Standstill of Investor Sample Clauses

Standstill of Investor. The Investor will not in any manner, directly or indirectly, acquire any interests (pecuniary or otherwise) in any additional Common Shares or any other equity securities or other securities convertible into, exercisable for or exchangeable into or for any Common Shares (collectively "Equity Securities"), other than (A) Common Shares received upon the exercise of the Convertible Note, (B) Equity Securities offered and sold to the Investor pursuant to Section 8.5 of this Agreement, and (C) Equity Securities that are issued to all holders of Common Shares as part of a stock dividend, recapitalization or merger or similar transaction in which all holders of Common Shares are entitled to participate. The Investor agrees that without the prior written consent of the Board, the Investor will not effect, participate in or encourage (individually or with others): (i) any tender or exchange offer, merger or other business combination involving the Company, (ii) any recapitalization, restructuring, liquidation, dissolution or other extraordinary transaction with respect to the Company or (iii) any "solicitation" of "proxies" (as such terms are define in Rule 14a-1 under the Exchange Act) or consents to vote any securities of the Company (including but not limited to votes or consents regarding the election of members of the Board) or (iv) take any action which could reasonably be expected to force the Company to make a public announcement regarding any of the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything contrary herein, nothing in this Section 11.14 shall preclude the Investor from discussing or taking any of the actions specified in clauses (i) through (iv) of the previous sentence or forming a "group" (as that term is used in Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act) with respect to any of the equity securities of the Company with a shareholder of the Company that owns more than 10% of Common Shares as of the date hereof. The Investor’s obligations under this Section 11.14 shall expire on the later of (i) 90th day following the expiration of the covenant contained in Section 8.4 or (ii) the date on which none of the Senior Notes remains outstanding. [The remainder of this page has been intentionally left blank.]
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  • Status of Investor The Investor is (i) not a U.S. person within the meaning of Rule 902 of Regulation S under the Act, or (ii) purchasing the Purchased Shares outside the United States in compliance with Regulation S under the Act and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction.

  • Standstill Agreement In consideration of the Confidential Information being furnished to the Receiving Party pursuant to this Agreement, the Receiving Party agrees that, for a period of one year from the date of this Agreement (or, such shorter period agreed to by the Company with a third party who is provided access to the Confidential Information for the purpose of evaluating a possible Transaction, the “Standstill Period”), unless expressly requested by the Company or its Board of Directors (or any committee thereof) in writing, the Receiving Party shall not (and shall cause its affiliates not to and shall cause its and their respective Representatives acting at its and their respective behalf not to): (a) in any manner acting alone or in concert with others, acquire, agree to acquire or make any proposal to acquire, directly or indirectly, by means of purchase, merger, business combination or in any other manner, beneficial ownership of any securities of the Company, direct or indirect rights to acquire any securities of the Company (including any derivative securities with economic equivalents of ownership of any of such securities), any right to vote or to direct the voting of any securities of the Company or any assets of the Company, (b) make, or in any way participate in, directly or indirectly, any “solicitation” of “proxies” (as such terms are used in the proxy rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission) or consents to vote, or seek to advise or influence any person with respect to the voting of, any voting securities of the Company, (c) form, join or in any way participate in a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) with respect to any voting securities of the Company, other than any group comprised solely of the Receiving Party and its affiliates, (d) otherwise act, alone or in concert with others, to seek to control, advise, change or influence the management, board of directors, governing instruments, policies or affairs of the Company, (e) make any public disclosure, or take any action that could require the Company to make any public disclosure, with respect to any of the matters set forth in this Agreement, other than the required amendment to the Receiving Party’s Schedule 13D filing as a result of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (f) disclose any intention, plan or arrangement inconsistent with the foregoing or (g) have any discussions or enter into any arrangements (whether written or oral) with, or advise, assist or encourage any other persons in connection with any of the foregoing. The Receiving Party also agrees during such period not to request the Company or any of the Company Representatives, directly or indirectly, to amend or waive any provision of this Section 6 (including this sentence). Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Standstill Period shall terminate immediately if, after the date of this Agreement, (A) the Company enters into a definitive agreement with a third party to effectuate a sale of 50% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company or 50% or more of the Company’s outstanding equity securities, (B) the Company publicly announces the conclusion of its previously announced strategic review process without a definitive agreement to sell the Company, (C) the Company makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors or commences any proceeding under any bankruptcy reorganization, insolvency, dissolution or liquidation law of any jurisdiction or (D) any bankruptcy petition is filed or any such proceeding is commenced against the Company and either (1) the Company indicates its approval thereof, consent thereto or acquiescence therein, or (2) such petition application or proceeding is not dismissed within 30 days and (ii) the Standstill Period solely with respect to clause (b) of this Section 6 shall terminate ten days prior to the expiration of the applicable time period for stockholders to nominate directors for election at the Company’s 2012 annual stockholders meeting to be scheduled in accordance with Section 8 hereof (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the restrictions in clauses (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of this Section 6 shall not apply to the activities that were previously expressly prohibited by clause (b) of this Section 6 in the event the restrictions in clause (b) are terminated pursuant to this clause (ii)).

  • Standstill Each of the Vivendi Parties, on behalf of itself and its Controlled Affiliates, hereby agrees, that for the period commencing on the date hereof and ending six months after the first date on which Vivendi and its Controlled Affiliates, in the aggregate, beneficially own less than 5% of the issued and outstanding Common Stock, none of the Vivendi Parties nor any of their Controlled Affiliates will, in any manner, directly or indirectly: (a) acquire, offer or propose to acquire, or agree or seek to acquire, or solicit the acquisition of, by purchase or otherwise, any Common Stock (or beneficial ownership thereof) or rights or options to acquire any Common Stock (or beneficial ownership thereof) or commence any tender or exchange offer for any Common Stock (or beneficial ownership thereof); provided, however, that this clause (a) shall not (i) apply to Common Stock or rights to acquire Common Stock issued by the Company to Vivendi or any of its Controlled Affiliates as a dividend, distribution or otherwise in respect of any Common Stock owned by Vivendi and its Controlled Affiliates immediately after giving effect to the Purchase Transaction or (ii) prohibit Vivendi or any of its Controlled Affiliates from purchasing shares of Common Stock issued by the Company pursuant to any public offering of Common Stock conducted by the Company; (b) call or seek to call a meeting of the stockholders of the Company or initiate any stockholder proposal for action by stockholders of the Company or engage in the “solicitation” of “proxies” (as such terms are used in the proxy rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission) or consents to vote any voting securities of the Company, including soliciting consents or taking other action with respect to the calling of a special meeting of the Company’s stockholders; (c) form, join or in any way participate in a “group” (as defined under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder) with respect to the Company or Common Stock (other than to the extent that Vivendi and its Controlled Affiliates constitute a “group” as of the date hereof); (d) otherwise act, alone or in concert with others, to seek representation on or to control or influence the management, board of directors or policies of the Company or to obtain representation on the board of directors of the Company; (e) enter into or agree, offer, propose or seek (whether publicly or otherwise) to enter into, or otherwise be involved in or part of, any acquisition transaction, merger or other business combination or similar transaction relating to all or part of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any acquisition transaction for all or part of the assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses or any recapitalization, restructuring, change in control or similar transaction involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (f) request that the Company or the Board amend, waive or otherwise consent to any action inconsistent with any provision of this Section 3.3, (g) enter into any discussions, negotiations, arrangements or understandings with any other person with respect to any of the foregoing activities; (h) advise, assist, encourage, act as a financing source for or other otherwise invest in any other person in connection with any of the foregoing; (i) publicly disclose through its authorized representatives any intention, plan or arrangement inconsistent with any of the foregoing; or (j) expressly take any initiative with respect to the Company which could require the Company to make a public announcement regarding (A) such initiative or (B) any of the foregoing activities. For purposes of this Section 3.3, the term “Common Stock” shall be deemed to include any other equity securities of the Company. The Company and Games acknowledge and agree that no transfer, sale or other transaction with respect to the Remaining Shares between Vivendi or any of its Controlled Affiliates, on the one hand, and Vivendi or any of its Controlled Affiliates, on the other hand, that is not prohibited under Section 7.4 of the Purchase Agreement shall be prohibited by this Section 3.3.

  • Experience of Investor Investor, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Investor is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

  • Covenants of Investor Section 5.1 COMPLIANCE WITH LAW; TRADING IN SECURITIES. Investor's trading activities with respect to shares of the Common Stock will be in compliance with all applicable state and federal securities laws, rules and regulations and the rules and regulations of FINRA and the Principal Market on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted.

  • Standstill Provision Through the second anniversary of the Date of Termination, Executive and his Representatives (as defined below) shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Board: (a) acquire or offer or agree to acquire, directly or indirectly, by purchase or otherwise, more than five percent (5%) of any outstanding class of voting securities or securities convertible into voting securities of the Corporation, (b) propose to, or attempt to induce any other individual or entity to, enter into, directly or indirectly, any merger, consolidation, business combination, asset purchase (other than routine purchases in the ordinary course of business of product offered for sale by the Corporation) or other similar transaction involving the Corporation or any of its affiliates, (c) make, or in any way participate in any solicitation of proxies to vote, execute any consent as a Corporation shareholder, act to call a meeting of the Corporation’s shareholders, make a proposal to be acted upon by the Corporation’s shareholders or seek to advise or influence any person with respect to the voting or not voting of any securities of the Corporation, (d) form, join or in any way participate in a partnership, syndicate, joint venture or other “group” (as defined under Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”)), with respect to any voting securities of the Corporation or transfer Executive’s voting rights with respect to any securities of the Corporation (by voting trust or otherwise), (e) otherwise act, alone or in concert with others, to seek to control or influence the management, Board or policies of the Corporation or seek a position on the Board, (f) disclose any intention, plan or arrangement inconsistent with the foregoing, or (g) advise, assist or encourage any other persons in connection with any of the foregoing. If Executive has initiated any of the foregoing activities prior to the Date of Termination, Executive shall cease, terminate and otherwise refrain from conducting such activities and shall take any and all necessary steps to effect the foregoing and any proposals made by Executive as a shareholder of the Corporation on or before the Date of Termination, are hereby withdrawn. As used herein, the term “Representative” shall include Executive’s employees, agents, investment bankers, advisors, affiliates and associates of any of the foregoing and persons under the control of any of the foregoing (as the term “affiliate,” “associate” and “control” are defined under the 1934 Act). Executive also agrees during such period not to request the Corporation or its representatives, directly or indirectly, to amend or waive any provision of this Section 5 (including this sentence) to take any action which might require the Corporation to make a public announcement regarding the possibility of a merger, consolidation, business combination or other transaction of any kind with the Executive or any affiliate of the Executive.

  • Investor The Investor must execute and deliver a Securities Purchase Agreement, and must complete a Certificate Questionnaire (in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto) and an Investor Questionnaire (in the form attached as Exhibit C hereto) in order to purchase the Securities.

  • Standstill and Waivers The Second Priority Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Second Priority Secured Parties, agrees that, until the First Priority Obligations Payment Date has occurred, subject to the proviso set forth in Section 5.1:

  • Stockholder Agreement The Stockholder agrees that, during the period from the date of this Agreement until the Expiration Date:

  • WARRANT HOLDER NOT DEEMED A STOCKHOLDER Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Holder, solely in its capacity as a holder of this Warrant, shall not be entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of share capital of the Company for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in this Warrant be construed to confer upon the Holder, solely in its capacity as the Holder of this Warrant, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote, give or withhold consent to any corporate action (whether any reorganization, issue of stock, reclassification of stock, consolidation, merger, conveyance or otherwise), receive notice of meetings, receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, prior to the issuance to the Holder of the Warrant Shares which it is then entitled to receive upon the due exercise of this Warrant. In addition, nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as imposing any liabilities on the Holder to purchase any securities (upon exercise of this Warrant or otherwise) or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liabilities are asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company. Notwithstanding this Section 6, the Company shall provide the Holder with copies of the same notices and other information given to the stockholders of the Company generally, contemporaneously with the giving thereof to the stockholders.

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