Contracts (a) Section 4.13(a) of the Seller’s Disclosure Schedules contains a complete and correct list of all of the following Contracts, in effect as of the date of this Agreement, to which a Transferred Entity is a party, is bound by or subject to, or pursuant to which the BGI Business is conducted (the “Specified Contracts”): (i) any Contract for the placement, distribution or sale of shares, units or other ownership interests of a Fund that is reasonably expected to provide for payments to, or provide for payments from, a Transferred Entity in excess of $5,000,000 in 2009; (ii) any administration agreement or any other Contract for the provision of administrative services that is reasonably expected to provide for payments to, or provide for payments from a Transferred Entity in 2009 in excess of $10,000,000 and by its terms is not terminable without penalty by a Transferred Entity upon notice of 180 days or less; (iii) any Contract, other than a Benefit and Compensation Arrangement, that is reasonably expected to provide for payments to, or provide for payments from, a Transferred Entity in excess of $10,000,000 in 2009; (iv) any Contract prohibiting or materially restricting the ability of any Transferred Entity to conduct its business, to engage in any business or operate in any geographical area or to compete with any Person; (v) any Contract for any joint venture, strategic alliance, partnership or similar arrangement involving a sharing of profits or expenses or payments based on revenues, profits, or assets under management of any Affiliate of Parent or any Fund that is reasonably expected to account for revenue to the BGI Business in 2009 in excess of $10,000,000 on an annual (or annualized) basis or that would reasonably be expected to be material to the Transferred Entities, taken as a whole; (vi) any Contract relating to any Indebtedness of a Transferred Entity in an amount in excess of $5,000,000, other than: (A) any mortgage or similar Indebtedness secured by specific property owned by or on behalf of a Client; (B) any Indebtedness solely between Transferred Entities; or (C) any Indebtedness for which no Transferred Entity will be liable following the Closing; (vii) any Contract (including any so-called take-or-pay or keep well agreements) under which (A) any Person has directly or indirectly guaranteed or assumed Indebtedness, liabilities or obligations of any Transferred Entity in respect of the BGI Business that would reasonably be expected to be material to the Transferred Entities, taken as a whole, or (B) a Transferred Entity has directly or indirectly guaranteed or otherwise agreed to be responsible for Indebtedness or liabilities of any Person (other than any Transferred Entity) in each case in excess of $10,000,000; (viii) any Contract that provides for earn-outs or other similar contingent obligations that would reasonably be expected to result in annual payments in 2009 of $5,000,000 or more; (ix) any Contract entered into since January 1, 2007 for the acquisition or disposition of a Person or a division of a Person, or for the acquisition or sale of any assets (including Intellectual Property), properties, equity interests or rights, other than any such sale or acquisition in the ordinary course of business or any such sale or acquisition that would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Transferred Entities, taken as a whole; and (x) any BGI Affiliate Arrangement that will be in effect after the Closing. (b) Seller has made available to Buyer prior to the date of this Agreement a complete and correct copy of each written Specified Contract (except in certain instances such Specified Contracts or portions thereof have been withheld as described in Seller’s Disclosure Schedules or redacted) and accurate and complete descriptions of all material terms of each oral Specified Contract, including all material amendments, modifications and supplements thereto as in effect on the date of this Agreement. Each (i) Specified Contract, (ii) Investment Advisory Arrangement which accounts for more than $1,000,000 of revenue to the BGI Business on an annualized basis and (iii) Contract that is reasonably expected to provide for payments to a Transferred Entity in excess of $1,000,000 in 2009 that contains key person provisions pertaining to employees of a Transferred Entity ((i), (ii) and (iii) being the “Significant Contracts”) is in full force and effect, and is valid and binding on the Transferred Entity that is a party thereto, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, on each other party thereto. There exists no breach or default of any Significant Contract on the part of any Transferred Entity which (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be material to the Transferred Entities, taken as a whole. No Transferred Entity has received any written notice of an intention to terminate, not to renew or to challenge the validity or enforceability of any Significant Contract, the termination, failure to renew or challenge of which would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be material to the Transferred Entities, taken as a whole. (c) As of the date hereof, no Transferred Entity has entered into and is bound by or subject to any of the following: (i) other than investment management and distribution Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, any Contract providing for the indemnification of any Person with respect to liabilities, whether absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise that would reasonably be expected to result in aggregate indemnification payments by a Transferred Entity in excess of $10,000,000; (ii) other than Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, any type of Contract to cap fees, share fees or other payments, share expenses, waive fees or to reimburse or assume any or all fees or expenses thereunder that in any such case would be material to the Transferred Entities, taken as a whole; or (iii) other than Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, any Contract requiring any Transferred Entity (A) to co-invest with any other Person, (B) to provide seed capital or similar investment or (C) to invest in any investment product, in each case in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 individually. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in no event shall Specified Contracts include any Investment Advisory Arrangement. (e) Attached as Section 4.13(e) of the Seller’s Disclosure Schedules is a description of any “most favored nation” provision in any Investment Advisory Arrangement which provided revenue to Seller and its Affiliates in excess of (i) $1,000,000 in 2008 for Investment Advisory Arrangement with U.S.-based clients and (ii) $5,000,000 in 2008 for all other Investment Advisory Arrangements. (f) Attached as Section 4.13(f) of the Seller’s Disclosure Schedules is a description of any “key person” provision pertaining to employees of a Transferred Entity in any Contract that is reasonably expected to provide for payments to a Transferred Entity in excess of $10,000,000 in 2009. (g) Seller has made available to Buyer a true and complete copy of its form of counterparty security lending (borrower default) indemnity Contract and its forms of cash fund capital support Contracts, in each case provided to certain funds and clients of the securities lending or short-term cash businesses of the BGI Business, and none of the Contracts used by the Transferred Entities for such purposes materially deviates from such standard forms.
Other Service Contracts The Trustees may authorize the engagement of a principal underwriter, transfer agent, administrator, custodian, and similar service providers.
Existing Contracts Billing terms and provisions contained in existing contracting entity agreements (existing as of the date this policy is approved by the Board of Supervisors) shall remain in effect for the life of the contract. However, when these existing contracts are renegotiated, they shall contain the billing provisions as set forth in this policy.
SUB-CONTRACTS (a) The Administrator may sub-contract or delegate the performance of all or any of its powers and obligations under this Agreement, provided that (but subject to Clause 3.2(b) herein): (i) the prior written consent of the Mortgages Trustee and Funding to the proposed arrangement (including, if Funding considers it necessary after consulting with the Security Trustee, approving any contract which sets out the terms on which such arrangements are to be made) has been obtained, the Security Trustee has been consulted and notification has been given to each of the Rating Agencies; (ii) where the arrangements involve the custody or control of any Mortgage Loan Files and/or Title Deeds relating to the Mortgage Portfolio for the purpose of performing any delegated Services, the sub-contractor or delegate has executed an acknowledgement in writing acceptable to Funding and the Security Trustee to the effect that any such Mortgage Loan Files and/or Title Deeds are and will be held to the order of the Mortgages Trustee (as trustee for the Beneficiaries); (iii) where the arrangements involve or may involve the receipt by the sub-contractor or delegate of monies belonging to the Beneficiaries which, in accordance with this Agreement, are to be paid into the relevant Collection Account, the sub-contractor or delegate has executed a declaration in writing acceptable to the Beneficiaries that any such monies held by it or to its order are held on trust for the Beneficiaries and will be paid forthwith into the relevant Collection Account in accordance with the terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed; (iv) any such sub-contractor or delegate has executed a written waiver of any Security Interest arising in connection with such delegated Services (to the extent that such Security Interest relates to the Mortgage Portfolio or any amount referred to in (iii) above); and (v) neither the Mortgages Trustee, the Security Trustee nor the Beneficiaries shall have any liability for any costs, charges or expenses payable to or incurred by such sub-contractor or delegate or arising from the entering into, the continuance or the termination of any such arrangement. (b) The provisos to Clause 3.2(a) (i), (ii) and (iii) herein shall not apply: (i) to the engagement by the Administrator of: (1) any receiver, solicitor, insurance broker, valuer, surveyor, accountant, estate agent, insolvency practitioner, auctioneer, bailiff, debt counsellor, tracing agent, property management agent, licensed or qualified conveyancer or other professional adviser acting as such; or (2) any locksmith, builder or other contractor acting as such in relation to a Mortgaged Property, in any such case being a person or persons whom the Administrator would be willing to appoint in respect of its own mortgages in connection with the performance by the Administrator of any of its obligations or functions or in connection with the exercise of its powers under this Agreement; or (ii) to any delegation to any wholly-owned subsidiary of the Seller from time to time. (c) The Mortgages Trustee and/or Funding and the Security Trustee may require the Administrator to assign to the Mortgages Trustee any rights which the Administrator may have against any sub-contractor or delegate arising from the performance of services by such person in association with any matter contemplated by this Agreement and the Administrator acknowledges that such rights assigned to the Mortgages Trustee will be exercised by the Mortgages Trustee as trustee for the Beneficiaries subject to the terms of the Mortgages Trust Deed. (d) Notwithstanding any sub-contracting or delegation of the performance of the Administrator's obligations under this Agreement: (i) the Administrator shall not thereby be released or discharged from any liability hereunder; (ii) the Administrator shall remain responsible for the performance of the obligations of the Administrator under this Agreement; (iii) the performance or non-performance or the manner of performance of any sub-contractor or delegate of any of the Services shall not affect the Administrator's obligations under this Agreement; (iv) any breach in the performance of the Services by any sub-contractor or delegate shall, subject to the Administrator being entitled for a period of twenty (20) Business Days from receipt of notice of the breach to remedy such breach by any sub-contractor or delegate, be treated as a breach of this Agreement by the Administrator; and (v) the Security Trustee shall have no liability for any act or omission of the sub-contractor or delegate and shall have no responsibility for monitoring or investigating the suitability of any such sub-contractor or delegate.
Prior Contracts This Contract supersedes and terminates, as of the date hereof, all prior contracts between the Fund and the Custodian relating to the custody of the Fund's assets.
Option Agreements To the extent not expressly amended hereby, the Agreements remain in full force and effect.
The Contracts (i) will be sold by broker-dealers, or their registered representatives, who are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act") and who are members in good standing of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"); (ii) will be issued and sold in compliance in all material respects with all applicable federal and state laws; and (iii) will be sold in compliance in all material respects with state insurance suitability requirements and NASD suitability guidelines.
Options (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) below with respect to the Company's 1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (the "Company ESPP"), at the Effective Time, each then outstanding and unexercised option (the "Company Options") exercisable for shares of Company Stock shall become fully vested and exercisable (by virtue of their terms) and Purchaser shall cause each holder of a Company Option to receive, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of the holder thereof, options exercisable for shares of Purchaser Stock ("Purchaser Replacement Options") having the same terms and conditions as the Company Options (including such terms and conditions as may be incorporated by reference into the agreements evidencing the Company Options pursuant to the plans or arrangements pursuant to which such Company Options were granted) except that the exercise price and the number of shares issuable upon exercise shall be divided and multiplied, respectively, by the Conversion Fraction, and rounded to the nearest whole cent or number, respectively. Purchaser shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that any Company Options that qualified as incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") prior to the Effective Time continue to so qualify after the Effective Time. Purchaser shall take all corporate action necessary to reserve for issuance a sufficient number of shares of Purchaser Stock for delivery upon the exercise of Purchaser Replacement Options after the Effective Time. Promptly after the Effective Time, Purchaser shall file or cause to be filed all registration statements on Form S-8 or other appropriate form as may be necessary in connection with the purchase and sale of Purchaser Stock contemplated by such Purchaser Replacement Options subsequent to the Effective Time, and shall maintain the effectiveness of such registration statements (and maintain the current status of the prospectus or prospectuses contained therein) for so long as any of the Purchaser Replacement Options registered thereunder remain outstanding. As soon as practicable after the Effective Time, Purchaser shall qualify under applicable state securities laws the issuance of such shares of Purchaser Stock issuable upon exercise of Purchaser Replacement Options. Purchaser's Board of Directors shall take all actions necessary on the part of Purchaser to enable the acquisition of Purchaser Stock, Purchaser Replacement Options and subsequent transactions in Purchaser Stock after the Effective Time pursuant to Purchaser Replacement Options by persons subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act (as defined below) to be exempt from the application of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, to the extent permitted thereunder. (b) The current offerings in process as of the date of this Agreement under the Company ESPP shall continue, and Company Shares shall be issued to participants thereunder on the next currently scheduled purchase dates thereunder occurring after the date hereof as provided under, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Company ESPP. The Company may, consistent with past practice, commence new offering periods under the Company ESPP on or after the date hereof and prior to the Effective Time at an exercise price for each such offering not less than as is required under the Company ESPP. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, pursuant to the Company ESPP, all offerings under the Company ESPP shall be terminated, and each participant shall be deemed to have purchased immediately prior to the Effective Time, to the extent of payroll deductions accumulated by such participant as of such offering period end, the number of whole shares of Company Stock at a per share price determined pursuant to the provisions of the Company ESPP, and each participant shall receive a cash payment equal to the balance, if any, of such accumulated payroll deductions remaining after such purchase of such shares. As of the Effective Time, each participant shall receive, by virtue of the Merger, the number of whole shares of Purchaser Stock or cash into which the shares of Company Stock such participant has so purchased under the Company ESPP have been converted pursuant to the Merger as provided in Section 1.3(a) hereof, plus the cash value of any fraction of a share of Purchaser Common Stock as provided in Section 1.5(h) hereof, plus any dividends or distributions as provided in Section 1.
Business Contracts (a) Schedule 1.1(d) lists each agreement (whether written or oral and including all amendments and supplements thereto) relating to the Business to which Sellers are a party or beneficiary or by which Sellers (in respect of the Business) or any of the Assets is bound or otherwise obligated for which Sellers have provided staffing services at any time during the period beginning on January 1, 2022 and ending on the Closing Date, including all customer contracts, purchase orders and statements of work (collectively, the “Customer Contracts”). Each Customer Contract represents the entire agreement between Sellers and the other party or parties thereto. Subject to obtaining any necessary third Person consents pursuant to Section 4.8, each Customer Contract will continue to be binding in accordance with its terms following the Closing Date, and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby and will not result in an actual or potential default, or require the payment of any sum of money, under any Customer Contract (with or without the lapse of time or giving of notice, or both). (b) Schedule 2.14(b) lists a generic description of each of the employment-related agreements and policies applicable to Billable Personnel (collectively, the “Billable Personnel Contracts”). Each Temporary Personnel Contract represents the entire agreement between Sellers and the other party or parties thereto. Subject to obtaining any necessary third Person consents pursuant to Section 4.8, each Billable Personnel Contract will continue to be binding in accordance with its terms following the Closing Date and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby and will not result in an actual or potential default, or require the payment of any sum of money not contemplated by Section 4.3(c), under any Billable Personnel Contract (with or without the lapse of time or giving of notice, or both). (c) Schedule 1.1(f) lists each agreement (whether written or oral and including all amendments and supplements thereto) relating to the Business to which Sellers are a party or beneficiary or by which Sellers (in respect of the Business) or any of the Assets is bound or otherwise obligated relating to the Billable Staffing Independent Contractors who are providing billable services on the date hereof (collectively, the “Billable Staffing Independent Contractor Contracts”). Each Billable Staffing Independent Contractor Contract represents the entire agreement between Sellers and the other party or parties thereto. Subject to obtaining any necessary third Person consents pursuant to Section 4.8, each Billable Staffing Independent Contractor Contract will continue to be binding in accordance with its terms following the Closing Date and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby and will not result in an actual or potential default, or require the payment of any sum of money, under any Billable Staffing Independent Contractor Contract (with or without the lapse of time or giving of notice, or both). (d) Schedule 2.14(d) lists the following currently effective agreements (whether written or oral and including all amendments and supplements thereto) relating to the Business to which Sellers are a party or beneficiary or by which Sellers (in respect of the Business) or any of the Assets is bound or otherwise obligated, which is not listed in any other Schedule (collectively with the agreements and policies listed in the other Schedules, the “Business Contracts”): (i) real estate leases; (ii) agreements evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to any Indebtedness for which Sellers are, directly or indirectly, liable; (iii) capital or operating leases or conditional sales agreements relating to vehicles, equipment or other Assets that are material to the Business; (iv) agreements pursuant to which Sellers are entitled or obligated to either acquire any assets from, or sell any assets to, a third Person; (v) insurance policies; (vi) employment, consulting, noncompetition, separation, collective bargaining, union or labor agreements or arrangements; and (vii) agreements with or for the benefit of the Selling Person, or any director, manager, officer or employee of Sellers employed in the Business, or any Affiliate or immediate family member thereof. (e) Sellers have delivered to Buyer a true, correct and complete copy of each written Business Contract and a written, detailed summary of each material term of each oral Business Contract. Each Business Contract is valid, binding and in full force and effect and enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance or similar Laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a Proceeding at law or in equity). Sellers have performed all of their material obligations under each Business Contract, and there exists no breach or default (or event that with notice or lapse of time would constitute a breach or default) on the part of Sellers or, to the Knowledge of Sellers, on the part of any other Person under any Business Contract. There has been no termination or notice of default or, to the Knowledge of Sellers, any threatened termination under any Business Contract. To the Knowledge of Sellers, no party to any Business Contract intends to alter its relationship with the Business as a result of or in connection with the acquisition contemplated by this Agreement.
Customer Contracts 6.2.1 The Redistributor should ensure that its contracts with its Customers give it all necessary rights to control and monitor Data use. 6.2.2 The Redistributor is obliged to make the contents of this Schedule available to its customers.