person appearing to be interested in any shares shall mean any person named in a response to a statutory notice or otherwise notified to the company by a member as being so interested or shown in any register or record kept by the company under the Companies Acts as so interested or, taking into account a response or failure to respond in the light of the response to any other statutory notice and any other relevant information in the possession of the company, any person whom the company knows or has reasonable cause to believe is or may be so interested;
TERMINATION OF THE INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING means the earlier of (i) the date on which the Initial Public Offering expires or is terminated by the Company or (ii) the date on which all shares of stock offered in the Initial Public Offering are sold, excluding warrants, if any, offered thereunder and shares that may be acquired upon exercise of such warrants and shares offered thereunder that may be acquired pursuant to the Reinvestment Plan.
Community Offering means the offering for sale by the Holding Company of any shares of Conversion Stock not subscribed for in the Subscription Offering to such Persons within or outside the State of Louisiana as may be selected by the Holding Company and the Bank in their sole discretion and to whom a copy of the Prospectus is delivered by or on behalf of the Holding Company.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING means the date that the Securities and Exchange Commission declares effective the registration statement filed under the Securities Act for the Initial Public Offering.
Purchase and Sale Termination Event has the meaning set forth in Section 8.1 of the Sale Agreement.
Purchase and Sale Termination Date has the meaning set forth in Section 1.4 of the Sale Agreement.
Subsequent Offering means any further issuance of Interests in any Series, excluding any Initial Offering or Transfer.
Initial Public Offering” (“IPO means an offering of securities registered under the 1933 Act, the issuer of which, immediately before the registration, was not subject to the reporting requirements of Sections 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act.
Rights Offering has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1(b);
Underwritten Public Offering means an underwritten Public Offering, including any bought deal or block sale to a financial institution conducted as an underwritten Public Offering.
Public Offering means the sale in an underwritten public offering registered under the Securities Act of equity securities of the Company or a corporate successor to the Company.
Shelf Offering has the meaning set forth in Section 1(d)(i).
Complete Termination means a termination of the Fund's Rule 12b-1 plan for B-2 Shares involving the cessation of payments of the Distribution Fees, and the cessation of payments of distribution fees pursuant to every other Rule 12b-1 plan of the Fund for every existing or future B-Class-of-Shares (as hereinafter defined) and the Fund's discontinuance of the offering of every existing or future B-Class-of-Shares, which conditions shall be deemed satisfied when they are first complied with hereafter and so long thereafter as they are complied with prior to the earlier of (i) the date upon which all of the B-2 Shares which are Distributor Shares pursuant to Schedule I hereto shall have been redeemed or converted or (ii) May 31, 2005. For purposes of this Section 14.5, the term B-Class-of-Shares means each of the B-1 Class of Shares of the Fund, the B-2 Class of Shares of the Fund and each other class of shares of the Fund hereafter issued which would be treated as Shares under Schedule I hereto or which has substantially similar economic characteristics to the B-1 or B-2 Classes of Shares taking into account the total sales charge, CDSC or other similar charges borne directly or indirectly by the holder of the shares of such class. The parties agree that the existing C Class of Shares of the Fund does not have substantially similar economic characteristics to the B-1 or B-2 Classes of Shares taking into account the total sales charge, CDSC or other similar charges borne directly or indirectly by the holder of such shares. For purposes of clarity the parties to this agreement hereby state that they intend that a new installment load class of shares which may be authorized by amendments to Rule 6(c)-10 under the 1940 Act will be considered to be a B-Class-of-Shares if it has economic characteristics substantially similar to the economic characteristics of the existing B-1 or B-2 Classes of Shares taking into account the total sale charge, CDSC or other similar charges borne directly or indirectly by the holder of such shares and will not be considered to be a B-Class-of-Shares if it has economic characteristics substantially similar to the economic characteristics of the existing C Class of shares of the Fund taking into account the total sales charge, CDSC or other similar charges borne directly or indirectly by the holder of such shares.
Termination Transaction has the meaning set forth in Section 11.2.B hereof.
Rule 415 Offering means an offering on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 (or any successor rule to similar effect) promulgated under the Securities Act.
Subscription Offering means the offering of the Conversion Stock to Participants.
Qualified Initial Public Offering means a firm underwritten offering of the Company pursuant to a registration statement under the Securities Act (i) of common Capital Stock having an aggregate gross offering price of at least $50,000,000 and (ii) reasonably expected to result in more than 100 holders of record of Voting Stock of the Company (exclusive of holdings of Affiliates and employees of the Company).