Transactions with Related Parties Borrower shall not purchase, acquire, or sell any equipment, other personal property, real property or services from or to any affiliate, except in the ordinary course of Borrower's business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable than would be obtained by Borrower in a comparable arm's-length transaction with an unrelated Person.
Transactions with Related Persons Except as set forth on Schedule 4.21, no Target Entity nor any of its Affiliates, nor any officer, director, manager, employee, trustee or beneficiary of a Target Entity or any of its Affiliates, nor any immediate family member of any of the foregoing (whether directly or indirectly through an Affiliate of such Person) (each of the foregoing, a “Company Related Person”) is presently, or in the past three (3) years, has been, a party to any transaction with a Target Entity, including any Contract or other arrangement (a) providing for the furnishing of services by (other than as officers, directors or employees of the Target Entity), (b) providing for the rental of real property or Personal Property from or (c) otherwise requiring payments to (other than for services or expenses as directors, officers or employees of the Target Entity in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice) any Company Related Person or any Person in which any Company Related Person has an interest as an owner, officer, manager, director, trustee or partner or in which any Company Related Person has any direct or indirect interest (other than the ownership of securities representing no more than two percent (2%) of the outstanding voting power or economic interest of a publicly traded company). Except as set forth on Schedule 4.21, no Target Entity has outstanding any Contract or other arrangement or commitment with any Company Related Person, and no Company Related Person owns any real property or Personal Property, or right, tangible or intangible (including Intellectual Property) which is used in the business of any Target Entity. The assets of the Target Entities do not include any receivable or other obligation from a Company Related Person, and the liabilities of the Target Entities do not include any payable or other obligation or commitment to any Company Related Person.
Transactions with Affiliates and Insiders Enter into or permit to exist any transaction or series of transactions with any officer, director or Affiliate of such Person other than (a) advances of working capital to any Loan Party, (b) transfers of cash and assets to any Loan Party, (c) intercompany transactions expressly permitted by Section 8.02, Section 8.03, Section 8.04, Section 8.05 or Section 8.06, (d) normal and reasonable compensation and reimbursement of expenses of officers and directors in the ordinary course of business and (e) except as otherwise specifically limited in this Agreement, other transactions which are entered into in the ordinary course of such Person’s business on terms and conditions substantially as favorable to such Person as would be obtainable by it in a comparable arms-length transaction with a Person other than an officer, director or Affiliate.
Transactions with Affiliates Directly or indirectly enter into or permit to exist any material transaction with any Affiliate of Borrower, except for transactions that are in the ordinary course of Borrower’s business, upon fair and reasonable terms that are no less favorable to Borrower than would be obtained in an arm’s length transaction with a non-affiliated Person.
Transactions With Affiliates and Employees Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(r), none of the officers or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company or any Subsidiary is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, providing for the borrowing of money from or lending of money to or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee, stockholder, member or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.
Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates (a) The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into or conduct any transaction or series of related transactions (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of the Company (an “Affiliate Transaction”) unless (i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that could be obtained at the time in a transaction with a Person who is not such an Affiliate and (ii) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, the terms of such Affiliate Transaction have been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors. For purposes of this Section 412(a), any Affiliate Transaction shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements set forth in this Section 412(a) if (x) such Affiliate Transaction is approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors or (y) in the event there are no Disinterested Directors, a fairness opinion is provided by a nationally recognized appraisal or investment banking firm with respect to such Affiliate Transaction.
(b) The provisions of Section 412(a) will not apply to:
(i) any Restricted Payment Transaction,
(1) the entering into, maintaining or performance of any employment contract, collective bargaining agreement, benefit plan, program or arrangement, related trust agreement or any other similar arrangement for or with any employee, officer or director heretofore or hereafter entered into in the ordinary course of business, including vacation, health, insurance, deferred compensation, severance, retirement, savings or other similar plans, programs or arrangements, (2) the payment of compensation, performance of indemnification or contribution obligations, or any issuance, grant or award of stock, options, other equity-related interests or other securities, to employees, officers or directors in the ordinary course of business, (3) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as determined in good faith by the Company or such Subsidiary), (4) any transaction with an officer or director in the ordinary course of business not involving more than $100,000 in any one case, or (5) Management Advances and payments in respect thereof,
(iii) any transaction with the Company, any Restricted Subsidiary, or any Receivables Entity,
(iv) any transaction arising out of agreements or instruments in existence on the Issue Date, and any payments made pursuant thereto,
(v) any transaction in the ordinary course of business on terms not materially less favorable to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that could be obtained at the time in a transaction with a Person who is not an Affiliate of the Company,
(vi) any transaction in the ordinary course of business, or approved by a majority of the Board of Directors, between the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Affiliate of the Company controlled by the Company that is a joint venture or similar entity, and
(vii) the Transactions, all transactions in connection therewith (including but not limited to the financing thereof), and all fees and expenses paid or payable in connection with the Transactions.
Dealings with Affiliates No officer, Trustee or agent of the Trust and no officer, director or agent of any investment advisor shall deal for or on behalf of the Trust with himself as principal or agent, or with any partnership, association or corporation in which he has a material financial interest; provided that the foregoing provisions shall not prevent (a) officers and Trustees of the Trust from buying, holding or selling shares in the Trust, or from being partners, officers or directors of or financially interested in any investment advisor to the Trust or in any corporation, firm or association which may at any time have a distributor’s or principal underwriter’s contract with the Trust; (b) purchases or sales of securities or other property if such transaction is permitted by or is exempt or exempted from the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) or any Rule or Regulation thereunder and if such transaction does not involve any commission or profit to any security dealer who is, or one or more of whose partners, shareholders, officers or directors is, an officer or Trustees of the Trust or an officer or director of the investment advisor, manager or principal underwriter of the Trust; (c) employment of legal counsel, registrar, transfer agent, shareholder services, dividend disbursing agent or custodian who is, or has a partner, stockholder, officer or director who is, an officer or Trustee of the Trust; or (d) sharing statistical, research and management expenses, including office hire and services, with any other company in which an officer or Trustee of the Trust is an officer or director or financially interested.
Relationships with Affiliates The Series may enter into any agreement or contract with the Manager, any Affiliate of the Manager, any other series, any Member, any Affiliate of a Member or any agent of the Manager or the Series without the prior approval of any Member, provided that the agreement or contract must be substantially on terms as would be contained in a similar agreement or contract entered into by the Series as the result of arm’s-length negotiations from a comparable unaffiliated and disinterested third party. Each Member acknowledges that each relationship among the Series, the Manager and/or any Affiliate thereof that is described in any Company budget or other document satisfies the requirements of this Section 4.9.
Certain Business Relationships With Affiliates No Affiliate of the Company (a) owns any property or right, tangible or intangible, which is used in the business of the Company, (b) has any claim or cause of action against the Company, (c) owes any money to, or is owed any money by, the Company or (d) is a party to any contract or other arrangement (written or oral) with the Company.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH RELATED PERSONS Neither Seller, Acquired Company or any Related Person of each Seller or of either Acquired Company has, or since the first day of the next to last completed fiscal year of any Acquired Company has had, any interest in any property (whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible), used in or pertaining to any Acquired Company’s business. Neither Seller, Acquired Company or any Related Person of each Seller or of any Acquired Company is, or since the first day of the next to last completed fiscal year of any Acquired Company has owned (of record or as a beneficial owner) an equity interest or any other financial or profit interest in, a Person that has (i) had business dealings or a material financial interest in any transaction with any Acquired Company other than business dealings or transactions conducted in the Ordinary Course of Business with any Acquired Company at substantially prevailing market prices and on substantially prevailing market terms, or (ii) engaged in competition with any Acquired Company with respect to any line of the products or services of any Acquired Company (a “Competing Business”) in any market presently served by any Acquired Company except for less than one percent of the outstanding capital stock of any Competing Business that is publicly traded on any recognized exchange or in the over-the-counter market. Neither Seller or any Related Person of each Seller or of any Acquired Company is a party to any Contract with, or has any claim or right against, any Acquired Company.
