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 EFFECTIVENESS OF SECTIONS 2.01 AND 2.03. Sections 2.01 and 2.03 of this Agreement shall become effective on and as of the first date (the "EFFECTIVE DATE") on which the following conditions precedent to the initial Advance by any Lender have been satisfied:
(a) There shall exist no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any Note or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) Nothing shall have come to the attention of the Lenders during the course of their due diligence investigation to lead them to believe that the Information Memorandum was or has become misleading, incorrect or incomplete in any material respect; without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lenders shall have been given such access to the management, records, books of account, contracts and properties of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as they shall have reasonably requested as a basis for making its decision to enter into its commitment hereunder.
(c) All governmental and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the transactions by the Company contemplated hereby shall have been obtained (without the imposition of any conditions that are not acceptable to the Lenders) and shall remain in effect, and no law or regulation shall be applicable in the reasonable judgment of the Lenders that restrains, prevents or imposes materially adverse conditions upon the transactions contemplated hereby.
(d) The Company shall have notified the Agent in writing as to the proposed Effective Date.
(e) The Company shall have paid all accrued fees and expenses of the Agent and the Lenders (including the invoiced accrued fees and expenses of counsel to the Agent).
(f) On the Effective Date, the following statements shall be true and the Agent shall have received for the account of each Lender a certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company, dated the Effective Date, stating that:
(i) The representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 are correct on and as of the Effective Date, and
(ii) No event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes a Default.
(g) The Agent shall have received on or before the Effective Date the following, each dated such day, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and (except for the Revolving Credit Notes) in sufficient copies for each Lender:
(i) The Revolving Credit Notes of the Company to the order of the Lenders to the extent requested by any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16.
(ii) Certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company approving this Agreement and the Notes to be delivered by it, and of all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and governmental approvals, if any, with respect to this Agreement and the Notes to be delivered by it.
(iii) A certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of the Company authorized to sign this Agreement and the Notes to be delivered by it and the other documents to be delivered by it hereunder.
(iv) A favorable opinion of Nicholas J. Camera, General Counsel of the Compaxx, xxx xx Xleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, counsel for the Company, substanxxxxxy in the form of Exhibits D-1 and D-2 hereto, respectively.
(v) A favorable opinion of Shearman & Sterling, counsel for the Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
(h) The termination of the commitments of the Lenders and the payment in full of all Debt outstanding under the bilateral credit agreements and other confirmed lines of credit listed on Schedule 3.01(h).
Other Conditions Precedent Each of the conditions set forth in Sections 4.1.4, 4.1.5, 4.1.6 and 4.1.10 shall have been satisfied unless the failure of any such condition to be satisfied is the result of any action or inaction by Mortgagee.
Conditions Precedent This Amendment shall become effective as of the date hereof (the “Amendment Effective Date”), subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
Waiver of conditions precedent If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, permit an Advance to be borrowed before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 9.1 are satisfied, the Borrower shall ensure that those conditions are satisfied within 5 Business Days after the Drawdown Date relative to that Advance (or such longer period as the Agent may, with the authority of the Majority Lenders, specify).
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.
Further conditions precedent If any of the conditions set forth below does not exist on or before the Closing Date with respect to either party hereto, the other party to this Agreement shall, at its option, not be required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement:
8.1 This Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein shall have been approved by the requisite vote of the Acquired Fund's shareholders in accordance with the provisions of the Safeco Trust's Trust Instrument and By-Laws, and certified copies of the resolutions evidencing such approval by the Acquired Fund's shareholders shall have been delivered by the Acquired Fund to the Acquiring Fund. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither party hereto may waive the conditions set forth in this Paragraph 8.1;
8.2 On the Closing Date, no action, suit or other proceeding shall be pending before any court or governmental agency in which it is sought to restrain or prohibit, or obtain damages or other relief in connection with, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated herein;
8.3 All consents of other parties and all other consents, orders and permits of federal, state and local regulatory authorities (including those of the Commission and of state Blue Sky and securities authorities) deemed necessary by either party hereto to permit consummation, in all material respects, of the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained, except where failure to obtain any such consent, order or permit would not involve a risk of a material adverse effect on the assets or properties of either party hereto, provided that either party may waive any such conditions for itself;
8.4 The Acquiring Trust's Registration Statement on Form N-14 shall have become effective under the Securities Act and no stop orders suspending the effectiveness of such Registration Statement shall have been issued and, to the best knowledge of the parties hereto, no investigation or proceeding for that purpose shall have been instituted or be pending, threatened or contemplated under the Securities Act;
8.5 The parties shall have received an opinion of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Xxxx xxx Xxxr XXX, xxxxxxxxtory xx xhe Safeco Trust and the Acquiring Trust and subject to customary assumptions and qualifications, substantially to the effect that for federal income tax purposes the acquisition by the Acquiring Fund of the Acquired Assets solely in exchange for the issuance of Acquiring Fund Shares to the Acquired Fund and the assumption of the Assumed Liabilities by the Acquiring Fund, followed by the distribution by the Acquired Fund, in liquidation of the Acquired Fund, of Acquiring Fund Shares to the Acquired Fund Shareholders in exchange for their Acquired Fund Shares and the termination of the Acquired Fund, will constitute a "reorganization" within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code;
8.6 The Acquired Fund shall have distributed to its shareholders, in a distribution or distributions qualifying for the deduction for dividends paid under Section 561 of the Code, all of its investment company taxable income (as defined in Section 852(b)(2) of the Code determined without regard to Section 852(b)(2)(D) of the Code) for its taxable year ending on the Closing Date, all of the excess of (i) its interest income excludable from gross income under Section 103(a) of the Code over (ii) its deductions disallowed under Sections 265 and 171(a)(2) of the Code for its taxable year ending on the Closing Date, and all of its net capital gain (as such term is used in Sections 852(b)(3)(A) and (C) of the Code), after reduction by any available capital loss carryforward, for its taxable year ending on the Closing Date; and
8.7 The Acquiring Fund shall have made a distribution of capital gains to its shareholders in November 2004 in accordance with its normal practices and, unless the Acquiring Fund distributes income monthly, the dividend distribution that the Acquiring Fund normally would make in December of 2004 shall have been made to shareholders of record prior to the Closing.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO LOAN The obligations of Lender to make the Loan hereunder are subject to the satisfaction by Borrower of the following conditions:
Conditions Precedent to Loans The obligation of each Initial Lender to make its Initial Loan hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement and the Guaranty, sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Borrower;
(ii) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a party;
(iii) such documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and is validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(iv) a favorable opinion of Vxxxxx and Exxxxx LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger, each Co-Arranger and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit E and such other matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Required Lenders may reasonably request;
(v) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party either (A) attaching copies, or an exhibit, of all consents, licenses and approvals required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such Loan Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and such consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force and effect, or (B) stating that no such consents, licenses or approvals are so required;
(vi) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying (A) that the conditions specified in paragraphs (xvi) and (xvii) below have been satisfied and (B) that there has been no event or circumstance since the date of the Audited Financial Statements that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(vii) certificates attesting to the Solvency of each Loan Party before and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the incurrence of indebtedness related thereto and application of proceeds, from its chief financial officer;
(viii) audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for the 2004 and 2005 fiscal years and unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower for any interim quarterly periods that have ended since the most recent of such audited financial statements, which in each case, (1) shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Lead Arranger and the Lenders, (2) shall not be materially inconsistent with the Information heretofore provided to the Lenders, and (3) shall meet the requirements of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act, and all other accounting rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to a registration statement under such Act on Form S-1.
(ix) evidence of the receipt by the Borrower of not less than $250,000,000 cash proceeds from the issuance of Equity Interests of the Borrower;
(x) evidence that the Existing Agreement has been or concurrently with the Closing Date is being terminated and repaid in full;
(xi) such other certificates, documents, or opinions as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders reasonably may require;
(xii) any fees required to be paid on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid;
(xiii) unless waived by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall have paid all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent invoiced prior to or on the Closing Date, plus such additional amounts of such fees, charges and disbursements as shall constitute its reasonable estimate of such fees, charges and disbursements incurred or to be incurred by it through the closing proceedings (provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent);
(xiv) the Closing Date shall have occurred on or before March 31, 2007;
(xv) there shall have been no change, occurrence or development since December 31, 2005 that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(xvi) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Article IV, the representations and warranties contained in subsections 5.05(a) and (b) of
