Satisfaction of Closing Conditions (a) The parties shall use their commercially reasonable best efforts to take all action necessary or appropriate to bring about the satisfaction as soon as possible of all the conditions contained in Section 7. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the parties shall apply for and diligently prosecute all applications for, and shall use their commercially reasonable best efforts promptly to obtain, such consents, authorizations and approvals from such third parties and governmental authorities as shall be necessary to permit the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Merger Agreement, including, without limitation, making the requisite filings with the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice pursuant to the HSR Act and each party will refrain from taking any action which would cause, and shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to take any action necessary to prevent, any of the representations and warranties made by it in this Merger Agreement not to be true and correct in all material respects at and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as then made (except with respect to representation and warranties which are made as of a specific date), subject only to exceptions permitted or expressly contemplated by this Merger Agreement. The Company further covenants and agrees, with respect to any threatened or pending judgment, order, injunction, decree or decision of any governmental authority that will adversely affect the ability of the parties hereto to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, to use all commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the entry or promulgation thereof and to defend and cooperate with each other in the defending of any legal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative and whether brought derivatively or on behalf of third parties challenging the transaction contemplated hereby as the case may be, it being understood that such efforts shall not include any requirement of the Company to expend material sums of money or grant any material financial or other accommodation.
(b) The Buyer agrees to use commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain the financing necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby as soon as possible. The Buyer agrees that any 144A offerings contemplated by the Financing Letters must be consummated prior to October 31, 1998 and that if any such offering is not consummated prior to such date, then the Buyer will be obligated on October 31, 1998 to obtain the bridge loan financing contemplated by the Financing Letter in substitution therefor pursuant to the terms thereof, subject to the conditions for such bridge loan financing set forth in the Financing Letters. The Company agrees to provide, and will cause its subsidiaries and their respective personnel and advisers to provide, all cooperation reasonably requested in connection with the arrangement of such financing, including without limitation, participation in meetings, due diligence sessions, road shows, the preparation of offering memoranda, private placement memoranda, prospectuses and similar documents, the execution and delivery of any commitment letters, underwriting or placement agreements, pledge and security documents, other definitive financing documents, or other requested certificates or documents, including a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company with respect to solvency matters, comfort letters of accountants as may be reasonably requested by Buyer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Buyer agrees that the payment of any expenses relating to providing such cooperation, including fees by the Company in connection with any commitment letters, shall be subject to the occurrence of the Closing.
Satisfaction of Conditions Precedent Each party will use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy or cause to be satisfied all the conditions precedent that are applicable to them, and to cause the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be consummated, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to obtain all material consents and authorizations of third parties and to make filings with, and give all notices to, third parties that may be necessary or reasonably required on its part in order to effect the transactions contemplated hereby.
Satisfaction of Conditions The conditions precedent set out in Section 6.1, Section 6.2 and Section 6.3 shall be conclusively deemed to have been satisfied, waived or released at the Effective Time.
Conditions Precedent to Buyer’s Obligations Each and every obligation of Buyer to be performed on the Closing Date shall be subject to the satisfaction prior to or at the Closing of each of the following conditions:
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO OBLIGATIONS OF BUYER The obligations of Buyer under this Agreement shall, at the option of Buyer, be subject to the satisfaction, on or prior to the Closing Date, of the following conditions:
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO BUYER'S OBLIGATION TO CLOSE Buyer's obligation to purchase the Shares and to take the other actions required to be taken by Buyer at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or prior to the Closing, of each of the following conditions (any of which may be waived by Buyer, in whole or in part):
Conditions to Obligation of Buyer The obligation of Buyer to consummate the Closing is subject to the satisfaction (or, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, waiver by Buyer) of the following further conditions:
(i) Seller shall have performed in all material respects all of its obligations hereunder required to be performed by it on or prior to the Closing Date, (ii) the representations and warranties of Seller contained in this Agreement (disregarding all materiality and Material Adverse Effect qualifications) shall be true when made and at and as of the Closing Date, as if made at and as of such date, with only such exceptions as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iii) Buyer shall have received a certificate signed by an officer of Seller to the foregoing effect;
(b) all consents of third parties required by the agreements listed in Section 10.02(b) of the Disclosure Schedule shall have been obtained;
(c) all governmental licenses, authorizations, permits, consents and approvals required to carry on the Business as now conducted shall have been transferred to or otherwise obtained by Buyer on or before the Closing Date, with only such exceptions as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(d) Buyer shall have received all documents it may reasonably request relating to (i) the existence of Seller and its Subsidiaries (including the Purchased Subsidiaries) and (ii) the authority of Seller for this Agreement, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Buyer; and
(e) The proceeds of the Debt Financing shall have been received by Buyer, or shall be fully available to Buyer, on substantially the terms and conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter (including after giving effect to any changes pursuant to the “market flex” provisions thereof); provided that Buyer shall not be entitled to assert the failure of the condition set forth in this Section 10.02(e) if the failure of the Debt Financing to be consummated has resulted solely from the failure of the Equity Financing to be consummated.
Conditions Precedent to Seller’s Obligations The obligation of the Sellers to consummate the transfer of the Transferred Assets to the Buyer on the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction (or waiver by the Sellers) as of the Closing of the following conditions:
(a) Each of the representations and warranties made by the Buyer in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all respects as of the Closing Date as though such representations and warranties were made on and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties relate to a specific date, in which case, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects as of such specific date), except for breaches or inaccuracies that would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Buyer or impair or delay the ability of the Buyer to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Closing Documents or otherwise perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Closing Documents;
(b) The Buyer shall have performed or complied in all material respects with each obligation and covenant required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by the Buyer on or before the Closing.
(c) The Sellers shall have received all of the applicable documents required to be delivered by the Buyer under Article VI;
(d) No order or injunction of any court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction nor any statute, rule, regulation or executive order promulgated by any Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction shall be in effect as of the Closing that restrains or prohibits the transfer of the Transferred Assets or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated hereby; and
(e) No action, suit or other proceeding shall have been commenced against Buyer or any Seller that would reasonably be expected to prevent the Closing.
Conditions Precedent to Closing The Local Church and Annual Conference acknowledge and agree that the obligations of the parties to effectuate the Closing on or about the Disaffiliation Date are expressly contingent and conditional on the following:
Conditions Precedent to Closing Date The occurrence of the Closing Date and the obligation of each Lender to make any Advance hereunder on the Closing Date shall be subject to the conditions precedent that the Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the Closing Date the following, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, or, as applicable, the events set forth below shall have occurred (or such applicable conditions precedent have been waived by the Administrative Agent):
(a) each of the Facility Documents (other than the Collateral Administration and Agency Fee Letter) duly executed and delivered by the parties thereto, which shall each be in full force and effect;
(b) true and complete copies certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower of all Governmental Authorizations, Private Authorizations and Governmental Filings, if any, required in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Facility Documents;
(c) each of the representations and warranties of the Borrower, the Collateral Manager and the Equityholder contained in the Facility Documents shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to any earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such earlier date);
(d) one or more certificates of a Responsible Officer of each of the Borrower, the Equityholder and the Collateral Manager certifying (i) as to its Constituent Documents, (ii) as to its resolutions or other action of its general partner, board of directors or board of managers or members approving this Agreement and the other Facility Documents to which it is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, (iii) that each of such Person’s representations and warranties made by such Person in the Facility Documents to which it is a party are true and correct as of the Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to any earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such earlier date), (iv) that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and (v) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each of its Responsible Officers authorized to execute the Facility Documents to which it is a party;
(e) proper financing statements, in acceptable form for filing on the Closing Date, under the UCC with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and any other applicable filing office in any applicable jurisdiction that the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perfect the interests in the Collateral contemplated by this Agreement and such further instruments and such further actions that the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perfect the Collateral Agent’s first-priority security interest in the Collateral;
(f) legal opinions (addressed to each of the Secured Parties) of (i) counsel to the Borrower, the Collateral Manager and the Equityholder, covering customary corporate matters (including opinions regarding no conflict with covered Laws and non-contravention with organizational documents and the status of the Borrower under the Investment Company Act), substantive non-consolidation of the Borrower with the Equityholder, the true sale nature of any transfers to the Borrower of Collateral Assets from the Equityholder, perfection of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral and such other matters as the Administrative Agent and its counsel shall reasonably request and (ii) counsel to the Collateral Administrator, the Collateral Agent and the Custodian, covering corporate and enforceability matters, and such other matters as the Administrative Agent and its counsel shall reasonably request;
(g) reserved;
(h) all of the Covered Accounts shall have been established and shall be subject to the Account Control Agreement;
(i) evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that (i) all fees and expenses due and owing to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Closing Date have been received or will be received contemporaneously with the Closing Date; and (ii) the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, of counsel to the Custodian and of counsel to the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary and the Collateral Administrator in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, shall have been paid by the Borrower;
(j) evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that an amount equal to the Unfunded Reserve Required Amount with respect to the Collateral Assets to be acquired on the Closing Date shall have been deposited into the Unfunded Reserve Account;
(k) a solvency certificate reasonably satisfactory to it from an authorized signatory of the Borrower and the Equityholder;
(l) with respect to any Advance to be made on the Closing Date, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing with respect to such Advance demonstrating that immediately after the making of such initial Advance, the Borrowing Base Test shall be satisfied;
(m) the Borrower shall have instructed all Obligors or, if applicable, the administrative agents, on the Collateral Assets (or, in the case of Participation Interests, the related seller of such Participation Interest) that all payments shall be made directly to the Collection Account and all Collections received by the Borrower or its Affiliates with respect to the Collateral shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties; and
(n) sufficiently in advance of the Closing Date, (x) all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act and (y) if the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to the Borrower.
