Limitation on Purchases of Equity Securities Sample Clauses

Limitation on Purchases of Equity Securities. (a) Except as permitted by a majority of the Non-Purchaser Directors, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the earlier of (x) the fifth anniversary of the Initial Closing and (y) the occurrence of a Director Termination Date, the Purchasers and their Affiliates shall not, directly or indirectly: (i) acquire, or offer or agree to acquire, beneficial ownership (as defined in Rule 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) of any Voting Securities; (ii) contrary to the recommendation of the Board, participate in any "solicitation" of "proxies" (as such terms are used in the proxy rules of the SEC), vote any shares of capital stock of the Company, initiate, propose or otherwise solicit stockholders of the Company for the approval of one or more stockholder proposals or induce or attempt to induce any other individual, firm, corporation, partnership or other entity to initiate any stockholder proposal; (iii) join in or in any way participate in a pooling agreement, syndicate, voting trust or other arrangement with respect to the Company's Voting Securities, or otherwise act in concert with, any other Person (other than Affiliates of the Purchasers, or Rajexxxx Xxxxxxxxx xx Affiliates of Mr. Xxxxxxxxx), xor the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of the Company's securities; (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, however, nothing contained in this Section 5.3 shall be deemed to (i) restrict the manner in which the Purchaser Directors or the Purchaser Observer participate in deliberations or discussion of the Board in compliance with their fiduciary duties, (ii) prevent the Purchasers from acquiring any of the Preferred Shares, the Conversion Shares or the Warrant Shares pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Certificate of Designation and the Warrants (and the Purchasers shall not be deemed to have breached any covenant in this Agreement solely as a result of such acquisition) or (iii) restrict the Purchasers from acquiring beneficial ownership over Voting Securities, whether by purchase of such Voting Securities, by proxy or otherwise, up to an aggregate amount of 49.9% of the Voting Securities from time to time outstanding. Nothing herein shall be construed as permitting the Purchasers and their Affiliates from acquiring beneficial ownership of Voting Securities in excess of 49.9% of the Voting Securities from time to time outstanding during the time period contemplated in Section 5.3(a) unles...
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Limitation on Purchases of Equity Securities. (a) Standstill Equity Limit. During the period commencing on the date hereof, the Purchaser and its Affiliates shall not, directly or indirectly acquire, or offer or agree to acquire, Beneficial Ownership of Voting Securities in excess of 40% of the outstanding Voting Securities (the "Standstill Equity Limit").
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  • Limitation on Issuance of Equity Interests Except for the issuance or sale of Qualified Equity Interests by Parent, each Loan Party will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, issue or sell any of its Equity Interests.

  • Restriction on Issuance of the Capital Stock So long as any Convertible Debentures are outstanding, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Buyer(s), issue or sell shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock (i) without consideration or for a consideration per share less than the Bid Price of the Common Stock determined immediately prior to its issuance, (ii) any warrant, option, right, contract, call, or other security instrument granting the holder thereof, the right to acquire Common Stock without consideration or for a consideration less than such Common Stock's Bid Price value determined immediately prior to it's issuance, (iii) enter into any security instrument granting the holder a security interest in any and all assets of the Company, or (iv) file any registration statement on Form S-8.

  • Certain Repurchases of Common Stock In case the Company effects a Pro Rata Repurchase of Common Stock, then the Exercise Price shall be reduced to the price determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date of such Pro Rata Repurchase by a fraction of which the numerator shall be (i) the product of (x) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately before such Pro Rata Repurchase and (y) the Market Price of a share of Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding the first public announcement by the Company or any of its Affiliates of the intent to effect such Pro Rata Repurchase, minus (ii) the aggregate purchase price of the Pro Rata Repurchase, and of which the denominator shall be the product of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such Pro Rata Repurchase minus the number of shares of Common Stock so repurchased and (ii) the Market Price per share of Common Stock on the trading day immediately preceding the first public announcement by the Company or any of its Affiliates of the intent to effect such Pro Rata Repurchase. In such event, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant shall be increased to the number obtained by dividing (x) the product of (1) the number of Shares issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant before such adjustment, and (2) the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the Pro Rata Repurchase giving rise to this adjustment by (y) the new Exercise Price determined in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence. For the avoidance of doubt, no increase to the Exercise Price or decrease in the number of Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be made pursuant to this Section 13(D).

  • Limitation on Status as Investment Company Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall become an "investment company" (as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended), or otherwise become subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act.

  • Issuance of Equity Securities No later than three Business Days following the date of receipt by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any Cash proceeds from a capital contribution to, or the issuance of any Equity Interests of, Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than (i) pursuant to any employee stock or stock option compensation plan or any employment agreement, (ii) the receipt of a capital contribution from, or the issuance of Equity Interests to, Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) the issuance of directors’ qualifying shares or of other nominal amounts of other Equity Interests that are required to be held by specified Persons under Applicable Law and (iv) in connection with a Permitted Majority Investment), Borrower shall prepay the Loans as set forth in Section 2.15(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 50% of such proceeds, in each case, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs and expenses associated therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses; provided that if, as of the end of the most recent four consecutive Fiscal Quarter period (determined for any such period by reference to the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c) calculating the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such four consecutive Fiscal Quarter period), the Leverage Ratio determined on a Pro Forma Basis shall be 3.25:1.00 or less, Borrower shall only be required to make prepayments otherwise required hereby in an amount equal to 25% of such proceeds.

  • Limitation on Sale of Assets The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to, (i) convey, sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its property, business or assets (including receivables, Stock and Stock Equivalents of any other Person) and leasehold interests), whether now owned or hereafter acquired or (ii) sell to any Person (other than the Borrower or a Guarantor) any shares owned by it of any Restricted Subsidiary’s Stock and Stock Equivalents, except that: (a) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of (i) inventory, used or surplus equipment, vehicles and other assets (including Merchant Agreements and Settlement Assets) in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) Permitted Investments; (b) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of assets (each of the foregoing, a “Disposition”), excluding any Disposition of accounts receivable except in connection with the Disposition of any business to which such accounts receivable relate, for fair value, provided that (i) to the extent required, the Net Cash Proceeds thereof to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries are promptly applied to the prepayment of Term Loans as provided for in Section 5.2, (ii) at the time the definitive agreement for such Disposition is entered into, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (iii) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (b) for a purchase price in excess of $10,000,000, the Person making such Disposition shall receive not less than 75% of such consideration in the form of cash or Permitted Investments; provided that for the purposes of this subclause (iii) the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, other than liabilities that are by their terms (1) subordinated to the payment in cash of the Obligations or (2) not secured by the assets that are the subject of such Disposition, that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the applicable Disposition and for which the Borrower and all of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing, (B) any securities received by the Person making such Disposition from the purchaser that are converted by such Person into cash (to the extent of the cash received) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable Disposition, (C) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Person making such Disposition having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this Section 10.4(b) that is at that time outstanding, not in excess of $100,000,000 with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value and (iv) any non-cash proceeds received are pledged to the Collateral Agent to the extent required under Section 9.12; (i) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions to the Borrower or any other Credit Party and (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party may make Dispositions to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that with respect to any such Dispositions, such sale, transfer or disposition shall be for fair value; (d) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may effect any transaction permitted by Section 10.3, 10.5 or 10.6; (e) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may lease, sublease, license or sublicense real, personal or intellectual property in the ordinary course of business; (f) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions of property (including like-kind exchanges) to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are applied to the purchase price of such replacement property, in each case under Section 1031 of the Code or otherwise; (g) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions of property pursuant to Permitted Sale Leaseback transactions; (h) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions of Investments in joint ventures and Merchant Acquisition and Processing Alliances (regardless of the form of legal entity) to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements; (i) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions of Investments in Merchant Acquisition and Processing Alliances (regardless of the form of legal entity) relating to any equity reallocation in connection with an asset or equity contribution; (j) customary Dispositions in connection with any Permitted Receivables Financing; (k) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions listed on Schedule 10.4 to the Original Credit Agreement (“Scheduled Dispositions”); (l) transfers of property subject to a Casualty Event upon receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Casualty Event; (m) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions of accounts receivable or other obligations owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the collection, compromise or realization thereof; (n) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may effect the unwinding of any Hedge Agreement; (o) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions (excluding any Disposition of accounts receivable except in connection with the Disposition of any business to which such accounts receivable relate), for fair value to the extent that (i) the aggregate consideration for all Dispositions made pursuant to this clause (o) shall not exceed 15% of Consolidated Total Assets since the Original Closing Date and (ii) the Net Cash Proceeds of all Dispositions made pursuant to this clause (o) are promptly applied to the prepayment of Term Loans as provided in Section 5.2 without giving effect to any reinvestment rights under clause (iv) of the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds”; (p) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Foreign Subsidiary to any other Foreign Subsidiary; and (q) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Dispositions of any assets between or among the Borrower and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries as a substantially concurrent interim Disposition in connection with a Disposition otherwise permitted pursuant to clauses (a) through (p) above.

  • Limitation on Investments The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to make any Investment except: (a) extensions of trade credit and asset purchases in the ordinary course of business; (b) Investments that were Permitted Investments when such Investments were made; (c) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any of its Subsidiaries (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes (including employee payroll advances), (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof); provided that, to the extent such loans and advances are made in cash, the amount of such loans and advances used to acquire such Stock or Stock Equivalents shall be contributed to the Borrower in cash and (iii) for purposes not described in the foregoing subclauses (i) and (ii); provided that the aggregate principal amount outstanding pursuant to this subclause (iii) shall not exceed $10,000,000; (d) Investments existing on, or made pursuant to legally binding written commitments in existence on, the 2014 July Repricing Effective Date and any extensions, renewals or reinvestments thereof, so long as the amount of any Investment made pursuant to this clause (d) is not increased at any time above the amount of such Investment existing on, or made pursuant to legally binding written commitments in existence on, the 2014 July Repricing Effective Date; (e) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers or customers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers arising in the ordinary course of business or upon foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment; (f) Investments to the extent that payment for such Investments is made with Stock or Stock Equivalents of Holdings; (g) Investments (i) (a) by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Credit Party, (b) between or among Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties, and (c) consisting of intercompany Investments incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the cash management operations (including with respect to intercompany self-insurance arrangements) among the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (provided that any such intercompany Investment in connection with cash management arrangements by a Credit Party in a Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party is in the form of an intercompany loan or advance and the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary complies with Section 9.12 to the extent applicable), (ii) by Credit Parties in any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, to the extent that the aggregate amount of all Investments made on or after the 2014 July Repricing Effective Date pursuant to this subclause (ii), when valued at the fair market value (determined by the Borrower acting in good faith) of each such Investment at the time each such Investment was made, would not exceed the sum of (x) $1,000,000,000, when taken together with Investments outstanding at such time in reliance on Section 10.5(i)(x) plus (y) if the Borrower shall be in compliance with the Senior Secured Leverage Test, both before and after giving effect, on a Pro Forma Basis to the making of such Investment, the Applicable Amount at such time plus (z) the Applicable Equity Amount at such time and (iii) by Credit Parties in any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party so long as such Investment is part of a series of simultaneous Investments by Restricted Subsidiaries in other Restricted Subsidiaries that result in the proceeds of the initial Investment being invested in one or more Credit Parties; (h) Investments constituting Permitted Acquisitions; (i) Investments (including but not limited to (i) minority Investments and Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries, (ii) Investments in joint ventures (regardless of the form of legal entity) or similar Persons that do not constitute Restricted Subsidiaries, (iii) Investments in Merchant Acquisition and Processing Alliances (regardless of the form of legal entity) and (iv) Investments in Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties), in each case valued at the fair market value (determined by the Borrower acting in good faith) of such Investment at the time each such Investment is made, in an aggregate amount pursuant to this clause (i) that, at the time each such Investment is made, would not exceed the sum of (x) $1,000,000,000 when taken together with Investments outstanding at such time in reliance on Section 10.5(g)(ii)(x) plus (y) if the Borrower shall be in compliance with the Senior Secured Leverage Test, both before and after giving effect, on a Pro Forma Basis to the making of such Investment, the Applicable Amount at such time plus (z) without duplication of any amount that increased the JV Distribution Amount, an amount equal to any repayments, interest, returns, profits, distributions, income and similar amounts actually received in cash in respect of any such Investment (which amount referred to in this subclause (z) shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at the fair market value of such Investment at the time such Investment was made) plus (aa) the Applicable Equity Amount at such time; (j) Investments constituting non-cash proceeds of Dispositions of assets to the extent permitted by Section 10.4; (k) Investments made to repurchase or retire Stock or Stock Equivalents of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof owned by any employee or any stock ownership plan or key employee stock ownership plan of the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof); (l) Investments consisting of dividends permitted under Section 10.6; (m) loans and advances to any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower in lieu of, and not in excess of the amount of, dividends to the extent permitted to be made to such parent in accordance with Section 10.6; (n) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business; (o) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit and customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices; (p) advances of payroll payments to employees in the ordinary course of business; (q) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of leases (other than Capital Leases) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business; (r) Investments held by a Person acquired (including by way of merger or consolidation) after the Original Closing Date otherwise in accordance with this Section 10.5 to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation; (s) Investments in Hedge Agreements permitted by Section 10.1; (t) Investments arising out of or in connection with any Permitted Receivables Financing; (u) Investments in the ordinary course of business in connection with Settlements; (v) other Investments, that, at the time each such Investment is made, would not exceed the sum of (x) $750,000,000 plus (y) if the Borrower shall be in compliance with the Senior Secured Leverage Test, both before and after giving effect, on a Pro Forma Basis, to the making of such Investment, the Applicable Amount plus (z) the Applicable Equity Amount at such time; (w) Investments in connection with any transaction permitted by Section 10.3; and (x) Investments consisting of licensing of intellectual property with other Persons in the ordinary course of business; (y) Investments constituting contributions or other dispositions of any Foreign Subsidiary to another Foreign Subsidiary; and (z) Investments by any Credit Party in any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party in an aggregate amount not to exceed the fair market value of all dividends and other distributions received by Credit Parties from Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Credit Parties since the Initial Effectiveness Date.

  • Restriction on Sale of Shares During a period of 180 days from the date of the Prospectus (the “Lock-Up Period”), the Transaction Entities will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives (i) directly or indirectly, offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any Common Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Shares or file any registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any of the foregoing (except for a registration statement on Form S-8 relating to the Company’s equity incentive plan) or (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of the Common Shares, whether any such swap or transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Shares or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (B) any Common Shares issued or options to purchase Common Shares granted pursuant to existing employee benefit plans of the Company referred to in the Prospectus, (C) any Common Shares issued pursuant to any non-employee director stock plan or dividend reinvestment plan referred to in the Prospectus, (D) any Common Shares or Operating Partnership Units issued in connection with the formation of the Operating Partnership, (E) the Private Placement Shares, (F) Common Shares, in the aggregate not to exceed 10% of the number of Common Shares outstanding, issued in connection with other acquisitions of real property or real property companies; provided, however, that the recipients of Common Shares issued in connection with such an acquisition shall be required to agree in writing not to sell, offer, dispose of or otherwise transfer any such shares during the remainder of the Lock-Up Period without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives), or (G) Common Shares transferred in accordance with Article IV of the Company’s charter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (1) during the last 17 days of the Lock-Up Period the Company issues an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to the Company occurs, or (2) prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results or becomes aware that material news or a material event will occur during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the Lock-Up Period, the restrictions imposed in this Section 4(j) shall continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event.

  • Payment of Deferred Underwriting Commission on Business Combination Upon the consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination, the Company agrees that it will cause the Trustee to pay the Deferred Underwriting Commission directly from the Trust Account to the Underwriters, in accordance with Section 1.3.

  • Indebtedness; Certain Equity Securities (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness or any Attributable Debt, except: (i) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents and any Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries to the extent the Net Proceeds thereof are used to refinance Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents; (ii) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 6.01 and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; (iii) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided, that no Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall have any Indebtedness to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party; (iv) Guarantees by the Borrower of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary Loan Party and by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party; (v) Indebtedness and Attributable Debt of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof, and extensions, renewals, refinancings and replacements of any such Indebtedness that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof (other than by an amount not greater than fees and expenses, including premium and defeasance costs, associated therewith) or result in a decreased average weighted life thereof; provided that (1) such Indebtedness or Attributable Debt is incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (2) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness and Attributable Debt permitted by this clause (v), together with the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness and Attributable Debt of the Service Company described in Section 6.18(d)(i) allocated to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to the Shared Services Agreement, shall not exceed $15,000,000 at any time outstanding; (vi) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided that (A) such Indebtedness (other than Refinancing Indebtedness) exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary (except to the extent such Indebtedness refinanced other Indebtedness to facilitate such entity becoming a Subsidiary) and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vi) shall not exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding; (vii) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of letters of credit in an aggregate face amount not exceeding $5,000,000 at any time outstanding; (viii) unsecured Indebtedness and Attributable Debt owing to the Service Company incurred pursuant to the Shared Services Transactions; and (ix) other unsecured Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Affiliate of the Borrower) in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $20,000,000 at any time outstanding. (b) The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, issue any preferred stock or other preferred Equity Interests.

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