NO ATTACHMENT; BINDING ON SUCCESSORS (a) Except as required by law, no right to receive payments under this Agreement shall be subject to anticipation, commutation, alienation, sale, assignment, encumbrance, charge, pledge, or hypothecation, or to execution, attachment, levy, or similar process or assignment by operation of law, and any attempt, voluntary or involuntary, to effect any such action shall be null, void, and of no effect. (b) This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, Executive and the Bank and their respective successors and assigns.
Non-Binding Unless expressly authorised in writing by the Group-Wide Lenders and then on such terms and conditions as the Group-Wide Lenders may require, the Steering Committee shall not negotiate the terms of or enter into any agreement on behalf of the Group-Wide Lenders of any of them. This Clause 19 and Clause 14.4 may be relied upon by any member of the Steering Committee notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 17.11.
Agreement Binding on Successors This Agreement will be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the successors of each of the Parties.
Non-Binding Mediation Except as provided in Section 19.5, if the dispute is not settled or resolved pursuant to Section 19.2, the Parties shall endeavor to settle the dispute in an amicable manner, using non-binding mediation under the rules of JAMS before having recourse in a court of law. Each Party shall be responsible for the expenses of such Party's participants, consultants, experts or representatives and shall be paid by the Party producing such participants, consultants, experts or representatives. All other expenses of the mediation, including required travel and other expenses of the mediator, and the cost of any proofs or expert advice produced at the direct request of the mediator, shall be borne equally by the Parties, unless they agree otherwise. Any resultant agreements from mediation shall be documented in writing. All mediation proceedings, results, and documentation shall be inadmissible for any purpose in any legal proceeding (pursuant to California Evidence Codes Sections 1115 through 1128), unless such admission is otherwise agreed upon in writing by all Parties. Mediators shall not be subject to any subpoena or liability, and their actions shall not be subject to discovery. The mediator must have substantial experience with the water utility/treatment industry, including both publicly-owned and privately-owned water utilities. If any of the matters or issues involved in any dispute are outside the scope of expertise of the mediator, the mediator shall have the right to retain and rely on one or more experts with respect to the applicable matter or issue requiring expert advice. Any person selected as an expert shall be knowledgeable and experienced in the matters sought to be mediated and shall have no affiliation with the Parties; provided, however, the expert may have been utilized by either Party as a consultant not more recently than twelve (12) months prior to the time of engagement if the mediator determines that such expert will provide services unbiased by such prior consulting relationship. Mediation shall be completed within 60 days after request for the mediation by either Party, unless the parties to the mediation otherwise agree in writing. If the subject matter of the dispute relates to a very time sensitive issue, the Parties shall reasonably cooperate with one another to expedite the above-described mediation.
Authorization; Valid and Binding Agreement (a) Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and each other certificate, agreement, document and instrument to be executed and delivered by the Parent or Merger Sub in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (collectively, the “Parent Transaction Documents”) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate, on the terms and subject to the conditions hereof and thereof, the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, subject in the case of the consummation of the Merger to the adoption of this Agreement by Parent as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub (which shall occur immediately after the execution and delivery of this Agreement). All corporate action on the part of Parent, its officers, directors and stockholders necessary for the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the Parent Transactions Documents and the performance of all obligations of Parent hereunder and thereunder has been taken, subject only to the adoption of this Agreement by Parent as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub (which shall occur immediately after the execution and delivery of this Agreement). This Agreement and each of the Parent Transaction Documents have been duly executed and delivered by Parent and Merger Sub or, in the case of the Parent Transaction Document to be executed and delivered hereafter, each such Parent Transaction Document will have been duly executed and delivered as of the Closing Date. This Agreement and each of the Parent Transaction Documents each constitute or, in the case of any Parent Transaction Documents to be executed hereafter, each such Parent Transaction Document will constitute a legal valid and binding obligation of Parent and Merger Sub and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Company, will be enforceable against Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws, other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies. As of the date of this Agreement, the Board of Directors of each of Parent and Merger Sub has approved, adopted and declared advisable the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and consummation by each of Parent and Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. (b) Except as set forth on Section 4.3(b) of the Parent Disclosure Letter, neither the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the Parent Transaction Documents by Parent or Merger Sub nor the consummation of the Merger by Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Subsidiaries will, directly or indirectly (with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both), (i) require any consent, approval or other action of any Person under any Parent Contract, (ii) (A) violate, result in a breach of, conflict with or entitle any Governmental Entity or any other Person to accelerate the maturity or performance under, amend, call a default under, exercise any remedy under, modify, rescind, suspend or terminate or (B) create any material obligation on the part of Parent or Merger Sub that it was not obligated to perform immediately before such Parent Transaction Document was executed under, any term of any such Parent Contract or any Law, (iii) violate or result in the material breach of any term of the certificate or articles of incorporation or bylaws or other organizational documents or resolution of the Board of Directors, any committee of the Board of Directors, stockholders or comparable bodies of Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Subsidiaries or (iv) result in the amendment, creation, imposition or modification of any Lien other than a Permitted Lien upon or with respect to any of the material properties or assets that Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Subsidiaries owns, uses or purports to own or use.
Assignability; Binding Nature This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and their respective successors, heirs and assigns; provided, however, that no rights or obligations of the Executive under this Agreement may be assigned or transferred by the Executive, other than rights to compensation and benefits hereunder, which may be transferred only by will or operation of law and subject to the limitations of this Agreement; and provided, further, that no rights or obligations of the Company under this Agreement may be assigned or transferred by the Company, except that such rights or obligations may be assigned or transferred pursuant to a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the continuing entity, or the sale or liquidation of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, provided that the assignee or transferee is the successor to all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and such assignee or transferee assumes the liabilities, obligations and duties of the Company under this Agreement, either contractually or as a matter of law.
Valid Sale; Binding Obligations This Agreement and Seller’s Related Documents have been duly executed and delivered, shall effect a valid sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables and the Other Conveyed Property to the Purchaser, enforceable against Seller and creditors of and purchasers from Seller; and this Agreement and Seller’s Related Documents constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of Seller enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by equitable limitations on the availability of specific remedies, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
Agreement Binding Upon Successors and Assigns This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors, assigns, executors, trustees or other legal representatives, but the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder may not be Transferred or delegated except as provided in this Agreement and any attempted Transfer or delegation thereof that is not made pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be void.
Agreement Binding This Agreement shall be binding upon the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.
Valid and Binding Such Contract is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Obligor thereunder and is enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally; all parties to such Contract had full legal capacity to execute and deliver such Contract and all other documents related thereto and to grant the security interest purported to be granted thereby; and the terms of such Contract have not been waived or modified in any respect, except by instruments that are part of the Contract Documents.
