Conditions to Obligation of the Company to Effect the Merger The obligation of the Company to effect the Merger is further subject to the fulfillment of, or the waiver by the Company at or prior to the Effective Time of, the following conditions:
(a) (i) The Parent Fundamental Representations shall be true and correct in all respects, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case as of such earlier date); and (ii) the other representations and warranties of Parent set forth in Article IV shall be true and correct (without giving effect to any “materiality,” “in all material respects,” “Parent Material Adverse Effect” or similar qualifiers) as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, as if made at and as of such time (except to the extent expressly made as of an earlier date, in which case as of such date), except where the failure of such representations and warranties to be so true and correct (without regard to any qualifications or exceptions as to “materiality,” “in all material respects,” “Parent Material Adverse Effect” or similar qualifiers contained in such representations and warranties), individually or in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Parent and Merger Sub shall have performed in all material respects all obligations and complied in all material respects with all covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by them prior to the Effective Time.
(c) Since September 30, 2013, there shall not have occurred a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
(d) Parent shall have delivered to the Company a certificate executed by an authorized officer of Parent certifying to the effect that the conditions set forth in Section 6.2(a), Section 6.2(b) and Section 6.2(c) have been satisfied.
(e) The shares of Parent Common Stock to be issued in the Merger shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance.
Conditions to Effectiveness of Agreement This Agreement shall not be effective until the date on which each of the following conditions have been satisfied, in the sole discretion of, or waived in writing by, the Managing Agents and the Administrative Agent (such date, the “Effective Date”):
Certain Representations; Reservation and Availability of Shares of Common Stock or Cash (a) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the Warrant Agent, constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, and the Warrants have been duly authorized, executed and issued by the Company and, assuming due authentication thereof by the Warrant Agent pursuant hereto, constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits hereof; in each case except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(b) As of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 400,066,666 shares of Common Stock, of which (A) 11,073,731 shares of Common Stock are issued and outstanding, (B) 21,000,000 shares of Common Stock are reserved for issuance upon exercise of the Warrants, (C) 210,000,000 shares are reserved for issuance upon redemption of the Series A Preferred Stock, (D) 150,000 shares of Common Stock are issuable upon exercise of previously issued and outstanding warrants, and (E) 859,164 shares of Common Stock are reserved for issuance upon exercise of an equity incentive plan, and (ii) 15,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share, of which 1,050,000 shares have been designated as shares of Series A Preferred Stock, which are issuable in connection with the Series A Offerings. As of the date hereof, there are no other outstanding obligations, warrants, options or other rights to subscribe for or purchase from the Company any class of capital stock of the Company, other than the rights of holders of OP Units to convert their OP Units into shares of Common Stock.
(c) The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be reserved and kept available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock or its authorized and issued shares of Common Stock held in its treasury, free from preemptive rights, the number of shares of Common Stock that will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Warrants.
(d) The Company further covenants and agrees that it will pay when due and payable any and all federal and state transfer taxes and charges which may be payable in respect of the original issuance or delivery of the Global Warrant Certificate or the Warrant Shares. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax or governmental charge which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the transfer or delivery of a Global Warrant Certificate or the issuance of Warrant Shares in a name other than that of the Holder until any such tax or governmental charge shall have been paid (any such tax or governmental charge being payable by the Holder at the time of surrender) or until it has been established to the Company’s reasonable satisfaction that no such tax or governmental charge is due.
Conditions to Effectiveness of Increase As a condition precedent to such increase, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) such assurances, certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to be satisfied that such increase will not violate or cause a default under the Senior Note Documents or otherwise provide the holders of the Senior Notes the right to collateral to secure the obligations under the Senior Note Documents and (ii) a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Term Increase Effective Date (in sufficient copies for each Lender) signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (A) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase, and (B) in the case of the Company, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase, (1) the representations and warranties contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct on and as of the Term Increase Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.15, the representations and warranties contained in clause (a) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (2) no Default exists. The additional Term Loans shall be made by the Term Lenders participating therein pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 2.02.
Conditions to Effectiveness of Extensions As a condition precedent to such extension, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) a certificate of each Borrower dated as of the Effective Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Borrower (x) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such extension and (y) in the case of the Company, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such extension, (A) the representations and warranties contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (provided, that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representation or warranty that already is qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) on and as of the Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects (provided, that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representation or warranty that already is qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof) as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.19, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to subsections (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (B) no Default exists and (ii)(x) upon the reasonable request of any Revolving Credit Lender made at least 3 days prior to the Effective Date, the Company shall have provided to such Lender, and such Lender shall be reasonably satisfied with, the documentation and other information so requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the Act, in each case at least 2 days prior to the Effective Date and (y) at least 2 days prior to the Effective Date, any Loan Party that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall have delivered, to each Revolving Credit Lender that so requests, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Loan Party. In addition, on the Maturity Date of each Non-Extending Lender, the Borrowers shall prepay any Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date (and pay any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05) to the extent necessary to keep outstanding Revolving Credit Loans ratable with any revised Applicable Percentages of the respective Lenders effective as of such date.
CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS AND LENDING SECTION 3.01.
Termination of Obligations to Effect Closing; Effects (a) The obligations of the Company, on the one hand, and the Investors, on the other hand, to effect the Closing shall terminate as follows:
(i) Upon the mutual written consent of the Company and the Investors;
(ii) By the Company if any of the conditions set forth in Section 6.2 shall have become incapable of fulfillment, and shall not have been waived by the Company;
(iii) By an Investor (with respect to itself only) if any of the conditions set forth in Section 6.1 shall have become incapable of fulfillment, and shall not have been waived by the Investor; or
(iv) By either the Company or any Investor (with respect to itself only) if the Closing has not occurred on or prior to the earliest to occur of (i) the effective date of the Merger, (ii) the termination of the Merger Agreement or (iii) December 31, 2004; provided, however, that, except in the case of clause (i) above, the party seeking to terminate its obligation to effect the Closing shall not then be in breach of any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents if such breach has resulted in the circumstances giving rise to such party’s seeking to terminate its obligation to effect the Closing.
(b) In the event of termination by the Company or any Investor of its obligations to effect the Closing pursuant to this Section 6.3, written notice thereof shall forthwith be given to the other Investors and the other Investors shall have the right to terminate their obligations to effect the Closing upon written notice to the Company and the other Investors. Nothing in this Section 6.3 shall be deemed to release any party from any liability for any breach by such party of the terms and provisions of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents or to impair the right of any party to compel specific performance by any other party of its obligations under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents.
Preservation of Purchase Rights Upon Merger, Consolidation, etc In case of any consolidation of the Company with or merger of the Company into another corporation or in case of any sale, transfer or lease to another corporation of all or substantially all of the property of the Company, the Company or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute with the Warrantholders an agreement that the Warrantholders shall have the right thereafter upon payment of the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such action to purchase upon exercise of this Warrant the kind and amount of shares and other securities and property which such holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of such consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or lease had this Warrant been exercised immediately prior to such action; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no adjustment in respect of cash dividends, interest or other income on or from such shares or other securities and property shall be made during the term of this Warrant or upon the exercise of this Warrant. Such agreement shall provide for adjustments, which shall be as nearly equivalent as practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Section 5. The provisions of this Section 5 shall apply similarly to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or leases.
Conditions to Effective Date It shall be a condition to the Effective Date that each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied or waived as of such date, and upon such satisfaction or waiver, this Agreement shall be effective:
(a) this Agreement shall have been duly executed and delivered by the parties hereto;
(b) the VMTP Shares shall have a long-term issue credit rating of AAA (or its equivalent) from at least one Rating Agency on the Effective Date;
(c) the Fund shall have obtained from Moody’s written confirmation that the issuance of the VMTP Shares by the Fund will not, in and of itself, result in a reduction, placement on review for possible downgrade, or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned by Moody’s to the Auction Preferred Shares;
(d) receipt by the Purchasers of executed originals, or copies certified by a duly authorized officer of the Fund to be in full force and effect and not otherwise amended, of all Related Documents (other than the global shares representing the VMTP Shares), as in effect on the Effective Date, and an incumbency certificate with respect to the authorized signatories thereto;
(e) receipt by the Purchasers of opinions of counsel for the Fund, substantially to the effect of Exhibit A;
(f) except as disclosed in the Offering Memorandum, there shall not be any pending or threatened material litigation of the nature described in Section 4.5 (unless such pending or threatened litigation has been determined by each of the Purchasers to be acceptable);
(g) the fees and expenses payable no later than the Effective Date pursuant to Section 2.2(b)(i) hereof shall have been paid;
(h) Each of the Purchasers, in its reasonable discretion, shall be satisfied that no change in law, rule or regulation (or their interpretation or administration), in each case, shall have occurred which will adversely affect the consummation of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement;
(i) there shall have been delivered to the Purchasers any additional documentation and financial information, including satisfactory responses to its due diligence inquiries, as it reasonably deems relevant; and
(j) there shall have been delivered to the Purchasers such information and copies of documents, approvals (if any) and records certified, where appropriate, of trust proceedings as any of the Purchasers may have reasonably requested relating to the Fund’s entering into and performing this Agreement and the other Related Documents to which it is a party, and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Fund and each of the Purchasers agree that consummation of the Purchase pursuant to this Agreement shall constitute acknowledgment that the foregoing conditions have been satisfied or waived.
Conditions to Effectiveness of Amendment This Amendment shall become effective upon the satisfaction of the following conditions (the “Amendment No. 1 Effective Date”):
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals, or electronic copies or facsimiles followed promptly by originals (unless otherwise specified), each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Loan Party, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(i) executed counterparts of this Amendment from the Company and the Required Lenders;
(ii) a guaranty substantially in the form of Exhibit G (either directly or via a guaranty supplement) or such other form of guaranty or guaranty supplement to guarantee the Guaranteed Obligations in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Company, duly executed by eFunds, it being agreed that for so long as the eFunds Bonds are outstanding, eFunds shall guarantee such obligations only up to an amount that is permitted by the indenture governing the eFunds Bonds;
(iii) executed counterparts of the Subsidiary Guaranty Amendment and the Company Supplemental Agreement (together with all schedules contemplated thereby, which schedules shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent);
(iv) the Pledge Agreement, duly executed by each Loan Party together with:
(A) certificates representing any certificated Pledged Equity referred to therein accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank,
(B) a completed Perfection Certificate in the form attached hereto as Annex B dated the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date and executed by a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party (or such other form as may be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent); and
(C) evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Liens (if any) indicated on a lien search with respect to each Loan Party in the jurisdiction where such Loan Party is located (within the meaning of Section 9-307 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York) either (1) with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries existing prior to the time of the eFunds Merger, are permitted by Section 7.01 or (2) with respect to eFunds and its subsidiaries existing at the time of the eFunds Merger, are disclosed on the schedules to the eFunds Merger Agreement or are otherwise permitted to exist by the eFunds Merger Agreement without giving the Company the right to refuse to close on the eFunds Merger as a result of the existence of such Liens;
(v) evidence (in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) of the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer of each Loan Party executing this Amendment, the Subsidiary Guaranty Amendment or Subsidiary Guaranty, the Company Supplemental Agreement or any Collateral Document on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date;
(vi) such documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in its jurisdiction of organization;
(vii) opinions of counsel to the Company addressed to each Agent and each Lender providing legal opinions substantially similar to those set forth on Annex C hereto (with standard exceptions and qualifications reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent);
(viii) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company certifying as to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 15(f) and (g) of this Amendment;
(ix) a certificate attesting to the Solvency of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) after giving effect to the eFunds Transactions, this Amendment and each of the other transactions contemplated to occur on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date from the chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of the Company; and
(x) copies (certified to be true and complete by the Company) of any amendments to the eFunds Merger Agreement and the disclosure schedules thereto.
(b) All fees and expenses required to be paid on or before the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date shall have been paid in full in cash.
(c) The eFunds Merger Agreement and any material agreement relating thereto shall not have been altered, amended or otherwise changed or supplemented in a manner material and adverse to the Lenders or any condition therein waived in a manner material and adverse to the Lenders, in each case without the consent of the Arrangers (which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The eFunds Merger shall have been consummated, or substantially concurrently consummated, in accordance with the terms of the eFunds Merger Agreement.
(d) There shall not have occurred between December 31, 2006 and the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date any event, occurrence, change, state of circumstances or condition which, individually or in the aggregate has had or is reasonably likely to have a “Material Adverse Effect” (as defined in the eFunds Merger Agreement and set forth for ease of reference in the annex attached hereto as Annex A).
(e) The Lenders shall have received (i) audited consolidated financial statements of eFunds for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and (ii) such financial information for periods ending after December 31, 2006 as shall be publicly available prior to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date (or as may be otherwise delivered to the Company pursuant to the eFunds Merger Agreement). The Lenders shall have received pro forma consolidated financial statements as to the Company and its Subsidiaries, and forecasts of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements on a quarterly basis for the first year following the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date and on an annual basis for each year thereafter until the Maturity Date.
(f) The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 14 of this Amendment and the representations and warranties of the Company and each other Borrower contained in Article 5 of the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided that the only representations involving eFunds and its Subsidiaries, the making of which shall be a condition to the effectiveness of this Amendment, shall be (A) the representations and warranties made by or with respect to eFunds or its Subsidiaries in the eFunds Merger Agreement as are material to the interests of Lenders, but only to the extent that the Company has the right to terminate its obligations under the eFunds Merger Agreement as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties in the eFunds Merger Agreement and (B) the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 5.02 (other than clause (c)(ii) thereof), 5.04, 5.12 and 5.15 of the Credit Agreement (as amended by this Amendment).
(g) Subject to clause (f) above, no Default shall exist with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries at the time of, or after giving effect to, the eFunds Transactions and this Amendment.
