Lock-Up Provisions (a) The Subject Party hereby agrees not to, during the period commencing from the Closing and ending on the earliest of (x) six (6) months after the date of the Closing and (y) the date after the Closing on which the Purchaser consummates a liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization, or other similar transaction with an unaffiliated third party that results in all of the Purchaser’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of the Purchaser Common Stock for cash, securities, or other property (the “Lock-Up Period”): (i) lend, offer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, donate, assign, 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, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Securities, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Restricted Securities, or (iii) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing, whether any such transaction described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) above is to be settled by delivery of Restricted Securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise (any of the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii), a “Prohibited Transfer”). (b) The foregoing shall not apply to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities (I) to any Permitted Transferee or (II) pursuant to a court order or settlement agreement related to the distribution of assets in connection with the dissolution of marriage or civil union; provided, however, that in either of cases (I) or (II), it shall be a condition to such transfer that such transfer complies with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and other applicable law, and that the transferee executes and delivers to the Purchaser an agreement stating that the transferee is receiving and holding the Restricted Securities subject to the provisions of this Agreement applicable to the Subject Party, and there shall be no further transfer of such Restricted Securities except in accordance with this Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the term “Permitted Transferee” shall mean: (1) the members of the Subject Party’s immediate family (for purposes of this Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean with respect to any natural person, any of the following: such person’s spouse or domestic partner, the siblings of such person and his or her spouse or domestic partner, and the direct descendants and ascendants (including adopted and step children and parents) of such person and his or her spouses or domestic partners and siblings), (2) any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the Subject Party or the immediate family of the Subject Party, (3) if the Subject Party is a trust, to the trustor or beneficiary of such trust or to the estate of a beneficiary of such trust, (4) in the case of an entity, officers, directors, general partners, limited partners, members, or stockholders of such entity that receive such transfer as a distribution, or related investment funds or vehicles controlled or managed by such persons or their respective affiliates, (5) to any affiliate of the Subject Party, and (6) any transferee whereby there is no change in beneficial ownership. The Subject Party further agrees to execute such agreements as may be reasonably requested by the Purchaser that are consistent with the foregoing or that are necessary to give further effect thereto.
Put Provisions Upon a Change of Control, any Holder of Securities will have the right to cause the Company to repurchase all or any part of the Securities of such Holder at a repurchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Securities to be repurchased plus accrued interest to the date of repurchase (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the related interest payment date) as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.
Standstill Provisions (a) Potomac agrees that, from the date of this Agreement until the earlier of (i) the date that is (ten) 10 business days prior to the deadline for the submission of shareholder nominations for the 2013 Annual Meeting pursuant to the Company’s bylaws and (ii) the date that is one-hundred (100) days prior to the first anniversary of the 2012 Annual Meeting (the “Standstill Period”), neither it nor any of its Affiliates or Associates under its control or direction will, and it will cause each of its Affiliates and Associates under its control not to, directly or indirectly, in any manner: (i) solicit, or encourage or in any way engage in any solicitation of, any proxies or consents or become a “participant” in a “solicitation” as such terms are defined in Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act of proxies or consents (including, without limitation, any solicitation of consents that seeks to call a special meeting of shareholders), in each case, with respect to securities of the Company; (ii) advise, encourage, support or influence any person with respect to the voting or disposition of any securities of the Company at any annual or special meeting of shareholders, except in accordance with Section 1, or seek to do so; (iii) form, join or in any way participate in any “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) with respect to the Common Stock (other than a “group” that includes all or some of the persons identified on Exhibit A, but does not include any other entities or persons not identified on Exhibit A as of the date hereof); provided, however, that nothing herein shall limit the ability of an Affiliate of Potomac to join the “group” following the execution of this Agreement, so long as any such Affiliate agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement; (iv) deposit any Common Stock in any voting trust or subject any Common Stock to any arrangement or agreement with respect to the voting of any Common Stock, other than any such voting trust, arrangement or agreement solely among the members of Potomac and otherwise in accordance with this Agreement; (v) seek or encourage any person to submit nominations in furtherance of a “contested solicitation” for the election or removal of directors with respect to the Company; provided, however, that nothing herein will limit the ability of Potomac to recommend a Potomac Replacement Director(s) in accordance with Section 1(j); (vi) (A) make any proposal for consideration by shareholders at any annual or special meeting of shareholders of the Company or (B) make any offer or proposal (with or without conditions) with respect to a merger, acquisition, disposition or other business combination involving Potomac and the Company or any subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company, or encourage, initiate or support any other third party in any such related activity or (C) make any public communication in opposition to any Company acquisition or disposition activity approved by the Board; (vii) seek, alone or in concert with others, representation on the Board, except as specifically contemplated in Section 1; (viii) enter into any discussions, negotiations, arrangements or understandings with any third party with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 2; or (ix) take any action which could cause or require the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to make a public announcement regarding any of the foregoing, publicly seek or request permission to do any of the foregoing, publicly make any request to amend, waive or terminate any provision of this Section 2 (including, without limitation, this Section 2(a)(ix), or make or seek permission to make any public announcement with respect to any of the foregoing. (b) Nothing in this Section 2 shall prevent (i) Potomac from voting its shares of Common Stock and all shares of Common Stock represented by properly executed GOLD proxy cards in favor of the Potomac Nominees at the 2012 Annual Meeting in accordance with Section 1, (ii) Potomac from taking any actions as contemplated in Section 1(f) in furtherance of reconstituting the Board in a manner consistent with the composition of the Board as set forth in Section 1(a) or (iii) either of the Potomac Nominees, or their respective Potomac Replacement Director, as applicable, from taking any action in their capacity as directors of the Company in accordance with their respective fiduciary duties.
Initial Provisions Establishment of a Free Trade Area
COMMON PROVISIONS Article 16. Quantitative restrictions on imports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between the Community and Israel. Article 17. Quantitative restrictions on exports and all measures having equivalent effect shall be prohibited between the Community and Israel. 1. Products originating in Israel shall not on importation into the Community be accorded a treatment more favourable than that which the Member States apply among themselves. 2. Application of the provisions of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1911/91 of 26 June 1991 on the application of the provisions of Community law to the Canary Islands. 1. The Parties shall refrain from any measure or practice of an internal fiscal nature establishing, whether directly or indirectly, discrimination between the products of one Party and like products originating in the territory of the other Party. 2. Products exported to the territory of one of the Parties may not benefit from repayment of indirect internal taxation in excess of the amount of indirect taxation imposed on them directly or indirectly. 1. In the event of specific rules being established as a result of the implementation of its agricultural policy or of any alteration of the current rules or in the event of any alteration or extension of the provisions relating to the implementation of the agricultural policy, the Party in question may amend the arrangements resulting from the Agreement in respect of the products which are the subject of those rules or alterations. 2. In such cases the Party in question shall take due account of the interests of the other Party. To this end the Parties may consult each other within the Association Council. 1. The Agreement shall not preclude the maintenance or establishment of customs unions, free-trade areas or arrangements for frontier trade, except in so far as they alter the trade arrangements provided for in the Agreement. 2. Consultation between the Community and Israel shall take place within the Association Council concerning agreements establishing customs unions or free-trade areas and, where required, on other major issues related to their respective trade policy with third countries. In particular, in the event of a third country acceding to the European Union, such consultation shall take place so as to ensure that account can be taken of the mutual interests of the Community and Israel. Article 22. If one of the Parties finds that dumping is taking place in trade with the other Party within the meaning of Article VI of the GATT, it may take appropriate measures against this practice in accordance with the Agreement on implementation of Article VI of the GATT and with its relevant internal legislation, under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 25. Article 23. Where any product is being imported in such increased quantities and under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause: - serious injury to domestic producers of like or directly competitive products in the territory of one of the Parties, or - serious disturbances in any sector of the economy, or - difficulties which could bring about serious deterioration in the economic situation of a region, the Community or Israel may take appropriate measures under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 25. Article 24. Where compliance with the provisions of Article 17 leads to: (i) re-export towards a third country against which the exporting Party maintains, for the product concerned, quantitative export restrictions, export duties, or measures having equivalent effect, or (ii) a serious shortage, or threat thereof, of a product essential to the exporting Party, and where the situations referred to above give rise, or are likely to give rise, to major difficulties for the exporting Party, that Party may take appropriate measures under the conditions and in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article
Agreement Provisions If the Company, on behalf of any Account, purchases Trust Portfolio shares (“Eligible Shares”) that are subject to a Rule 12b-1 plan adopted under the 1940 Act (the “Plan”), the Company, on behalf of its Distributor, may participate in the Plan.
Callout Provisions An employee who is called back to work outside her regular working hours shall be compensated for a minimum of three (3) hours at the applicable overtime rates. She shall be compensated from the time she leaves her home to report for duty until the time she arrives back upon proceeding directly to and from work.
Lockup Agreement In consideration for the Company agreeing to its obligations under this Section 5, each Holder agrees in connection with any registration of the Company's securities that, upon the request of the Company or the underwriters managing any underwritten offering of the Company's securities, not to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any Warrants or Warrant Stock (other than those included in the registration) without the prior written consent of the Company or such underwriters, as the case may be, for such period of time (not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days) from the effective date of such registration as the Company or the underwriters may specify.
Voting Provisions As a condition precedent to entering into this Agreement, at the request of the Company, Purchaser shall become a party to any voting agreement to which the Company is a party at the time of Purchaser’s execution and delivery of this Agreement, as such voting agreement may be thereafter amended from time to time (the “Voting Agreement”), by executing an adoption agreement or counterpart signature page agreeing to be bound by and subject to the terms of the Voting Agreement and to vote the Shares in the capacity of a “Common Holder” and a “Stockholder,” as such terms may be defined in the Voting Agreement.
Lockup Agreements (a) Each Holder owning Registrable Securities representing beneficial ownership of 1% or more of the outstanding Common Stock hereby agrees that, in connection with an Underwritten Offering, except for sales in such Underwritten Offering: (i) it shall not effect any public sale or distribution (including sales pursuant to Rule 144 and pursuant to derivative transactions) of Common Stock (1) in connection with an Underwritten Offering that is being made pursuant to a Demand Registration Statement, a Shelf Registration Statement or a Piggyback Registration, in each case in accordance with this Article II, during (A) the period commencing on the seventh day prior to the expected time of circulation of a preliminary prospectus with respect to such Underwritten Offering (or, if no preliminary prospectus is circulated, the commencement of any marketing efforts with respect to such Underwritten Offering) and ending on the 90th day following the date of the final prospectus covering such Registrable Securities in connection with such Underwritten Offering or (B) such shorter period as the Underwriters with respect to such Underwritten Offering may require; provided, that the duration of the restrictions described in this clause (i) shall be no longer than the duration of the shortest restriction generally imposed by the Underwriters on the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Company (or Persons in substantially equivalent positions) in connection with such Underwritten Offering; and (ii) it shall execute a lock-up agreement in favor of the Underwriters in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Underwriters to such effect. (b) In connection with an Underwritten Offering, except for sales in such Underwritten Offering, the Company (and its directors and officers) agrees that it: (i) shall not effect any public sale or distribution of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock (except pursuant to (a) registrations on Form S-8 or Form S-4 or any similar or successor form under the Securities Act or (b) a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act) during (1) the period commencing on the seventh day prior to the expected time of circulation of a preliminary prospectus with respect to such Underwritten Offering (or, if no preliminary prospectus is circulated, the commencement of any marketing efforts with respect to such Underwritten Offering) and ending on the 90th day following the date of the final prospectus covering such Registrable Securities in connection with such Underwritten Offering or (2) such shorter period as the Underwriters with respect to such Underwritten Offering may require; and (ii) to the extent requested by the Underwriters participating in such Underwritten Offering, it shall agree to include provisions in the relevant underwriting or other similar agreement giving effect to the restrictions described in clause (i) above, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such Underwriters.