Actions Prior to the Distribution Prior to the Effective Time and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Parties shall take, or cause to be taken, the following actions in connection with the Distribution:
Cooperation Prior to the Distribution Prior to the Distribution:
Operations Prior to the Closing Date (a) Seller shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to, and to cause the Companies to, operate and carry on the Business in the ordinary course and substantially as operated immediately prior to the date of this Agreement. Consistent with the foregoing, Seller shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, and shall cause the Companies to use their commercially reasonable efforts, consistent with good business practice, to preserve the goodwill of the suppliers, contractors, licensors, employees, customers, distributors and others having business relations with the Business.
Puts Prior to the Settlement Date During the period from the Bank Closing Date to and including the Business Day immediately preceding the Settlement Date, the Assuming Bank shall be entitled to require the Receiver to purchase any Asset which the Assuming Bank can establish is evidenced by forged or stolen instruments as of the Bank Closing Date; provided, that, the Assuming Bank shall not have the right to require the Receiver to purchase any such Asset with respect to which the Assuming Bank has taken any action referred to in Section 3.4(a)(ii) with respect to such Asset. The Assuming Bank shall transfer all such Assets to the Receiver without recourse, and shall indemnify the Receiver against any and all claims of any Person claiming by, through or under the Assuming Bank with respect to any such Asset, as provided in Section 12.4.
Conduct of Businesses Prior to the Effective Time (a) During the period from the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, except as expressly contemplated or permitted by this Agreement, each of FNB and ANNB shall, and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to, (i) conduct its business in the ordinary course in all material respects, (ii) use reasonable best efforts to maintain and preserve intact its business organization, employees and advantageous business relationships and retain the services of its key officers and key employees and (iii) take no action that would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially impede or delay the obtaining of, or materially adversely affect the ability of the parties expeditiously to obtain, any necessary approvals of any Regulatory Agency, Governmental Entity or any other person or entity required for the transactions this Agreement contemplates or to perform its covenants and agreements under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions this Agreement contemplates.
Conduct Prior to the Effective Time 5.1 Conduct of Business by the Company.
Prior to the Closing the Buyer shall provide to Seller a list of those employees of the Company whose employment Buyer intends to terminate after the Closing (the "Identified Employees") and Seller shall cause the Company prior to the Closing to show on its Financial Statements and the Preliminary Closing Balance Sheet, a liability equal to the amount that the Identified Employees would be eligible to receive under Company's severance pay plan and any pay-in-lieu-of-vacation arrangement offered by the Company and all employment taxes thereon computed as if the Company had terminated such employees' employment at Closing. As to such Identified Employees, Seller shall have the sole option to determine if the Identified Employees shall continue to be employed by Seller or its Affiliates or be transferred to other divisions or facilities of the Seller or its Affiliates. Buyer shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to retain as many of the Company employees as is feasible. Buyer shall treat all service completed by an employee with the Company or any Affiliate thereof, and any predecessor thereto, the same as service completed with Buyer for all purposes, including waiting periods relating to preexisting conditions under medical plans, vacations, severance pay, eligibility to participate in, vesting or payment of benefits under, and eligibility for early retirement or any subsidized benefit provided for under, any employee benefit plan (including, but not limited to, any "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) maintained by Buyer on or after the Closing Date, except for purposes of computing benefits under the actual benefit formula in a defined benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA). Prior to the Closing, Seller shall furnish Buyer with a list of the length of service with the Company or its Affiliates, or any predecessor thereof, for each of the Employees. For purposes of computing deductible amounts (or like adjustments or limitations on coverage) under any employee welfare benefit plan (including, without limitation, any "employee welfare benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), expenses and claims previously recognized for similar purposes under the applicable welfare benefit plan of the Company or any Affiliate shall be credited or recognized under the comparable plan maintained after the Closing Date by Buyer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, the Buyer shall not be required to permit the employees of the Company to participate in the Buyer's 401(k) plan prior to the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing after the Closing Date.
Conduct Prior to the Closing 19 4.1 Conduct of Business of the Company.............................. 19 4.2
Cooperation with Financing Prior to the Closing, Sellers shall use reasonable best efforts and shall cause the Companies to use their reasonable best efforts to cooperate with Acquiror, in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing or any part thereof as may be reasonably requested by Acquiror (provided that such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere in any material respect with the ongoing operations of any of Sellers or the Companies), including using reasonable best efforts to (i) participate at reasonable times in a reasonable number of meetings with Acquiror’s financing sources (including due diligence sessions and customary “roadshow”, ratings agency and lender presentations), (ii) furnish Acquiror and its financing sources with additional financial and other pertinent information (including pro forma information for historical periods) regarding the Companies as shall exist and be reasonably requested by Acquiror, (iii) reasonably assist Acquiror and its financing sources in the preparation of materials for rating agency presentations, (iv) reasonably cooperate with the marketing efforts of Acquiror and its financing sources for any portion of the Debt Financing (including with respect to Acquiror’s preparation of any bank information memorandum (including public-side versions thereof), offering memorandum, private placement memorandum, prospectuses or similar documents, including delivery of customary representation letters), (v) assist Acquiror in obtaining surveys and title insurance, (vi) reasonably cooperate with and provide reasonable access to prospective lenders, arrangers, and their respective advisors, in each case that are subject to customary confidentiality obligations, in performing their due diligence, (vii) enter into customary purchase agreements with underwriters or arrangers that will be effective at or after the Closing, (viii) provide, no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date, documentation and other information about the Companies as is required by both the Debt Commitment Letter and applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations (including the USA PATRIOT Act) to the extent reasonably requested at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date and (ix) executing or delivering, as applicable, on the Closing Date and effective at or after the Closing only, any credit agreement, guarantee, pledge and security documents, landlord waivers, control agreements, lock box arrangements, other definitive financing documents or other requested certificates, existing appraisals, existing surveys, or existing title insurance policies, in each case to the extent reasonably requested, in connection with the Debt Financing, including documents relating to the release of Liens or Indebtedness and otherwise facilitating the pledging of any collateral; provided, in each case in clauses (i) through (ix), that (A) none of Sellers or any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Companies) shall be required to incur any liability in connection with the Debt Financing and none of the Companies shall be required to incur any liability in connection with the Debt Financing prior to the Closing, (B) neither (i) the boards of directors, boards of managers or similar governing bodies of Sellers, (ii) the directors, officers or managers of their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Companies) nor (iii) the pre-Closing directors, officers or managers of the Companies shall be required to adopt resolutions approving the agreements, documents and instruments pursuant to which the Debt Financing is obtained, other than with respect to such actions that are both conditioned on the Closing and reasonably necessary to permit the completion of the Debt Financing, (C) none of Sellers nor any of their respective Subsidiaries (other than the Companies) shall be required to execute any definitive financing documents, including any credit or other agreements, pledge or security documents, or other certificates, legal opinions or documents in connection with the Debt Financing and none of the Companies shall be required to execute any definitive financing documents prior to the Closing, including any credit or other agreements, pledge or security documents, or other certificates, legal opinions or documents in connection with the Debt Financing and (D) nothing in this Section 5.6 shall require cooperation to the extent that it would (i) cause any condition to Closing set forth in Article VIII to not be satisfied or otherwise cause any breach of this Agreement or (ii) require Sellers or any of their respective Subsidiaries to take any action that would reasonably be expected to conflict with or violate such Person’s organizational documents or any Law, or result in the contravention of, or result in a violation or breach of, or default under, any Contract. From and after the commencement of the Marketing Period through and including the Closing Date, Sellers shall use reasonable best efforts to periodically update any Required Information provided to Acquiror if failure to do so would result in the Marketing Period to cease to be deemed to have commenced. Acquiror shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sellers and their respective Subsidiaries, and their respective directors, officers, employees and Representatives, from and against any liability or obligation to providers of the Debt Financing in connection with the Debt Financing and any information provided in connection therewith other than historical financial information provided by the Sellers, and the Acquiror Guaranty shall guaranty the obligations of Acquiror pursuant to this Section 5.6, in each case, other than to the extent any of the foregoing arises from the willful misconduct of, or material breach of this Agreement by, (x) any Seller or (y) any of their respective Affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees and Representatives (in each case, only to the extent the party seeking indemnity under this sentence has committed such willful misconduct or material breach). Further, Sellers, on behalf of themselves and their Affiliates, hereby consent to the reasonable and customary use of their and their Affiliates’ trademarks, service marks or logos in connection with the Debt Financing; provided that such trademarks, service marks or logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage Sellers or any of their Affiliates or the reputation or goodwill of Sellers or any of their Affiliates or any of their respective Intellectual Property rights and provided that in each instance the use of their and their Affiliates’ trademarks, service marks or logos is first submitted to and approved in writing by Sellers (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and any Action or Losses related to such use shall be the responsibility of Acquiror. Acquiror shall promptly upon Sellers’ request reimburse Sellers and their respective Subsidiaries for all reasonable and documented or invoiced out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred by Sellers or their respective Subsidiaries in connection with such cooperation pursuant to this Section 5.6 and, to the extent Acquiror does not reimburse Sellers or the applicable Subsidiary for any such cost or expense on or prior to the date of the Closing Date Statement, the Companies shall be deemed to have a current asset on the Closing Date Statement in the amount of such unreimbursed costs and expenses. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the condition set forth in Section 8.2(b), as it applies to Sellers’ obligations under this Section 5.6, shall be deemed satisfied unless Sellers have knowingly and willfully materially breached their obligations under this Section 5.6. If Sellers at any point believe that they have delivered the Required Information in accordance with this Section 5.6, they may deliver to Acquiror a written notice to such effect, in which case Sellers shall be deemed to have delivered the Required Information unless Acquiror shall provide to Sellers within two (2) Business Days a written notice describing in reasonable detail what information that constitutes Required Information Sellers have not delivered. In furtherance of the foregoing, Acquiror shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Lenders to identify in writing and in reasonable detail all financial data expected to constitute Required Information (other than the financial statements described herein) on or before October 3, 2012 and shall provide Sellers such information as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt thereof.
Fiscal Year; Organizational Documents The Credit Parties will not permit any Consolidated Party to change its fiscal year or amend, modify or change its articles of incorporation or organization (or corporate charter or other similar organizational document) or bylaws or operating agreement (or other similar document) in any manner adverse to the Lenders without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders.
