Tax and Regulatory Matters No Buyer Entity or, to the Knowledge of Buyer, any Affiliate thereof has taken or agreed to take any action, and Buyer does not have any Knowledge of any agreement, plan or other circumstance, that is reasonably likely to (i) prevent the Merger from qualifying as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, or (ii) materially impede or delay receipt of any of the Requisite Regulatory Approvals.
Accounting, Tax and Regulatory Matters Each Owner and the Company, -------------------------------------- jointly and severally, represents and warrants to Premiere that neither the Company, any Owner nor any Affiliate thereof has taken or agreed to take any action or has any knowledge of any fact or circumstance that is reasonably likely to (i) prevent the Merger from qualifying for pooling-of-interests accounting treatment or as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, or (ii) materially impede or delay receipt of any consents referred to in Section 5.6 of the Uniform Terms or result in the imposition of a condition or restriction of the type referred to in the last sentence of such Section.
Taxes and Regulatory Costs Borrower shall pay to Bank immediately upon demand, in addition to any other amounts due or to become due hereunder, any and all (i) withholdings, interest equalization taxes, stamp taxes or other taxes (except income and franchise taxes) imposed by any domestic or foreign governmental authority and related in any manner to LIBOR, and (ii) future, supplemental, emergency or other changes in the LIBOR Reserve Percentage, assessment rates imposed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or similar requirements or costs imposed by any domestic or foreign governmental authority or resulting from compliance by Bank with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other governmental authority and related in any manner to LIBOR to the extent they are not included in the calculation of LIBOR. In determining which of the foregoing are attributable to any LIBOR option available to Borrower hereunder, any reasonable allocation made by Bank among its operations shall be conclusive and binding upon Borrower.
Regulatory Matters (a) VFL and Purchaser shall cooperate and use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all consents, approvals and agreements of, and to give and make all notices and filings with, any Governmental Entity necessary to authorize, approve or permit the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Related Agreements and any other agreements contemplated hereby or thereby, including, without limitation, as set forth on Schedule 3.04 and Schedule 4.04. Purchaser and VFL will provide each other and their counsel the opportunity to review in advance and comment on all such filings with any Governmental Entity. Purchaser and VFL will keep each other informed of the status of matters relating to obtaining the regulatory approvals specified in Schedule 3.04 and Schedule 4.04. It is expressly understood by the parties hereto that each party hereto shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that representatives of both Purchaser and VFL shall have the right to attend and participate in any hearing, proceeding, meeting, conference or similar event before or with a Governmental Entity or other organization relating to this Agreement or a Related Agreement. In furtherance of the foregoing, Purchaser and VFL shall provide each other reasonable advance notice of any such hearing, proceeding, meeting, conference or similar event. The notice required to be given under this Section 5.04 shall be given to representatives of VFL or Purchaser entitled to receive notices hereunder.
(b) VFL and Purchaser shall cooperate and use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all other approvals and consents to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Related Agreements, including the consents of third parties under Assigned Contracts. In the event and to the extent that VFL is unable to obtain any required approval or consent of non-governmental authorities to any agreement to be assigned to Purchaser hereunder, (i) VFL shall use commercially reasonable efforts in cooperation with Purchaser to (A) provide or cause to be provided to Purchaser the benefits of any such agreement, (B) cooperate in any arrangement, reasonable and lawful as to VFL and Purchaser, designed to provide such benefits to Purchaser and (C) enforce for the account of Purchaser any rights of VFL arising from such agreements, including the right to elect to terminate in accordance with the terms thereof on the advice of Purchaser and (ii) Purchaser shall use commercially reasonable efforts to perform the obligations of VFL arising under such agreements and licenses, to the extent that, by reason of the transactions consummated pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, Purchaser has control over the resources necessary to perform such obligations. If and when any such approval or consent shall be obtained or such agreement or license shall otherwise become assignable, VFL shall promptly assign all of its rights and obligations thereunder to Purchaser without the payment of further consideration and Purchaser shall, without the payment of any further consideration therefor, assume such rights and obligations and VFL shall be relieved of any and all obligation or liability hereunder.
Litigation and Regulatory Cooperation During and after the Executive’s employment, the Executive shall cooperate fully with the Company in the defense or prosecution of any claims or actions now in existence or which may be brought in the future against or on behalf of the Company which relate to events or occurrences that transpired while the Executive was employed by the Company. The Executive’s full cooperation in connection with such claims or actions shall include, but not be limited to, being available to meet with counsel to prepare for discovery or trial and to act as a witness on behalf of the Company at mutually convenient times. During and after the Executive’s employment, the Executive also shall cooperate fully with the Company in connection with any investigation or review of any federal, state or local regulatory authority as any such investigation or review relates to events or occurrences that transpired while the Executive was employed by the Company. The Company shall reimburse the Executive for any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the Executive’s performance of obligations pursuant to this Section 7(f).
Taxes and Tax Returns (a) For purposes of this Section 3.9, Edify shall include Edify and each Edify Subsidiary and any other affiliated or related corporation or entity if Edify or any Edify Subsidiary has or could have any material liability for the Taxes of such corporation or entity. Edify has duly filed all Tax Returns required to be filed by it on or before the date hereof (all such returns being accurate and complete in all material respects) and has duly paid or made provision in the financial statements referred to in Sections 3.5 and 6.8 hereof in accordance with GAAP for the payment of all material Taxes that have been incurred or are due or claimed to be due from it by Taxing Authorities on or before the date hereof other than Taxes (a) that (x) are not yet delinquent or (y) are being contested in good faith and set forth in Section 3.9 of the Edify Disclosure Schedule and (b) that have not been finally determined. The charges, accruals, and reserves with respect to Taxes in the financial statements referred to in Sections 3.5 and 6.8 are adequate (determined in accordance with GAAP) and are at least equal to its liability for Taxes. There exists no proposed tax assessment against Edify except as disclosed in the financial statements referred to in Sections 3.5 and 6.8 hereof in accordance with GAAP. No consent to the application of Section 341(f)(2) of the Code has been filed with respect to any property or assets held, acquired, or to be acquired by Edify. All Taxes that Edify is or was required to withhold or collect have been duly withheld or collected and, to the extent required, have been paid to the proper Taxing Authority. All liability with respect to the Tax Returns of Edify has been satisfied for all years to and including 1998. No Taxing Authority has notified Edify of, or otherwise asserted, that there are any material deficiencies with respect to the Tax Returns of Edify subsequent to 1994. There are no material disputes pending, or claims asserted, for Taxes or assessments of Edify, nor has Edify given or been requested to give any currently effective waiver extending the statutory period of limitation applicable to any Tax Return. In addition, Tax Returns that are accurate and complete in all material respects have been filed by Edify for all periods for which returns were due with respect to income and employment tax withholding with respect to wages and other income and the amounts shown on such Tax Returns to be due and payable have been paid in full or adequate provision therefor in accordance with GAAP has been included by Edify in the financial statements referred to in Sections 3.5 and 6.8 hereto. All Edify Tax Returns have been examined by the relevant Taxing Authorities, or closed without audit by applicable statutes of limitations, and all deficiencies proposed as a result of such examinations have been paid or settled, for all periods before and including the taxable year ended December 31, 1994. Edify has provided or made available to S1 complete and correct copies of its Tax Returns and all material correspondence and documents, if any, relating directly or indirectly to Taxes for each taxable year or other relevant period as to which the applicable statute of limitations has not run on the date hereof. For this purpose, "correspondence and documents" include, without limitation, amended Tax Returns, pending claims for refunds, notices from Taxing Authorities of proposed changes or adjustments to Taxes or Tax Returns that have not been finally resolved, consents to assessment or collection of Taxes, acceptances of proposed adjustments, closing agreements, rulings and determination letters and requests therefor, and all other written communications to or from Taxing Authorities relating to any material Tax liability of Edify.
(b) For purposes of this Agreement:
Regulatory Matters and Approvals Each of the Parties will give any notices to, make any filings with, and use its reasonable best efforts to obtain any necessary authorizations, consents, and approvals of governments and governmental agencies in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
Reports; Regulatory Matters (a) Each of the Companies and their Subsidiaries have timely filed or furnished, as applicable, all reports, registrations, statements and certifications, together with any amendments required to be made with respect thereto, that they were required to file or furnish, as applicable, since January 1, 2006 with (i) any state regulatory authority, (ii) the SEC, (iii) any foreign regulatory authority, and (iv) any self-regulatory authority, (collectively, “Regulatory Agencies”) and with each other applicable Governmental Entity, and all other reports and statements required to be filed or furnished by them since January 1, 2006, including any report or statement required to be filed pursuant to the laws, rules or regulations of the United States, any state, any foreign entity, or any Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity, and have paid all fees and assessments due and payable in connection therewith. Except as set forth in Section 3.5 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, no Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity has initiated since January 1, 2006 or has pending any proceeding, enforcement action or, to the knowledge of Seller, investigation into the business, disclosures or operations of any of the Companies or any of its Subsidiaries. Since January 1, 2006, no Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity has resolved any proceeding, enforcement action or, to the knowledge of Seller, investigation into the business, disclosures or operations of any of the Companies or any of its Subsidiaries. There is no unresolved, or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened criticism, comment, exception or stop order by any Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity with respect to any report or statement relating to any examinations or inspections of any of the Companies or any of its Subsidiaries. Since January 1, 2006, there have been no formal or informal inquiries by, or disagreements or disputes with, any Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity with respect to the business, operations, policies or procedures of any of the Companies or any of its Subsidiaries (other than normal inquiries made by a Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity in the Companies’ ordinary course of business).
(b) No Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any cease-and-desist or other order or enforcement action issued by, or is a party to any written agreement, consent agreement or memorandum of understanding with, or is a party to any commitment letter or similar undertaking to, or is subject to any order or directive by, or has been ordered to pay any civil money penalty by, or has been since January 1, 2006 a recipient of any supervisory letter from, or since January 1, 2006 has adopted any policies, procedures or board resolutions at the request or suggestion of, any Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity that currently restricts or affects in any material respect the conduct of its business (or to Seller’s knowledge that, upon consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, would restrict in any material respect the conduct of the business of either Buyer or any of its Subsidiaries), or that in any material manner relates to its capital adequacy, its ability to pay dividends, its credit, risk management or compliance policies, its internal controls, its management or its business, other than those of general application that apply to similarly situated companies or their Subsidiaries (each item in this sentence, a “Company Regulatory Agreement”), nor has any of the Companies or any of their Subsidiaries been advised since January 1, 2006 by any Regulatory Agency or other Governmental Entity that it is considering issuing, initiating, ordering, or requesting any such Company Regulatory Agreement.
(c) Seller has previously made available to Buyers an accurate and complete copy of each (i) final registration statement, prospectus, report, schedule and definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC by Seller pursuant to the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) since January 1, 2006 (the “Seller SEC Reports”) and prior to the date of this Agreement and (ii) communication mailed by Seller to its shareholders since January 1, 2006 and prior to the date of this Agreement. No such Seller SEC Report or communication, at the time filed or communicated (or, if amended prior to the date hereof, as of the date of such amendment), with respect to the Companies and their Subsidiaries only, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading. To the knowledge of Seller, other than as set forth in Section 3.5 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, none of the Seller SEC Reports is the subject of any ongoing review or investigation by the SEC or any other Governmental Entity and there are no unresolved SEC comments with respect to any of such documents.
Taxes and Returns (a) Each Target Company has or will have timely filed, or caused to be timely filed, all Tax Returns and reports required to be filed by it (taking into account all available extensions), which Tax Returns are true, accurate, correct and complete in all material respects, and has paid, collected or withheld, or caused to be paid, collected or withheld, all Taxes required to be paid, collected or withheld, other than such Taxes for which adequate reserves in the Company Financials have been established in accordance with GAAP. Schedule 4.14(a) sets forth each jurisdiction in which each Target Company files or is required to file a Tax Return. Each Target Company has complied with all applicable Laws relating to Tax.
(b) There is no current pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened Action against a Target Company by a Governmental Authority in a jurisdiction where the Target Company does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction.
(c) No Target Company is being audited by any Tax authority or has been notified in writing or, to the Knowledge of the Company, orally by any Tax authority that any such audit is contemplated or pending. There are no claims, assessments, audits, examinations, investigations or other Actions pending against a Target Company in respect of any Tax, and no Target Company has been notified in writing of any proposed Tax claims or assessments against it (other than, in each case, claims or assessments for which adequate reserves in the Company Financials have been established).
(d) There are no Liens with respect to any Taxes upon any Target Company’s assets, other than Permitted Liens.
(e) Each Target Company has collected or withheld all Taxes currently required to be collected or withheld by it, and all such Taxes have been paid to the appropriate Governmental Authorities or set aside in appropriate accounts for future payment when due.
(f) No Target Company has any outstanding waivers or extensions of any applicable statute of limitations to assess any amount of Taxes. There are no outstanding requests by a Target Company for any extension of time within which to file any Tax Return or within which to pay any Taxes shown to be due on any Tax Return.
(g) No Target Company has made any change in accounting method or received a ruling from, or signed an agreement with, any taxing authority that would reasonably be expected to have a material impact on its Taxes following the Closing.
(h) No Target Company has any Liability for the Taxes of another Person (other than another Target Company) (i) under any applicable Tax Law, (ii) as a transferee or successor, or (iii) by contract, indemnity or otherwise. No Target Company is a party to or bound by any Tax indemnity agreement, Tax sharing agreement or Tax allocation agreement or similar agreement, arrangement or practice with respect to Taxes (including advance pricing agreement, closing agreement or other agreement relating to Taxes with any Governmental Authority) that will be binding on the Company or its Subsidiaries with respect to any period following the Closing Date.
(i) No Target Company has requested, or is the subject of or bound by any private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum, closing agreement or similar ruling, memorandum or agreement with any Governmental Authority with respect to any Taxes, nor is any such request outstanding.
Governmental and Regulatory Approvals Approvals from any Governmental or Regulatory Authority (if any) necessary for consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained.
