Deadlock Unless otherwise expressly set forth herein, in the event the Members are unable to reach agreement on or make a decision with respect to any matter on which the Members are entitled to vote, the matter shall be subject to the Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure described in Article 13 hereof.
Negotiation Period Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or any alleged breach hereof, will be subject to binding arbitration in accordance with this Section 7.11. If such a dispute, controversy or claim exists, the parties shall attempt for a 30-day period (the "Negotiation Period") from the date any party gives any one or more of the other parties notice (a "Dispute Notice") pursuant to this Section, to negotiate in good faith, a resolution of the dispute. The Dispute Notice shall set forth with specificity the basis of the dispute. During the Negotiation Period, representatives of each party involved in the dispute who have authority to settle the dispute shall meet at mutually convenient times and places and use their best efforts to resolve the dispute.
Mediation If the Requesting Party selects mediation for dispute resolution:
Steering Committee Each Party shall name a mutually agreed upon equal number of representatives for the Steering Committee, which shall meet twice per calendar year, or as otherwise mutually agreed by the Parties. In the event that a Steering Committee dispute cannot be resolved, such dispute shall be escalated to a senior executive of each of Customer and Lonza. The primary function of the Steering Committee is to ensure the ongoing communication between the Parties and discuss and resolve any issues arising under this Agreement. In addition to the primary function described above, the Steering Committee shall also take on the following responsibilities:
Independent Expert Independent Expert means an investment ------------------ banking firm reasonably agreeable to the Company and the holder of this Warrant who does not (and whose affiliates do not) have a financial interest in the Company or any of its affiliates.
Expert Determination 41.5.1 For a Dispute on any decision referred to an expert the Parties hereby agree that such decision shall be conducted expeditiously by an expert selected unanimously by the Parties to the Dispute. The expert is not an arbitrator and shall not be deemed to be acting in an arbitral capacity. The independent expert shall have an established reputation in the international petroleum industry as an expert on the matter in dispute and shall not at the time of the Dispute be engaged by any Party for work other than as the expert. The Party desiring an expert determination shall give the other Party written notice of the request for such determination. If the Parties to the Dispute are unable to agree upon an expert within twenty (20) Days after receipt of the notice of request for an expert determination, then, upon the request of any of the parties to the Dispute, the International Centre for Expertise of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) shall appoint such expert and shall administer such expert determination through the ICC’s Rules for Expertise. The expert, once appointed, shall have no ex parte communications with any of the parties to the Dispute concerning the expert determination or the underlying Dispute. Any hearing with an expert determination shall take place in The Hague, the Netherlands, unless the parties agree otherwise. All Parties agree to cooperate fully in the expeditious conduct of such expert determination and to provide the expert with access to all facilities, books, records, documents, information and personnel necessary to make a fully informed decision in an expeditious manner. Each Party shall prepare and exchange a written position paper setting 106 out its positions with respect to the Dispute. Each Party shall also prepare and exchange a written response to the other Party’s position paper. The position papers and responses may be accompanied by data and information in the submitting Party’s discretion. Before issuing his final decision, the expert shall issue a draft report and allow the Parties to the Dispute ten (10) Days to comment on it. The expert shall endeavor to resolve the Dispute within sixty (60) Days (but no later than ninety (90) Days) after receipt of each Party’s written response to the other Parties’ position paper taking into account the circumstances requiring an expeditious resolution of the matter in dispute. The expert’s decision shall be final and binding on the Parties to the Dispute unless challenged in an arbitration pursuant to Sub-Article 41.2 within sixty (60) Days of the date the expert’s final decision is received by the Parties to the Dispute and until replaced by such subsequent arbitral award. In such arbitration (i) the expert determination on the specific matter shall be entitled to a rebuttable presumption of correctness; and (ii) the expert shall not (without the written consent of the parties to the Dispute) be appointed to act as an arbitrator or as adviser to the Parties to the Dispute. 107
Joint Steering Committee [***] following the Effective Date [***], a joint steering committee (the “JSC”) will be established by the Parties to provide oversight and to facilitate information sharing between the Parties with respect to the activities under this Agreement.
Number of Arbitrators The arbitration shall be conducted by three arbitrators, unless all parties to the Dispute agree to a sole arbitrator within thirty (30) Days after the filing of the arbitration. For greater certainty, for purposes of this Article 18.2(C), the filing of the arbitration means the date on which the claimant's request for arbitration is received by the other parties to the Dispute.
Dispute In the event of any disagreement between the undersigned or the person or persons named in the instructions contained in this Agreement, or any other person, resulting in adverse claims and demands being made in connection with or for any papers, money or property involved herein, or affected hereby, the Escrow Agent shall be entitled to refuse to comply with any demand or claim, as long as such disagreement shall continue, and in so refusing to make any delivery or other disposition of any money, papers or property involved or affected hereby, the Escrow Agent shall not be or become liable to the undersigned or to any person named in such instructions for its refusal to comply with such conflicting or adverse demands, and the Escrow Agent shall be entitled to refuse and refrain to act until: (a) the rights of the adverse claimants shall have been fully and finally adjudicated in a Court assuming and having jurisdiction of the parties and money, papers and property involved herein or affected hereby, or (b) all differences shall have been adjusted by agreement and the Escrow Agent shall have been notified thereof in writing, signed by all the interested parties.
Dispute Notice Each COD Model (and the Initial COD Purchase Price Adjustment reflected therein) will be final, conclusive and binding on the Parties and Seller Parent unless the Seller reasonably determines in good faith that the Buyer failed to calculate the Initial COD Purchase Price Adjustment in accordance with this Agreement and provides a Dispute Notice to the Buyer no later than the twentieth (20th) Business Day after the payment of the applicable Initial COD Purchase Price Adjustment (for clarity, the right to deliver a Dispute Notice shall not arise until the payment of the applicable Initial COD Purchase Price Adjustment has occurred); provided that, during such period, the Buyer will afford the Seller and its Representatives reasonable access to the work papers and other books and records of the applicable Group Companies and any accountants, experts, consultants or financial advisers retained by such Group Companies for purposes of assisting the Seller and its Representatives in its review of the such COD Model, in each case, with such access to be in accordance with applicable confidentiality obligations of Buyer or the Group Companies and effected in a manner designed to not unreasonably interfere with the normal business operations of the Buyer and the Group Companies; provided further that such twenty (20) Business Day period will be automatically extended by the lesser of (x) the number of days between receipt of the request for such reasonably access and the date such access is provided and (y) ten (10) Business Days. Any Dispute Notice must set forth in reasonable detail (A) any item on such COD Model that the Seller reasonably believes in good faith has not been prepared in accordance with this Agreement and its calculation of the correct amount of such item, (B) the Seller’s resulting calculation of the COD Purchase Price Adjustment for such Project, in each case of clauses (A) and (B), together with reasonable supporting information, including the work papers and other books and records of the Seller and its Affiliates and any accountants, experts, consultants or financial advisers retained by the Seller or its Affiliates for purposes preparing such alternative calculations, and (C) the amount by which, based on such calculation and with respect to the Initial COD Purchase Price Adjustment, (1) the Buyer underpaid or (2) the Seller Parties overpaid. Any item or amount to which no dispute is raised in the Dispute Notice will be final, conclusive and binding on the Parties and Seller Parent upon delivery to the Buyer of the Dispute Notice, or such later date as determined in accordance with this Section 2.07(b) if the Buyer does not provide reasonable access as required pursuant to this Section 2.07(b).
