Authorization of the Underwriting Agreement This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
Authorization of Underwriting Agreement This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
The Underwriting Agreement This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
Description of the Underwriting Agreement This Agreement conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
Descriptions of the Underwriting Agreement This Agreement conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
Termination of a Terms Agreement An Agent party to a Terms Agreement may terminate such Terms Agreement (as to itself only) immediately upon notice to the Company, at any time prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto if (i) there has been, between the date of such Terms Agreement and the related Settlement Date, any material adverse change in the consolidated financial condition or earnings of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, (ii) there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis, the effect of which is such as to make it, in the reasonable judgment of such Agent, impracticable to market the Notes or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Notes, (iii) trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended (other than pursuant to a request by the Company with respect to an announcement by the Company of certain information not constituting a material adverse change, since the date of such Terms Agreement, in the consolidated financial condition or earnings of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise), the effect of which is such as to make it, in the reasonable judgment of such Agent, impracticable to market the Notes or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Notes, (iv) trading generally on the New York Stock Exchange has been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been required, by such exchange or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities or if a banking moratorium has been declared by the relevant authorities in the country or countries of origin of any foreign currency or currencies in which the Notes are denominated or payable or (v) after the date of such Terms Agreement the rating assigned by any nationally recognized securities rating agency to any debt securities of the Company as of the date of such Terms Agreement shall have been lowered or any such rating agency shall have publicly announced that it has placed any debt securities of the Company on what is commonly termed a "watch list" with negative implications.
Termination and Amendment of this Agreement This Agreement shall automatically terminate, without the payment of any penalty, in the event of its assignment. This Agreement may be amended only if such amendment is approved (i) by Underwriter, (ii) either by action of the Board of Trustees of the Trust or at a meeting of the Shareholders of the Trust by the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding Shares, and (iii) by a majority of the Trustees of the Trust who are not interested persons of the Trust or of Underwriter by vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval. Either the Trust or Underwriter may at any time terminate this Agreement on sixty (60) days' written notice delivered or mailed by registered mail, postage prepaid, to the other party.
Construction of this Amendment; Participation Agreement (a). This Amendment shall be interpreted to be consistent with, and to facilitate compliance with and reliance on, Rule 30e-3 under the 1940 Act and Rule 498A (including paragraph (j) thereof) under the 1933 Act and any interpretations of those Rules by the Securities and Exchange Commission, its staff, courts, or other appropriate legal authorities.
Terms Agreement The Representatives may terminate the applicable Terms Agreement, by notice to the Company, at any time at or prior to the Closing Time or any relevant Date of Delivery, if (i) there has been, since the time of execution of such Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto, after the date of the applicable Terms Agreement), any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or, if the Underwritten Securities include debt securities denominated or payable in, or indexed to, one or more foreign or composite currencies, in the international financial markets, or any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives impracticable or inadvisable to market the Underwritten Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Underwritten Securities, or (iii) (a) trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange (or any successor thereto), or (b) if trading generally on the New York Stock Exchange or in the Nasdaq Stock Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by either of said exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, FINRA or any other governmental authority, or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, or (iv) a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities or, if the Underwritten Securities include debt securities denominated or payable in, or indexed to, one or more foreign or composite currencies, by the relevant authorities in the related foreign country or countries, or (v) there has occurred, since the time of execution of such Terms Agreement, a downgrading in, or withdrawal of, the rating assigned to the Underwritten Securities or any of the Company’s other securities by a NRSRO, or since the time of execution of such Terms Agreement, any such NRSRO shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review with possible negative implications its rating of the Underwritten Securities or any of the Company’s other securities.
Amendment of this Agreement No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement of the change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until approved in a manner consistent with the 1940 Act and rules and regulations thereunder and any applicable SEC exemptive order therefrom.
