Conduct Pending the Merger SECTION 2.1. Conduct of the Company's Business Prior to the Effective Time. Except as expressly provided in this Plan, during the period from the date of this Plan to the Effective Time, the Company shall, and shall cause each of its subsidiaries to, (i) conduct its business in the usual, regular and ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (ii) use its best efforts to maintain and preserve intact its business organization, properties, leases, employees and advantageous business relationships and retain the services of its officers and key employees, (iii) use its best efforts to consummate the Agreement of Merger and Reorganization, dated as of July 21, 1998, by and between the Company, CBE, Inc., and F & M Merger Corporation, as amended on November 30, 1998 (the "CBE Merger Agreement"), (iv) take no action which would adversely affect or delay the ability of the Company, Parent or any subsidiary thereof to obtain any necessary approvals, consents or waivers of any governmental authority required for the transactions contemplated hereby or to perform its covenants and agreements on a timely basis under this Plan and (v) take no action that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect (as defined in Section 9.1 hereof) on the Company.
Conduct of Business by Parent Pending the Merger Parent and Acquisition Sub covenant and agree with the Company that between the date hereof and the Effective Time or the date, if any, on which this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.1, Parent and Acquisition Sub:
CONDITIONS TO THE MERGER 6.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of each party to this Agreement to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:
CONDUCT OF BUSINESSES PENDING THE MERGER Section 5.01 Conduct of Business by the Company Pending the Merger. Prior to the Effective Time, unless Parent or Acquisition Corp. shall otherwise agree in writing or as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement:
Consummation of the Merger As soon as practicable after the Closing, the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a certificate of merger or other appropriate documents (in any such case, the “Certificate of Merger”) in such form as required by, and executed in accordance with, the relevant provisions of the DGCL and shall make all other filings or recordings required under the DGCL. The Merger shall become effective at such time as the Certificate of Merger is duly filed with such Secretary of State, or at such later time as Parent and the Company shall agree and specify in the Certificate of Merger (the time and date the Merger becomes effective being the “Effective Time” and “Effective Date,” respectively).
CONDITIONS TO THE MERGERS 36 Termination of the Mergers and the Merger Agreement..................... 37
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PENDING THE MERGER Section 6.01 Conduct of Business by the Company Pending the Merger.
Conduct of Business by the Company Pending the Merger The Company agrees that, from the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time and termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article VIII, except as (x) required by applicable Law, (y) set forth in Section 5.01 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or (z) expressly required or permitted by this Agreement, unless Parent shall otherwise consent in writing (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), (i) the businesses of the Group Companies shall be conducted in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with past practice; and (ii) the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve intact the assets and the business organization of the Group Companies in all material respects, to keep available the services of the current officers and key employees of the Group Companies and to maintain in all material respects the current relationships of the Group Companies with existing customers, suppliers and other persons with which any Group Companies has material business relations as of the date hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, from the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time and termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article VIII, except as (x) required by applicable Law, (y) set forth in Section 5.01 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or (z) expressly contemplated or permitted by this Agreement, the Company shall not and shall not permit any other Group Company to, directly or indirectly, do or propose to do any of the following without the prior written consent of Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed):
CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION OF THE MERGER Section 5.1. Conditions to Each Party's Obligations to Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of each party hereto to effect the Merger are subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:
Concerning the Holders Section 8.01. Action by Holders 44 Section 8.02. Proof of Execution by Holders 44 Section 8.03. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners 44 Section 8.04. Company-Owned Notes Disregarded 45 Section 8.05. Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound 45
