Conduct of Business Prior to the Effective Time Except as otherwise expressly contemplated or permitted by this Agreement or with the prior written consent of TD Banknorth, during the period from the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, Hxxxxx United shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) conduct its business in the usual, regular and ordinary course consistent with past practice, (ii) use reasonable best efforts to maintain and preserve intact its business organization, and its rights, authorizations, franchises and other authorizations issued by Governmental Entities, preserve its advantageous business relationships with customers, vendors and others doing business with it and retain the services of its officers and key employees and (iii) take no action which would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the receipt of any approvals of any Governmental Entity required to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or delay the receipt of such approvals subsequent to the date set forth in Section 9.1(c).
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.
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.
The Effective Time Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, on the Closing Date, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company will cause the Merger to be consummated pursuant to the DGCL by filing a certificate of merger in customary form and substance (the “Certificate of Merger”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL (the time of such filing and acceptance for record by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, or such later time as may be agreed in writing by Parent, Merger Sub and the Company and specified in the Certificate of Merger, being referred to herein as the “Effective Time”).
Capitalization of Merger Sub The authorized capital stock of Merger Sub consists solely of 1,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, all of which are validly issued and outstanding. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Merger Sub is, and at the Effective Time will be, owned by Parent or a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent. Merger Sub has not conducted any business prior to the date hereof and has no, and prior to the Effective Time will have no, assets, liabilities or obligations of any nature other than those incident to its formation and pursuant to this Agreement and the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Conditions Precedent to the Effective Date The occurrence of the Effective Date pursuant to Section 13.10 is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
Termination Prior to Closing This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing:
Adjustments for Consolidation, Merger, Sale of Assets, Reorganization, etc In case the Company (a) consolidates with or merges into any other corporation and is not the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation of merger, or (b) permits any other corporation to consolidate with or merge into the Company and the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation but, in connection with such consolidation or merger, the Common Stock is changed into or exchanged for stock or other securities of any other corporation or cash or any other assets, or (c) transfers all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any other corporation, or (d) effects a capital reorganization or reclassification of the capital stock of the Company in such a way that holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, securities, cash and/or assets with respect to or in exchange for Common Stock, then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that, upon the basis and upon the terms and in the manner provided in this subsection 7(a)(iii), the Registered Holder, upon the exercise of this Warrant at any time after the consummation of such consolidation, merger, transfer, reorganization or reclassification, shall be entitled to receive (at the aggregate Exercise Price in effect for all shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise immediately prior to such consummation as adjusted to the time of such transaction), in lieu of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise prior to such consummation, the stock and other securities, cash and/or assets to which such holder would have been entitled upon such consummation if the Registered Holder had so exercised this Warrant immediately prior thereto (subject to adjustments subsequent to such corporate action as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments provided for in this Section).
Capitalization of Parent As of February 28, 1998, Parent's authorized capital stock consisted of (i) 40,000,000 shares of common stock, $1.25 par value per share of which (a) 23,607,047 shares were issued and outstanding, (b) 1,166,100 shares were issued and held in treasury (which does not include the shares reserved for issuance as set forth in clause (i)(c) below) and (c) 1,622,935 shares were reserved for issuance upon the exercise or conversion of options, warrants or convertible securities granted or issuable by Parent, and (ii) 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $.05 par value per share ("Parent Preferred Stock"), none of which are outstanding or designated except as provided in the next sentence. As of the date hereof, 400,000 shares are designated Preferred Stock, Cumulative Junior Participating Series C ("Parent Series C Preferred Stock") and are reserved for issuance in accordance with the Rights Agreement dated as of March 4, 1991, by and between Parent and Chasx Xxxxxx Xxxreholder Services, L.L.C., as Rights Agent ("Parent Rights Agreement"), pursuant to which Parent has issued rights ("Parent Rights") to purchase shares of Parent Series C Preferred Stock. Each outstanding share of Parent capital stock is, and all shares of Common Stock to be issued in connection with the Merger will be, duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and no outstanding share of Parent capital stock has been, and no shares of Common Stock to be issued in connection with the Merger will be issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights. As of the date hereof, other than as set forth in the Parent SEC Documents, pursuant to the Parent Rights Agreement or in Section 3.3 to the Parent Disclosure Schedule, there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, puts, calls, agreements, understandings, claims or other commitments or rights of any type relating to the issuance, sale or transfer by Parent or any of its subsidiaries of any securities of Parent, nor are there outstanding any securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for any shares of capital stock of Parent, and Parent has no obligation of any kind to issue any additional securities or to pay for securities of Parent or any predecessor. Parent has no outstanding bonds, debentures, notes or other similar obligations the holders of which have the right to vote generally with holders of Parent Common Stock.
