Termination or Abandonment Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, this Agreement may be terminated and abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after any approval of the Merger by the stockholders of the Company:
(a) by the mutual written consent of the Company and Parent;
(b) by either Parent or the Company if the Merger shall not have been consummated on or prior to June 30, 2012 (the “End Date”), provided, however, that if all of the conditions to Closing, other than the condition set forth in Section 6.1(c), shall have been satisfied or shall be capable of being satisfied at such time, the End Date may be extended by Parent or the Company from time to time by written notice to the other party up to a date not beyond December 31, 2012, the latest of any of which dates shall thereafter be deemed to be the End Date; and provided, further, that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.1(b) shall not be available to a party if the failure of the Closing to occur by such date shall be due to the material breach by such party of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement of such party set forth in this Agreement;
(c) by either the Company or Parent if an injunction shall have been entered permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the Merger and such injunction shall have become final and non-appealable; provided that the party seeking to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.1(c) shall have used its reasonable best efforts to remove such injunction to the extent such party is required to use its reasonable best efforts pursuant to this Agreement;
(d) by either the Company or Parent if the Stockholders’ Meeting (including any adjournments or postponements thereof) shall have concluded and the Company Stockholder Approval shall not have been obtained;
(e) by the Company, if Parent shall have breached or failed to perform any of its representations, warranties, covenants or other agreements contained in this Agreement, which breach or failure to perform (i) would result in a failure of a condition set forth in Section 6.1 or Section 6.2 and (ii) by its nature, cannot be cured prior to the End Date or, if by its nature such breach or failure is capable of being cured by the End Date, Parent does not diligently attempt or ceases to diligently attempt to cure such breach or failure after receiving written notice from the Company describing such breach or failure in reasonable detail (provided that the Company is not then in material breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement contained herein);
(f) by Parent, if the Company shall have breached or failed to perform any of its representations, warranties, covenants or other agreements contained in this Agreement, which breach or failure to perform (i) would result in a failure of a condition set forth in Section 6.1 or Section 6.2(f) and (ii) by its nature, cannot be cured prior to the End Date or, if by its nature such breach or failure is capable of being cured by the End Date, the Company does not diligently attempt or ceases to diligently attempt to cure such breach or failure after receiving written notice from Parent describing such breach or failure in reasonable detail (provided that Parent is not then in material breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement contained herein);
(g) by Parent, (i) prior to the Company Stockholder Approval, in the event of a Change of Recommendation or if the Board of Directors of the Company shall have approved or recommended to its shareholders an Acquisition Transaction, or (ii) the Company shall have willfully and materially breached any of its obligations under Section 5.4; and
(h) by the Company, prior to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval and if the Company has complied with its obligations under Section 5.4, in order to enter into a definitive agreement with respect to a Superior Offer; provided that any such purported termination by the Company pursuant to this Section 7.1(h) shall be void and of no force or effect unless the Company pays to Parent the expense reimbursement in accordance with Section 7.3(a) and the Breakup Fee in accordance with Section 7.3(c).
Sale or Lease of Assets Within any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, the Borrower will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, convey, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of assets, business or operations with a net book value in excess of 25% of Total Assets as calculated as of the end of the most recent such fiscal quarter.
Abandonment If the assigned bedroom space or an apartment is abandoned or Resident’s right to use them has been terminated, Owner may, without notice, secure the bedroom space and/or apartment with new locks, store or dispose of any personal property left in the bedroom space or apartment by Resident or Resident's Guests, and re-assign the bedroom space and/or apartment to others for use. Any such abandoned property or personal possessions will be stored and disposed of by Owner as provided by law. Owner, in its sole reasonable discretion in accordance with applicable law, will determine when a bedroom and/or apartment is abandoned, which may take into consideration any one of the following: the removal of personal property from the bedroom space other than in the usual course of continuing use, the failure to pay housing charges or other charges, discontinuance of any utility service, and failure to respond to any notices, phone calls, or correspondence from Owner or its representatives.
Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power.
(a) In the event that, following the Stock Acquisition Date, directly or indirectly, either (x) the Company shall consolidate with, or merge with and into, any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o)), and the Company shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger, (y) any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o)) shall consolidate with, or merge with or into, the Company, and the Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger and, in connection with such consolidation or merger, all or part of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock shall be converted into or exchanged for stock or other securities of any other Person or cash or any other property, or (z) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer) to any Person or Persons (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o)), in one or more transactions, assets or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (any such event being a "Section 13 Event"), then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that: (i) each holder of a Right, except as provided in Section 7(e), shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then current Purchase Price, such number of validly authorized and issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock of the Principal Party, which shares shall not be subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of first refusal, transfer restrictions or other adverse claims, as shall be equal to the result obtained by (1) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the number of Units of Preferred Stock for which a Right is exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event (or, if a Section 1l (a)(ii) Event has occurred prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, multiplying the number of such Units for which a Right would be exercisable hereunder but for the occurrence of such Section 1l (a)(ii) Event by the Purchase Price which would be in effect hereunder but for such first occurrence) and (2) dividing that product (which, following the fast occurrence of a Section 13 Event, shall be the "Purchase Price" for all purposes of this Agreement) by 50% of the current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d)) per share of the Common Stock of such Principal Party on the date of consummation of such Section 13 Event; (ii) such Principal Party shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such Section 13 Event, all the obligations and duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) the term "Company" shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, thereafter be deemed to refer to such Principal Party, it being specifically intended that the provisions of Section 11 shall apply only to such Principal Party following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event; (iv) such Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of
Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power In the event that, at any time after a Person becomes an Acquiring Person, directly or indirectly, (i) the Company shall consolidate with, or merge with and into, any other Person, (ii) any Person shall consolidate with the Company, or merge with and into the Company and the Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation of such merger and, in connection with such merger, all or part of the Common Shares shall be changed into or exchanged for stock or other securities of any other Person (or the Company) or cash or any other property, or (iii) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer), in one or more transactions, assets or earning power aggregating 50% or more of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other Person other than the Company or one or more of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that (A) each holder of a Right (except as otherwise provided herein) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at a price equal to the then current Purchase Price multiplied by the number of one one-thousandths of a Preferred Share for which a Right is then exercisable, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and in lieu of Preferred Shares, such number of Common Shares of such other Person (including the Company as successor thereto or as the surviving corporation) as shall equal the result obtained by (x) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the number of one one-thousandths of a Preferred Share for which a Right is then exercisable and dividing that product by (y) 50% of the then current per share market price of the Common Shares of such other Person (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) on the date of consummation of such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer; (B) the issuer of such Common Shares shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer, all the obligations and duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement; (C) the term "Company" shall thereafter be deemed to refer to such issuer; and (D) such issuer shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of its Common Shares in accordance with Section 9 hereof) in connection with such consummation as may be necessary to assure that the provisions hereof shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to the Common Shares thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights. The Company covenants and agrees that it shall not consummate any such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer unless prior thereto the Company and such issuer shall have executed and delivered to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement so providing. The Company shall not enter into any transaction of the kind referred to in this Section 13 if at the time of such transaction there are any rights, warrants, instruments or securities outstanding or any agreements or arrangements which, as a result of the consummation of such transaction, would eliminate or substantially diminish the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights. The provisions of this Section 13 shall similarly apply to successive mergers or consolidations or sales or other transfers. For purposes hereof, the "earning power" of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be determined in good faith by the Company's Board of Directors on the basis of the operating earnings of each business operated by the Company and its Subsidiaries during the three fiscal years preceding the date of such determination (or, in the case of any business not operated by the Company or any Subsidiary during three full fiscal years preceding such date, during the period such business was operated by the Company or any Subsidiary).
Sale or Transfer of Assets; Suspension of Business Operations The Borrower will not sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of (i) the stock of any Subsidiary, (ii) all or a substantial part of its assets, or (iii) any Collateral or any interest therein (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) to any other Person other than the sale of Inventory in the ordinary course of business and will not liquidate, dissolve or suspend business operations. The Borrower will not transfer any part of its ownership interest in any Intellectual Property Rights and will not permit any agreement under which it has licensed Licensed Intellectual Property to lapse, except that the Borrower may transfer such rights or permit such agreements to lapse if it shall have reasonably determined that the applicable Intellectual Property Rights are no longer useful in its business. If the Borrower transfers any Intellectual Property Rights for value, the Borrower will pay over the proceeds to the Lender for application to the Obligations. The Borrower will not license any other Person to use any of the Borrower’s Intellectual Property Rights, except that the Borrower may grant licenses in the ordinary course of its business in connection with sales of Inventory or provision of services to its customers.
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE (i) The Issuer may consolidate with or merge into any other person, or sell, convey or transfer all or substantially all of its assets to any other person, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, provided that: (w) the entity (if other than the Issuer) formed by or resulting from any such consolidation or merger shall be organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume, by an amendment to the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Notes pursuant to the Fiscal Agency Agreement, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions to be performed or observed by the Issuer pursuant to the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Notes; (x) such amendment shall be in form reasonably satisfactory to the Fiscal and Principal Paying Agent, shall be duly executed by the entity succeeding the Issuer and, when so executed, shall constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of such entity succeeding the Issuer, enforceable against such entity in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether in a proceeding in equity or at law, and shall be delivered to the Fiscal and Principal Paying Agent; (y) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred or be continuing; and (z) the Issuer has delivered to the Fiscal and Principal Paying Agent an officers' certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that the conditions precedent to such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer have been satisfied. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer may sell, convey or transfer all or substantially all of its assets to any person which is directly or indirectly wholly-owned by one or more of the Issuer, the Guarantor and their wholly-owned Subsidiaries.
(ii) The Guarantor may consolidate with or merge into any other person, or sell, convey or transfer all or substantially all of its assets to any other person, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, provided that: (v) the purchasing or transferee corporation or the successor, continuing or resulting corporation in the case of a merger or consolidation (if the Guarantor is not the surviving corporation), as the case may be (the "Successor Guarantor"), expressly assumes, by an amendment to the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Guarantee pursuant to the Fiscal Agency Agreement, the obligations of the Guarantor under the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Guarantee and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions to be performed or observed by the Guarantor pursuant to the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Guarantee; (w) such amendment shall be in form reasonably satisfactory to the Fiscal and Principal Paying Agent, shall be duly executed by the Successor Guarantor and, when so executed, shall constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of such Successor Guarantor, enforceable against such Successor Guarantor in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether in a proceeding in equity or at law, and shall be delivered to the Fiscal and Principal Paying Agent; (x) if such Successor Guarantor is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the Federal Republic of Germany (a "Successor Guarantor Jurisdiction"), such Successor Guarantor agrees to assume the Guarantor's obligations under the Guarantee to pay any U.S. Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 3(b)(i) herein or any amounts akin to German Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 3(b)(ii) herein imposed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Successor Guarantor is organized; (y) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred or be continuing; and (z) the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Fiscal and Principal Paying Agent an officers' certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that the conditions precedent to such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer have been satisfied. In addition to the foregoing conditions, in the event of any such assumption of the obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantor, the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be, will be required to deliver an opinion of its counsel of recognized standing to the effect that such assumption of the Issuer's or the Guarantor's obligations under the Notes or the Guarantee, as the case may be, shall not be deemed for U.S. federal income tax purposes to be a taxable exchange of the Notes for new Notes by the Holders thereof, resulting in the recognition of gain or loss for such purposes or resulting in any other material adverse tax consequences to Holders of the Notes.
Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the Company from consolidating or merging into or with, or transferring all or substantially all of its assets to, another corporation which assumes this Agreement, and all obligations of the Company hereunder, in writing. Upon such consolidation, merger, or transfer of assets and assumption, the term "the Company" as used herein, shall mean such other corporation and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect, subject to the provisions of Paragraph 6 hereof.
Merger, Consolidation or Sale of All or Substantially All Assets (a) The Company may not consolidate or merge with or into or wind up into (whether or not the Company is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its consolidated properties or assets taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to any Person unless:
(1) the Company is the surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation, amalgamation or merger (if other than the Company) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition will have been made, is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any territory thereof (such Person, as the case may be, being herein called the “Successor Company”); provided that in the case where the surviving Person is not a corporation, a co-obligor of the Notes is a corporation;
(2) the Successor Company, if other than the Company, expressly assumes all the obligations of the Company under the Notes and the Security Documents pursuant to supplemental indentures or other documents or instruments;
(3) immediately after such transaction, no Default exists;
(4) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and any related financing transactions, as if such transactions had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period,
(A) the Successor Company or the Company would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Test, or
(B) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company would be greater than the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company immediately prior to such transaction;
(5) each Guarantor, unless it is a Subsidiary Guarantor that is the other party to the transactions described above, in which case clause (1) of Section 5.01(b) hereof shall apply, shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Guarantee shall apply to such Person’s obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and the Security Documents; and
(6) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or transfer and such supplemental indentures, if any, comply with this Indenture.
(b) The Successor Company will succeed to, and be substituted for the Company under this Indenture and the Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
(1) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary,
(2) any Subsidiary Guarantor may consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into or transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor (or to a Restricted Subsidiary if that Restricted Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor); and
(3) the Company may transfer all or part of its property or assets to a Subsidiary Guarantor. Notwithstanding clauses (3) and (4) of Section 5.01(a) hereof,
(1) the Company may merge with an Affiliate of the Company solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Company in the United States, the District of Columbia or any territory thereof so long as the amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is not increased thereby; and
(2) Holdings may consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into the Company; provided that if the Company has a new direct holding company parent following such consolidation, amalgamation or consolidation that guarantees the Senior Credit Facilities, such parent company will, within 30 days of such guarantee, become a guarantor of the Notes on the same terms as Holdings.
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Purchase of Assets, etc Holdings and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any of their respective Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of (or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time) all or any part of its property or assets (other than inventory in the ordinary course of business, including sales of inventory on consignment in the ordinary course of business), or enter into any partnerships, joint ventures or sale-leaseback transactions, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one or a series of related transactions) any part of the property or assets (other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials and equipment in the ordinary course of business) of any Person, except that the following shall be permitted:
(a) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may, as lessee or lessor, enter into operating leases in the ordinary course of business with respect to real or personal property;
(b) Capital Expenditures by Holdings and its Subsidiaries to the extent not in violation of Section 9.07;
(c) the advances, investments and loans permitted pursuant to Section 9.05;
(d) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof;
(e) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may sell or exchange specific items of machinery or equipment, so long as the proceeds of each such sale or exchange is used to acquire (and results within 180 days of such sale or exchange in the acquisition of) replacement items of machinery or equipment which are the functional equivalent of the item of equipment so sold or exchanged;
(f) Holdings and its Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary course of business, license, as licensor or licensee, patents, trademarks, copyrights and know-how to third Persons and to one another, so long as any such license by Holdings or its Subsidiaries in its capacity as licensor is permitted to be assigned pursuant to the Security Agreement (to the extent that a security interest in such patents, trademarks, copyrights and know- how is granted thereunder) and does not otherwise prohibit the granting of a Lien by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the Security Agreement in the intellectual property covered by such license;
(g) any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may transfer assets to the Borrower or to any other Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as (i) if the transferee is a Subsidiary, such Subsidiary is a Guarantor and (ii) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets so transferred shall remain in full force and effect and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such transfer);
(h) any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, the Borrower so long as (i) the Borrower is the surviving corporation of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (ii) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets of such Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall remain in full force and effect and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, dissolution or liquidation);
(i) any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower may merge with and into, or be dissolved or liquidated into, any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower so long as (i) such Wholly Owned Subsidiary is a Guarantor and is the surviving corporation of any such merger, dissolution or liquidation and (ii) the security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents in the assets of such Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall remain in full force and effect and perfected (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, dissolution or liquidation);
(j) so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom (including giving pro forma effect to such acquisition and --- ----- any additional Indebtedness resulting therefrom or incurred or assumed in connection therewith as if such acquisition had occurred and such Indebtedness had been incurred as of the first day of the most recently completed Test Period (including any other Permitted Acquisition that occurred, and related Indebtedness that was incurred, during or subsequent to such Test Period)), Holdings or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries may consummate a Permitted Acquisition; provided that (i) Holdings shall have -------- delivered to the Administrative Agent, at the time of delivery of the Permitted Acquisition Notice, a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of Holdings showing compliance (in reasonable detail as to pro forma calculations) with all of the provisions of this paragraph (j), and (ii) Holdings or the Borrower shall have given the Agents and the Banks at least 30 days prior notice of any Permitted Acquisition (each such notice a "Permitted Acquisition Notice"); -----------------------------
(k) leases or subleases granted by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to third Persons not interfering in any material respect with the business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries;
