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• Approvals of Regulatory Authorities Niagara Bancorp shall have received all required approvals of Regulatory Authorities of the Merger (without the imposition of any conditions that are in Niagara Bancorp's reasonable judgment unduly burdensome); and all notice and waiting periods required thereunder shall have expired or been terminated;

• Other Regulatory Approvals Each party hereto shall cooperate and use its reasonable best efforts to promptly prepare and file all necessary documentation to effect all necessary applications, notices, petitions, filings and other documents, and use all reasonable efforts to obtain (and will cooperate with each other in obtaining) any consent, acquiescence, authorization, order or approval of, or any exemption or nonopposition by, any Governmental Entity required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Offer and the Merger or the taking of any other action contemplated by this Agreement.

• Cooperation with Regulatory Authorities The parties to this Agreement each agree to cooperate in a reasonable manner with each other in the event that any of them should become involved in a legal, administrative, judicial or regulatory action, claim, or suit as a result of performing its obligations under this Agreement.

• Regulatory Authorities Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries: (i) are in compliance in all material respects with all statutes, rules, regulations, ordinances, orders and decrees applicable to the ownership, testing, in humans or laboratory models, development, manufacture, formulation, packaging, processing, recordkeeping, use, distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion, sale, price reporting, reimbursement, storage, import, export or disposal of any product manufactured or distributed by or for the Company or any of its subsidiaries (“Applicable Laws”), except where the failure to so comply would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) to the knowledge of Company and its subsidiaries, have not, either voluntarily or involuntarily, disclosed to any governmental authority any violations of Applicable Laws, except such as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) have not received any Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) Form 483 or any foreign counterpart thereof, warning letter, clinical hold notice or untitled letter from the FDA, any Institutional Review Board (as defined by federal regulation at 21 CFR Section 56.102(g)) or any other governmental authority alleging or asserting noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses, approvals, clearances, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments thereto required by any such Applicable Laws (“Authorizations”), except such as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) have not received notification of nor have reason to believe that any audits by a governmental authority have resulted in a determination that any of their respective products have been improperly reimbursed, except such audits and determinations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (v) possess all Authorizations (including, without limitation, exemptions under any Investigational Device Exemption or Investigational New Drug Application, as described at 21 CFR Sections 312 and 812, and approvals of any Institutional Review Board), which are in full force and effect, required for the conduct of their respective businesses (and such Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect) and are not in violation of any term of any such Authorizations, except where the failure to possess such Authorization or the violation of such Authorization would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (vi) have not received written notice of any pending or threatened claim, suit, proceeding, clinical hold, hearing, enforcement, audit, investigation, arbitration, suspension, debarment or exclusion from any governmental authority or Institutional Review Board alleging that any of their respective operations or activities is in violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and the Company has no knowledge or reason to believe that any such governmental authority, Institutional Review Board or other non-governmental authority is considering any such claim, suit, proceeding, clinical hold, hearing, enforcement, audit, investigation, arbitration, suspension, debarment or exclusion except for any such claims, suits, proceedings, clinical holds, hearings, enforcements, audits, investigations, arbitrations, suspensions, debarments or exclusions that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (vii) have not received written notice that any governmental authority or Institutional Review Board has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations and the Company has no knowledge or reason to believe that any such governmental authority is considering such action, except for any such actions that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; (viii) have, or have had on their behalf, filed, declared, obtained, maintained or submitted all reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as are required by any Applicable Laws or Authorizations, except where the failure to so file, declare, obtain, maintain or submit would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect and all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were materially complete and correct on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission); and (ix) have not, either voluntarily or involuntarily, initiated, conducted or issued, or caused to be initiated, conducted or issued, any recall, market withdrawal or replacement, safety alert, warning, “dear doctor” letter or investigator notice relating to an alleged lack of safety or efficacy of any product or product candidate, any alleged product defect, or violation of any material Applicable Laws or Authorizations and the Company is not aware of any facts that would cause the Company or any of its subsidiaries to initiate any such notice or action and the Company has no knowledge or reason to believe that any governmental authority, Institutional Review Board or other non-governmental authority intends to initiate any such notice or action, except for any such notices or actions that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. Any clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus were and, if still pending, are being conducted in compliance in all material respects with experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to accepted professional scientific standards and all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and implementing regulations at 21 C.F.R. Parts 50, 54, 56, 58 and 312. Any descriptions of studies, tests and preclinical and clinical trials, including any related results and regulatory status, contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus are, and will be, accurate and complete in all material respects. The Company is not aware of any studies, tests or trials the results of which reasonably call into question in any material respect the clinical trial results described or referred to in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notices or other correspondence from the FDA, an Institutional Review Board or other governmental agency requiring or recommending the termination, suspension or material modification of any clinical trials conducted by, or on behalf of, the Company or any of its subsidiaries or in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has participated.

• Requisite Regulatory Approvals All Consents required to be obtained from or made with any Governmental Authority in order to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have been obtained or made.

• Regulatory Authorizations (i) All material Consents of any Governmental Authorities shall have been obtained and shall be in full force and effect, and (ii) the applicable waiting period under the HSR Act shall have expired or been terminated.

• Other Regulatory Matters The Investment Adviser represents and warrants that (1) it and each Fund is and will remain: (a) an “eligible contract participant” under 7 U.S.C. Section 1A, as amended, and 17 CFR Section 1.3(m), and (b) a “qualified eligible person” under CFTC Rule 4.7; (2) that it is registered as a commodity pool operator and is a member of the NFA, where applicable, or it is not required to be registered with the CFTC or to be a member of the NFA; and (3) that it will provide Subadviser reasonable advance notification (in no event less than 30 days) of any decision to: (a) alter its operation of any Fund for which the Investment Adviser has claimed an exclusion or exemption from registration as a commodity pool operator on behalf of a Fund, to then register and operate as a commodity pool operator on behalf of the Fund, or (b) if the investment adviser is registered as a commodity pool operator on behalf of the Fund, to operate such Fund under an exclusion or exemption from registration with the CFTC.

• Approval of Listing At the Closing Time, the Securities shall have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.

• Regulatory Approvals All Requisite Regulatory Approvals shall have been obtained and shall remain in full force and effect and all statutory waiting periods in respect thereof shall have expired, and no such Requisite Regulatory Approval shall have resulted in the imposition of any Materially Burdensome Regulatory Condition.

• Reports; Regulatory Matters (a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary has timely filed all reports, registrations and statements, together with any amendments required to be made with respect thereto, that it was required to file since January 1, 2004 with (i) the Federal Reserve Board, (ii) the FDIC, (iii) the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, (iv) the NASD, (v) any state banking agency, insurance commission or other state regulatory authority, (vi) the SEC, (vii) any foreign regulatory authority and (viii) any SRO (collectively, “Regulatory Agencies”) and with each other applicable Governmental Entity, and all other reports and statements required to be filed by them since January 1, 2004, including any report or statement required to be filed pursuant to the laws, rules or regulations of the United States, any state, any foreign entity, or any Regulatory Agency or Governmental Entity, and have paid all fees and assessments due and payable in connection therewith. Except for normal examinations conducted by a Regulatory Agency or Governmental Entity in the ordinary course of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, no Regulatory Agency or Governmental Entity has initiated since January 1, 2004 or has pending any proceeding, enforcement action or, to the knowledge of the Company, investigation into the business, disclosures or operations of the Company or any Company Subsidiary. Since January 1, 2004, no Regulatory Agency or Governmental Entity has resolved any proceeding, enforcement action or, to the knowledge of the Company, investigation into the business, disclosures or operations of the Company or any Company Subsidiary. There is no unresolved violation, criticism or exception by any Regulatory Agency or Governmental Entity with respect to any report or statement relating to any examinations or inspections of the Company or any Company Subsidiary. Since January 1, 2004, there has been no formal or informal inquiries by, or disagreements or disputes with, any Regulatory Agency or Governmental Entity with respect to the business, operations, policies or procedures of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.