Risk Management Arrangements. All material interest rate swaps, caps, floors, option agreements, futures and forward contracts and other similar risk management arrangements, whether entered into for Northwest Bancshares’s own account, or for the account of one or more of Northwest Bancshares’s Subsidiaries or their customers, were in all material respects entered into in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and regulatory policies, and to the Knowledge of Northwest Bancshares, with counterparties believed to be financially responsible at the time; and each of them constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of Northwest Bancshares or such Northwest Bancshares Subsidiary, enforceable in accordance with its terms (except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights or by general equity principles), and is in full force and effect. Neither Northwest Bancshares nor any Northwest Bancshares Subsidiary, nor to the Knowledge of Northwest Bancshares any other party thereto, is in breach of any of its obligations under any such agreement or arrangement in any material respect.
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Samples: Merger Agreement (LNB Bancorp Inc), Merger Agreement (Northwest Bancshares, Inc.)
Risk Management Arrangements. All material interest rate swaps, caps, floors, option agreements, futures and forward contracts and other similar risk management arrangements, whether entered into for Northwest Bancshares’s ’ own account, or for the account of one or more of Northwest Bancshares’s ’ Subsidiaries or their customers, were in all material respects entered into in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and regulatory policies, and to the Knowledge of Northwest Bancshares, with counterparties believed to be financially responsible at the time; and each of them constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of Northwest Bancshares or such Northwest Bancshares Subsidiary, enforceable in accordance with its terms (except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights or by general equity principles), and is in full force and effect. Neither Northwest Bancshares nor any Northwest Bancshares Subsidiary, nor to the Knowledge of Northwest Bancshares any other party thereto, is in breach of any of its obligations under any such agreement or arrangement in any material respect. 5.16.
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Risk Management Arrangements. All material interest rate swaps, caps, floors, option agreements, futures and forward contracts and other similar risk management arrangements, whether entered into for Northwest Bancshares’s ’ own account, or for the account of one or more of Northwest Bancshares’s ’ Subsidiaries or their customers, were in all material respects entered into in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and regulatory policies, and to the Knowledge of Northwest Bancshares, with counterparties believed to be financially responsible at the time; and each of them constitutes the valid and legally binding obligation of Northwest Bancshares or such Northwest Bancshares Subsidiary, enforceable in accordance with its terms (except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights or by general equity principles), and is in full force and effect. Neither Northwest Bancshares nor any Northwest Bancshares Subsidiary, nor to the Knowledge of Northwest Bancshares any other party thereto, is in breach of any of its obligations under any such agreement or arrangement in any material respect.
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