans, Advances and Acquisitions Clause in Contracts

Investments, Loans, Advances and Acquisitions. Purchase, hold or acquire any Capital Stock, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing), make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, be liable in respect of any obligation under any Interest/Exchange Rate Protection Agreement or Commodity Rate Protection Agreement entered into to limit risks or to control costs or expenses arising in the business of another person or to convert fixed rate obligations of another person to floating rate obligations, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other person (including by means of a disposition of part but not all the Capital Stock of any Subsidiary under Section 6.05(i)), or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other person constituting a business unit (each of the foregoing transactions, an “Investment”), except:

Investments, Loans, Advances and Acquisitions. Purchase, hold or acquire any Capital Stock, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing), make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, be liable in respect of any obligation under any Interest/Exchange Rate Protection Agreement or Commodity Rate Protection Agreement entered into to limit risks or to control costs or expenses arising in the business of another person or to convert fixed rate obligations of another person to floating rate obligations, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other person (including by means of a disposition of part but not all the Capital Stock of any Subsidiary under Section 6.05(i7.05(i)), or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other person constituting a business unit (each of the foregoing transactions, an “Investment”), except: