Agreements and Other Documents 29 3.23 Solvency.......................................................................................30 3.24
Conflicting Agreements and Other Matters Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any contract or agreement or subject to any charter or other corporate restriction which materially and adversely affects its business, property or assets, or financial condition. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement or the Notes, nor the offering, issuance and sale of the Notes, nor fulfillment of nor compliance with the terms and provisions hereof and of the Notes will conflict with, or result in a breach of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in any violation of, or result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to, the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any award of any arbitrator or any agreement (including any agreement with stockholders), instrument, order, judgment, decree, statute, law, rule or regulation to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to, or otherwise subject to any provision contained in, any instrument evidencing Indebtedness of the Company or such Subsidiary, any agreement relating thereto or any other contract or agreement (including its charter) which limits the amount of, or otherwise imposes restrictions on the incurring of, Indebtedness of the Company of the type to be evidenced by the Notes except as set forth in the agreements listed in Schedule 8G attached hereto.
Covenants and Other Agreements Purchaser shall have performed its covenants and agreements herein on or prior to the Closing Date in all material respects.
Contracts and Other Agreements (a) Other than (1) contracts and other agreements disclosed in Section 4.16 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or (2) contracts between the Company and its direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiaries or between the Company's direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiaries, none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any:
(i) contracts and other agreements with, or loans to, any current or former officer, director, employee, consultant, agent or other representative of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or any current stockholder of the Company, or any affiliate (excluding the Company and its Subsidiaries) or Family Member of the foregoing persons, other than pursuant to Plans described in Section 4.23 of the Company Disclosure Schedule;
(ii) contracts and other agreements with any labor union or association representing any employee;
(iii) contracts and other agreements for the purchase or sale of equipment or services, which involve the receipt or payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of an amount in excess of $20,000 per month (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts and other agreements);
(iv) contracts and other agreements for the sale of any of the assets or properties of the Company or its Subsidiaries or for the grant to any person of any preferential rights to purchase any of the assets or properties of the Company or its Subsidiaries, which involve the receipt or payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of an amount in excess of $20,000 (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts and other agreements);
(v) contracts and other agreements calling for an aggregate purchase price or payments in any one year of more than $100,000 payable by the Company or its Subsidiaries in any one case (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts and other agreements);
(vi) contracts and other agreements, whether or not currently in effect, relating to the acquisition by the Company or its Subsidiaries of any business of, or the disposition of any business involving the Company or its Subsidiaries to, any other person;
(vii) contracts relating to the disposition or acquisition of any investment or of any interest in any person, which involved the receipt or payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of an amount in excess of $20,000 (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts and other agreements);
(viii) joint venture and similar agreements which would involve the receipt or payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of an amount in excess of $50,000 (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts or other agreements);
(ix) contracts and other agreements, whether or not currently in effect, under which the Company or its Subsidiaries agreed to indemnify any party or to share tax liability of any party, which could involve the payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of an amount in excess of $20,000 (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts or other agreements);
(x) contracts and other agreements containing covenants of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or, to the Company's Knowledge, its officers, directors or employees, not to compete in or solicit employees in any line of business or with any person in any geographical area or covenants of any other person not to compete with or solicit employees from the Company in any line of business or in any geographical area;
(xi) contracts and other agreements relating to any loan or other extension of credit by the Company or its Subsidiaries to a stockholder, officer or director of the Company or its Subsidiaries or from a stockholder of the Company to the Company;
(xii) contracts and other agreements relating to the borrowing of money by, or indebtedness of, the Company or its Subsidiaries or the direct or indirect guaranty by the Company or its Subsidiaries of any obligation or indebtedness of any other person or Governmental Entity (other than any accounts receivable or accounts payable of the Company or its Subsidiaries), including, without limitation, any (a) agreement or arrangement relating to the maintenance of compensating balances, (b) agreement or arrangement with respect to lines of credit, (c) agreement to advance or supply funds to any other person other than in the ordinary course of business, (d) agreement to pay for property, products or services of any other person even if such property, products or services are not conveyed, delivered or rendered, (e) keep-well, make-whole or maintenance of working capital or earnings or similar agreement, and (f) guaranty with respect to any lease or other similar periodic payments to be made by any such person;
(xiii) contracts and other agreements relating to the provision by or to the Company or its Subsidiaries of third party management or administration services, which involve the receipt or payment by the Company or its Subsidiaries of an amount in excess of $50,000 (in the aggregate in the case of any related series of contracts and other agreements);
(xiv) each lease of personal property which requires annual lease payments in excess of $50,000 and each Lease;
(xv) contracts and other agreements pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries obtains or grants insurance or reinsurance;
(xvi) contracts and other agreements between the Company or its Subsidiaries and any Governmental Entity;
(xvii) contracts and other agreements which require payments generated by a change in control of the Company; and
(xviii) contracts and other agreements, whether or not currently in effect, relating to disposal of any controlled or hazardous substance or waste.
(b) Each such contract and other agreement is valid, in full force and effect and binding upon the Company and its Subsidiaries, except for failures to be in full force and effect that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect and, to the Company's Knowledge, the other parties thereto in accordance with its terms, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under any of them, except for defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, and the Company has no Knowledge of any threat of cancellation or termination thereunder, nor will the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement result in a default under any such contract or other agreement or the right to terminate such contract or other agreement, except for cancellations, terminations, defaults, or rights to terminate that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. No Permits or other documents or agreements with, or issued by or filed with, any person, have been granted to any other person that provide the right to use any real or tangible personal property comprising any portion of the assets of the Company except for grants that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any contract, commitment, arrangement or agreement which would, following the Closing, restrain or restrict Parent or any affiliate of Parent, from operating the business of the Company in the manner in which it is currently operated, except for contracts, commitments, arrangements or agreement that would not individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Compliance with Law and Other Agreements The Company shall maintain its business operations and property owned or used in connection therewith in compliance with (a) all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances governing such business operations and the use and ownership of such property, and (b) all agreements, licenses, franchises, indentures and mortgages to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or any of its properties is bound. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company shall pay all of its indebtedness promptly in accordance with the terms thereof.
Restrictions on Public Sale by the Company and Others The Company agrees (i) that during the seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any registration statement filed at the request of a Children Trust Party pursuant hereto, the Company will not offer publicly or effect any public sale or distribution of Common Equity Securities (other than any such sale or distribution of such securities in connection with any merger or consolidation of the Company or any subsidiary with, or the acquisition by the Company or a subsidiary of the capital stock or substantially all of the assets of, any other person or any offer or sale of such securities pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8), and (ii) that any agreement entered into after the date of this Agreement pursuant to which the Company issues or agrees to issue any privately placed Common Equity Securities shall contain a provision under which holders of such securities agree not to effect any public sale or distribution of any such securities during the periods described in (i) above, in each case including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 (or any successor rule or regulation) under the Securities Act (except as part of any such registration, if permitted).
Restrictions on Other Agreements No Principal Stockholder shall, directly or indirectly, grant any proxy or enter into or agree to be bound by any voting trust, agreement or arrangement of any kind with respect to its shares of Common Stock if and to the extent the terms thereof conflict with the provisions of this Agreement (whether or not such proxy, voting trust, agreement or agreements are with other Principal Stockholders, holders of shares of Common Stock that are not parties to this Agreement or otherwise).
Transfer and Other Restrictions (a) Prior to the termination of this Agreement, Stockholder agrees not to, directly or indirectly:
(i) offer for sale, Transfer or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding with respect to or consent to the offer for sale, Transfer or other disposition of any or all of the Subject Securities or any interest therein except as provided in Section 1.2 hereof;
(ii) grant any proxy, power of attorney, deposit any of the Subject Securities into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to the Subject Securities except as provided in this Agreement; or
(iii) take any other action that would make any representation or warranty of Stockholder contained herein untrue or incorrect or have the effect of preventing or disabling Stockholder from performing its obligations under this Agreement.
(b) To the extent Stockholder is, as of the date hereof, party to a contract or agreement that requires Stockholder to Transfer Subject Securities to another person or entity (excluding a contract or agreement pledging Subject Securities to Parent), Stockholder will not effect any such Transfer unless and until the transferee agrees to be bound by and executes an agreement in the form of this Agreement with respect to the Subject Securities to be Transferred. Nothing herein shall prohibit Stockholder from exercising (in accordance with the terms of the option or warrant, as applicable) any option or warrant Stockholder may hold; provided that the securities acquired upon such exercise shall be deemed Subject Securities and Shares hereunder.
(c) Until July 24, 2000, Stockholder will not, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant for the sale of, or otherwise dispose of or transfer any shares of the Parent Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Parent Common Stock, or (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of the Parent Common Stock, whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of Parent Common Stock or other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (a) transactions relating to Parent Common Stock acquired by Stockholder in open market transactions, (b) the transfer, if the undersigned is an individual, to a member or members of his or her immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiaries of which are exclusively the undersigned and/or a member or members of his or her immediate family, either during his or her lifetime or on death by will or intestacy, provided that the transferee or transferees thereof agree in writing to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement, or (c) the transfer, if the undersigned is a partnership, corporation or trust, to partners (or retired partners who retire after the date hereof), shareholders, or beneficiaries, as the case may be, of the undersigned as a distribution, provided that the distributees thereof agree in writing to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement. For the purposes of this paragraph, "immediate family" shall mean spouse, lineal descendant, father, mother, brother or sister of the transferor.
Certain Other Agreements The Unitholder hereby:
(a) agrees to promptly notify Parent of the number of any new Securities acquired by the Unitholder after the date hereof and prior to the Expiration Date; provided that any such Securities shall automatically be subject to the terms of this Agreement as though owned by the Unitholder on the date hereof;
(b) agrees to permit Parent to publish and disclose in the Joint Proxy Statement, other filings with the SEC and in the press release announcing the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Unitholder’s identity and ownership of the Securities and the nature of the Unitholder’s commitments, arrangements and understandings under this Agreement; provided that Parent agrees that it shall only publish and disclose the ownership of the Unitholder on an aggregate basis with the Partnership Unitholders who have entered into a Partnership Support Agreement on the date hereof; and
(c) shall and does authorize Parent or its counsel to notify the Partnership’s transfer agent that there is a stop transfer order with respect to all of the Securities (and that this Agreement places limits on the voting and transfer of such shares); provided that Parent or its counsel further notifies the Partnership’s transfer agent to lift and vacate the stop transfer order with respect to the Securities on the earlier of (x) following the Expiration Date and (y) the date on which the Approval is obtained.
Authorization; Other Agreements The Guarantied Parties are hereby authorized, without notice to, or demand upon, any Guarantor, which notice and demand requirements each are expressly waived hereby, and without discharging or otherwise affecting the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder (which obligations shall remain absolute and unconditional notwithstanding any such action or omission to act), from time to time, to do each of the following:
(a) supplement, renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the time for payment of, or other terms relating to, the Obligations, or any part of them, or otherwise modify, amend or change the terms of any promissory note or other agreement, document or instrument (including the other Loan Documents) now or hereafter executed by the Borrower and delivered to the Guarantied Parties or any of them, including any increase or decrease of principal or the rate of interest thereon;
(b) waive or otherwise consent to noncompliance with any provision of any instrument evidencing the Obligations, or any part thereof, or any other instrument or agreement in respect of the Obligations (including the other Loan Documents) now or hereafter executed by the Borrower and delivered to the Guarantied Parties or any of them;
(c) accept partial payments on the Obligations;
(d) receive, take and hold security or collateral for the payment of the Obligations or any part of them and exchange, enforce, waive, substitute, liquidate, terminate, abandon, fail to perfect, subordinate, transfer, otherwise alter and release any such security or collateral;
