Appropriate Action; Consents; Filings (a) Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their affiliates to) use commercially reasonable efforts to (i) consummate the Transactions and cause the conditions set forth in Article VI to be satisfied, (ii) promptly obtain all actions or nonactions, consents, clearances, Permits (including Environmental Permits), waivers, approvals, authorizations and Orders from Governmental Entities necessary or advisable in connection with the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) as promptly as practicable after the date of this Agreement, make all registrations, notifications and filings with any Governmental Entity necessary or advisable in connection with the consummation of the Transactions, including filings required under Antitrust Laws, and promptly make any further submissions that are necessary or advisable, (iv) seek to resolve any objection or assertion by any Governmental Entity challenging this Agreement or the Transactions and (v) execute and deliver any additional instruments necessary or advisable to consummate the Transactions. Parent, the Company and their respective affiliates shall not be required to make any concessions under this Section 5.07 that are not conditioned upon the Closing. Parent and the Company shall each be responsible for the payment of one-half of the filing fees applicable to the Transactions pursuant to any Antitrust Law.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, in no event shall Parent or its affiliates be required to (and the Company shall not, and shall cause its affiliates not to, without Parent’s prior written consent) offer, propose, negotiate, agree to, consent to or effect (i) any operational restrictions or limitations, (ii) any sale, license, disposition or holding separate of assets or businesses or (iii) any other remedy, condition, commitment or undertaking of any kind, in each case, in order to obtain actions or nonactions, consents, clearances, Permits, waivers, approvals, authorizations or Orders of Governmental Entities or to avoid the entry of, or to effect the dissolution of or vacate or lift, any Orders that would prevent or delay the consummation of the Transactions.
(c) Each party hereto shall: (i) give the other parties prompt notice of the making or commencement of any request, inquiry, investigation, or Proceeding by or before any Governmental Entity with respect to the Transactions; (ii) keep the other parties informed as to the status of any such request, inquiry, investigation, or Proceeding; and (iii) promptly inform the other parties of any communication to or from any Governmental Entity regarding the Transactions. Each party hereto will consult and cooperate with the other parties, and will consider in good faith the views of the other parties, in connection with any filing, analysis, appearance, presentation, memorandum, brief, argument, or opinion made or submitted to any Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions. In addition, except as may be prohibited by any Governmental Entity or by any Law, in connection with any such request, inquiry, investigation, action or Proceeding, each party hereto will permit authorized representatives of the other parties to be present at each meeting or conference relating to such request, inquiry, investigation, action or Proceeding and to have access to and be consulted in connection with, and to the extent practicable, provided the opportunity to review in advance, any document or opinion made or submitted to any Governmental Entity in connection with such request, inquiry, investigation or Proceeding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.07, no party hereto shall be in violation of this Agreement by virtue of providing information that is competitively sensitive to one another on an “outside counsel only” basis.
Effective Time; Closing Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing a Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the relevant provisions of Delaware Law (the “Certificate of Merger”) (the time of such filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (or such later time as may be agreed in writing by the Company and Parent and specified in the Certificate of Merger) being the “Effective Time”) as soon as practicable on the Closing Date. The closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall take place at the offices of Wxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Rxxxxx, Professional Corporation, located at One Market, Sxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, at a time and date to be specified by the parties, which shall be no later than the second business day after the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VI (other than those that by their terms are to be satisfied or waived at the Closing), or at such other time, date and location as the parties hereto agree in writing; provided, however, that if all the conditions set forth in Article VI shall not have been satisfied or waived on such second business day, then the Closing shall take place on the first business day on which all such conditions shall have been satisfied or waived. The date on which the Closing occurs is referred to herein as the “Closing Date.”
Shareholder Consent The execution, delivery and performance of the Articles Amendment shall have received the Shareholder Approval.
Stockholder Consent (a) So long as the Board of Directors of the Company shall not have withdrawn, modified or changed its recommendation in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.8(b) hereof, the Company, acting through its Board of Directors, shall, in accordance with Delaware law and its certificate of incorporation and by-laws, take all actions reasonably necessary to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene, and hold a stockholders meeting for the purpose of obtaining the requisite approval and adoption of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby by the Stockholders. The Company shall notify each Stockholder, whether or not entitled to vote, of the proposed Company stockholders’ meeting. Such meeting notice shall state that the purpose, or one of the purposes, of the meeting is to consider the Merger and shall contain or be accompanied by a copy or summary of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Directors of the Company shall not be required to take all actions reasonably necessary to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a stockholders meeting for the purpose of obtaining the requisite approval and adoption of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby by the Stockholders if the Company’s Board of Directors and the requisite Stockholders otherwise take all actions reasonably necessary to approve this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby by written consent in lieu of a meeting of the stockholders of the Company to the extent permitted by applicable law.
(b) The Board of Directors of the Company shall unanimously recommend such approval and shall use all reasonable efforts to solicit and obtain such approval; provided, however, that the Board of Directors of the Company may at any time prior to approval of the Stockholders (i) decline to make, withdraw, modify or change any recommendation or declaration regarding this Agreement or the Merger or (ii) recommend and declare advisable any other offer or proposal, to the extent the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith, based upon advice of legal counsel, that withdrawing, modifying, changing or declining to make its recommendation regarding this Agreement or the Merger or recommending and declaring advisable any other offer or proposal is necessary to comply with its fiduciary duties under applicable law (which declinations, withdrawal, modification or change shall not constitute a breach by the Company of this Agreement). The Company shall provide written notice to Parent promptly upon the Company taking any action referred to in the foregoing proviso.
(c) Pursuant to the DCGL, at any time before the certificate of merger is filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, including any time after the Merger is authorized by the Stockholders, the Merger may be abandoned and this Agreement may be terminated in accordance with the terms hereof, without further action by the Stockholders.
Prior Consent You will not accept for payment by Card any amount representing a deposit or partial payment for goods or services to be delivered in the future without the prior written consent of Processor. The acceptance of a Card for payment or partial payment of goods or services to be delivered in the future without prior consent will be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement and cause for immediate termination in addition to any other remedies available under the Laws or Rules.
Language Consent The parties acknowledge that it is their express wish that the Agreement, as well as all documents, notices and legal proceedings entered into, given or instituted pursuant hereto or relating directly or indirectly hereto, be drawn up in English.
Further Action; Consents; Filings Upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereof, each of the parties hereto shall use all reasonable efforts to
(i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate action, and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable Law or otherwise to consummate and make effective the Mergers, (ii) obtain from Governmental Entities any consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, authorizations or orders required to be obtained or made by Bergen, IVAX, BBI or the Surviving Corporations or any of their subsidiaries in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Mergers and (iii) make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required or appropriate submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Mergers required under (A) the rules and regulations of AMEX or the NYSE, (B) the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and any other applicable federal or state securities Laws, (C) the HSR Act, (D) the New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act and (E) any other applicable Law. The parties hereto shall cooperate and consult with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including by providing copies of all such documents to the nonfiling parties and their advisors prior to filing, and none of the parties shall file any such document if any of the other parties shall have reasonably objected to the filing of such document. No party shall consent to any voluntary extension of any statutory deadline or waiting period or to any voluntary delay of the consummation of the Mergers at the behest of any Governmental Entity without the consent and agreement of the other parties hereto, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
Post-Effective Time Conduct The Parties acknowledge that, after the Effective Time, each Party shall be independent of the other Party, with responsibility for its own actions and inactions and its own Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from the conduct of its business, operations and activities following the Effective Time, except as may otherwise be provided in any Ancillary Agreement, and each Party shall (except as otherwise provided in Article IV) use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent such Liabilities from being inappropriately borne by the other Party.
Required Consent In addition, without limiting the generality of Section 4.2(a), except as required by the terms of this Agreement, by Legal Requirements or by the terms of any Contract in effect on the date hereof and made available to Company or as provided in Section 4.2 of the Parent Disclosure Schedule, without the prior written consent of Company, during the period from the date hereof and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms or the Effective Time of the First Merger, Parent shall not do any of the following, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to do any of the following:
(i) Declare, set aside or pay any dividends on or make any other distributions (whether in cash, stock, equity securities or property) in respect of any capital stock or split, combine or reclassify any capital stock or issue or authorize the issuance of any other securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for any capital stock other than a cash management transaction between Parent and a wholly owned Subsidiary of it, or between wholly owned Subsidiaries of Parent in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(ii) Purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any shares of its capital stock or the capital stock of its Subsidiaries, except repurchases of shares at cost in connection with the termination of the employment relationship with any Parent Employee pursuant to stock option or purchase Contracts in effect on the date hereof or entered into in the ordinary course of business after the date hereof;
(iii) Issue, deliver, sell, authorize, pledge or otherwise encumber any shares of capital stock, or any securities convertible into shares of capital stock, or subscriptions, rights, warrants or options to acquire any shares of capital stock or any securities convertible into shares of capital stock, or enter into other agreements or commitments obligating it to issue any such securities or rights, other than: (A) issuances of Parent Common Stock upon the exercise of Parent Options, warrants or other rights of Parent or the settlement of Parent Restricted Stock Units existing on the date hereof in accordance with their present terms or granted pursuant to clause (B) hereof, (B) grants of stock options or other stock based awards (including restricted stock and Parent Restricted Stock Units) of or to acquire, shares of Parent Common Stock granted under the Parent Stock Plans in effect on the date hereof, in each case (x) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (y) with respect to stock options, granted with an exercise price equal to the fair market value of Parent Common Stock on the date of grant, provided that the total number of shares of Parent Common Stock issuable upon all such stock-based awards may not exceed 800,000 shares, (C) warrants to acquire not more than 1 million shares of Parent Common Stock that may be issued to prospective retailers, content providers or other strategic partners and (D) the Charter Amendment;
(iv) Cause or permit any amendments to any of the Parent Charter Documents except the Charter Amendment;
(v) Acquire or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any equity or voting interest in all or a portion of the assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any Person or division or product line thereof, or otherwise acquire or agree to acquire any assets that, in each such case, are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(vi) Sell, lease, exclusively license, encumber or otherwise convey or dispose of any properties or assets material to the business of Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except (A) sales of inventory, products or equipment in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or (B) the sale, lease or disposition of excess or obsolete property or assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, in each case, which are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of Parent and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(vii) Make any loans, advances or capital contributions to any Person, other than: (A) loans or investments by it or a wholly owned Subsidiary of it to or in it or any wholly owned Subsidiary of it, (B) employee loans or advances for travel and entertainment expenses made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or (C) pursuant to clause (v) above;
(viii) Except as required by GAAP or the SEC, materially revalue any of its assets;
(ix) Except as set forth in Section 4.2(b) to Parent Disclosure Schedule, pay, discharge, settle or satisfy any threatened or actual litigation or any dispute that would reasonably be expected to lead to litigation (whether or not commenced prior to the date of this Agreement), other than (x) the payment, discharge, settlement or satisfaction, solely for cash in amounts not exceeding $500,000 individually or $1 million in the aggregate, net of any insurance proceeds received in connection with such payment, discharge, settlement or satisfaction, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, or (y) the discharge, settlement or satisfaction of any such litigation or dispute that does not involve any payment by Company or any of its Subsidiaries and does not impose any obligation on Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than a non-exclusive license of Intellectual Property that is not material to Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole);
(x) Take any action to render inapplicable, or to exempt any third Person (other than Company) from any state takeover law or state law that purports to limit or restrict business combinations or the ability to acquire or vote shares of capital stock;
(xi) Transfer or license to any Person or otherwise extend, amend or modify in any material respect any rights to Parent IP, or enter into any Contracts or make other commitments to grant, transfer or license to any Person material future Parent IP rights, in each case, other than non-exclusive licenses granted to customers, resellers and end users in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;
(xii) Incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantee any such indebtedness of another Person, issue or sell any debt securities or options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire any debt securities of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, guarantee any debt securities of another Person, enter into any “keep well” or other Contract to maintain any financial statement condition of any other Person (other than any wholly owned Subsidiary of it) or enter into any arrangement having the economic effect of any of the foregoing, in all cases to the extent the amount thereof would exceed $10 million in the aggregate, other than (A) guarantees and letters of credit issued to suppliers of Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or (B) in connection with the financing of ordinary course trade payables, in either case consistent with past practice;
(xiii) Other than as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, appoint a new member of the board of directors of Parent;
(xiv) Take any action that is intended or would reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions to the First Merger set forth in Article VI not being satisfied;
(xv) Enter into any new line of business material to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(xvi) Fail to use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain in full force and effect insurance coverage substantially similar to insurance coverage maintained on the date hereof; or
(xvii) Agree in writing to take any of the actions described in (i) through (xvi) above.
Waiver; Consent This Agreement may not be changed, amended, terminated, augmented, rescinded or discharged (other than in accordance with its terms), in whole or in part, except by a writing executed by the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions or conditions of this Agreement or any of the rights of a party hereto shall be effective or binding unless such waiver shall be in writing and signed by the party claimed to have given or consented thereto. Except to the extent otherwise agreed in writing, no waiver of any term, condition or other provision of this Agreement, or any breach thereof shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other term, condition or provision or any breach thereof, or any subsequent breach of the same term, condition or provision, nor shall any forbearance to seek a remedy for any noncompliance or breach be deemed to be a waiver of a party’s rights and remedies with respect to such noncompliance or breach.
