Restricted Payments; Restrictive Agreements (a) Declare or make, or agree to declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment (including pursuant to any Synthetic Purchase Agreement), or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so; provided, however, that (i) any Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions ratably to its equity holders, (ii) so long as no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may, or the Borrower may make distributions to Holdings so that Holdings may, repurchase its Equity Interests owned by employees of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries or make payments to employees of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries upon termination of employment in connection with the exercise of stock options, stock appreciation rights or similar equity incentives or equity based incentives pursuant to management incentive plans or in connection with the death or disability of such employees in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000,000 in any fiscal year, (iii) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings (x) in an amount not to exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year, to the extent necessary to pay general corporate and overhead expenses incurred by Holdings in the ordinary course of business and (y) if Borrower is a member of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is not the common parent, in an amount necessary to pay the Tax liabilities of the common parent (the “Common Parent”) of the consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is not the common parent directly attributable to (or arising as a result of) the operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; provided, however, that (A) the amount of such dividends shall not exceed the amount that the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be required to pay in respect of Federal, state and local taxes were the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to pay such taxes as members of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is the common parent and (B) all Restricted Payments made to Holdings pursuant to this clause (iii) are used by Holdings to make Restricted Payments as specified in clause (iv) within 20 days of the receipt thereof and (iv) if Borrower is a member of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is not the common parent, then Holdings may make Restricted Payments to the Common Parent (x) in an amount not to exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year, to the extent necessary to pay general corporate and overhead expenses incurred by the Common Parent in the ordinary course of business and (y) in an amount necessary to pay the Tax liabilities of the Common Parent directly attributable to (or arising as a result of) the operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; provided, however, that (A) the amount of such dividends shall not exceed the amount that the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be required to pay in respect of Federal, state and local taxes were the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to pay such taxes as members of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is the common parent and (B) all Restricted Payments made to the Common Parent pursuant to this clause (iv) are used by the Common Parent for the purposes specified herein within 20 days of the receipt thereof.
Restricted Payments, etc On and at all times after the Effective Date:
No Restricted Junior Payments As of and following the Closing Date, neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries has directly or indirectly declared, ordered, paid or made, or set apart any sum or property for, any Restricted Junior Payment or agreed to do so except as permitted pursuant to Section 6.4.
Negative Pledge Agreements; Dividend Restrictions The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any contract, agreement or understanding which prohibits or restricts the granting, conveying, creation or imposition of any Lien on any of its Property in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders or restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from paying dividends or making distributions to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary, or which requires the consent of other Persons in connection therewith; provided, however, that the preceding restrictions will not apply to encumbrances or restrictions arising under or by reason of (a) this Agreement or the Security Instruments, (b) any leases or licenses or similar contracts as they affect any Property or Lien, (c) any restriction with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition of all or substantially all the Equity Interests or Property of such Restricted Subsidiary pending the closing of such sale or disposition, (d) customary provisions with respect to the distribution of Property in joint venture agreements, (e) any agreements with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary acquired in a transaction permitted by Section 9.05 (in which case, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the Property of such Restricted Subsidiary) and (f) any agreements governing Debt permitted by Section 9.02 incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Restricted Payments Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that:
Limitation on Restricted Payments (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except:
Limitations on Restricted Payments (a) The Issuer will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make any Restricted Payment if at the time of such Restricted Payment:
Restrictions on Subsidiary Payments to the Company No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company, except as described in or contemplated by the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
Limitation on Dividends and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends, in cash or otherwise, or make any other distributions to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary on or in respect of its Capital Stock, (b) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, or (d) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, except in all such cases for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any agreement or instrument in effect on the Issue Date and listed on Schedule D attached to this Indenture, (ii) applicable law or regulation (including corporate governance provisions required by applicable law and regulations of the National Bank of Poland), (iii) customary non-assignment provisions of any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (iv) any agreement or other instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in existence at the time of such acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired, (v) any mortgage or other Lien on real property acquired or improved by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date that prohibits transfers of the type described in (d) above with respect to such real property, (vi) with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary, an agreement that has been entered into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's Capital Stock in, or substantially all the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary, (vii) the refinancing of Indebtedness incurred under the agreements listed on Schedule B attached to this Indenture or described in clause (v) above, so long as such encumbrances or restrictions are no less favorable in any material respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary than those contained in the respective agreement as in
