Permitted Acquisitions definition

Permitted Acquisitions means any transaction or series of related transactions for the direct or indirect (a) acquisition of all or substantially all of the property of any Person, or of any business or division of any Person, (b) acquisition of all or substantially all the Equity Interests of any Person, and otherwise causing such Person to become a Subsidiary of such Person, (c) merger or consolidation or any other combination with any Person, or (d) any Permitted Restaurant Acquisition, if each of the following conditions is met:
Permitted Acquisitions means any acquisition (by merger, consolidation or otherwise) by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party of all or substantially all the assets of, or all the Equity Interests in, a Person or division or line of business of a Person, if (a) immediately after giving effect thereto, no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (b) such acquired Person is organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and substantially all the business of such acquired Person or business consists of one or more Permitted Businesses and not less than 80% of the consolidated gross operating revenues of such acquired Person or business for the most recently ended period of twelve months is derived from domestic operations in the United States of America, (c) each Subsidiary resulting from such acquisition (and which survives such acquisition) other than any Foreign Subsidiary, shall be a Subsidiary Loan Party and at least 80% of the Equity Interests of each such Subsidiary shall be owned directly by the Borrower and/or Subsidiary Loan Parties and shall have been (or within 10 Business Days (or such longer period as may be acceptable to the Agent) after such acquisition shall be) pledged pursuant to the Collateral Agreement (subject to the limitations of the pledge of Equity Interests of Foreign Subsidiaries set forth in the definition of "Collateral and Guarantee Requirement"), (d) the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been (or within 10 Business Days (or such longer period as may be acceptable to the Agent) after such acquisition shall be) satisfied with respect to each such Subsidiary, (e) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries are in compliance, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such acquisition, with the Financial Covenants, recomputed as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available, as if such acquisition had occurred on the first day of the relevant period for testing compliance and (f) the Borrower has delivered to the Agent an officer's certificate to the effect set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) above, together with all relevant financial information for the Person or assets acquired and reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating satisfaction of the requirement set forth in clause (e) above.
Permitted Acquisitions are defined in Section 6.15.

Examples of Permitted Acquisitions in a sentence

  • The proceeds of the Advances shall be available (and the Borrowers agree that they shall use such proceeds) for general corporate purposes of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries (including share repurchases, refinancing existing Debt and Permitted Acquisitions).


More Definitions of Permitted Acquisitions

Permitted Acquisitions means, prior to the Ninth Amendment Effective Date, Investments consisting of an Acquisition by any Loan Party or Subsidiary, provided that (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from such Acquisition, (b) the property acquired (or the property of the Person acquired) in such Acquisition is used or useful in the same or a related line of business as the Company and its Subsidiaries were engaged in on the Closing Date (or any reasonable extensions or expansions thereof), (c) the Administrative Agent shall have received all items in respect of the Equity Interests or property acquired in such Acquisition required to be delivered by the terms of Section 7.12 and/or Section 7.14, (d) in the case of an Acquisition of the Equity Interests of another Person, the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of such other Person shall have duly approved such Acquisition, (e) the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Pro Forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating that, upon giving effect to such Acquisition on a Pro Forma Basis, (i) the Loan Parties would be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 8.11 as of the most recent fiscal quarter end for which the Company was required to deliver financial statements pursuant to Section 7.01(a)(i) or (b), (ii) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is at least 0.25 less than the ratio required to be maintained at such time by Section 8.11(a) and (iii) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.00 to 1.0, (f) the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent pro forma financial statements for the Company and its Subsidiaries after giving effect to such Acquisition for the twelve (12) month period ending as of the most recent fiscal quarter in a form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (g) the representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in each Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, if any such representation or warranty is qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, it shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as if made as of the date of such Acquisition (after giving effect thereto) except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date and (h) if such transaction involves the purchase of an interest in a partnership between the Company (or a Subsidiary) as a general partner and entities unaffiliated with the ...
Permitted Acquisitions means (a) the [Closing Date]SEI Acquisition,[ the Dent-A-Med Acquisition (as such term is defined in the Second Amendment to NPA)] and (b) any other Acquisition (whether foreign or domestic) so long as[, in each case with respect to the Dent-A-Med Acquisition or any such other Acquisition, (a] (i) immediately before and after giving effect to such Acquisition, no Default or Event of Default is in existence, ([b] ii) such Acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of the Person being acquired prior to any public announcement thereof, ([c]iii ) to the extent such Acquisition is of a Person or Persons that are not organized in the United States and/or of all or substantially all of the assets of a Person located outside the United States and the aggregate EBITDA attributable to all Foreign Subsidiaries for the most recently ended twelve month period (after giving pro forma effect to such Acquisition) exceeds twenty percent (20%) of Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended twelve month period, the Company complies with paragraph 5N hereof, and ([d]iv) immediately after giving effect to such Acquisition, the Company and its Subsidiaries will not be engaged in any business other than (x) businesses of the type conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries on the Fourth Amendment Effective Date[ of Closing] and businesses reasonably related thereto, and (y) any other ancillary businesses which are complementary to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as conducted as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date and that generally provide goods or services to the same types of consumers serviced by the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date. As used herein, Acquisitions will be considered related Acquisitions if the sellers under such Acquisitions are the same Person or any affiliate thereof.
Permitted Acquisitions has the meaning specified in Section 7.04(a).
Permitted Acquisitions means an Acquisition by an Obligor (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not by an Unrestricted Subsidiary), whether by way of share purchase or asset purchase or other form of transaction, of any operating business that carries on the Business or any part thereof or of any assets used in the Business and where:
Permitted Acquisitions means any Acquisition (i) which is of a Person carrying on a business which is the same as or related, ancillary, incidental or complementary to the business carried on by any Loan Party (or if an asset Acquisition, is of assets used or useful in a business which is the same as or related, ancillary, incidental or complementary to the business carried on by any Loan Party); (ii) in respect of which Open Text provides, together with the next Compliance Certificate required to be delivered in accordance with Section 6.01(1(a)(iii) following the date of such Acquisition, a certificate of the chief financial officer containing information in reasonable detail regarding the cost of such Acquisition, the projected earnings of such Acquisition, the financial and acquisition structure of such Acquisition, audited financial statements of the subject of such Acquisition for the previous two years to the extent available, and financial projections, on a quarterly basis, for the succeeding year, and on an annual basis for the year thereafter (or such later period as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request), which shall demonstrate, after giving effect to such Acquisition, compliance with the financial covenant set forth in Section 6.03 of the New TLB Credit Agreement as at the date of such Acquisition, and at all relevant times during the period of twelve months thereafter (calculated on a pro forma basis and based on the projected performance of such Acquisition for such twelve-month period); (iii) in respect of which the Lenders will have a security interest over the assets to be acquired (to the extent such assets are acquired by a Loan Party), subject only to Permitted Exceptions and Permitted Encumbrances (and if such Acquisition is an Acquisition of Equity Securities of any Person that is a Material Subsidiary, to the extent the Minimum Guarantor Coverage would not otherwise be satisfied, also a full liability guarantee (subject to any limitations imposed by Law on the amount of such liability) and a security interest over the assets of such Person, subject only to Permitted Exceptions and Permitted Encumbrances), or arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, shall have been made for the providing of such guarantee and the obtaining of such security interests, as applicable, within a period not to exceed 90 days following the date of such Acquisition; (iv) if such Acquisition is an Acquisition of Equity Securities of any Pe...
Permitted Acquisitions as defined in Section 7.8(h).
Permitted Acquisitions means Investments consisting of an Acquisition by any Loan Party, provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default exists immediately prior to and after giving effect to any such Acquisition, (ii) the property acquired (or the property of the Person acquired) in such Acquisition is used or useful in the same or a similar line of business as the Borrower and its Subsidiaries were engaged in on the Closing Date (or any reasonable extensions or expansions thereof), (iii) the Administrative Agent shall have received all items in respect of the Equity Interests or property acquired in such Acquisition required to be delivered by the terms of Section 7.12 and/or Section 7.14, (iv) in the case of an Acquisition of the Equity Interests of another Person, the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of such other Person shall have duly approved such Acquisition, (v) if the total consideration (excluding usual and customary working capital adjustments to purchase and, if applicable, including a good faith estimate of the Borrower of any earn out consideration) paid by such Loan Party for such Acquisition exceeds $35,000,000, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Pro Forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating that, upon giving effect to such Acquisition on a Pro Forma Basis, (x) the Loan Parties would be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 8.11 as of the most recent fiscal quarter for which the Borrower was required to deliver financial statements pursuant to Section 7.01(a) or (b) and (y) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio would not be greater than 2.75 to 1.0, (vi) the representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in each Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as if made as of the date of such Acquisition (after giving effect thereto) except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, (vii) if such transaction involves the purchase of an interest in a partnership between the Borrower (or a Subsidiary) as a general partner and entities unaffiliated with the Borrower or such Subsidiary as the other partners, such transaction shall be effected by having such equity interest acquired by a corporate holding company directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Borrower newly formed for the sole purpose of effecting such transaction, and (viii) immediately after giving effect to such Acquisition, the Borrower shall have at l...