Initial Escrow Amount; Issuance of Escrow Receipts The Escrow Agent hereby directs the Underwriters to, and the Underwriters hereby acknowledge that on the date hereof they shall, irrevocably deliver to the Depositary on behalf of the Escrow Agent, an amount in U.S. dollars ("Dollars") and immediately available funds equal to $56,000,000 for deposit on behalf of the Escrow Agent with the Depositary in accordance with Section 2.1 of the Deposit Agreement. The Underwriters hereby instruct the Escrow Agent, upon receipt of such sum from the Underwriters, to confirm such receipt by executing (by manual or facsimile signature) and delivering to the Pass Through Trustee an Escrow Receipt in the form of Exhibit A hereto (an "Escrow Receipt"), (a) to be affixed by the Pass Through Trustee to each Certificate and (b) to evidence the same percentage interest ("Escrow Interest") in the Account Amounts (as defined below) as the Fractional Undivided Interest in the Pass Through Trust evidenced by the Certificate to which it is to be affixed. The Escrow Agent shall provide to the Pass Through Trustee for attachment to each Certificate newly issued under and in accordance with the Pass Through Trust Agreement an executed Escrow Receipt as the Pass Through Trustee may from time to time request of the Escrow Agent. Each Escrow Receipt shall be registered by the Escrow Agent in a register (the "Register") maintained by the Escrow Agent in the same name and same manner as the Certificate to which it is attached and may not thereafter be detached from such Certificate to which it is to be affixed prior to the distribution of the Final Withdrawal (the "Final Distribution"). After the Final Distribution, no additional Escrow Receipts shall be issued and the Pass Through Trustee shall request the return to the Escrow Agent for cancellation of all outstanding Escrow Receipts.
Deposit of Escrow Securities in Escrow (1) You are depositing the securities (escrow securities) listed opposite your name in Schedule “A” with the Escrow Agent to be held in escrow under this Agreement. You will immediately deliver or cause to be delivered to the Escrow Agent any share certificates or other evidence of these securities which you have or which you may later receive.
(2) If you receive any other securities (additional escrow securities):
(a) as a dividend or other distribution on escrow securities;
(b) on the exercise of a right of purchase, conversion or exchange attaching to escrow securities, including securities received on conversion of special warrants;
(c) on a subdivision, or compulsory or automatic conversion or exchange of escrow securities; or
(d) from a successor issuer in a business combination, if Part 6 of this Agreement applies, you will deposit them in escrow with the Escrow Agent. You will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Escrow Agent any share certificates or other evidence of those additional escrow securities. When this Agreement refers to escrow securities, it includes additional escrow securities.
(3) You will immediately deliver to the Escrow Agent any replacement share certificates or other evidence of additional escrow securities issued to you.
Investment of Escrowed Funds (a) Until released in accordance with this Agreement, the Escrowed Funds shall be kept segregated in the records of the Subscription Receipt Agent and shall be deposited in one or more segregated interest-bearing bank accounts to be maintained by the Subscription Receipt Agent in the name of the Subscription Receipt Agent at one or more Schedule I Canadian chartered banks, including the banks set forth in Section 7.2(c) (each such bank, an “Approved Bank”). Interest will be credited by the fifth Business Day of the following month.
(b) All amounts held by the Subscription Receipt Agent pursuant to this Agreement shall be held by the Subscription Receipt Agent for the benefit of the Subscription Receiptholders and the delivery of the Escrowed Proceeds to the Subscription Receipt Agent shall not give rise to a debtor-creditor or other similar relationship between the Subscription Receipt Agent and the Subscription Receiptholders. The amounts held by the Subscription Receipt Agent pursuant to this Agreement are the sole risk of the Subscription Receiptholders and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Subscription Receipt Agent shall have no responsibility or liability for any diminution of the Escrowed Funds which may result from any deposit made with an Approved Bank pursuant to this Section 7.2, including any losses resulting from a default by the Approved Bank or other credit losses (whether or not resulting from such a default) and any credit or other losses on any deposits liquidated or sold prior to maturity. The Company and the Lead Underwriter acknowledge and agree that the Subscription Receipt Agent acts prudently in depositing the Escrowed Proceeds at any Approved Bank, and that the Subscription Receipt Agent is not required to make any further inquiries in respect of any such bank.
(c) The Approved Banks include the Bank of Montreal and The Toronto-Dominion Bank.
Delivery of Escrow Funds Upon confirmation by Escrow Agent that the following conditions have been satisfied, Escrow Agent shall disburse the Escrow Funds to Recipient in connection with the closing of the purchase of the Property or other interest therein:
(a) Escrow Agent has confirmed that Recipient has sufficient funds to complete the purchase of, or acquisition of other interest approved by the Director in and to, the Property (the “Closing”) and to pay all costs, fees and expenses to be paid by Recipient with respect thereto as disclosed on the settlement statement prepared by Escrow Agent and signed by Recipient and Seller (the “Settlement Statement”).
(b) Upon recording of the Conveyance Instrument (as defined in subsection (d) of this Section 2), (i) Recipient will hold marketable title to the Property or (ii) if Recipient is acquiring an interest in the Property other than fee simple, as approved by the Director, Seller holds marketable title to the Property and has granted a valid interest in the Property to Recipient pursuant to the Contract.
(c) If the Contract requires, or Recipient has requested and agreed to pay for, a title insurance policy with respect to the Property (the “Title Policy”), Escrow Agent, as title insurer or agent therefor, is prepared to issue the Title Policy to Recipient.
(d) Escrow Agent is prepared to record, on the date of Closing, (i) the deed, or other instrument appropriate for the interest in the Property to be conveyed pursuant to the Contract, from Seller to Recipient with respect to the Property (the “Conveyance Instrument”), and (ii) the deed restrictions approved by the Director with respect to the Property (the “Deed Restrictions”).
(e) If Escrow Agent is an agent of a title insurance company, Escrow Agent has caused an insured closing letter to be issued to OPWC by such title insurance company with respect to Escrow Agent’s acts in connection with the Closing and Escrow Agent’s performance of its obligations under this Agreement.
Investment of Escrow Funds The Escrow Agent shall deposit the Escrow Funds in a non-interest bearing money market account. If Escrow Agent has not received a Joint Written Direction at any time that an investment decision must be made, Escrow Agent may retain the Escrow Fund, or such portion thereof, as to which no Joint Written Direction has been received, in a non-interest bearing money market account.
Transactions at Closing At the Closing, subject to the terms and conditions hereof:
Rights of Initial Stockholders in Escrow Shares 4.1 VOTING RIGHTS AS A STOCKHOLDER. Subject to the terms of the Insider Letter described in Section 4.4 hereof and except as herein provided, the Initial Stockholders shall retain all of their rights as stockholders of the Company during the Escrow Period, including, without limitation, the right to vote such shares.
Delivery to Escrow Agent You may tender your escrow securities to a person or company in a business combination. At least five business days prior to the date the escrow securities must be tendered under the business combination, you must deliver to the Escrow Agent:
(a) a written direction signed by you that directs the Escrow Agent to deliver to the depositary under the business combination any share certificates or other evidence of the escrow securities and a completed and executed cover letter or similar document and, where required, transfer power of attorney completed and executed for transfer in accordance with the requirements of the depositary, and any other documentation specified or provided by you and required to be delivered to the depositary under the business combination; and
(b) any other information concerning the business combination as the Escrow Agent may reasonably request.
Post-Closing Obligations (a) Within ninety (90) days after the Original Restatement Closing Date (or such later date as shall be acceptable to the Agent in its sole discretion), confirmation, together with relevant supporting documents, that the Quoted Eurobond Listing has taken place;
(b) The Credit Parties shall, (i) in a manner satisfactory to the Agent, cooperate with and assist the Agent, the Lenders and their respective attorneys, officers, employees, representatives, consultants and agents (collectively, the “Reviewing Parties” and each, a “Reviewing Party”) in connection with any Reviewing Party’s regulatory review and due diligence of the Credit Parties’ Program in each state or foreign jurisdiction in which any Credit Party originates or purchases Consumer Loans and/or Credit Card Receivables (including participation interests therein), (ii) review and consider in good faith any issues raised by, or comments, recommendations or guidance from, any Reviewing Party with respect to any such lending program (such issues, comments, recommendations and guidance, collectively, the “Diligence Issues”) and (iii) within 90 days (or such longer period as may be agreed to by the Agent in its sole discretion) of any Credit Party’s receipt of written notice of any Diligence Issues from a Reviewing Party, resolve or address any such Diligence Issues, in each case, in a manner satisfactory to the Agent;
(c) The Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Agent, within sixty (60) days after the Fifth Restatement Closing Date (or such later date as shall be acceptable [****] = CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY BRACKETS, HAS BEEN OMITTED AND FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO RULE 24b-2 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED to the Agent in its sole discretion), deposit account control agreements executed by the applicable Credit Party and each depository institution for which such Credit Party maintains deposit and other accounts, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent in its sole discretion, covering all deposit accounts and other accounts maintained at such depository institution that are not currently subject to deposit account control agreements in favor of the Agent;
(d) The Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Agent, within thirty (30) days after the Fifth Restatement Closing Date (or such later date as shall be acceptable to the Agent in its sole discretion), Intellectual Property Security Agreements executed by the applicable Credit Party covering all federally-registered Intellectual Property Rights that are not currently subject to an Intellectual Property Security Agreement in favor of the Agent;
(e) The Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Agent, prior to purchasing any Consumer Loans (or participation interests in Consumer Loans) pursuant to any Bank Transaction Documents (or such later date as shall be acceptable to the Agent in its sole discretion), a revised form of Consumer Loan Agreement to be used under such Bank Transaction Documents which provides that (i) all obligations thereunder are “registered obligations” and all instruments issued thereunder (if any) shall be at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code and any related Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) the first page thereof shall have the following legend: “THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE A “NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT””, which form shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and its counsel; and
(f) The Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Agent, within thirty (30) days after the Fifth Restatement Closing Date (or such later date as shall be acceptable to the Agent in its sole discretion), updated insurance certificates and updated insurance endorsements with respect to the applicable Credit Parties, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and evidencing the insurance policies and endorsements thereto required to be maintained in accordance with Section 8.11.
Disbursements of Escrow Funds a. In the event Escrow Agent does not receive written instructions from the Issuer to release funds from Escrow on or prior to the termination of the Escrow Period, Escrow Agent shall terminate Escrow and make a full and prompt return of funds so that refunds are made to each Subscriber in the exact amount received from said Subscriber, without deduction, penalty, or expense to Subscriber. In the event Escrow Agent receives cleared funds prior to the termination of the Escrow Period and Escrow Agent receives a written instruction from Issuer, Escrow Agent shall, pursuant to those instructions, distribute funds from such Escrow Amount pursuant to the instructions of Issuer. The Escrow Agent shall effect such transfer by the close of business on the date the Escrow Agent receives the written instruction from the Issuer; provided, however if the Escrow Agent receives the written instruction from the Issuer after 2 pm Eastern Time, then the Escrow Agent shall effect such transfer by the close of business the on the next succeeding business day. Issuer’s written instructions to Escrow Agent shall certify that all conditions set forth in the Offering Statement for release of funds have been met for a closing of the Offering and include a schedule of deductions from the Escrow Account for any funds for management and offering and selling expenses, including without limitation, any process fees incurred by the Escrow Agent, from the gross proceeds of the Escrow Account prior to remitting such funds, if and when due, to Issuer. Escrow Agent is hereby directed to remit such funds as directed by Issuer directly to the appropriate parties, if any, to which they are due. Net proceeds (meaning gross proceeds less amounts remitted pursuant to Issuer’s instructions certain parties), will then be remitted to Issuer as described above. No later than fifteen (15) business days after receipt by Escrow Agent of written notice (i) from Issuer that Issuer intends to reject a Subscriber’s subscription, (ii) from Issuer that there will be no closing of the sale of Securities to Subscribers, (iii) from any federal or state regulatory authority that any application by Issuer to conduct a banking business has been denied, or (iv) from the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal or state regulatory authority that a stop or similar order has been issued with respect to the Offering document and has remained in effect for at least twenty (20) days, Escrow Agent shall pay to the applicable Subscriber(s), by certified or bank check and by first-class mail, the amount (without any interest) of the Cash Investment paid by such Subscriber.
