No Diversion The Executive covenants and agrees that during the Term and the Post-Termination Period, he shall not, directly or indirectly through any other person or entity, solicit, divert, or take advantage of, or attempt to solicit, divert or take advantage of, any actual or potential customers or business opportunities (e.g., writing, issuing, underwriting, selling, distributing or re-insuring personal property and casualty insurance products, investment opportunities, and other similar opportunities) of the Company which the Executive became aware of during his employment with the Company.
No Dividends During the previous 12 months, the Corporation has not, directly or indirectly, declared or paid any dividend or declared or made any other distribution on any of its shares or securities of any class, or, directly or indirectly, redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired any of its common shares or securities or agreed to do any of the foregoing.
No Disposition Shareholder hereby covenants and agrees that, except as contemplated by this Agreement and the Merger Agreement, prior to the Expiration Date, Shareholder shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) offer to Transfer, Transfer or consent to any Transfer of any or all of the Covered Shares or the beneficial ownership thereof without the prior written consent of Parent and the Company, (ii) enter into any contract, option or other agreement or understanding with respect to any Transfer of any or all Covered Shares or any beneficial ownership thereof, (iii) tender any Covered Shares into any tender or exchange offer, (iv) deposit any or all of the Covered Shares into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to any or all of the Covered Shares other than investment management agreements with, and powers-of-attorney held by, Shareholder, (v) grant any proxy, power-of-attorney or other authorization or consent in or with respect to any or all of the Covered Shares that is inconsistent with Section 2 hereof, or (vi) commit or agree to take any of the foregoing actions. Notwithstanding the foregoing but subject to Section 9(d) hereof, Shareholder may Transfer Covered Shares pursuant to an Exempt Transfer; provided that prior to and as a condition to such Exempt Transfer, the transferee of the Covered Shares has agreed to be bound by the terms of this Agreement to the same extent as such Shareholder with respect to the Covered Shares so transferred and the definition of Shareholder shall automatically be amended to include the transferee of the Covered Shares,. If any involuntary Transfer of any of the Covered Shares shall occur (including, but not limited to, a sale by Shareholder’s trustee in any bankruptcy, or a sale to a purchaser at any creditor’s or court sale), Shareholder shall procure that the transferee (which term, as used herein, shall include any and all transferees and subsequent transferees of the initial transferee and of any subsequent transferee) take and hold such Covered Shares subject to all of the restrictions, liabilities and rights under this Agreement, which shall continue in full force and effect. Any attempted Transfer (including an Exempt Transfer) of Covered Shares or any interest therein in violation of this Section 3(a) shall be null and void ab initio.
NO BROKERS, FINDERS OR FINANCIAL ADVISORY FEES OR COMMISSIONS No brokers, finders or financial advisory fees or commissions will be payable by the Company, its agents or Subsidiaries, with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
No Disposition, Etc The Pledgor shall not sell, assign, transfer, exchange, or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option with respect to, any of the Pledged Securities, nor will it create, incur or permit to exist any pledge, lien, mortgage, hypothecation, security interest, charge, option or any other encumbrance with respect to any of the Pledged Securities, or any interest therein, or any proceeds thereof, except for the lien and security interest provided for by this Agreement.
No Dispositions Except for the transfer of assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with prior practice, no party shall sell, lease, encumber or otherwise dispose of, or agree to sell, lease, encumber or otherwise dispose of, any of its assets, which are material, individually or in the aggregate, to such party.
No Illegal Transactions Each of the Undersigned and each Holder has not, directly or indirectly, and no person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with it has, disclosed to a third party any information regarding the Transactions nor engaged in any transactions in the securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any Short Sales (as defined below) involving any of the Company’s securities) since the time that the Undersigned was first contacted by either the Company, the Financial Advisor or any other person regarding the Aggregated Transactions, this Agreement or an investment in the Exchange Shares or the Company. Each of the Undersigned and the Holder covenants that neither it nor any person acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it shall disclose to a third party any information regarding the Transactions or engage, directly or indirectly, in any transactions in the securities of the Company (including Short Sales) prior to the time the Aggregated Transactions are publicly disclosed by the Company. “Short Sales” include all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO promulgated under the Exchange Act, and all types of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, short sales, swaps, derivatives and similar arrangements (including on a total return basis), and sales and other transactions through non-U.S. broker-dealers or foreign regulated brokers. Solely for purposes of this Section 2.7, subject to the Undersigned’s and each Holder’s compliance with their respective obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws and the Undersigned’s and such Holder’s respective internal policies, (a) “Undersigned” and “Holder” shall not be deemed to include any employees, subsidiaries, desks, groups or Affiliates of the Undersigned or the applicable Holder that are effectively walled off by appropriate “Fire Wall” information barriers approved by the Undersigned’s or such Holder’s respective legal or compliance department (and thus such walled off parties have not been privy to any information concerning the Aggregated Transactions), and (b) the foregoing representations and covenants of this Section 2.7 shall not apply to any transaction by or on behalf of an Account that was effected without the advice or participation of, or such Account’s receipt of information regarding the Aggregated Transactions provided by, the Undersigned or the applicable Holder.
No Dilution The Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation or through reorganization, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, sale of assets or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the Holder of this Warrant against dilution to the extent provided herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, while this Warrant is outstanding, the Company (a) will not permit the par value, if any, of the Warrant Shares to be above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise and (b) will take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue or sell fully paid and non-assessable Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant.
No Direct or Indirect Payments Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not made any direct or indirect payments (in cash, securities or any other “item of value” as defined in Rule 5110(c)(3) of FINRA’s Conduct Rules): (i) to any person, as a finder’s fee, consulting fee or otherwise, in consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or introducing to the Company persons who raised or provided capital to the Company; (ii) to any person that, to the Company’s knowledge, has been accepted by FINRA as a member of FINRA (a “Member”); or (iii) to any person or entity that, to the Company’s knowledge, has any direct or indirect affiliation or association with any Member, within the twelve months prior to the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, other than payments to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement.
No Pending Transactions Except for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transactions contemplated herein, neither Seller nor any Member is a party to or bound by or the subject of any agreement, undertaking, commitment or discussions or negotiations with any Person that could reasonably result in: (a) the sale, merger, consolidation or recapitalization of Seller; (b) the sale of any of the Purchased Assets; (c) the sale of any outstanding membership interest of Seller; (d) the acquisition by Seller of any operating business or the membership interest or capital stock of any other Person; (e) the borrowing of money in excess of $100,000 by Seller, whether secured or unsecured; (f) any agreement with any of the respective officers, managers or Affiliates of Seller; or (g) the expenditure of more than $25,000 or contractual performance obligations by Seller extending for a period more than one year.
