No Mergers Contemplated. There are no outstanding mergers, acquisitions, financial commitments, obligations, liabilities, etc., other than those contemplated in this transaction.
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The Mergers (a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and in accordance with the DGCL, at the Effective Time, Parent Sub shall be merged with and into the Company. Following the First Company Merger, the separate corporate existence of Parent Sub shall cease, and the Company shall continue as the Surviving Corporation and a direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent. Upon the terms and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, as soon as practicable on the Closing Date, the applicable parties hereto shall file a certificate of merger (the “First Certificate of Merger”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Delaware Secretary of State”), executed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DGCL, to effect the First Company Merger. The First Company Merger shall become effective at such time on the Closing Date as the applicable parties hereto shall agree in writing and shall specify in the First Certificate of Merger (the time the First Company Merger becomes effective being the “Effective Time”). (b) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and in accordance with the DGCL and the DLLCA, at the Second Company Merger Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall be merged with and into LLC Sub. Following the Second Company Merger, the separate corporate existence of the Surviving Corporation shall cease, and LLC Sub shall be the Surviving Company and a direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent. Upon the terms and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, as soon as practicable on the Closing Date, the applicable parties hereto shall file a certificate of merger (the “Second Certificate of Merger”) with the Delaware Secretary of State, executed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DGCL and DLLCA, to effect the Second Company Merger. The Second Company Merger shall become effective one minute after the Effective Time (the time the Second Company Merger becomes effective being the “Second Company Merger Effective Time”), which the applicable parties hereto shall specify in the Second Certificate of Merger.
Conduct of Business Pending Consummation 7.1 Affirmative Covenants of Each Party. From the date of this Agreement ----------------------------------- until the earlier of the Effective Time or the termination of this Agreement, unless the prior written consent of the other Party shall have been obtained, and except as otherwise expressly contemplated herein, each Party shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to (a) operate its business only in the usual, regular, and ordinary course, (b) preserve intact its business organization and Assets and maintain its rights and franchises, and (c) take no action which would (i) materially adversely affect the ability of either Party to obtain any Consents required for the transactions contemplated hereby without imposition of a condition or restriction of the type referred to in the last sentences of Section 9.1(b) or 9.1(c), or (ii) materially adversely affect the ability of either Party to perform its covenants and agreements under this Agreement.
Mergers, Consolidations and Sales Except with the prior written consent of the Required Lenders (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit Whitestone REIT or any Subsidiary to, effect any merger or consolidation, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its Property, including any disposition of Property as part of a sale and leaseback transaction, or in any event sell or discount (with or without recourse) any of its notes or accounts receivable; provided, however, so long as no Default or Event of Default then exist, this Section shall not apply to nor operate to prevent: (a) the sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of Property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to one another in the ordinary course of its business; (b) sales of shares of capital stock or other equity interests by Borrower or Whitesone REIT, so long as no Change of Control results therefrom; (c) the merger of any Subsidiary with and into the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that, in the case of any merger involving the Borrower, the Borrower is the entity surviving the merger; (d) the sale, transfer or other disposition of any tangible personal property that, in the reasonable business judgment of the Borrower or its Subsidiary, has become obsolete or worn out, and which is disposed of in the ordinary course of business; (e) the sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of Property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including any disposition of Property as part of a sale and leaseback transaction) aggregating not more than 20% of the Total Asset Value of the Borrower for all such transactions after the date of this Agreement; (f) any merger if it results in the simultaneous payoff in immediately available funds of the Obligations; and (g) the merger or consolidation of the Borrower with another Person not otherwise permitted under clauses (c) and (f) above, so long as (i) the Borrower is the surviving entity, (ii) the Borrower has delivered evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will be in pro forma compliance with all provisions of this Agreement upon and after such merger or consolidation and (iii) the Borrower will not engage in any material line of business substantially different from that engaged in on the Closing Date.
Contemplated Transactions “Contemplated Transactions” shall mean the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Agreement.
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PENDING THE MERGER SECTION 5.1 Conduct of Business by the Company Pending the Merger. ----------------------------------------------------- Prior to the Effective Time, except to the extent that Purchaser shall otherwise consent (including by virtue of action by the Board of Directors of the Company approved by all of Purchaser's or Merger Sub's designees, as applicable, at such time as they shall constitute a majority of such Board), the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, except as expressly permitted by this Agreement, conduct their respective businesses in, and shall not take any action except in, the ordinary course of business in a manner consistent with past practice; and the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use their respective reasonable best efforts to preserve intact the business organization of the Company and its Subsidiaries, to keep available the services of the current officers, employees and consultants of the Company and its Subsidiaries and to preserve the current business relationships of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, with customers, licensors, suppliers, distributors and others with which the Company or any Subsidiary has business relations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and except as expressly permitted or specifically contemplated by this Agreement, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, between the date of this Agreement and the Effective Time, directly or indirectly do, or propose to do, any of the following without the prior written consent of Purchaser (except as otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement): (i) declare, set aside or pay any dividends on or other distributions in respect of any of its capital stock (other than dividends and distributions by any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company to its parent), (ii) split, combine or reclassify any of its capital stock or issue or authorize or propose the issuance of any other securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for shares of its capital stock or (iii) repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, or permit any Subsidiary to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, any shares of capital stock; (b) issue, deliver, sell, pledge, dispose or encumber, or authorize or propose the issuance, delivery, sale, pledge, disposal or encumbrance of, any shares of its capital stock of any class or any securities convertible into, or any rights, warrants, calls, subscriptions or options to acquire, any such shares or convertible securities, or any other ownership interest other than (i) the issuance of shares of Company Common Stock upon the exercise of stock options granted under the Company Stock Option Plans outstanding on the date of this Agreement and in accordance with the current terms of such options, (ii) issuances by a Subsidiary of its capital stock to the Company or a Subsidiary so long as the Company will, after such issuance, directly or indirectly own all the outstanding capital stock of the issuing Subsidiary and (iii) the grant of stock options to new hires in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and with the written consent of Purchaser; (c) amend or propose to amend its Certificate of Incorporation or By- Laws; (d) acquire or agree to acquire, including, without limitation, by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing a substantial equity interest in or substantial portion of the assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any corporation, partnership, association or other business organization or division thereof; (e) sell, lease, license, grant a security interest in, encumber or otherwise dispose of, or agree to sell, lease, grant a security interest in, encumber or otherwise dispose of, any of its material assets other than (i) sales or licenses of its products in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (ii) equipment and property no longer used in the operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries' respective businesses and (iii) assets related to any discontinued operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries which operations were discontinued prior to the date hereof; (f) incur (which shall not be deemed to include entering into credit agreements, lines of credit or similar arrangements until borrowings are made under such arrangements) any indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantee any such indebtedness or issue or sell any debt securities or warrants or rights to acquire any debt securities of the Company or any Subsidiary or guarantee any debt securities of others, except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (i) grant any increase in the compensation of any of its directors, officers or employees, except for increases for employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices, (ii) grant, pay or agree to pay any pension, retirement allowance or other employee benefit not required or contemplated by any existing employee benefit plan, program, arrangement, agreement or contract (including, without limitation, any "employee benefit plan", as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), maintained or contributed to by the Company or any Subsidiary, or with respect to which the Company or any Subsidiary could incur liability under Sections 4069, 4212(c) or 4204 of ERISA (the "Company Benefit Plans") as in effect on the date hereof to any director, officer or employee, (iii) enter into any new employment, severance or termination plan, program, arrangement, agreement or contract with any such director, officer or employee or (iv) except as may be required to comply with applicable law, become obligated under any Company Benefit Plan that was not in existence on the date hereof or amend any such plan in existence on the date hereof to enhance the benefits thereunder; (h) make any capital expenditure or expenditures which exceed $250,000 in the aggregate; or (i) authorize any of, or commit or agree to take any of, the actions described in paragraphs (a) through (h) of this Section 5.1.
Transactions identified under Section 2 of this Agreement shall be deemed exception services ("Exception Services") when such transactions: (a) Require the Transfer Agent to use methods and procedures other than those usually employed by the Transfer Agent to perform services under Section 1 of this Agreement; (b) Involve the provision of information to the Transfer Agent after the commencement of the nightly processing cycle of the TA2000 System; or (c) Require more manual intervention by the Transfer Agent, either in the entry of data or in the modification or amendment of reports generated by the TA2000 System than is usually required by non-retirement plan and pre-nightly transactions.
Mergers, Consolidations Sales of Assets and Acquisitions. Merge into or consolidate with any other person, or permit any other person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or any part of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired), or any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) all or any substantial part of the assets of any other person, except that this Section shall not prohibit: (a) the purchase and sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or the acquisition of any other asset (excluding assets constituting investments of the type subject to Section 6.04) in the ordinary course of business; (b) if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing (i) the merger of any Subsidiary of the Borrower into the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving corporation and (ii) the merger or consolidation of any Subsidiary of the Borrower into or with any other 90% Subsidiary of the Borrower in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a 90% Subsidiary of the Borrower (which shall be a domestic Subsidiary if the non-surviving person shall be a domestic Subsidiary) and, (A) in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii), no person other than the Borrower or a 90% Subsidiary of the Borrower receives any consideration and (B) in the case of clause (ii), if any non-surviving person was a Guarantor the surviving person must be a Guarantor; (c) Sale and Lease-Back Transactions permitted by Section 6.03; (d) investments permitted by Section 6.04; (e) subject to Section 6.07, sales, leases or transfers (i) from the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the Borrower or to a domestic 90% Subsidiary of the Borrower, (ii) from any Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Borrower, (iii) from any Foreign Subsidiary that is a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower to any other Foreign Subsidiary that is a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or (iv) from any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Foreign Subsidiary that is a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, provided that the fair market value of all property sold, leased or transferred pursuant to this clause (iv) shall not exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate; (f) sales, leases or other dispositions of equipment or other property of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries determined by the general partner or senior management of the Borrower to be no longer useful or necessary in the operation of the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, provided that the Net Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.12(c); (g) sales, leases or other dispositions of inventory of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not made in the ordinary course of business determined by the general partner or senior management of the Borrower to be no longer useful or necessary in the operation of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, provided that the Net Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.12(c); (h) the sale of any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Borrower in which less than 90% of the Equity Interests is owned by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (i) sales, leases or other dispositions of property having a net book value not in excess of $20,000,000 in any fiscal year, provided that the Net Proceeds thereof are applied in accordance with Section 2.12(c) or are used within one year of the date of receipt thereof to purchase assets useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, provided further, that no sale may be made pursuant to this paragraph (i) of the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary except in connection with the sale of all its outstanding Equity Interests that are held by the Borrower and any other Subsidiary and provided further, that to the extent that the net book value of such property sold, leased or disposed in any fiscal year is less than $20,000,000, the amount of such difference, but in no case more than $10,000,000, may be carried forward and used for sales, leases, or dispositions of property in the immediately succeeding fiscal year (after the full amount such sales, leases and other dispositions of property otherwise permitted to be made under this paragraph (i) in such fiscal year, without regard to the provisions of this proviso, have been made) (it being understood that amounts once carried forward into such succeeding fiscal year shall lapse and terminate at the end of such fiscal year); (j) the Transaction; (k) the sale of defaulted receivables in the ordinary course of business and not as part of an accounts receivables financing transaction; (l) sales, leases or other dispositions of the Subject Property pursuant to the Xxxxxx County Bond Transactions consummated in accordance with the definition thereof; (m) the IPO Reorganization; and (n) licenses of intellectual property in the ordinary course of business. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, Holdings must at all times own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Borrower and Opco GP (except to the extent Opco GP is liquidated or consolidated with Holdings in connection with or in contemplation of the IPO Reorganization).
Mergers (a) The Trust may not consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other entity, except as described in Section 3.15(b) and (c) hereof. (b) The Trust may, with the consent of a majority of the Regular Trustees and without the consent of the Holders of the Trust Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by a trust organized as such under the laws of any State of the United States, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other entity; provided, that: (i) if the Trust is not the survivor, such successor entity (the “Successor Entity”) either: (A) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust to the Holders of the Trust Securities; or (B) substitutes for the Trust Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the Trust Securities (the “Successor Trust Securities”) so long as the Successor Trust Securities rank the same as the Trust Securities rank with respect to Capital Payments, distributions and rights upon liquidation, redemption or otherwise; (ii) the Company expressly acknowledges a trustee of such Successor Entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the holder of the Class B Preferred Securities; (iii) if applicable, the Successor Trust Securities are listed, or any Successor Trust Securities will be listed upon notification of issuance, on any securities exchange or other organization on which the Trust Preferred Securities are then listed or quoted, and the Successor Securities have at least the same rating as the Trust Preferred Securities; (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges or tax treatment of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities (including any Successor Trust Securities) in any material respect; (v) such Successor Entity has purposes substantially identical to that of the Trust, (vi) such Successor Entity will be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes; (vii) the Guarantor guarantees the obligations of such Successor Entity under the Successor Trust Securities to the same extent as provided under the Trust Preferred Guarantee; (viii) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement, the Bank has received an opinion of a nationally recognized law firm experienced in such matters to the effect that: (A) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement shall not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges or tax treatment of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities (including the Successor Trust Securities) in any material respect; (B) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement, neither the Trust nor such Successor Entity shall be required to register under the 1940 Act; (C) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement, the Trust (or such Successor Entity) shall be classified as a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes; and (D) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement, the Company shall not be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes; and
Mergers, Consolidations, Etc The Company will not consolidate with or merge with any other Person or convey, transfer, sell or lease all or substantially all of its assets in a single transaction or series of transactions to any Person unless: (a) the successor formed by such consolidation or the survivor of such merger or the Person that acquires by conveyance, transfer, sale or lease all or substantially all of the assets of the Company as an entirety, as the case may be, is a solvent corporation or limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof (including the District of Columbia), and, if the Company is not such successor or survivor, such successor or survivor (i) shall have executed and delivered to each holder of any Notes its assumption of the due and punctual performance and observance of each covenant and condition of this Agreement and the Notes and (ii) shall have caused to be delivered to each holder of any Notes an opinion of nationally recognized independent counsel or other independent counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Required Holders, to the effect that all agreements or instruments effecting such assumption are enforceable in accordance with their terms and comply with the terms hereof; (b) each Subsidiary Guarantor and each Obligor (other than the Company) shall have affirmed in writing its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty to which it is a party or this Agreement and the Notes, as the case may be (unless and to the extent any such Subsidiary Guaranty or the obligations of any such Obligor, as the case may be, have been discharged or released as expressly permitted by Section 2.2(a) or otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement); and (c) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, including, without limitation, under Sections 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, with any calculation of compliance therewith to be made as of the end of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter after giving pro forma effect to the consummation of such transaction.
Ownership of Merger Sub; No Prior Activities (a) Merger Sub was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (b) Except for obligations or liabilities incurred in connection with its incorporation or organization and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, Merger Sub has not and will not prior to the Closing Date have incurred, directly or indirectly, through any Subsidiary or affiliate, any obligations or liabilities or engaged in any business activities of any type or kind whatsoever or entered into any agreements or arrangements with any Person.
