Material Contract “Material Contract” is defined in Section 3.9(a) of the Agreement.
Material Contracts (a) Except as filed as an exhibit to the Company SEC Filings or as set forth on Schedule 3.23, there are none of the following (each a “Material Contract”):
(i) Contracts restricting the payment of dividends upon, or the redemption, repurchase or conversion of, the Convertible Preferred Stock or the Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof;
(ii) joint venture, partnership, limited liability or other similar Contract or arrangement relating to the formation, creation, operation, management or control of any partnership or joint venture that is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(iii) any Contract relating to the acquisition or disposition of any business, stock or assets that (x) is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, or (y) has representations, covenants, escrows, indemnities, purchase price payments, “earn-outs”, adjustments or other obligations that are still in effect;
(iv) Contracts containing any covenant (x) limiting the right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to engage in any line of business or in any geographic area, or (y) prohibiting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from engaging in business with any Person or levying a fine, charge or other payment for doing so;
(v) “material contracts” (as such term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, excluding any exhibits, schedules and annexes to such material contracts that are not required to be filed with the SEC, and those agreements and arrangements described in Item 601(b)(10)(iii)) with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries required to be filed with the SEC (the Material Contracts, together with any lease, binding commitment, option, insurance policy, benefit plan or other contract, agreement, instrument or obligation (whether oral or written) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be bound, the “Contracts”);
(vi) Contracts relating to indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in an amount exceeding $250,000;
(vii) Contracts (other than the Transaction Agreements) that would be or purport to be binding on the Purchasers or any of their Affiliates after the Closing;
(viii) Contracts with any Governmental Entity that imposes any material obligation or restriction on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and
(ix) any material Contract with any current or former director, officer or employee, or with any HRG Affiliate.
(b) Each Material Contract is valid and binding on the Company (and/or each such Subsidiary of the Company party thereto) and, to the Knowledge of the Company, on each other party thereto, and is in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries that is a party thereto, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto, is in breach of, or default under, any such Material Contract, and no event has occurred that with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute such a breach or default thereunder or would result in the termination thereof or would cause or permit the acceleration or other change of any right or obligation of the loss of any benefit thereunder by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto, except for such failures to be in full force and effect and such breaches and defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Material Contract Defaults The Company is not in default in any material respect under the terms of any outstanding contract, agreement, lease, or other commitment which is material to the business, operations, properties, assets, or financial condition of either of them, and there is no event of default or other event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default in any material respect under any such contract, agreement, lease, or other commitment in respect of which the Company has not taken adequate steps to prevent such a default from occurring.
Material Consents Buyer shall have obtained all consents of third parties that are material to the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement (collectively, the “Material Consents”) as specified in Schedule 7.7. The Material Consents shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Buyer. Buyer shall cooperate in the assumption of the Contracts.
Material Contracts and Transactions Other than as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, there are no material contracts, agreements, licenses, permits, arrangements, commitments, instruments, understandings or contracts, whether written or oral, express or implied, contingent, fixed or otherwise, to which Pubco is a party except as disclosed in writing to Priveco or as disclosed in the Pubco SEC Documents.
Company Material Contracts (a) Section 3.22(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, correct and complete list, and the Company has made available to Parent true, correct and complete copies, of each Contract, including amendments thereto, to which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of their respective assets are subject, as of the date of this Agreement, that:
(i) is a partnership, joint venture, strategic alliance, collaboration, co-promotion, profit-sharing, joint research and development or similar arrangement, or provides for or governs the formation, creation, operation, management or control of such arrangement;
(ii) provides for the creation, incurrence, assumption or guarantee of or otherwise relates to Indebtedness of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, for borrowed money;
(iii) grants any rights of first refusal, rights of first negotiation, exclusivity or other similar rights or options to any person with respect to the sale of any of the material properties or assets (including material Owned Company Intellectual Property) of the Company or any Company Subsidiary;
(iv) provides for the acquisition or disposition (whether by merger, sale of stock, sale of assets, or otherwise) of any interest in any person or any business or division thereof, or a material portion of the assets of any person, other than this Agreement, (A) entered into since January 1, 2021 and which involves an asset value in excess of $100,000 or (B) pursuant to which any material earn-out, deferred or contingent payment or indemnification obligations remain outstanding;
(v) make any investment in, or loan or capital contribution to, any person (other than the Company or any Company Subsidiary) and other than (i) extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (ii) investments in marketable securities in the ordinary course of business;
(vi) provides for the settlement of any Proceeding (A) which (x) will involve payment obligations after the date hereof in excess of $50,000 or (y) imposes any continuing material non-monetary obligations on the Company or any Company Subsidiary including any monitoring or reporting obligations to any other person, (B) with respect to which conditions precedent to the settlement have not been satisfied or (C) which materially affects the conduct of the Company’s or any Company Subsidiary’s business;
(vii) contains any provision or covenant (A) limiting in any material respect the ability of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (or, after the consummation of the Merger, Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries) to (x) sell any products or services of or to any other person or in any geographic region (or subject the Company or any Company Subsidiary to exclusivity obligations), (y) engage in any line of business, or (z) compete with or to obtain products or services from any person, or limiting the ability of any person to provide products or services to the Company or any Company Subsidiary (or, after the consummation of the Merger, Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries), (B) that has any “most favored nations” or similar terms and conditions (including with respect to pricing) granted by the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (C) that has any standstill or similar agreement pursuant to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary has agreed not to acquire any assets or securities of another person, (D) that requires any material benefit to be granted to a third party, or material right be lost by the Company or any Company Subsidiary (or, after the consummation of the Merger, Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries) as a result of competing or engaging in any line of business or with any person or in any geographic area;
(viii) involves sole-source or single-source suppliers of material tangible products or services (including any of the Company’s products or services);
(ix) is a license or other Contract relating to any Intellectual Property Rights granted by any other person to the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries that is, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, but excluding Incidental Contracts;
(x) is a license or other Contract relating to any Intellectual Property Rights that, individually or in the aggregate, are material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and granted by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries to any other person, including any Contracts whereby the Company or a Company Subsidiary is developing any Intellectual Property Rights for any other person, but excluding Incidental Contracts;
(xi) any Contract containing covenants limiting the freedom of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries to use, assert, enforce, or otherwise exploit any Owned Company Intellectual Property that is, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries (including, but not limited to, any settlement agreement or co-existence agreement), but excluding Incidental Contracts;
(xii) is a Contract between the Company or any Company Subsidiary and any sales representative, distributor, original equipment manufacturer, manufacturing, value added, remarketer, reseller, or independent software vendor agreement that is material for the use or distribution of Owned Company Intellectual Property or Company products;
(xiii) is a Contract that involves performance of services or delivery of goods, materials, supplies or equipment or development, consulting or other services commitments by the Company or any Company Subsidiary, or the payment therefor by the Company or any Company Subsidiary, providing for either (A) recurring annual payments after the date hereof of $100,000 or (B) aggregate payments or potential aggregate payments after the date hereof of $150,000 or more;
(xiv) is a collective bargaining Contract or Contract with any labor organization, union or association to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party (each, a “CBA”);
(xv) is an employment agreement or Contract for the employment or engagement of any officer, individual employee, consultant or other person on a full time, part time, consulting or other basis (A) providing annual compensation (whether cash and/or otherwise) in excess of $100,000, (B) providing for the payment of any cash or other compensation or benefits upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (C) otherwise restricting the Company’s (or any Company Subsidiary’s) ability to terminate the employment or engagement of any employee or consultant at any time or any lawful reason or for no reason without penalty or liability;
(xvi) are severance agreements, programs, policies, arrangements or Contracts providing any individual with severance payments and/or benefits in excess of $50,000 in the aggregate;
(A) has been entered into with a Governmental Entity or, to the knowledge of the Company, is any material subcontract (at any tier) under or for the purpose of fulfilling a contract or order from a Governmental Entity as the ultimate customer, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Company Government Contract or Company Government Bid or (B) to the knowledge of the Company, is financed by any Governmental Entity and subject to the rules and regulations of any Governmental Entity concerning procurement;
(xviii) relates to any stockholders’, investor rights, registration rights, tax receivables or similar or related arrangement, or any Contract or arrangement relating to the exercise of any voting rights in respect of any Company Securities;
(xix) has been entered into between the Company or any Company Subsidiary, on the one hand, and any officer, director or affiliate of the Company or any Company Subsidiary or any of their respective “associates” or “immediate family” members (as such terms are defined in Rule 12b-2 and Rule 16a-1 of the Exchange Act), on the other hand, including any Contract pursuant to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary has an obligation to indemnify such officer, director, affiliate or family member (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Company Benefit Plans and governing documents of the Company or any Company Subsidiary);
(xx) contains (A) any provision that requires the purchase of all or a given portion of the Company’s or any Company Subsidiary’s requirements for products or services from a given third party, or any other similar provision (including non-cancelable purchase obligations), (B) any provision that grants material guaranteed availability of supply of Company products for a period greater than twenty-four (24) months, or (C) guarantees priority or prices for a period of greater than twenty-four (24) months;
(xxi) contains any provision allowing a “major antenna product distributor” to return product;
(xxii) is a lease, sublease, occupancy agreement or other agreement (whether or real or personal property) to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party as either lessor or lessee, providing for either (A) annual payments after the date hereof of $50,000 or more or (B) aggregate payments after the date hereof of $100,000 or more; or
(xxiii) creates or grants a material Lien, other than Permitted Liens and other than Contracts with customers entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(b) Each Contract required to be listed in Section 3.22(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter, whether or not set forth in such section of the Company Disclosure Letter, is referred to in this Agreement as a “Company Material Contract” (with each such Contract listed under the corresponding clause of Section 3.22(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter to which such Contract is relevant). Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is, with or without notice, or lapse of time, or both, in breach of or default under the terms of any Company Material Contract, and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred that, with or without notice, or lapse of time or both, would constitute a material breach or material default thereunder by the Company or any Company Subsidiary. Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received notice of such an event. To the knowledge of the Company, no other party to any Company Material Contract is in breach of or default under the terms of any Company Material Contract where such breach or default, individually or together with other such breaches or defaults, would have a Company Material Adverse Effect. Each Company Material Contract is a valid and binding obligation of, and is in full force and effect with respect to, the Company and any Company Subsidiary that is a party thereto and, to the knowledge of the Company, each other party thereto, except for such failure that would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, subject to the Bankruptcy and Equity Exception. The Company has made available to Parent true, correct and complete copies of Company Material Contracts.
POTENTIAL MATERIAL CONFLICTS 7.1. The Trust agrees that the Board, constituted with a majority of disinterested trustees, will monitor each Portfolio of the Trust for the existence of any material irreconcilable conflict between the interests of the variable annuity contract owners and the variable life insurance policy owners of the Company and/or affiliated companies ("contract owners") investing in the Trust. The Board shall have the sole authority to determine if a material irreconcilable conflict exists, and such determination shall be binding on the Company only if approved in the form of a resolution by a majority of the Board, or a majority of the disinterested trustees of the Board. The Board will give prompt notice of any such determination to the Company.
7.2. The Company agrees that it will be responsible for assisting the Board in carrying out its responsibilities under the conditions set forth in the Trust's exemptive application pursuant to which the SEC has granted the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order by providing the Board, as it may reasonably request, with all information necessary for the Board to consider any issues raised and agrees that it will be responsible for promptly reporting any potential or existing conflicts of which it is aware to the Board including, but not limited to, an obligation by the Company to inform the Board whenever contract owner voting instructions are disregarded. The Company also agrees that, if a material irreconcilable conflict arises, it will at its own cost remedy such conflict up to and including (a) withdrawing the assets allocable to some or all of the Accounts from the Trust or any Portfolio and reinvesting such assets in a different investment medium, including (but not limited to) another Portfolio of the Trust, or submitting to a vote of all affected contract owners whether to withdraw assets from the Trust or any Portfolio and reinvesting such assets in a different investment medium and, as appropriate, segregating the assets attributable to any appropriate group of contract owners that votes in favor of such segregation, or offering to any of the affected contract owners the option of segregating the assets attributable to their contracts or policies, and (b) establishing a new registered management investment company and segregating the assets underlying the Policies, unless a majority of Policy owners materially adversely affected by the conflict have voted to decline the offer to establish a new registered management investment company.
7.3. A majority of the disinterested trustees of the Board shall determine whether any proposed action by the Company adequately remedies any material irreconcilable conflict. In the event that the Board determines that any proposed action does not adequately remedy any material irreconcilable conflict, the Company will withdraw from investment in the Trust each of the Accounts designated by the disinterested trustees and terminate this Agreement within six (6) months after the Board informs the Company in writing of the foregoing determination; provided, however, that such withdrawal and termination shall be limited to the extent required to remedy any such material irreconcilable conflict as determined by a majority of the disinterested trustees of the Board.
7.4. If and to the extent that Rule 6e-2 and Rule 6e-3(T) are amended, or Rule 6e-3 is adopted, to provide exemptive relief from any provision of the 1940 Act or the rules promulgated thereunder with respect to mixed or shared funding (as defined in the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order) on terms and conditions materially different from those contained in the Mixed and Shared Funding Exemptive Order, then (a) the Trust and/or the Participating Insurance Companies, as appropriate, shall take such steps as may be necessary to comply with Rule 6e-2 and 6e-3(T), as amended, and Rule 6e-3, as adopted, to the extent such rules are applicable; and (b) Sections 3.5, 3.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 of this Agreement shall continue in effect only to the extent that terms and conditions substantially identical to such Sections are contained in such Rule(s) as so amended or adopted.
Material Contracts; Defaults (a) Other than as disclosed in the Company Reports filed prior to the date hereof or as set forth in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.13, neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to, bound by or subject to any agreement, contract, arrangement, commitment or understanding (whether written or oral) (i) with respect to the employment of any directors, officers, employees or consultants, (ii) which would entitle any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of Company or any of its Subsidiaries to indemnification from Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) the benefits of which will be increased, or the vesting of benefits of which will be accelerated, by the occurrence of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (iv) which grants any right of first refusal, right of first offer or similar right with respect to any material assets or properties of Company and or Subsidiaries; (v) which provides for payments to be made by Company or any of its Subsidiaries upon a change in control thereof; (vi) which provides for the lease of personal property having a value in excess of $25,000 individually or $100,000 in the aggregate; (vii) which relates to capital expenditures and involves future payments in excess of $10,000 individually or $50,000 in the aggregate; (viii) which relates to the disposition or acquisition of assets or any interest in any business enterprise outside the ordinary course of Company’s business; (ix) which is not terminable on sixty (60) days or less notice and involving the payment of more than $25,000 per annum; or (x) which materially restricts the conduct of any business by Company of any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, “Material Contracts”). Company has previously delivered to Buyer true, complete and correct copies of each such document.
(b) Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under any contract, agreement, commitment, arrangement, lease, insurance policy or other instrument to which it is a party, by which its assets, business, or operations may be bound or affected, or under which it or its assets, business, or operations receives benefits, and there has not occurred any event that, with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both, would constitute such a default. No power of attorney or similar authorization given directly or indirectly by Company is currently outstanding.
SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS; MATERIAL CONTRACTS AND COMMITMENTS The Company has delivered to TCI an accurate list (which is set forth on Schedule 5.15) of all customers (persons or entities) representing 1% or more of the Company's annual revenues for the year ended December 31, 1997; provided, however, that Schedule 5.15 need not set forth more than the Company's 20 largest customers during such period. Except to the extent set forth on Schedule 5.15, none of such customers have canceled or substantially reduced or, to the knowledge of the Stockholders, are currently attempting or threatening to cancel a contract or substantially reduce utilization of the services provided by the Company. The Company has listed on Schedule 5.15 all Material Contracts (as defined below) to which the Company is a party or by which it or any of its properties are bound, other than agreements listed on Schedules 5.10, 5.14 or 5.16, (a) in existence as of the Balance Sheet Date and (b) entered into since the Balance Sheet Date, and in each case has delivered true, complete and correct copies of such agreements to TCI. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Material Contracts" includes contracts between the Company and significant customers (as described above), joint venture or partnership agreements, contracts with any labor organization, strategic alliances, options to purchase land and other contracts which are not terminable on sixty days or less notice and involve payments by the Company in any twelve-month period in excess of $25,000. The Company has also indicated on Schedule 5.15 a summary description of all plans or projects involving the opening of new operations, expansion of existing operations, the acquisition of any personal property, business or assets requiring, in any event, the payment of more than $25,000 by the Company during any 12- month period. To the knowledge of the Stockholders, all of the Material Contracts are in full force and effect and constitute valid and binding agreements of the parties (and their successors) thereto in accordance with their respective terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity.
Material Information As of the date hereof, as of the Closing Date and as of the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the sale of the Shares by such Selling Stockholder is not and will not be prompted by any material information concerning the Company which is not set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.
