Investment Restrictions How the Fund is Managed ................................................................................
Lock-Up Restrictions The Optionee hereby agrees to any lockup of the Shares which the Board of Directors of the Company requests when requested by an investment banker or underwriter providing financing to the Company.
Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:
Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to:
Investment Intent; Restrictions on Transfer (a) Optionee represents and agrees that if Optionee exercises this Option in whole or in part, Optionee will in each case acquire the Shares upon such exercise for the purpose of investment and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof; and that upon such exercise of this Option in whole or in part, Optionee (or any person or persons entitled to exercise this Option under the provisions of Sections 7 and 8 hereof) shall furnish to the Company a written statement to such effect, satisfactory to the Company in form and substance. If the Shares represented by this Option are registered under the Securities Act, either before or after the exercise of this Option in whole or in part, the Optionee shall be relieved of the foregoing investment representation and agreement and shall not be required to furnish the Company with the foregoing written statement.
Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries Directly or indirectly, enter into or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into or suffer to exist, any agreement or arrangement limiting the ability of any of its Subsidiaries to declare or pay dividends or other distributions in respect of its Capital Stock or repay or prepay any Debt owed to, make loans or advances to, or otherwise transfer assets to or invest in, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (whether through a covenant restricting dividends, loans, asset transfers or investments, a financial covenant or otherwise), except (i) the Loan Documents; (ii) any agreement in effect at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrower; (iii) restrictions on transfer contained in Debt incurred pursuant to Sections 7.2(e) and (f); provided that such restrictions relate only to the transfer of the property financed with such Debt; (iv) in connection with and pursuant to any Permitted Refinancing, replacements of restrictions that are not more restrictive than those being replaced and do not apply to any other Person or assets than those that would have been covered by the restrictions in the Debt so refinanced; (v) restrictions contained in any Permitted Receivables Document with respect to any Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary; (vi) solely with respect to Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors, restrictions under the Constitutive Documents governing such Subsidiary: (A) with respect to existing Subsidiaries, existing on the Closing Date; and (B) with respect to Subsidiaries created or acquired after the Closing Date: (1) prohibiting such Subsidiary from guaranteeing Debt of the Borrower or another Subsidiary; (2) restricting dividend payments and other distributions solely to permit pro rata dividends and other distributions in respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary; (3) limiting transactions with the Borrower or another Subsidiary to those with terms that are fair and reasonable to such Subsidiary and no less favorable to such Subsidiary than could have been obtained in an arm’s length transaction with an unrelated third party; and (4) limiting such Subsidiary’s ability to transfer assets or incur Debt without the consent of the holders of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary; provided that all restrictions permitted by this clause (vi) shall no longer be permitted in the event any such Subsidiary becomes a Guarantor; (vii) restrictions contained in Debt incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(l) with respect to the borrowers thereunder; and (viii) encumbrances or restrictions (A) that restrict in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease, license or similar contract entered into in the ordinary course of business, or the assignment or transfer of any lease, license or contract entered into in the ordinary course of business and (B) arising by virtue of any transfer of, agreement to transfer, option or right with respect to, or Lien on, any property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
Standstill Restrictions Section 6.1 Until the later of (x) the time that the Investor’s Ownership Percentage is less than 25% of the Common Stock on an as-converted basis and (y) the third anniversary of the date hereof (and, in the case of (iv) – (vii), only for so long as the designees of Investor under section 2.1(a) are seated on the Board pursuant to Section 2.1 and Section 2.4(b) and other than with respect to the election of the Investor Designees), neither the Investor nor any Investor Affiliate shall (i) directly or indirectly acquire, agree to acquire, or offer to acquire, beneficial ownership of any equity securities of the Company, any warrant or option to purchase such securities, any security convertible into any such securities, or any other right to acquire such securities, other than the Preferred Shares, Warrant, Common Stock acquired upon conversion of such Preferred Shares and exercise of the Warrant and any Preferred Shares or Common Stock paid as dividends or as an increase of the accrued liquidation payment amount or distributions thereon or as otherwise would not increase the Investor’s beneficial ownership of the Company’s Common Stock by greater than 1% on an as-converted basis, (ii) bring any action or otherwise act to contest the validity of the restrictions set forth in this Section 6, or seek a release of such restrictions, (iii) deposit any Preferred Shares or Common Stock in a voting trust or similar arrangement or subject any Preferred Shares or Common Stock to any voting agreement, pooling arrangement or similar arrangement, or grant any proxy with respect to any Preferred Shares or Common Stock to any person not affiliated with the Investor or Company management; (iv) make, or in any way participate or engage in, directly or indirectly, any solicitation of proxies to vote, or seek to advise or influence any person with respect to the voting of, any voting securities of the Company or any of Subsidiary of the Company, (v) form, join or in any way participate in a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) with respect to any voting securities of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company except for any group constituting solely of the Investor and Investor Affiliates, (vi) seek the removal of any directors from the Board or a change in the size or composition of the Board (including, without limitation, voting for any directors not nominated by the Board), except as otherwise provided in Section 2.4(b) and the Series A Certificate of Designations, (vii) call, request the calling of, or otherwise seek or assist in the calling of a special meeting of the shareholders of the Company, (viii) disclose any intention, plan or arrangement prohibited by, or inconsistent with, the foregoing or (ix) make, or take, any action that would reasonably be expected to cause the Company to make a public announcement regarding any intention of the Investor to take an action that would be prohibited by the foregoing; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not restrict the Investor from complying with applicable law or the ability of the Investor Designees or other directors appointed or elected to the Board pursuant to the terms of the Series A Certificate of Designations from exercising their fiduciary duties or powers as directors.
Negative Pledge Agreements; Dividend Restrictions The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any contract, agreement or understanding which prohibits or restricts the granting, conveying, creation or imposition of any Lien on any of its Property in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders or restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from paying dividends or making distributions to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary, or which requires the consent of other Persons in connection therewith; provided, however, that the preceding restrictions will not apply to encumbrances or restrictions arising under or by reason of (a) this Agreement or the Security Instruments, (b) any leases or licenses or similar contracts as they affect any Property or Lien, (c) any restriction with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition of all or substantially all the Equity Interests or Property of such Restricted Subsidiary pending the closing of such sale or disposition, (d) customary provisions with respect to the distribution of Property in joint venture agreements, (e) any agreements with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary acquired in a transaction permitted by Section 9.05 (in which case, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the Property of such Restricted Subsidiary) and (f) any agreements governing Debt permitted by Section 9.02 incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Limitation on Dividends and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends, in cash or otherwise, or make any other distributions to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary on or in respect of its Capital Stock, (b) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, or (d) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, except in all such cases for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any agreement or instrument in effect on the Issue Date and listed on Schedule D attached to this Indenture, (ii) applicable law or regulation (including corporate governance provisions required by applicable law and regulations of the National Bank of Poland), (iii) customary non-assignment provisions of any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (iv) any agreement or other instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in existence at the time of such acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired, (v) any mortgage or other Lien on real property acquired or improved by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date that prohibits transfers of the type described in (d) above with respect to such real property, (vi) with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary, an agreement that has been entered into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's Capital Stock in, or substantially all the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary, (vii) the refinancing of Indebtedness incurred under the agreements listed on Schedule B attached to this Indenture or described in clause (v) above, so long as such encumbrances or restrictions are no less favorable in any material respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary than those contained in the respective agreement as in
Basic Restrictions (i) (1) No Person, other than an Excepted Holder, shall Beneficially Own or Constructively Own Shares in excess of the Aggregate Ownership Limit, (2) no Person, other than an Excepted Holder, shall Beneficially Own or Constructively Own Common Shares in excess of the Common Share Ownership Limit and (3) no Excepted Holder shall Beneficially Own or Constructively Own Shares in excess of the Excepted Holder Limit for such Excepted Holder.
