Non-Solicitation and Opportunity to Match Sample Clauses

Non-Solicitation and Opportunity to Match. (1) Except as otherwise provided herein, on and after the date hereof, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, through any officer, director, representative, advisor or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries: (i) solicit, assist, initiate, encourage or otherwise facilitate any inquiries, proposals, offers or expressions of interest regarding an Acquisition Proposal; (ii) engage in any discussions or negotiations regarding any Acquisition Proposal, provided that for greater certainty, the Company may advise any Person making an unsolicited Acquisition Proposal that such Acquisition Proposal does not constitute a Superior Proposal when the Company Board has so determined; (iii) furnish or provide access to any information concerning the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, properties or assets to any Person in connection with an Acquisition Proposal; (iv) withdraw, modify or qualify, or propose publicly to withdraw, modify or qualify, in any manner adverse to Parent, the approval or recommendation of the Company Board (including any committee thereof) of this Agreement or the Arrangement; (v) accept, approve or recommend, or remain neutral with respect to, or propose publicly to accept, approve or recommend, or remain neutral with respect to, any Acquisition Proposal (except that the Company may publicly take a neutral position or no position with respect to an Acquisition Proposal for a period of time not in excess of five Business Days after the first public announcement of such Acquisition Proposal and for greater certainty, such position shall not be considered an adverse withdrawal, modification or qualification of, or a public proposal to so withdraw, modify or qualify, the approval or recommendation of the Company Board (such period of time, an “Acquisition Proposal Assessment Period”) unless such position continues beyond the expiration of the Acquisition Proposal Assessment Period), or (vi) accept or enter into, or publicly propose to accept or enter into, any letter of intent, agreement in principle, agreement or arrangement relating to an Acquisition Proposal. (2) Nothing contained in this 0 or in any other provision of this Agreement shall prevent the Company Board from engaging in any discussions or negotiations with, or furnishing or providing access to information to, any Person in response to an unsolicited written bona fide Acquisition Proposal by such Person, if and only to the extent that: (a) subject t...
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Non-Solicitation and Opportunity to Match. (1) Except as otherwise provided herein, on and after the date hereof, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, through any officer, director, employee, representative or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, solicit or knowingly encourage (including by way of furnishing information or entering into any form of agreement, arrangement or understanding) the initiation of any inquiries or proposals from any other Person regarding any merger, amalgamation, reorganization, recapitalization, take-over bid, tender offer, sale of all or any portion of the assets of the Company or any Subsidiary representing more than 25% of the consolidated book value of the assets of the Company, issue or sale of more than 25% of the shares of any class (including the Shares, in the case of the Company) or similar transactions involving the Company or any Subsidiaries of the Company (any of the foregoing inquiries, proposals or transactions being referred to herein as an “Acquisition Proposal”), provided nothing contained in this Section 3.2 or in any other provision of this Agreement shall prevent the Company Board from considering, negotiating, approving and recommending to the Shareholders an unsolicited bona fide written Acquisition Proposal that does not result from a breach of this Section 3.2 and (i) for which adequate financial arrangements have been made; (ii) which is reasonably capable of completion without undue delay taking into account all legal, financial, regulatory and other aspects of such Acquisition Proposal, and (iii) which the Company Board determines in good faith (after consultation with its financial advisors, and after receiving advice of outside counsel) would, if consummated in accordance with its terms, result in a transaction more favourable to the Shareholders from a financial point of view than the transaction contemplated by this Agreement (any such Acquisition Proposal being referred to herein as a “Superior Proposal”). (2) The Company agrees not to release any third party from any confidentiality or standstill agreement to which the Company and such third party is a party or to waive any of the provisions of such agreements except pursuant to the terms of a Proposed Agreement entered into in accordance with Section 3.2(6). (3) The Company shall promptly notify Nucor of any existing Acquisition Proposals or of any future Acquisition Proposal or any request for non-public information relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiar...

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  • CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION AND SOLICITATION LIMITATIONS No state contractor, prospective state contractor, principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor, with regard to a state contract or state contract solicitation with or from a state agency in the executive branch or a quasi-public agency or a holder, or principal of a holder of a valid prequalification certificate, shall make a contribution to (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State or State Treasurer, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee (which includes town committees). In addition, no holder or principal of a holder of a valid prequalification certificate, shall make a contribution to (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of State senator or State representative, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee. On and after January 1, 2011, no state contractor, prospective state contractor, principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor, with regard to a state contract or state contract solicitation with or from a state agency in the executive branch or a quasi-public agency or a holder, or principal of a holder of a valid prequalification certificate, shall knowingly solicit contributions from the state contractor's or prospective state contractor's employees or from a subcontractor or principals of the subcontractor on behalf of (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State or State Treasurer, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee. State contractors and prospective state contractors are required to inform their principals of the above prohibitions, as applicable, and the possible penalties and other consequences of any violation thereof. Contributions or solicitations of contributions made in violation of the above prohibitions may result in the following civil and criminal penalties: Civil penalties—Up to $2,000 or twice the amount of the prohibited contribution, whichever is greater, against a principal or a contractor. Any state contractor or prospective state contractor which fails to make reasonable efforts to comply with the provisions requiring notice to its principals of these prohibitions and the possible consequences of their violations may also be subject to civil penalties of up to $2,000 or twice the amount of the prohibited contributions made by their principals. Criminal penalties—Any knowing and willful violation of the prohibition is a Class D felony, which may subject the violator to imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or not more than $5,000 in fines, or both.

  • Non Competition Non Solicitation and Confidentiality As a condition to the receipt of this Award, you must agree to the Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation and Confidentiality Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A by executing that Agreement. Failure to execute and return the Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation and Confidentiality Agreement within 120 days of the Grant Date shall constitute your decision to decline to accept this Award.

  • Non-Solicitation of Company Employees Executive shall not, at any time during the Restricted Period (as defined below), without the prior written consent of the Company, engage in the following conduct (a "Solicitation"): (i) directly or indirectly, contact, solicit, recruit or employ (whether as an employee, officer, director, agent, consultant or independent contractor) any person who was or is at any time during the previous six months an employee, representative, officer or director of the Company; or (ii) take any action to encourage or induce any employee, representative, officer or director of the Company to cease his or her relationship with the Company for any reason. A "Solicitation" does not include any recruitment of employees for the Company.

  • Non-Solicitation or Hire During the Term and, following the termination of the Executive's employment for any reason, for a period of twenty-four (24) months, the Executive shall not (a) directly or indirectly solicit, attempt to solicit or induce (x) any party who is a customer of the Company or its subsidiaries, who was a customer of the Company or its subsidiaries at any time during the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the date the Executive's employment terminates or who is a prospective customer that has been identified and targeted by the Company or its subsidiaries as of the Termination Date, for the purpose of marketing, selling or providing to any such party any services or products offered by or available from the Company or its subsidiaries, or (y) any supplier to the Company or any subsidiary to terminate, reduce or alter negatively its relationship with the Company or any subsidiary or in any manner interfere with any agreement or contract between the Company or any subsidiary and such supplier or (b) hire any employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates (a "Current Employee") or any person who was an employee of or consultant to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates during the six (6) month period immediately prior to the date the Executive's employment terminates (a "Former Employee") or directly or indirectly solicit or induce a Current or Former Employee to terminate such employee's employment relationship with the Protected Parties in order, in either case, to enter into a similar relationship with the Executive, or any other person or any entity; provided, however, that nothing in Section 6.3(b) (i) shall be deemed to prohibit general solicitations for employment through advertisements or other means that may be seen by employees of the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliates or (ii) preclude the Executive from employing any person whose employment with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates was involuntarily terminated.

  • Non-Solicitation of Executives During the Non-Compete Term, Executive will not, either directly or indirectly, call on, solicit or induce any other executive or officer of the Company or its affiliates with whom Executive had contact, knowledge of, or association with in the course of employment with the Company to terminate his employment, and will not assist any other person or entity in such a solicitation; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that with respect to soliciting any executive or officer whose employment was terminated by the Company or its affiliates, or general solicitations for employment not targeted at current officers or employees of the Company or its affiliates, the foregoing restriction shall not apply.

  • Employee Non-Solicitation During the term of Executive's employment with the Company and for one (1) year thereafter, Executive shall not directly or indirectly encourage any Company employee to terminate his employment with the Company unless Executive does so in the course of performing his duties for the Company and such encouragement is in the Company's best interests. For purposes of this Article VII, the term “Company” means Kohl's Department Stores, Inc. and its parent companies, subsidiaries and other affiliates.

  • Non-Solicitation; No-Hire You agree to comply with the provisions of this Section 1(a) during the period of your employment with PNC and the 12-month period following your Termination Date, regardless of the reason for such termination of employment, as follows:

  • Non-Solicitation of Clients During the Restricted Period, the Executive agrees not to solicit, directly or indirectly, on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person(s), any client of the Company to whom the Company had provided services at any time during the Executive’s employment with the Company in any line of business that the Company conducts as of the date of the Executive’s termination of employment or that the Company is actively soliciting, for the purpose of marketing or providing any service competitive with any service then offered by the Company.

  • Non-Competition/Solicitation To the Company’s knowledge, no Respondent is subject to any non-competition agreement or non-solicitation agreement with any employer or prior employer which could materially affect such Respondent’s ability to be and act in the capacity of a director or officer of the Company, as applicable.

  • Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation; Confidentiality (a) For a period from the Closing Date until the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, control or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of any business, whether in corporate, proprietorship or partnership form or otherwise, engaged in the Business or that otherwise competes with the Business (a “Restricted Business”). The parties hereto specifically acknowledge and agree that the remedy at law for any breach of the foregoing will be inadequate and that Newco, in addition to any other relief available to it, shall be entitled to temporary and permanent injunctive relief without the necessity of proving actual damage or posting any bond whatsoever. (b) For a period from the Closing Date to the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall: (i) cause, solicit, induce or encourage any Employees of the Company to leave such employment or hire, employ or otherwise engage any such individual; or (ii) cause, induce or encourage any material actual or prospective client, customer, supplier or licensor of the Business (including any existing or former customer of the Company and any Person that becomes a client or customer of the Business after the Closing) or any other Person who has a material business relationship with the Business, to terminate or modify any such actual or prospective relationship. (c) The covenants and undertakings contained in this Section 6.7 relate to matters which are of a special, unique and extraordinary character and a violation of any of the terms of this Section 6.7 will cause irreparable injury to Newco, the amount of which will be impossible to estimate or determine and which cannot be adequately compensated. Accordingly, the remedy at law for any breach of this Section 6.7 will be inadequate. Therefore, Newco will be entitled to an injunction, restraining order or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction in the event of any breach of this Section 6.7. The rights and remedies provided by this Section 6.7 are cumulative and in addition to any other rights and remedies which Newco may have hereunder or at law or in equity. (d) The parties hereto agree that, if any court of competent jurisdiction in a final nonappealable judgment determines that a specified time period, a specified geographical area, a specified business limitation or any other relevant feature of this Section 6.7 is unreasonable, arbitrary or against public policy, then a lesser time period, geographical area, business limitation or other relevant feature which is determined by such court to be reasonable, not arbitrary and not against public policy may be enforced against the applicable party. (e) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the agreement of the Subsidiaries of the Company to the provisions of this Section 6.7 in form and content reasonably satisfactory to Newco.

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