Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.
Appears in 7 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (ATN International, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc), Merger Agreement (Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc)
Financing. Parent OP is a party to and has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) accepted a fully executed commitment letter dated as of the date hereof (together with all exhibits, schedules, exhibits and annexes schedules thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with ”) from the Equity Commitment Letterslenders party thereto (collectively, the “Financing Commitment LettersLenders”) pursuant to providewhich the Lenders have agreed, on subject to the terms and subject only conditions thereof, to the conditions expressly stated therein, provide debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts . The debt financing committed pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letter, as it may be amended, modified, supplemented or replaced in accordance with Section 6.13(b), is collectively referred to in this Agreement as the “Debt Financing.”
(a) Parent has delivered to the Company a true, complete and pricing terms, including terms correct copy of the “market flex” executed Debt Commitment Letter and other commercially sensitive informationany fee letters related thereto, subject, in the case of such fee letter entered into letters, to redaction solely of fee and other economic provisions that are customarily redacted in connection with transactions of this type and that could not in any event affect the conditionality, enforceability, availability, termination or amount of the Debt Financing.
(b) Except as expressly set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, there are no conditions precedent to the obligations of the Lenders to provide the Debt Financing or any contingencies that would permit the Lenders to reduce the aggregate principal amount of the Debt Financing, may have been redacted including any condition or other contingency relating to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As amount or availability of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is pursuant to any “flex” provision. Parent OP does not have any reason to believe that it will be unable to satisfy on a timely basis all terms and conditions to be satisfied by it in the Debt Commitment Letter on or prior to the Closing Date, nor does Parent have Knowledge that any Lender will not perform its obligations thereunder. There are no side letters, understandings or other agreements, contracts or arrangements of any kind relating to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Debt Financing that could affect the conditionality, enforceability, availability, termination or amount of the Debt Financing.
(c) The Debt Financing, when funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter and giving effect to any “flex” provision in or related to the Debt Commitment Letter (including with respect to fees and original issue discount), shall, provide Parent with cash proceeds on the Closing Date that are sufficient, together with other available funds (including unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and funds available to be drawn under other credit facilities of Parent, Parent OP and their Subsidiaries or other Affiliates) (the “Available Funds”), for the satisfaction of all of Parent, Parent OP’s, Merger Sub’s and Parent’s other Affiliates’ obligations under this Agreement and the Debt Commitment Letter, including the payment of any fees and expenses and other amounts of or payable by Parent, Parent OP, Merger Sub or Parent’s other Affiliates, and for any repayment or refinancing of any outstanding indebtedness of the Company, the Company OP, Parent, Parent OP and their respective Subsidiaries or required by this Agreement or the Debt Commitment Letter (such amounts, collectively, the “Required Financing Amounts”).
(d) The obligations set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter constitute the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of Parent OP and, to the Knowledge of Parent OP, the other parties thereto (as applicable) and is in full force and effect. No event has occurred which constitutes a default or breach or failure to satisfy a condition by Parent OP or, to the net proceeds contemplated by Knowledge of Parent OP, any other party thereto under the Equity terms and conditions of the Debt Commitment Letters, and Letter. Parent OP does not have any reason to believe that any of the net proceeds contemplated by conditions to the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, not be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid satisfied by Parent OP on a timely basis or Merger Sub on or prior that the Debt Financing will not be available to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) Parent OP on the Closing Date. Each Financing Parent OP has paid, or caused to be paid, in full any and all commitment fees or other fees required to be paid pursuant to the terms of the Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parenton or before the date of this Agreement, Merger Sub (and will pay, or cause to be paid, in full any such amounts due on or before the extent Parent Closing Date as and when due. The Debt Commitment Letter has not been modified, amended or Merger Sub is a party thereto) altered, and none of the respective commitments under the Debt Commitment Letter have been terminated, reduced, withdrawn or rescinded, and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its termsno termination, except as enforcement may be limited reduction, withdrawal, modification, amendment, alteration or rescission thereof is contemplated.
(e) In no event shall the receipt or availability of any funds or financing (including the Debt Financing) by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge any of Parent, its Affiliates or any other parties thereto, under financing or other transactions be a condition to any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereofParent’s, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent OP’s or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the Sub’s obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingunder this Agreement.
Appears in 7 contracts
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Independence Realty Trust, Inc.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Independence Realty Trust, Inc.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Centerspace)
Financing. (a) Parent, Parent has delivered OP and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain the proceeds of the Debt Financing, to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of extent necessary to pay the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Required Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provideAmounts, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub Letter on or prior to the Closing Date date on which the Merger is required to be consummated pursuant to the terms hereof, including (except to the extent otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.13(b)) by using their reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in connection effect the Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Agreements”) consistent with the terms and conditions contained therein (including, as necessary, the “flex” provisions contained in any related fee letter) and without any Prohibited Modification, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Agreements and comply with its obligations thereunder and (iv) enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Agreements in a timely and diligent manner.
(b) Each of Parent, Parent OP and their respective Subsidiaries shall have the right from time to time to amend, supplement, replace, substitute, terminate or otherwise modify or waive its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter, including to (i) add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement or (ii) terminate or reduce any commitments under the Debt Commitment Letter in order to reflect decreases in the Required Financing Amounts (including as a result of the receipt of Lender Consents) or to reflect increases in other Available Funds (including as a result of asset sales or other transactions); provided that Parent, Parent OP and their respective Subsidiaries shall not permit, consent or agree to any amendment, supplement, replacement, substitution, termination, modification or waiver of any Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Agreement that (A) reduces the aggregate amount of available Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount (except as set forth in any “market flex” provisions existing on the date of this Agreement)) such that Parent OP and Company would not have the Required Financing Amounts (after taking into account all Available Funds), (B) imposes new or additional conditions precedent or adversely modifies the existing conditions precedent to all or any portion of the Debt Financing as set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement, (C) adversely changes the timing of the funding of the Debt Financing thereunder in a manner that is reasonably expected to impair, delay or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (D) adversely affects the ability of Parent OP to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements as so amended, replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified or (E) otherwise materially adversely affects the ability of Parent, Parent OP and Merger Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the effects described in clauses (A) through (E), collectively, the “Required AmountProhibited Modifications”). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any amendment, assuming replacement, supplement, termination, modification or waiver to the satisfaction Debt Commitment Letter and/or Definitive Agreements.
(c) In the event that any portion of the conditions set forth Debt Financing becomes unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor, Parent shall (i) promptly notify the Company in Section 7.02(awriting of such unavailability and the reason therefor and (ii) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, necessary in order to have Available Funds sufficient to pay the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Required Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 Amounts on the Closing Date, use reasonable best efforts, and cause each of the Parent has no reason Subsidiaries to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub oruse their reasonable best efforts, to arrange and obtain, as promptly as practicable following the knowledge occurrence of Parentsuch event, alternative financing for any other parties theretosuch unavailable portion from the same or alternative sources (the “Alternative Financing”) in an amount sufficient, under any when taken together with the available portion of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming and all other Available Funds, to pay the satisfaction of Required Financing Amounts and, without limiting the foregoing, shall use reasonable best efforts to cause such Alternative Financing to not include any Prohibited Modifications or conditions to the consummation thereof that are more onerous than those set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. Parent shall provide the Company with prompt oral and written notice of any actual or threatened breach, default, cancellation, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Definitive Agreement and a copy of any written notice or other written communication from any Lender or other financing source with respect to any actual or threatened breach, default, cancellation, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Definitive Agreement of any provision thereof. Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed on a current basis of the status of its efforts to consummate the Debt Financing, including any Alternative Financing.
(d) The foregoing notwithstanding, compliance by Parent, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent OP and Merger Sub acknowledge with this Section 6.13 shall not relieve Parent, Parent OP and agree that Merger Sub of their obligation respective obligations to consummate the Merger and pay transactions contemplated by this Agreement whether or not the Aggregate Merger Consideration Debt Financing or any Alternative Financing is not conditioned on available. To the availability extent Parent or Parent OP obtains Alternative Financing or amends, replaces, supplements, terminates, modifies or waives any of the Debt Financing, in each case in accordance with this Section 6.13 and without any Prohibited Modification, references to the “Debt Financing,” “Debt Financing parties,” “Debt Commitment Letter” and “Definitive Agreements” (and other like terms in this Agreement) shall be deemed to refer to such Alternative Financing, the commitments thereunder and the agreements with respect thereto, or the Debt Financing as so amended, replaced, supplemented, terminated, modified or waived.
Appears in 7 contracts
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Independence Realty Trust, Inc.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Independence Realty Trust, Inc.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Centerspace)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct true and complete copiesfully executed copies of (i) the commitment letter, dated as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter among Parent, Discovery Communications, LLC, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sachs Bank, USA and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Lending Partners LLC (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity FinancingCommitment Letter”) ), and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter the fee letter, dated as of the date hereof, among Parent, Discovery Communications, LLC, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sachs Bank, USA and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Lending Partners LLC (together with all exhibitsas redacted to remove the fee amounts, schedulesalternate transaction fee provisions, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified thereinpricing caps, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms rates and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing amounts included in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationeconomic terms that could not adversely affect the conditionality, in enforceability or termination of the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent“Redacted Fee Letter”), in each case, they are Permissible including all exhibits, schedules, annexes and amendments to such letters in effect as of the date of this Agreement (collectively, the “Debt Letters”), pursuant to which and subject to the terms and conditions thereof each of the parties thereto (other than Parent) have severally committed to lend the amounts set forth therein to Parent (the provision of such funds as set forth therein, the “Financing”) for the purposes set forth in such Debt Letters. The Debt Letters have not been amended, restated or otherwise modified or waived prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement (provided that the existence or exercise of “market flex” provisions contained in the Redacted TermsFee Letter shall not be deemed to constitute a modification or amendment of the Commitment Letter), and the respective commitments contained in the Debt Letters, to the Knowledge of Parent, have not been withdrawn, rescinded, amended, restated or otherwise modified in any respect prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. As of the date hereofof this Agreement, none the Debt Letters are in full force and effect and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawneach of Parent, terminatedDiscovery Communications, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, LLC and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate Knowledge of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyparties thereto, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, subject in each case to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization reorganization, moratorium or similar Applicable Laws other laws affecting generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by subject to general principles of equity. As of the date hereofof this Agreement, there are no conditions precedent or contingencies related to the funding of the full amount of the Financing Commitment pursuant to the Debt Letters, other than as expressly set forth in the Debt Letters are in full force and, after the date of this Agreement, such other conditions and effect contingencies with respect to the Financing permitted pursuant to Section 6.16. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Debt Letters and assuming the satisfaction or waiver that each of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 7.1 and Section 7.02 7.2 of this Agreement is satisfied at Closing, the net proceeds contemplated from the Financing, together with other financial resources of Parent, including contemplated cash on hand of Parent, will, in the Closing Dateaggregate, Parent has be sufficient for the satisfaction of all of Parent’s obligations under this Agreement, including the payment of the Merger Consideration and all fees and expenses reasonably expected to be incurred in connection therewith. As of the date of this Agreement, no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a breach or default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub under the Debt Letters or, to the knowledge Knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any party to the Debt Letters (assuming the accuracy of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 Company’s representations and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount warranties and undertakings under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Datethis Agreement for such purpose). As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, this Agreement there are no side letters or other agreements, Contracts or arrangements or understandings related to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability funding of the Equity full amount of the Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided Debt Letters. Parent has fully paid all commitment fees or other fees required to the Company be paid on or prior to the date hereofof this Agreement in connection with the Financing. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesAs of the date of this Agreement, assuming (x) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, (y) the performance of all obligations and compliance with all covenants and agreements required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with at or prior to the Closing by the Company in all material respects and (z) that each of the conditions set forth in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2 of this Agreement is satisfied at Closing, Parent has no reason to believe that any of the conditions to the Financing will continue not be satisfied, or to providethe Knowledge of Parent, as of the date of this Agreement, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Financing will not be made available to Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability Closing Date in accordance with the terms of the Debt FinancingLetters.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Voting Agreement (Newhouse Broadcasting Corp), Merger Agreement (Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.), Voting Agreement (Discovery Communications, Inc.)
Financing. Parent Tenant may seek to obtain a loan to finance the Improvements and to refinance the Improvements from time to time during the Term. For such purpose only, Tenant shall have the right, with Landlord’s prior written approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, to assign all or part of Tenant’s interest under this Lease, as security to any Institutional Lender (a “Leasehold Mortgagee”) which has delivered advanced such funds to Tenant pursuant to a promissory note and a trust deed or mortgage (collectively, the “Trust Deed”). Landlord’s written approval or denial shall be provided to Tenant within twenty (20) Business Days of Tenant’s written request, which shall contain the information regarding the assignee’s financial strength, reputation and experience delineated in Section 12.1. If Landlord does not respond to the Company truerequest within twenty (20) Business Days, correct the request shall be deemed approved. In the event Tenant assigns all or any portion of Tenant’s Interest to secure a loan permitted under this Section 14.2, then the following shall apply:
(a) Landlord will enter into a Lender Recognition Agreement with the Leasehold Mortgagee;
(b) The Landlord shall not be required to sign any Trust Deed or the Note, or otherwise become obligated thereunder;
(c) No such lien, charge or encumbrance shall constitute a lien or encumbrance upon the Landlord’s fee title in the Premises or their reversionary interest in the Improvements;
(d) Any interest in the Premises which the Trust Deed establishes in a trustee, and complete copiesany lien which it creates, as of shall expire on or before the date hereofof expiration of this Lease;
(e) The Trust Deed imposes no financial obligations on the Landlord, contingent or otherwise;
(f) The Trust Deed shall neither subordinate nor affect the Landlord’s right to convey, mortgage, encumber or otherwise hypothecate in any way the Landlord’s fee or leasehold title (respectively) or reversionary interest in the Improvements or the Premises;
(g) Except as otherwise provided herein, no Leasehold Mortgagee or anyone claiming by, through or under such Leasehold Mortgagee shall, by virtue of such claim, acquire any greater rights than Tenant then had under this Lease;
(h) The Trust Deed shall be subject to all conditions, covenants and restrictions of this Lease and to all rights of Landlord hereunder;
(i) The Landlord will accept performance under this Lease by any Leasehold Mortgagee as though the same had been performed by Tenant;
(j) The time available to a Leasehold Mortgagee to initiate foreclosure proceedings, to proceed with foreclosure proceedings, or to obtain possession of the leasehold interest shall be deemed extended by the number of days of delay occasioned by judicial restriction or application or operation of law against any such initiation or occasion by other circumstances beyond such Leasehold Mortgagee’s control;
(k) If two or more Leasehold Mortgagees exercise their rights under this Lease, the Leasehold Mortgagee who would be senior in priority if there were a foreclosure shall prevail;
(l) This Lease shall not be materially modified, amended or surrendered (except upon termination pursuant to this Lease) without the prior written consent of each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter Leasehold Mortgagee;
(m) The Trust Deed shall provide that, prior to the financing provided for therein being collectively referred institution of any proceedings to as foreclose the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibitsTrust Deed or of negotiations to accept an assignment in lieu of the foreclosure of the Trust Deed, schedulesthe holder or beneficiary thereof shall notify Landlord in writing that such proceedings or negotiations are to be commenced, and annexes theretoLandlord shall have the right, but not the obligation, within sixty (60) days after receiving of such notice to purchase the Trust Deed and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only indebtedness which it secures at a purchase price equal to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsfull amount then owing under said Trust Deed, including terms of accrued interest, reasonable attorneys’ fee for the “market flex” holder or beneficiary, and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into applicable statutory costs and allowances if any foreclosure proceedings shall have commenced. All loan agreements in connection with any Improvements, including but not limited to construction loans, long term loans and refinancing permitted by the Debt Financing, may have been redacted terms of this Lease shall contain the written agreement of the Leasehold Mortgagee that Landlord shall be notified by the Leasehold Mortgagee within thirty (30) days of any default by Tenant on any such loan and shall be given the opportunity to correct the default and assume the loan(s) prior to initiation of foreclosure actions other than the filing of a notice of default pursuant to the extentCalifornia Civil Code Section 2924;
(n) Tenant shall give Landlord written notice of any Trust Deed prior to the execution and/or recording of same by Tenant, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As and shall accompany such notice with a true copy of such Trust Deed and the Note secured thereby; and
(o) All insurance proceeds arising from damage or destruction of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, Improvements shall be available for restoration thereof to the extent related Tenant is obligated under the terms of this Lease to any Person that is not restore the Improvements following such damage or destruction.
(p) No loan may be in an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment amount which exceeds seventy-five percent (75%) of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt fair market value of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to Improvements at the Closing Date in connection with time the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter loan is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingentered into.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Ground Lease, Ground Lease, Ground Lease
Financing. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, advisable or proper to arrange and obtain the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letter pursuant to the terms thereof (including any “market flex” provisions) including using its reasonable best efforts to seek to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter in the event of a breach thereof by the financing provider(s) thereunder. Parent shall not, without the Company’s prior written consent, permit any amendment, supplement, replacement or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Debt Commitment Letter if such amendment, supplement, replacement, modification or waiver (A) reduces the aggregate amount of the cash proceeds from the Debt Financing or (B) imposes new or additional conditions to the initial funding or otherwise expands any of the conditions to the receipt of the Debt Financing, or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Debt Commitment Letter in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent the funding in full of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) on the Closing Date, or (y) adversely affect the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto (provided, that Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities so long as such action would not reasonably be expected to delay or prevent the Closing). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company true, complete and correct copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement.
(b) Parent shall, and complete copiesshall cause its Affiliates and Representatives to, use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter (provided that the Debt Commitment Letter may be amended, supplemented, replaced, modified or waived as of provided in this Section 6.13), (B) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment LettersAgreements”) to provide, on the terms and conditions that are not materially less favorable to Parent than those contained in the Debt Commitment Letter, (C) to satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of), and in a manner that will not impede the ability of the parties to consummate the Merger, all conditions to receipt of the full amount of the Debt Financing at the Closing set forth therein that are within its control or subject only to its influence and, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, to consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing, (D) to comply with its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter, and (E) to consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Effective Time. In the event that all conditions precedent expressly stated therein, debt financing set forth in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsDebt Commitment Letter have been or, including terms upon funding of the “market flex” Debt Financing will be, satisfied, Parent and Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to enforce their rights under, and cause the Financing Sources, lenders and the other commercially sensitive information, persons providing or committing to provide the Debt Financing to comply with their obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter and definitive financing agreements and to fund on or before the Effective Time the Debt Financing. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the fee letter entered into in connection with status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing, may have been redacted and, promptly following request by the Company, provide to the extentCompany copies of all executed Debt Financing Agreements.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, Parent agrees to notify the Company promptly, and in any event within two (2) Business Days, if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) the Debt Commitment Letter is terminated for any reason, (ii) Parent becomes aware of any breach or default (A) by any Financing Source party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Debt Financing Agreement or (B) any other party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Debt Financing Agreement if, in each casethe case of this clause (B), they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As such breach or default would reasonably be expected to affect the availability of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded or (iii) a counterparty indicates in accordance with writing or orally that it will not provide, or it refuses to provide, all or any portion of the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter on the terms set forth therein. Parent shall promptly provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstances referred to in this Section 6.13(c). Parent shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Affiliates to, without the prior written consent of the Company, take any action or enter into any transaction that would reasonably be expected to materially impair, delay or prevent consummation of all or any portion of the Debt Financing.
(d) Parent shall have the right to substitute the net cash proceeds received by Parent after the date hereof and prior to the Closing from consummated offerings or other incurrences of debt (including notes) by Parent for all or any portion of the Debt Financing by reducing commitments under the Debt Commitment Letter; provided that (v) such offering or other incurrence of debt does not result in a breach or default under, or violation of, the Debt Commitment Letter, will in (w) the aggregateaggregate amount of the Debt Financing committed under the Debt Commitment Letter following such reduction, be sufficient for together with other cash and cash equivalents available to Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation is sufficient to pay the all amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement, including payment (x) the proceeds of such debt offerings or other incurrences have been received by Parent in cash, (y) Parent promptly notifies the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationCompany of such substitution and reduction and (z) true, correct and complete copies of each material amendment or modification to make any repaymentthe Debt Commitment Letter relating thereto will be promptly provided to the Company. If commitments under the Debt Commitment Letter have been reduced to zero in connection with the preceding sentence, repurchase or refinancing of debt the obligations of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementpursuant to Section 6.14 shall no longer be in effect. Further, Parent shall have the right to substitute commitments in respect of other financings for all or any portion of the Debt Financing from the same and/or alternative financing sources so long as the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing, together with other cash and cash equivalents available to Parent, is sufficient to pay any other all amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and all conditions precedent to funding of such financing are, in respect of certainty of funding, equivalent to (or more favorable to the Company than) the conditions precedent set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, to supplement or replace the Debt Financing (“Required AmountAlternative Debt Financing”). True, correct and complete copies of each alternative financing commitment in respect of such Alternative Debt Financing (each, a “New Debt Commitment Letter”), assuming together with all related fee letters and associated engagement letters (solely in the satisfaction case of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) fee letter, with only the fee amounts, pricing, “market flex” provisions and Section 7.02(b) on other economic terms that do not adversely affect the Closing Dateenforceability, availability or conditionality of, or the aggregate amount of proceeds available under, the Debt Financing contained therein redacted), will be promptly provided to the Company. Each Financing In the event any New Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentobtained, Merger Sub (i) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Financing” shall include the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as modified pursuant to clause (ii) below, (ii) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter which is not superseded by a New Debt Commitment Letter at the time in question and each New Debt Commitment Letter to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party theretothen in effect, and (iii) and, any reference in this Agreement to “fee letter” shall be deemed to include any fee letter relating to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto Debt Commitment Letter that is not superseded by any New Debt Commitment Letter at the time in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally question and by general principles of equity. As of each New Debt Commitment Letter to the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are extent then in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on effect.
(e) On the Closing Date, Parent has no reason shall provide all funds required to believe that any event has occurred whicheffect the repayment of all indebtedness under the Company Credit Agreement in full in accordance with the Company Credit Agreement, subject to compliance with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, Section 6.14(a)(iii).
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the knowledge of contrary contained herein, Parent, any other parties thereto, under ’s obligations hereunder are not subject to a condition regarding Parent’s or any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation its Affiliates’ obtaining funds to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingtransactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Appears in 4 contracts
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (PMC Sierra Inc), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Skyworks Solutions, Inc.), Merger Agreement (PMC Sierra Inc)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company truecomplete and correct copies of executed commitment letters from ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Bank USA, correct together with related fee letters (with respect to such fee letters, complete copies with only the fee amounts, interest rates, original issue discount, and complete copieseconomic and other “market flex” terms redacted, none of which redacted provisions would adversely affect the amount or availability of the Financing on the Closing Date) of which have been provided to the Company (collectively, the “Financing Commitments”), pursuant to which the Financing Sources party thereto have committed, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, to lend the amounts set forth therein for the purposes of financing the Transactions and related Expenses (together with any Alternative Financing and any capital markets debt or equity financing in replacement thereof or supplemental thereto, the “Financing”). Subject to Parent’s rights with respect to Alternative Financing pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of Section 7.18, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (none of the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to Financing Commitments has been amended or modified as of the “Equity Financing”) date hereof in any material respect and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing respective commitments contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided Financing Commitments have not been withdrawn or rescinded in any material respect (it being understood that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms the exercise of the “market flex” and provisions under any fee letter shall not be deemed an amendment, modification, withdrawal or rescission). Except for engagement letters with respect to the Financing, there are no side letters or contracts, agreements or understandings to which Parent, First Merger Sub or Second Merger Sub is a party related to the funding or investing, as applicable, of the Financing other commercially sensitive information, than as expressly set forth in the fee letter entered into Financing Commitments. Parent has fully paid any and all commitment fees or other fees in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they Financing Commitments that are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub payable on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation date of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equityAgreement. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters Commitments are in full force and effect and assuming are the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of Parent, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub, as the case may be, and, to the knowledge of Parent, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub, each of the other parties thereto, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar Laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles. There are no conditions precedent or other contingencies related to the funding of the full amount of the Financing Commitments, other than as expressly set forth in the Financing Commitments. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement, compliance by the Company with the covenants set forth in this Agreement and the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing DateArticle VIII, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred as of the date hereof which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute, or would reasonably be expected to constitute constitute, a default or breach of the Financing Commitments on the part of Parent Parent, First Merger Sub or Second Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub, any other parties party thereto. Subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement and compliance by the Company with the covenants set forth in this Agreement, under as of the date hereof, Parent has no reason to believe that any of the conditions to the Financing Commitment Letterscontemplated by the Financing Commitments will not be satisfied. Assuming the Financing is funded in accordance with the Financing Commitments (and assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement, compliance by the Company with the covenants set forth in this Agreement and the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 Article VIII), Parent, First Merger Sub and Section 7.02 Second Merger Sub will have on the Closing DateDate sufficient funds to (i) pay the Merger Consideration; (ii) pay any and all Expenses required to be paid by Parent, as of the date hereofFirst Merger Sub, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Second Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereofSub, the Equity Commitment Letter contains Surviving Corporation and the Surviving Entity in connection with the Mergers and the Financing; and (iii) satisfy all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the payment obligations of Parent, First Merger Sub, Second Merger Sub, the parties thereunder to make Surviving Corporation and the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingSurviving Entity contemplated hereunder.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Grail, LLC), Merger Agreement (Grail, LLC), Merger Agreement (Illumina, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copiescopies of (i) the executed commitment letter, dated as of the date hereof, from Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Jefferies Finance LLC (together with all exhibits, annexes, schedules and attachments thereto, including the Redacted Fee Letter, the “Debt Commitment Letter”), pursuant to which, and subject to the terms and conditions thereof, the lenders party thereto have committed to lend the amounts set forth therein to Purchaser for the purpose of financing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (such financing, the “Debt Financing”).
(b) The Debt Commitment Letter is, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) in full force and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, effect and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has not been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, terminated or rescinded in any respect or otherwise amended, amended and restated supplemented or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedmodified in any respect, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment supplement or modification is presently contemplated by Parent or Purchaser (other than amendments or modifications that are permitted by Section 5.12). The Debt Commitment Letter is a legal, valid and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, binding obligation of Purchaser and Parent and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate Knowledge of Purchaser and Parent, the other parties thereto. Except for the Debt Commitment Letter in the form delivered pursuant to Section 4.9(a), as of the knowledge of Parentdate hereof there are no side letters or other agreements, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification contracts or waiver, except arrangements relating to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with or the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, Letter that could affect the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by availability of the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationFinancing, to make any repaymentwhich Purchaser, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub their respective Affiliates is a party thereto) andand no such side letters or other agreements, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization contracts or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equityarrangements are currently outstanding. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to (x) constitute a default or breach on the part of Purchaser or Parent or Merger Sub orand (in the case of the Debt Commitment Letter only, to the knowledge Knowledge of Purchaser and Parent, ) any of the other parties thereto, under any term of the Financing Debt Commitment Letter, (y) result in a failure of any condition of the Debt Commitment Letters, or (z) to the Knowledge of Purchaser and Parent, result in any portion of the Debt Financing contemplated thereby to be unavailable (provided that Parent and Purchaser are not making any representation or warranty regarding the effect of any inaccuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in Article III, or the Company’s compliance with its obligations under the terms of this Agreement). Purchaser and Parent have fully paid any and all commitment fees or other fees or deposits required by the Debt Commitment Letter to be paid on or before the date hereof. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on to Parent’s obligation to consummate the Closing DateOffer and/or the Merger (as applicable), as the aggregate net proceeds of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that Debt Financing (when funded in accordance with the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As terms of the date hereofDebt Commitment Letter) will be sufficient for Purchaser’s and Parent’s obligations under this Agreement, including the payment of the Offer Price in respect of each share of Company Common Stock validly tendered and accepted for payment in the Offer and payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 2.5, all amounts to be paid pursuant to Section 2.6, the Equity payment of all associated costs and expenses of the Offer and the Merger (including any repayment or refinancing of Indebtedness of the Company required in connection therewith) and the payment of all other amounts required to be paid by Parent and/or Purchaser in connection with the consummation of the Transactions and to allow Purchaser and Parent to perform all of their obligations under this Agreement. The Debt Commitment Letter contains sets forth all of the conditions precedent of Parent and other conditions Purchaser to the obligations of the parties thereunder lenders party thereto to make the full amount of the Equity Debt Financing available to Parent or Purchaser on the terms therein. As of set forth in the date hereof, Debt Commitment Letter and there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings conditions precedent related to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability funding of the Equity full amount of the Debt Financing on the Closing Date, other than except as expressly set forth in the Equity Debt Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingLetter.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Hyperion Therapeutics Inc), Merger Agreement (Horizon Pharma PLC), Merger Agreement (Hyperion Therapeutics Inc)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Prior to the Company trueCharter Closing, correct Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and complete copiesdo, as or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange and obtain the proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated (or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related any other Financing in lieu thereof) (subject to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parentamendments, to the knowledge of Parentmodifications, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification waivers or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is replacements not prohibited under by this Agreement. Assuming Section 6.19(a)), including using reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Equity Financing is funded Commitment, (ii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain a waiver of) all conditions to funding the Committed Financing, (iii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on terms and conditions described in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter(subject to any amendments, as applicablemodifications, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase waivers or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated replacements not prohibited by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub Section 6.19(a)) on or prior to the Charter Closing Date, (iv) enforce its rights under the Financing Commitment and (v) in the event that all conditions in the Financing Commitment (or any other Financing in lieu thereof) have been satisfied, cause the lenders and other Persons providing the Committed Financing (or any other Financing in lieu thereof) to fund on the Charter Closing Date the Committed Financing (or any other Financing in connection with lieu thereof) required to consummate the Transactions. To the extent requested by the Company from time to time, Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis of the status of its efforts to obtain the Financing (or Alternative Financing) and provide to the Company copies of all material documents related to the Financing (or Alternative Financing). In the event any portion of the Committed Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions (including any “flex” provisions) contemplated in the Financing Commitment (and subject to any amendments, modifications or replacements not prohibited by this Section 6.19(a)) prior to the Charter Closing Date for any reason (A) Parent shall promptly notify the Company in writing and (B) Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to obtain, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, alternative financing (the “Alternative Financing”) in an amount sufficient to consummate the Transactions (after giving effect to any committed financing); provided, that such Alternative Financing would not reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Transactions; provided, further that Parent shall have no obligation to accept (the “Required Amount”)i) any fees, assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth interest or other economic terms (taken as a whole) that are less favorable in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available respect to Parent or Merger Sub on than the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.fees,
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Brookfield Property Partners L.P.), Merger Agreement (Brookfield Asset Management Inc.), Merger Agreement (GGP Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (of Montage and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Transaction Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) described in the Commitment Letter at Closing (taking into account the Marketing Period), and shall not, without the prior written consent of Marigold (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Commitment Letter, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter (or satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the conditions expressly stated thereinTransaction Financing) on the Closing Date in any material respect or (y) extend or permit the extension of the marketing period under the Commitment Letter (provided that, debt financing in without the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts consent of Marigold, Montage may amend the Commitment Letter (x) to favorably modify pricing terms or add additional lenders, arrangers, bookrunners and pricing terms, including terms agents or (y) to implement or exercise any of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions (including pricing terms) contained in the fee letter entered into executed in connection with the Debt Commitment Letter). Montage shall promptly deliver to Marigold copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement. For purposes of this Section 6.12, references to “Transaction Financing” shall include the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, may have been redacted modified or replaced by this Section 6.12(a) and references to “Commitment Letter” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 6.12(a).
(ii) Each of Montage and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Commitment Letter, (B) to enter into definitive agreements with respect to the extentCommitment Letter consistent in all material respects with the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) contained in the Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable (taken as a whole) to Montage or Merger Sub than the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Commitment Letter), and (C) to satisfy (or obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions precedent to funding in the Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto (taking into account the Marketing Period and other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of Marigold’s failure to furnish information described in Section 6.12(b)) that are within Montage’s control and to consummate the Transaction Financing at the Closing. Montage shall keep Marigold reasonably informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Transaction Financing and provide to Marigold copies of the material definitive agreements for the Transaction Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Montage shall give Marigold prompt notice (x) of any material breach or default by any party to any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of which Montage becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of (A) any written notice or (B) other written communication, in each casecase from any Financing Source with respect to any actual or potential material breach, they are Permissible Redacted Termsdefault, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of any provisions of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing, and (z) if at any time for any reason Montage believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Transaction Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable after any notice by Montage to Marigold of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence, but in any event within two (2) Business Days of the date hereofMarigold delivers to Montage a written request, none Montage shall use reasonable best efforts to provide any information reasonably requested by Marigold relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (x), (y) or (z) of the immediately preceding sentence; provided, that they need not provide any information believed to be privileged or that is requested for purposes of litigation. If all or any portion of the Transaction Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, and such portion is reasonably required to pay the aggregate Cash Consideration, repay the Retired Debt and pay all fees, expenses and other amounts contemplated to be paid by Montage or Merger Sub pursuant to this Agreement, Montage and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof alternative debt Transaction Financing from alternative sources in an amount sufficient, when taken together with available cash of Montage and any then-available Transaction Financing pursuant to the Commitment Letters has been withdrawnLetter, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended to consummate the Merger with terms and restated or modified, no conditions not materially less favorable (taken as a whole) to Montage and Merger Sub than the terms thereunder and conditions (taken as a whole) set forth in the Commitment Letter (it being understood for the avoidance of doubt that the foregoing shall not be construed to relieve Montage of its obligations to consummate the transactions contemplated in this Agreement if all conditions set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 shall have been waivedsatisfied or waived or shall then be capable of being satisfied) (“Available Transaction Financing”), as promptly as reasonably practicable following the occurrence of such event. Montage shall deliver to Marigold true and complete copies of all commitment letters and fee letters (subject to redactions similar to the redactions made to the fee letter delivered on the date hereof) pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Transaction Financing. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.12 or elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, in no event shall the “reasonable best efforts” of Montage or Merger Sub be deemed or construed to require any such Person to, and no such withdrawalPerson shall be required to, terminationpay any debt financing fees in the aggregate in excess of those contemplated by the Commitment Letter, repudiationor agree to conditionality or economic terms of the debt financing that are (other than as specified in the preceding sentence) materially less favorable than those contemplated by the Commitment Letter (including any “flex” provision therein).
(b) With respect to the Transaction Financing, rescissionprior to Closing, amendmentMarigold shall, amendment and restatementshall cause the Marigold Subsidiaries to, modification and use reasonable best efforts to cause its and the Marigold Subsidiaries’ respective Representatives to provide to Montage such cooperation in connection with the Transaction Financing as may be reasonably requested by Montage, including:
(i) assisting in preparation for and participation, upon reasonable advance notice, in a reasonable number of meetings and calls (including customary one-on-one meetings with parties acting as lead arrangers, bookrunners or waiver has occurredagents for, andand prospective lenders of, the Transaction Financing), drafting sessions, rating agency presentations, road shows and due diligence sessions (including accounting due diligence sessions) and assisting Montage in obtaining ratings in respect of Montage and public ratings in respect of any debt issued as part of the Transaction Financing from Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc.;
(ii) assisting Montage and its potential financing sources in the preparation of (A) customary offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and similar marketing documents for any of the Transaction Financing (including the provision of “backup” support), including the execution and delivery of customary authorization and representation letters in connection with bank information memoranda authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders and identifying any portion of such information that constitutes material, nonpublic information regarding Marigold or the Marigold Subsidiaries or their respective securities (in each case in accordance with customary syndication practices) and containing a representation that the public-side version does not include material non-public information about Marigold and its Subsidiaries or their securities and (B) customary materials for rating agency presentations for the Transaction Financing;
(iii) delivering to Montage the Required Financial Information;
(iv) delivering to Montage and its potential financing sources as promptly as reasonably practicable (x) such information as may be reasonably necessary for the Required Financial Information to remain Compliant and (y) such other pertinent financial and other customary information (including assistance with preparing projections, financial estimates, forecasts and other forward-looking information) to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate reasonably requested by Montage or identified in paragraphs 7 and 8 of Parent, Exhibit D to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Commitment Letter in accordance connection with the Equity Commitment Letters and preparation of customary offering or information documents to be used for the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment LetterTransaction Financing, as applicable, and assisting Montage in preparing pro forma (A) balance sheets and related notes as of the net proceeds contemplated most recently completed interim period, and (B) income statements and related notes for the most recently completed fiscal year, for the most recently completed interim period and for the twenty-four (24) month period ending on the last day of the most recently completed four (4) fiscal quarter period ended at least forty-five (45) days before the Closing Date (or ninety (90) days in case such period includes the end of Marigold’s fiscal year), prepared after giving effect to the transactions described in the Commitment Letter as if such transactions had occurred as of such date (in the case of such balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of such statements of income) and any other pro forma financial information required by Regulation S-X in connection with the Transaction Financing; provided that none of Marigold, any of the Marigold Subsidiaries or any of their Representatives shall be responsible in any manner for information relating to the proposed debt and equity capitalization that is required for such pro forma financial information;
(v) causing its independent registered public accounting firm (x) to cooperate with Montage in connection with the Transaction Financing, including by providing customary “comfort letters” (including customary “negative assurances”) and (y) to provide customary assistance with the due diligence activities of Montage and the financing sources and the preparation of any pro forma financial statements to be included in the documents referred to in clause (iv) above, and customary consents to the inclusion of audit reports in any relevant marketing materials, registration statements and related government filings;
(vi) using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Transaction Financing benefits from the existing lending relationships of Marigold and the Marigold Subsidiaries;
(vii) assisting to identify the steps for repayment on the Closing Date of the Marigold Credit Facility, the Lunar Notes and other Retired Debt of Marigold, the Marigold Subsidiaries or the Marigold Sharing Companies other than indebtedness which may be mutually agreed and cooperating with any back-stop, “roll-over” or termination of any existing letters of credit thereunder (and the release and discharge of all related liens and security interests), by providing to Montage at least three (3) Business Days prior to Closing customary pay-off letters (in substantially final form), UCC-3 financing statements, filings with the United States Patent and Trademark and/or Copyright Office, real property mortgage releases, account control agreement termination notices, and other similar and related ancillary agreements as are necessary in connection with the Transaction Financing (it being understood that no such documentation shall become effective until the Effective Time);
(viii) using commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such consents, approvals and authorizations required in connection with the Transaction Financing which may be reasonably requested by Montage;
(ix) executing and delivering as of, but not effective before, the Effective Time, and subject in each case to the “Certain Fund Provisions” in the Commitment Letter: customary definitive financing documentation as may be reasonably requested by Montage, including pledge and security documents, guarantees, customary officer’s certificates (including, without limitation, delivery of a solvency certificate in customary form), instruments, copies of any existing surveys, UCC financing statements, filings, security agreements, control agreements, title insurance and other matters ancillary to, or required in connection with, the Transaction Financing (including (A) delivering stock certificates for certificated securities and (with transfer powers executed in blank) of Marigold and its domestic Subsidiaries to the extent required on the Closing Date by the Equity Commitment Letters, terms of the Transaction Financing and (B) using commercially reasonable efforts to provide customary regulatory and local counsel legal opinions);
(x) taking all corporate actions reasonably requested by Montage that are necessary to permit the net proceeds contemplated by consummation of the Debt Transaction Financing (subject in each case to the “Certain Funds Provisions” in the Commitment Letter), will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and including with respect to corporate actions of the Surviving Corporation to pay be effected immediately following the amounts required Effective Time, and to permit the cash at Marigold and the Marigold Subsidiaries, if any, to be paid in connection with made available on the Merger and Closing Date to consummate the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment the repayment of outstanding Indebtedness of Marigold and the Aggregate Merger Consideration, Marigold Subsidiaries; provided that the foregoing shall not require the adoption of any corporate resolutions or actions that would be effective prior to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or Effective Time;
(xi) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date Date, providing all documentation and other information relating to Marigold and the Marigold Subsidiaries required by applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations including the USA PATRIOT Act to the extent reasonably requested by Montage; and
(xii) reasonable participation by senior officers of Marigold and its Subsidiaries in the negotiation of the definitive documentation for the Transaction Financing.
(c) Marigold hereby consents to the use of all of its and the Marigold Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the consummation Transaction Financing, provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage Marigold or the Marigold Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of Marigold or any Marigold Subsidiary; and subject to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement prior review by, and consent of, Marigold (the “Required Amount”such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). Notwithstanding any other provision set forth herein or in any other agreement between Marigold and Montage (or their respective affiliates), assuming Marigold agrees that Montage and its affiliates may share customary projections with respect to Marigold and its business, which are approved for distribution by Marigold, with their potential financing sources and other prospective lenders in connection with any marketing efforts in connection with the satisfaction Transaction Financing, provided that the recipients of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Datesuch information agree to customary confidentiality arrangements. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (Notwithstanding anything to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andcontrary in this Agreement, to the knowledge none of ParentMarigold, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction Marigold Subsidiaries, any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Dateapplicable Marigold Sharing Companies, as any of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent their respective directors or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters officers or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.personnel shall be required by this S
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc), Merger Agreement (Media General Inc), Merger Agreement (Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, advisable or proper to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Commitment Letter (or the proceeds of permanent Financing in lieu thereof) (taking into account any “flex provisions” set forth in the related fee letters) on or prior to the date upon which the Merger is required to be consummated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including by: (i) maintaining in effect the Commitment Letter (provided, that the Commitment Letter may be amended, supplemented, modified and replaced as permitted by this Section 6.11 (a)), (ii) negotiating and entering into Definitive Financing Agreements with respect to the Financing consistent with the terms and conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided Commitment Letter (including, as necessary, the “flex” provisions contained in any related fee letter) and (iii) satisfying (or, if deemed advisable by Parent, obtaining the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions (other than those conditions that fee amounts by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing) in the Commitment Letter and pricing termsthe Definitive Financing Agreements and complying with its obligations thereunder. In the event that all conditions contained in the Commitment Letter (other than the consummation of the Merger and those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing) have been satisfied or waived, Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to enforce its rights under the Commitment Letter, including terms of to cause the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in Financing Sources to fund on the fee letter entered into in connection with Closing Date the Debt Financing; provided, may have been redacted that in no event shall Parent be obligated to bring any Legal Proceedings against any Financing Sources. Parent shall not without the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As prior written consent of the date hereofCompany permit any amendment or modification to, none replacement of, or any waiver of any material provision or remedy under, the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no Letter if such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatementmodification, modification replacement, waiver or waiver has occurredremedy would reasonably be expected to prevent, and, to impede or materially delay the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate consummation of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement; provided, that no consent from the Company shall be required for (i) any amendment, replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letter that adds lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date hereof, (ii) implementation or exercise of any “flex” provisions provided in any related fee letter as in effect as of the date hereof or (iii) any amendment to, or replacement of or supplement or modification to, the Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Agreement so long as such action would not be prohibited by the foregoing clause. Parent shall promptly notify the Company of any such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement and deliver the Company a copy thereof.
(b) Without limiting the generality of Section 6.11(a), if Parent believes it will incur any Financing in connection with the Closing, on not less than five Business Days’ prior written notice of the initial request therefor, the Company agrees to cooperate with Parent, as reasonably requested by Parent, to obtain such Financing (provided that such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) including by using (and by causing its Subsidiaries and its Representatives to use) reasonable best efforts to:
(i) cause the management of the Company, in each case, with appropriate seniority and expertise, to participate, at reasonable times and upon reasonable advance notice, in a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, roadshows, drafting sessions, sessions with rating agencies, conference calls with prospective lenders of and investors in the Financing, and due diligence sessions;
(ii) subject to the confidentiality undertakings set forth in the Confidentiality Agreement, provide reasonable and customary assistance with the preparation of materials relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement for rating agency presentations, marketing materials, offering documents and other documents necessary for any Financing, and provide reasonable cooperation with the due diligence efforts of the Financing Sources with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries during normal business hours upon reasonable advance notice;
(iii) furnish to Parent (A) the Financing Deliverables and (B) the Financing Information (including any updates to the Financing Information so that marketing materials used in any Financing do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading as a result of a misstatement or omission with respect to the Financing Information, other than, in each case, with respect to information supplied by or on behalf of Parent or Merger Sub);
(iv) cause its independent auditors to provide reasonable and customary cooperation in connection with the Financing, including payment by providing the Specified Auditor Assistance and signing customary management representation letters to such auditors so that such Specified Auditor Assistance can be provided;
(v) assist Parent with Parent’s preparation of pro forma financial statements and projections by providing the Aggregate Merger Consideration, Financing Information to make be used in preparing such pro formas that are requested in connection with any repayment, repurchase Financing or refinancing of debt that would customarily be included in the marketing materials with respect to the Financing; and
(vi) furnish to Parent other documents of the Company and its Subsidiaries reasonably requested by Parent in connection with any Financing that includes an offering of securities in order to allow such Financing Sources to establish a “due-diligence” defense; and
(vii) satisfy the conditions precedent set forth in the Debt Letters or any Definitive Financing Agreement to the extent the satisfaction of such conditions requires the cooperation of or is within the control of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(c) The Company hereby consents to the use of its and each of its Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the Financing; provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to, and is not reasonably expected to, harm or disparage the Company or its Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of the Company or its Subsidiaries and their respective marks, products, services, offerings or Intellectual Property Rights. Parent shall, promptly upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including attorney’s fees) incurred by the Company and any of its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives in connection with providing the assistance contemplated by this AgreementSection 6.11. Parent shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, costs, expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees), awards, judgments, penalties and other Liabilities actually suffered or incurred by any of them in connection with the Financing and any information used in connection therewith (other than any information provided in writing by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries expressly for use in connection therewith) or in connection with providing the assistance contemplated by this Section 6.11, except to the extent arising from bad faith, willful misconduct or fraud of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Representatives.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 6.11, (i) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective Representatives shall be required to take or permit the taking of any action or provide any assistance that would (A) unreasonably interfere with the business or operations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (B) cause any representation or warranty or covenant of the Company in this Agreement to be breached by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (C) require the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates to pay (or agree to pay) any other amounts required to be paid by Parent fees, or Merger Sub on or reimburse any expenses prior to the Closing Date for which it is not promptly reimbursed, or otherwise incur any other obligations (other than any obligations under customary authorization letters, management representation letters or other documents delivered to the Company’s independent registered accounting firm in connection with the consummation Specified Auditor Assistance) or give any indemnities prior to the Closing that are not contingent on the Closing, (D) cause any director, officer, employee or shareholder of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to incur any personal Liability, (E) conflict with the Charter Documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Applicable Laws, (F) result in the breach of, or default under, any Material Contract or (G) require the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to prepare separate financial statements for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or change any fiscal period or prepare any financial statements or information that are not available to it and prepared in the ordinary course of its financial reporting practice; and (ii) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers shall be obligated to adopt resolutions or execute consents to approve or authorize the execution of the Financing; provided, however that this clause (ii) shall not prohibit the adoption or execution of any resolutions or consents effective no earlier than the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Closing) by any Person that will remain or will become an officer or director of the Surviving Company as of the Effective Time. Nothing in this Section 6.11 shall require the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective Representatives to disclose any information to Parent, Parent’s Representatives or the Financing Sources if such disclosure would (x) violate any Applicable Law or Contract or (y) jeopardize the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine or other legal privilege held by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries does not provide or cause its Representatives to provide such access or such information in reliance on the immediately preceding sentence, then the Company shall (1) provide a written notice to Parent stating that it is withholding such access or such information and (2) reasonably cooperate to provide the applicable access or information in a way that would not violate such Applicable Law or Contract or jeopardize such privilege.
(e) Parent acknowledges and agrees that, other than reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses subject to reimbursement pursuant to Section 6.11(c), none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Representatives shall have any responsibility for, or incur any Liability to, any Person under any Financing that Parent may obtain in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any cooperation provided pursuant to this Section 6.11.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth herein or anything to the “Required Amount”contrary contained in the Confidentiality Agreement, Parent or any of its Affiliates may disclose Confidential Information (as defined in the Confidentiality Agreement) of the Company and its Subsidiaries to the Financing Sources (other than any sensitive information that the Company specifically designates in writing may not be disclosed), assuming so long as the satisfaction Financing Sources are subject to confidentiality undertakings under a binding written confidentiality commitment to Parent that are at least as restrictive as those applicable to Parent with respect to the Company (except that such confidentiality agreement need not contain any explicit or implicit standstill provision).
(g) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the provisions contained in this Section 6.11 represent the sole obligations of the conditions set forth Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives with respect to cooperation in Section 7.02(aconnection with the arrangement of any financing (including the Financing) to be obtained by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and Section 7.02(bno other provision of this Agreement shall be deemed to expand such obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall the receipt or availability of any funds or financing (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Financing) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against by Parent, Merger Sub (or any of their respective Subsidiaries be a condition to the extent Parent any of Parent’s or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, Sub’s obligations under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingthis Agreement.
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Gilat Satellite Networks LTD), Merger Agreement (Comtech Telecommunications Corp /De/), Merger Agreement (Gilat Satellite Networks LTD)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of (a) From the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on hereof until the Closing Date, Parent has no reason and Merger Sub shall use commercially reasonable efforts to believe take (or cause to be taken) all actions, and do (or cause to be done) all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange and obtain the Debt Financing and the proceeds therefrom on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letter, including using their commercially reasonable efforts to (i) negotiate and execute the definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Debt Financing Agreements”) at or prior to the date that the Closing is require to be effected in accordance with Section 2.02; provided, that such Definitive Debt Financing Agreements shall not result in any reduction of the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing provided for in the Debt Commitment Letter (including by changing the amount of fees or original issue discount contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter) to an amount that is less than the amount sufficient to consummate the Transactions on the Closing Date; (ii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions, contingencies and requirements set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and Definitive Debt Financing Agreements that are within Parent’s and Merger Sub’s control, (iii) comply on a timely basis with all material covenants and other obligations set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and Definitive Debt Financing Agreements, (iv) pay in a timely manner any commitment or other fees that are or become due and payable under or with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Debt Financing Agreements, (v) otherwise not terminate the commitment for the Debt Financing set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, subject to amendments, modifications and replacements permitted hereunder and (vi) subject to Section 6.16(e)(ii), if all of the conditions to Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under Section 7.02 (other than those conditions that by their terms are to be satisfied at the Closing) have been satisfied, enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Debt Financing Agreements.
(b) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letter (including any applicable “flex” terms contained in the related fee letter) or the Definitive Debt Financing Agreements shall be withdrawn, terminated or otherwise amended or modified in any respect such that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, then Parent and Merger Sub shall promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days) (i) notify the Company of such unavailability and (ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to arrange and obtain alternative financing from alternative sources in an amount, which when combined with the available lines of credit, the amount of available cash of Parent and Merger Sub and other sources of available funds, is sufficient to pay all obligations of Parent and Merger Sub hereunder that are required to be paid on the Closing Date and on terms and conditions that are not, in the aggregate, less favorable to Company (as determined in the commercially reasonable judgment of Company) than the terms contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter in effect on the date hereof, (such alternative financing, “Alternative Financing”) (it being understood and agreed that no such Alternative Financing shall expand upon the conditions precedent or contingencies in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) be more onerous in any material respect to those conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter, (y) prevent or materially delay the Closing, or (z) make the Closing 38031572.13 less likely to occur), as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, but, in no event later than the date Parent and Merger Sub are required to consummate the Closing under this Agreement. If and to the extent that the Debt Financing is supplemented or superseded by any Alternative Financing, the terms “Debt Financing,” “Debt Commitment Letter,” and “Definitive Debt Financing Agreements” shall each be deemed to be modified, mutatis mutandis, to also refer to such Alternative Financing and any commitments or definitive agreements with respect thereto and the terms “Debt Financing Sources” and “Debt Source Parties” shall be deemed to be modified, mutatis mutandis, to also include the financing sources for such Alternative Financing. If Parent and Merger Sub proceed with any Alternative Financing, Parent and Merger Sub shall be subject to the same obligations with respect to such Alternative Financing as set forth in this Agreement with respect to the Debt Financing.
(c) Parent and Merger Sub shall not permit any amendment, supplement or modification to be made to, or agree to permit any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Debt Financing Agreements (including any amendment, supplement, modification or waiver that has occurred whichthe effect of changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount) without the Company’s prior written consent, except that Parent and Merger Sub may amend, supplement, waive or otherwise modify the Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Debt Financing Agreements (including by joining one or more additional lenders or agents as parties thereto) if such amendment, supplement or modification does not result in: (A) an aggregate amount of Debt Financing provided for in the Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Debt Financing Agreements (including by changing the amount of fees or original issue discount contemplated thereby) that, when combined with the available lines of credit, the amount of available cash of Parent and Merger Sub and other sources of available funds, is less than the amount sufficient to consummate the Transactions; (B) any expansion or imposition of new conditions or other contingencies that would be reasonably expected to (x) be more onerous in any material respect than those conditions and contingencies contained in the Debt Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof, (y) prevent or materially delay the Closing, or (z) make the Closing less likely to occur; or (C) any amendment or modification of any such conditions or contingencies in a manner adversely affecting the ability of Parent and Merger Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby prior to the End Date.
(d) Parent and Merger Sub shall keep Company reasonably apprised (on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail) of material developments relating to the Debt Financing and promptly, upon written request of the Company, provide Company copies of any Definitive Debt Financing Agreements or executed commitment letters associated with an Alternative Financing. Without limiting the foregoing, Parent shall notify the Company promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days) if at any time prior to the Closing Date: (i) the Debt Commitment Letter expires or is terminated for any reason; (ii) Parent or Merger Sub obtains knowledge of any material breach or material default, or any threatened (in writing) material breach or material default, or any event that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would (or would could reasonably be expected to) give rise to constitute a any default or breach on breach, by any party to the part Debt Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Debt Financing of any provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Debt Financing, or (iii) if for any reason Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth believes in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe good faith that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters they will not be available able to obtain all or any portion of the Debt Financing (but only to the extent that such portion would reduce the amount of Debt Financing) below the amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated hereunder on the terms, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Debt Financing Agreements.
(e) For the avoidance of doubt, (i) in no event shall the receipt or availability of the Debt Financing or any other funds or financing by Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions be a condition to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent Parent’s and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation Sub’s obligations to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) in no event shall Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Related Parties be required to (x) commence any litigation, arbitration or similar proceeding or seek specific performance against any Debt Source Party and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability (y) waive any term or condition of Debt Financingthis Agreement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Apex Global Brands Inc.), Merger Agreement (Apex Global Brands Inc.)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Subsidiary shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary, proper or advisable to arrange and obtain the Company true, correct Financing described in the Financing Letters on the terms and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of conditions described therein including using reasonable best efforts (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing Letters on the terms and contained in the Financing Letters, and (ii) to satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to funding in the Financing Letters and such definitive agreements thereto (other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of the Company’s failure to furnish information described in Section 6.18(b)) and to consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing. In the event that any portion of the Financing becomes unavailable so as not to enable Parent and Merger Subsidiary to proceed with the Merger and related transactions in a timely manner, Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange to obtain alternate financing provided for therein from alternative sources on comparable or more favorable terms (to Parent and Merger Subsidiary) than those set forth in the Financing Letters as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, including entering into definitive agreements with respect thereto (such definitive agreements entered into pursuant to either the Financing Letters or such alternate financing being collectively referred to as the “Equity FinancingFinancing Agreements”). Any material breach of any of the Financing Letters, the Financing Agreements, any alternate financing commitment and any related fee and engagement letters by Parent or Merger Subsidiary shall be deemed a breach by Parent of this Section 6.18(a). Parent shall (i) furnish complete, correct and executed copies of the Financing Agreements to the Company promptly upon their execution, (ii) a fully executed commitment letter give the Company prompt notice (together with all exhibitsx) of any breach by any party of, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from or material dispute or disagreement between any of the financial institutions identified thereinparties to, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, any alternate financing commitment or the “Financing Commitment Letters”Agreements of which Parent or Merger Subsidiary becomes aware or any termination thereof or (y) if for any reason Parent or Merger Subsidiary believes in good faith that it is reasonably likely that it will not be able to provide, on obtain all or any material portion of the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing Financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided or from the sources contemplated by the Financing Letters and that fee amounts it is not reasonably likely that it will be able to obtain acceptable alternative financing prior to the Termination Date and pricing terms(iii) otherwise keep the Company reasonably informed of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing (or any replacements thereof).
(b) Prior to the Closing, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide to Parent and Merger Subsidiary, at Parent’s sole expense, all cooperation reasonably requested by Parent that is customary or necessary in connection with arranging, obtaining and syndicating the Financing, including terms without limitation, (i) furnishing Parent, Merger Subsidiary and their Financing Sources, as promptly as reasonably practicable, with financial and other pertinent information regarding the Company and the Company Subsidiaries as may reasonably be requested in writing by Parent and identifying any portion of such information that constitutes material non-public information, (ii) in each case upon reasonable notice and in reasonably convenient locations, making senior management of the “market flex” Company available to participate in a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and other commercially sensitive informationsessions with prospective lenders, in the fee letter entered into investors and rating agencies in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance (iii) assisting with the Equity Commitment Letters preparation of customary materials for rating agency presentations (and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will assisting in the aggregateobtaining of corporate, be sufficient for Parentcredit and facility ratings from ratings agencies), Merger Sub offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required all other material to be paid used in connection with the Merger financing (including customary authorization and the management representation letters) and all documentation and other transactions contemplated herebyinformation required in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including payment U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001, (iv) using reasonable best efforts to obtain accountant’s comfort letters as reasonably requested by Parent, (v) entering into one or more credit or other agreements on terms reasonably satisfactory to Parent and Merger Subsidiary in connection with such Financing immediately prior to the Acceptance Time, (vi) taking all corporate actions, subject to and only effective upon the occurrence of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationEffective Time, required to permit the consummation of the financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available to the Surviving Corporation immediately after the Effective Time, and (vii) otherwise taking actions within its control to cooperate in satisfying the conditions precedent set forth in any Financing Agreements; provided, however, that (A) no obligation of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries under the Financing Agreements shall be effective until the Effective Time, (B) nothing in this Section 6.18(b) shall require such cooperation to the extent it would interfere unreasonably with the business or operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries, (C) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any commitment fee or incur any liability that is not contingent upon the Closing (or, without limitation of the foregoing, execute any Financing Agreements (except the authorization letter delivered pursuant to the foregoing clause (iii)) prior to the Closing or any other agreement, certificate, document or instrument that would be effective prior to the Closing), (D) in no event shall the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries be required to make any repaymentrepresentations or warranties regarding Parent, repurchase Merger Subsidiary or refinancing their respective Affiliates and (E) none of debt the boards of directors (or equivalent bodies) of the Company or any of its Subsidiary shall be required to enter into any resolutions or take similar action approving the Financing. Parent shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated and their respective Representatives from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, claims, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees), interest, awards, judgments and penalties suffered or incurred in connection with this Section 6.18(b). Parent shall, promptly upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement, Section 6.18(b). Parent shall cause all non-public or confidential information provided by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to pay any other amounts required this Section 6.18(b) to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement.
(c) The Company hereby consents to the Closing Date use of the Company’s logos in connection with the consummation Financing in a form and manner mutually agreed with the Company; provided, however, that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended, or reasonably likely, to harm or disparage the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(d) Parent and Merger Subsidiary acknowledge and agree that the obtaining of the Financing, or any alternative financing, is not a condition to Closing and reaffirm their obligation to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction irrespective and independently of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As availability of the date hereofFinancing or any alternative financing, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction subject to fulfillment or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingArticle VII.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Dune Energy Inc), Merger Agreement (Eos Petro, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesMerger Sub shall use, and annexes thereto) shall cause their Affiliates to use, their respective Best Efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and fee letter from do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange and obtain the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, as promptly as practicable on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Financing Documents, including using their respective Best Efforts to: (i) maintain in effect the Financing Documents, (ii) enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on a timely basis (taking into account the expected timing of the Marketing Period) on the terms and conditions contained in the Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter (including any “flex” provisions contained in the Fee Letter), (iii) satisfy, or cause their Affiliates to satisfy, on a timely basis (taking into account the expected timing of the Marketing Period) (or, if deemed advisable by Parent, seek the waiver of) all conditions applicable to Parent, Merger Sub or their respective Affiliates in the Financing Documents that are within their control and (iv) consummate the Financing at or prior to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsClosing, including terms by enforcing their respective rights under the Financing Documents (including by seeking damages or taking other enforcement actions, including seeking an order of specific performance).
(b) Parent shall not agree to, or permit, any amendments, replacements, supplements or modifications to, or any waivers or assignment of commitments under, the Commitment Letter (it being understood that the exercise of any “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions contained in the fee letter entered into in connection with Fee Letter shall be deemed not to be any such amendment, replacement, supplement, modification, waiver or assignment) without the Debt Financingprior written consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, may conditioned or delayed); provided, that Parent shall have been redacted the right to amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under the Commitment Letter, and/or substitute or add other equity or debt financing, and/or permit the parties to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As Commitment Letter to assign their commitments thereunder to other equity or debt financing sources without the prior written consent of the date hereofCompany if, none and only if, such amendments, modifications, waivers, assignments or replacements would not: (i) reduce the aggregate amount of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnto an amount committed that is below the amount required, terminatedtogether with other financial resources of Parent and Merger Sub, repudiatedincluding cash, rescinded, amended, amended cash equivalents and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, marketable securities of Parent and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, andMerger Sub on the Closing Date, to consummate the extent related Merger on the terms contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) adversely impact in any material respect the ability of Parent and/or Merger Sub to any Person that is not an Affiliate enforce their rights under the Financing Documents; (iii) amend or modify the then-existing conditions precedent to funding of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing Financing in a manner that would require make such conditions less likely in any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except material respect to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated be satisfied by the Equity Commitment Letters, and Closing or impose new or additional conditions precedent to funding of the net proceeds contemplated by Financing; (iv) otherwise be reasonably expected to prevent or materially delay or impair the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation ability of Parent to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement; provided that Parent shall have the right to permit any Financing Source to assign its commitment under the Commitment Letter to other financing sources solely to the extent consistent with the other terms of this Section 6.16(b) and upon the Company’s written request, including payment Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any amendment, replacement, supplement, modification or waiver of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make Financing Documents.
(c) In the event that any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt portion of the Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter (including any “market flex” provisions that are contained therein) (other than as a result of a breach by the Company of any representation, warranty or obligation hereunder with respect to which Parent has provided written notice to the Company) and its Subsidiaries such portion is necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (i) Parent shall promptly so notify the Company and (ii) Parent and Merger Sub shall use their respective Best Efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to (A) promptly obtain (in light of the expected timing of the Marketing Period) the Financing or such portion of the Financing from alternative sources, which may include one or more of a senior secured debt financing, an offering and sale of notes, or any other financing or offer and sale of other debt securities, or any combination thereof, in an amount sufficient, when added to any portion of the Financing that is available, to pay any other in cash all amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (“Alternative Financing”) and (B) promptly obtain a new debt financing commitment letter (the “Alternative Commitment Letter”) and negotiate and enter into a definitive agreement with respect thereto that provides for debt financing on terms and conditions (including conditions to draw and flex provisions) not materially less favorable than those in the Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter (including any “market flex” provisions that are contained therein), in the aggregate, to Parent and which will not result in a material delay of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In such event, the term “Financing” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to include any Alternative Financing, and the term “Commitment Letter” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to include any Alternative Commitment Letter.
(d) Prior to the “Required Amount”)Closing, assuming Parent shall (i) give the satisfaction Company prompt notice (A) upon becoming aware of any material breach of any provision of, or termination by any party thereto of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aFinancing Documents, (B) and Section 7.02(b) on upon the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (receipt of any written communication from any Person party to the extent Financing Documents with respect to any threatened breach or termination thereof by such Person or (C) if it is reasonably expected that Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, will not be able to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization obtain all or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As any portion of the date hereof, Financing on the terms and conditions of the Financing Commitment Letters are Documents (including any “market flex” provisions contained in full force the Fee Letter) and effect such portion is necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and assuming (ii) keep the satisfaction Company reasonably informed, at the Company’s request, of material developments in Parent’s and Merger Sub’s efforts to arrange the Financing.
(e) Nothing in this Section 6.16 or waiver any other provision of the conditions set forth this Agreement shall require, and in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of shall Parent or Merger Sub or, be required to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of (i) seek the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is from a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, source other than as expressly set forth the Lenders or in any amount in excess of that contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letter provided Letter, (ii) amend or waive any term or condition of this Agreement, or (iii) commence any legal action or proceeding, subject to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Section 9.7, against any Financing Source.
(f) Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge acknowledges and agree agrees that their obligation to consummate in no event shall the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the receipt or availability of Debt any funds or financing (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Financing) by Parent or any Affiliate or any other financing or other transaction be a condition to any of Parent’s or Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Cohu Inc), Merger Agreement (Xcerra Corp)
Financing. 5.10.1 Parent has delivered will use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to obtain the Debt Financing, including using reasonable best efforts to: 89887722_19 150326672.16
5.10.1.1. maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter and not, without the prior written consent of the Company (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), permit any amendment or modification to be made to, consent to any waiver of any provision or remedy under, and replace the Debt Commitment Letter, if such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement (a “Restricted Commitment Modification”): (A) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount of the Debt Financing) to an amount less than the amount necessary to consummate the Merger (unless the Equity Financing is increased by a corresponding amount) or (B) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Company truereceipt of the Debt Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to materially (1) delay or prevent the Closing, correct and complete copies(2) make the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Debt Financing) less likely to occur or (3) adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto when required pursuant to this Agreement (provided, that (x) Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof; and (y) at the Company’s reasonable request, Parent will keep the Company reasonably apprised of the status and terms and conditions of any amendments, modifications, waivers or replacements, and will promptly furnish to the Company copies of any agreements or other documentation with respect to such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement);
5.10.1.2. cause the Equity Financing to be consummated upon satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions contained in the Equity Commitment Letter that are within its control;
5.10.1.3. satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain a waiver of) all conditions to the Debt Financing and the Equity Financing that are within its control;
5.10.1.4. negotiate, execute and deliver Debt Financing Documents that reflect the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto), subject to any amendments or modifications thereto that would not constitute a Restricted Commitment Modification; and
5.10.1.5. in the event that the conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and Sections 6.1 and 6.3 have been satisfied or, by its terms upon funding would be satisfied, cause the Financing Sources to fund the full amount of the Debt Financing contemplated to be provided on the Closing Date at or prior to the Closing.
5.10.2 Parent will (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (consult with and keep the financing provided for therein being collectively referred Company informed in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to as arrange the “Equity Financing”) Financing and (ii) a fully promptly provide the Company with copies of all executed commitment letter (together material amendments, modifications or replacements of any Debt Commitment Letter or executed material definitive agreements related to any of the Financing at 89887722_19 150326672.16 the reasonable request of the Company. Parent will give the Company prompt notice of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) respect to provide, on the terms and subject only any actual or alleged breach or repudiation by any party to the conditions expressly stated thereinCommitment Letters of which Parent or its Affiliates becomes aware. Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 5.10, debt financing if a Financing Failure Event occurs or at any time Parent in the amounts set forth therein; provided good faith believes that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms it will not be able to or it is not reasonably likely to be able to obtain all or any part of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related such portion is necessary to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (giving effect to any increase in the “Required Amount”Equity Financing), assuming Parent will (i) promptly notify the satisfaction Company of such Financing Failure Event or circumstance and the conditions reasons therefor, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain (on terms not less favorable to Parent (as determined by Parent in good faith) as those set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to and the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Debt Fee Letter as of the date hereof) alternative financing from alternative debt financing sources, Parent does not have any reason to believe that in an amount sufficient, when taken together with the full amount under Equity Financing, and the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As portion of the date hereofDebt Financing, to pay the Equity Commitment Letter contains all Merger Consideration and consummate the Transactions, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and when obtained, provide the conditions precedent Company with a copy of, a replacement debt financing commitment that provides for such alternative financing (with only the fee amounts, interest rates, original issue discount, economic and other conditions “market flex” terms or commercially sensitive information redacted (none of which redacted provisions would be reasonably expected to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability amount, conditionality, availability, timing or termination of the Equity Debt Financing on the Closing Date)).
5.10.3 Upon any such amendment, other than replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letters in accordance with this Section 5.10, all references herein to “Commitment Letter” or “Debt Commitment Letter”, as expressly set forth applicable, will include and mean such documents as so amended, replaced, supplemented or modified in accordance with this Section 5.10 and references to “Financing”, or “Debt Financing”, as applicable, will include and mean the Equity financing contemplated by such Commitment Letter provided to the Company on as so amended, replaced, supplemented or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingmodified in accordance with this Section 5.10.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (SMTC Corp), Merger Agreement (SMTC Corp)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use reasonable best efforts to:
(i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter in accordance with their terms; and
(ii) satisfy (or, if deemed advisable by Parent, obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions in the Commitment Letter, Fee Letter and the Definitive Agreements and comply with its obligations thereunder.
(b) Unless, and to the extent, Parent or Merger Sub have sufficient cash from other sources (including by reason of a capital markets or other financing transaction) available to satisfy their obligations under this Agreement, from and after the execution of this Agreement, Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the proceeds of the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter, including using reasonable best efforts to:
(i) negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Agreements”) not materially less favorable to Parent and Merger Sub, in the aggregate, than the terms and conditions contained therein (including, as necessary, the “flex” provisions contained in the Fee Letter); and
(ii) consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing.
(c) Parent shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company true(which shall not be unreasonably withheld, correct delayed, conditioned or denied), permit any amendment or modification to, or any waiver of any provision (including any remedy) under, or voluntarily replace (it being understood that any Alternative Debt Financing shall not be deemed a voluntary replacement for purposes of the sentence), the Commitment Letter or Fee Letter if such amendment, modification, or waiver or voluntary replacement (w) adds new (or adversely modifies any existing) conditions to the consummation of the Debt Financing as compared to those in the Commitment Letter and complete copiesFee Letter as in effect on the date of this Agreement, (x) adversely affects the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter, Fee Letter or the Definitive Agreements as so amended, replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified, relative to the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against such other parties to the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter as in effect on the date of this Agreement, (y) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (unless after giving effect to such reduction, the representation and warranty in Section 5.09(d) shall be true and correct), or (z) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent, materially impede or materially delay the Closing; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, no consent from the Company shall be required for (A) any amendment, replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letter that is limited to adding lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date hereofof this Agreement (including in replacement of a Lender), (B) implementation or exercise of any “flex” provisions provided in the Fee Letter as in effect as of the date hereof or (iC) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (any amendment, replacement, supplement or modification to the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with Fee Letter or Definitive Agreements so long as such action would not be prohibited by the Equity Commitment Letters, foregoing clauses (w) - (z).
(d) Parent shall keep the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Company reasonably informed on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms a reasonably current basis of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with status of its efforts to consummate the Debt Financing. Parent shall provide the Company with prompt notice of any breach, may have been redacted default, termination or repudiation (or any written notice thereof) by any party to any Commitment Letters or the Definitive Agreements of which Parent gains knowledge and that would reasonably be expected to prevent, materially impede or materially delay the Closing. Unless, and to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As Parent or Merger Sub have sufficient cash from other sources (including by reason of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated a capital markets or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, other financing transaction) available to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited satisfy their obligations under this Agreement. Assuming , from and after the Equity Financing is funded execution of this Agreement, in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and event that any portion of the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with becomes unavailable (other than as a result of a breach by the Company of this Agreement which prevents or renders impracticable the consummation of the Debt Financing Commitment LetterFinancing), as applicableParent will (1) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative debt financing (the “Alternative Debt Financing”) from the same or other sources, in an amount such that the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Lettersrepresentation in Section 5.09(d) shall be true and correct, and the net proceeds contemplated by the which Alternative Debt Financing Commitment Letterdoes not include any incremental conditionality to the consummation thereof that are more onerous to Parent or the Company, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of than the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto and Fee Letter in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any of this Agreement and (2) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and the reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As therefor.
(e) For purposes of the date hereofforegoing Sections 6.10(a) – (d), (i) the term “Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include any commitment letter (or similar agreement) with respect to any Alternative Debt Financing, (ii) the term “Fee Letter” shall be deemed to include any fee letter (or similar agreement) with respect to any Alternative Debt Financing and (iii) the term “Lenders” shall be deemed to include any lenders providing the Alternative Debt Financing. Other than for purposes of Section 5.09, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions term “Debt Financing” shall be deemed to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity include any permitted Alternative Debt Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or any capital markets or other agreements, arrangements financing transactions intended to or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. does fund Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingSub’s obligations under this Agreement.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Constant Contact, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct a true and complete copies, as copy of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed executed, definitive commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified Financing Sources named therein, the “Debt pursuant to which such Financing Commitment Letter” andSources have committed, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on upon the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of to provide the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into debt financing described therein in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required AmountCommitment Letter”, and such Commitment Letter together with any definitive credit, indentures, debentures, facilities or similar financing agreement, as replaced, amended, supplemented, modified or waived, in compliance with this Agreement and including all exhibits, schedules, and annexes to such agreements, the “Debt Financing Agreements,” and the financing contemplated pursuant to the Debt Financing Agreements, the “Debt Financing”), assuming the satisfaction .
(b) As of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on date of this Agreement, the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub in full force and effect and is a party thereto) andlegal, to the knowledge valid and binding obligation of Parent, such and to the Knowledge of Parent, the other Persons party thereto parties thereto, and is enforceable in accordance with its termsterms against Parent, except as enforcement may be limited by and to the Knowledge of Parent, against each of the other parties thereto (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity). As of the date hereofof this Agreement, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to (i) constitute a material breach or default or breach on by Parent under the part of Parent or Merger Sub orCommitment Letter, (ii) to the knowledge Knowledge of Parent, result in the failure of any other parties theretocondition contained in the Commitment Letter to be satisfied or (iii) to the Knowledge of Parent, under any of result in the Financing commitments provided in the Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub Letter being unavailable on the Closing Date. As The Commitment Letter has not been amended or modified on or prior to the date of this Agreement and as of the date hereofof this Agreement, no such amendment or modification is contemplated by Parent (except as may be required by the Commitment Letter or fee letters referred to below), and as of the date of this Agreement, the Equity respective commitments contained in the Commitment Letter contains all have not been withdrawn, terminated or rescinded in any respect. The consummation of the Debt Financing is subject to no conditions precedent other than those expressly set forth in the Commitment Letter, and other conditions to the obligations Knowledge of Parent, there are no contingencies that would permit the parties thereunder Financing Sources to make reduce the full total amount of the Equity Debt Financing available to such that Parent on (and, after the terms therein. As consummation of the date hereofParent Restructuring, HoldCo) would be unable to consummate the Closing, other than in each case those conditions or contingencies expressly set forth in the Commitment Letter. Except for fee letters relating to fees with respect to the Debt Financing (redacted copies of which, removing fee amounts and market “flex” provisions (none of which would adversely affect the amounts or availability of the Debt Financing), have been provided to the Company), there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings Contracts to which any Parent or any Equity Investor Entity is a party that would adversely affect related to the availability quantum or conditionality of the Equity Debt Financing on the Closing Date(other than as contemplated under Section 7.07(b)), other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided Letter. As of the date of this Agreement, none of the Parent Entities have reason to believe that any of the conditions to the Company Debt Financing will not be satisfied or that the Debt Financing will not be available to Parent, HoldCo and the Merger Subs on or prior to the Closing Date. The aggregate proceeds of the Debt Financing, together with cash, cash equivalents and short-term marketable securities held by the Parent Entities, as of the First Effective Time, will be sufficient to enable Parent and/or HoldCo to pay all amounts required to be paid by them in cash in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Preferred Stock Consideration and all payments, fees and expenses payable by them arising out of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Company Notes and Credit Agreement. The obligations of HoldCo and Parent hereunder are not subject to any condition regarding HoldCo’s, Parent’s or any other Person’s ability to obtain financing for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) After giving effect to the Transaction and the payment of the Merger Consideration, the Debt Financing and the payment of all payments, fees and expenses payable by any of the Parent Entities, each of HoldCo and Parent will be solvent (as defined in the Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Avon Products Inc), Merger Agreement
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and Merger Subsidiary shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange the Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Commitment Letter or on other terms that would not adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Subsidiary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including using reasonable best efforts (taking into account the anticipated timing of the Marketing Period) to (i) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the terms and conditions contained therein (including any “market flex” provisions) or on other terms reasonably acceptable to Parent and not in violation of this Section 8.09, (ii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions and covenants applicable to Parent in the Commitment Letter that are within its control and otherwise comply with its obligations thereunder, (iii) maintain in effect the Commitment Letter until the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated, (iv) enforce its rights under the Commitment Letter, and (v) subject to the Company trueterms and conditions contemplated by the Commitment Letter, correct and complete copiesconsummate the Financing at the Closing. Parent shall have the right from time to time to amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under, the Commitment Letter, and/or substitute other debt financing for all or any portion of the Financing from the same and/or alternative Financing Sources, including without limitation to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Financing Commitment as of the date hereofof this Agreement; provided, that any such amendment, replacement, supplement or other modification to or waiver of any provision of the Commitment Letter that amends the Financing and/or substitution of all or any portion of the Financing shall not (i) each fully executed Equity impose any additional conditions precedent or expand upon the conditions precedent to the Financing as set forth in the Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and Letter, (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from adversely impact the financial institutions identified therein, ability of Parent or Merger Subsidiary to enforce its rights against the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only other parties to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in Commitment Letter or (iii) prevent or impede or delay the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms consummation of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement. Parent shall be permitted to reduce the amount of Financing under the Commitment Letter in its reasonable discretion; provided, that Parent shall not reduce the Financing to an amount committed below the amount that is required, together with other financial resources of Parent and Merger Subsidiary including payment cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of the Aggregate Parent, Merger ConsiderationSubsidiary, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its the Company’s Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, to consummate the Merger on the terms contemplated by this Agreement; and provided further, that such reduction shall not (i) impose any additional conditions precedent or expand upon the conditions precedent to the Financing as set forth in the Commitment Letter, (ii) adversely impact the ability of Parent has no reason or Merger Subsidiary to believe that enforce its rights against the other parties to the Commitment Letter or (iii) prevent or impede or delay the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the syndication of the Financing to the extent permitted by the Commitment Letter shall not be deemed to violate Parent’s obligations under this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall give the Company prompt notice: (A) of any material breach or material default (or any event has occurred whichor circumstance that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default give rise to any material breach or breach on material default) by any party to any Commitment Letter or definitive document related to the part Financing of which Parent or its Affiliates becomes aware; (B) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to any: (x) actual or potential material breach, material default, termination or repudiation by any party to any Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing or any provisions of the Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing or (y) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to any Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any ordinary course negotiations with respect to the terms of the Financing or any definitive agreement with respect thereto); and (C) if for any reason Parent or Merger Sub or, believes in good faith that it will not be able to the knowledge of Parent, obtain all or any other parties thereto, under any portion of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Dateterms, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by the Commitment Letter or the definitive documents related to the Financing; provided, that in no event will Parent or Merger Subsidiary be under any obligation to disclose any information that is reasonably believed to be subject to attorney-client or similar privilege or that is requested for purposes of litigation. As soon as of reasonably practicable, but in any event within three (3) Business Days after the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Company delivers Parent or Merger Sub a written request, Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) of the immediately preceding sentence, and subject to the proviso of the immediately preceding sentence. In the event any portion of the Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions), Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange to obtain alternative financing from alternative sources on terms and conditions not materially less favorable to Parent and Merger Subsidiary in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (any such alternative financing, any amended or substitute financing permitted by this Section 8.09(a), and the Financing, an “Available Financing”). In the event that on the final day of the Marketing Period (i) all or any portion of the Financing structured as High Yield Financing has not been consummated, (ii) all closing conditions contained in Article 9 shall have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature will not be satisfied until the Closing) and (iii) all conditions to the Bridge Financing set forth in the Commitment Letter have been satisfied, then Parent shall borrow under and use the proceeds of the Bridge Financing (or such alternative bridge financing) to replace such affected portion of the High Yield Financing on the Closing Date. As of Notwithstanding the date hereofforegoing or anything else set forth herein, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions Company hereby acknowledges that it shall have no claims (contractual or otherwise) against any Financing Source relating to the obligations of Merger or the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Labarge Inc), Merger Agreement (Ducommun Inc /De/)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the Debt Financing and obtain the proceeds of the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter, including using reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect and enforce the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter in accordance with their terms, (ii) negotiate, execute and deliver definitive agreements with respect to the Company true, correct Debt Financing (the “Definitive Agreements”) consistent with the terms and complete copiesconditions contained therein (including, as necessary, the “flex” provisions contained in the Fee Letter), (iii) satisfy (or, if deemed advisable by Parent, obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions in the Commitment Letter, Fee Letter and the Definitive Agreements and comply with its obligations thereunder, and (iv) draw a sufficient amount of the Debt Financing to enable Parent to consummate the Offer and the Merger, in the event that all closing conditions contained in Section 7.01 and Annex I shall be satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing, provided that such conditions are capable of being satisfied as of such day assuming the Closing was to occur on such day). Parent shall provide the Company with prompt notice of any material breach or repudiation by any party to the Commitment Letter or Fee Letter of which the Parent becomes aware. In the event that all conditions contained in the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter have been satisfied and Parent and Merger Sub are required to consummate the Closing pursuant to Section 2.02, Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to cause each Lender to fund its respective committed portion of the Debt Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to pay related fees and expenses on the Closing Date. Parent shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, permit any amendment or modification to, or any waiver of any provision (including any remedy) under, or voluntarily replace (it being understood that any Alternative Debt Financing shall not be deemed a voluntary replacement for purposes of this sentence), the Commitment Letter or Fee Letter if such amendment, modification, or waiver or voluntary replacement (w) adds new (or adversely modifies any existing) conditions to the consummation of the Debt Financing as compared to those in the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter as in effect on the date hereof, (x) adversely affects the ability of (i) each fully executed Equity Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter, Fee Letter or the Definitive Agreements as so amended, replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified, relative to the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against such other parties to the Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to and Fee Letter as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, in effect on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing date hereof or in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsDefinitive Agreements, including terms (y) reduces the aggregate amount of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted or (z) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As consummation of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement; provided, that for the avoidance of doubt no consent from the Company shall be required for: (A) any amendment, replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letter that is limited to pay adding lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date hereof (including in replacement of a Lender), (B) implementation or exercise of any other amounts required “flex” provisions provided in the Fee Letter as in effect as of the date hereof, or (C) any amendment, replacement, supplement or modification to the Commitment Letter or Definitive Agreements so long as such action would not be paid prohibited by the foregoing clauses (w) through (z). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement of the Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter.
(b) If, notwithstanding the use of reasonable best efforts by Parent to satisfy its obligations under this Section 6.13, the Commitment Letter or Merger Sub on Fee Letter (or any Definitive Agreements relating thereto) expires or is terminated prior to the Closing Date Closing, in connection with whole or in part, for any reason, including as a result of a breach or repudiation or if any portion of the Debt Financing otherwise becomes unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor (other than a breach by the Company of this Agreement which prevents or renders impracticable the consummation of the Debt Financing) Parent will (1) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative debt financing (the “Alternative Debt Financing”) (in an amount sufficient, when taken together with available cash on hand, and any then-available Debt Financing pursuant to any then-existing Commitment Letter, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to pay related fees and expenses earned, due and payable as of the Closing Date) on terms not less favorable in the aggregate to Parent than those contained in the Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter that the alternative financing would replace (taking into account any flex provisions) from the “Required Amount”), assuming same or other sources and which do not include any incremental conditionality to the satisfaction consummation of such alternative debt financing that are more onerous to Parent or the Company (in the aggregate) than the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereofhereof and (2) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and the reason therefor.
(c) For purposes of the foregoing Section 6.13(a) and Section 6.13(b), Parent does not have (i) the term “Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include any reason commitment letter (or similar agreement) with respect to believe that the full amount under the Financing any alternative debt financing arranged in compliance herewith (and any Commitment Letters will not remaining in effect at the time in question), (ii) the term “Fee Letter” shall be available deemed to Parent include any fee letter (or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions similar agreement) with respect to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth alternative debt financing arranged in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providescompliance with this Section 6.13, and will continue (iii) the term “Lenders” shall be deemed to provide, that include any lenders providing the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingalternative debt financing arranged in compliance herewith.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc), Merger Agreement (Mallinckrodt PLC)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) The Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub: (i) shall use reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain the Debt Financing and the Equity Financing on the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) described in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter and the Equity Commitment Letters, respectively, to the Company trueextent necessary to consummate the Contemplated Transactions, correct including seeking to enforce the terms of the Equity Commitment Letters; provided, however, that in no event shall the Purchaser and complete copiesFinance Merger Sub be required to initiate any Action to cause any Committed Lender to fund the Debt Financing; (ii) shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or consent to any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Debt Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter or any Definitive Debt Agreement, in each case, if such amendment, modification, consent or waiver (x) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing below an amount, together with any available cash of the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub, required to pay the Required Payment Amount, (y) imposes any new or additional conditions to the Debt Financing or otherwise adversely expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Debt Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter or such Definitive Debt Agreement (including, without limitation, the Debt Financing Conditions), in a manner that would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay the Closing, or (z) adversely impacts the ability of the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub to enforce its rights prior to Closing against the Committed Lenders or any other party to the Debt Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter or any Definitive Debt Agreement to timely consummate the Contemplated Transactions; provided, that the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof; provided that the aggregate principal amount of the Debt Financing is not reduced as a result of such amendment unless, of (i) each fully executed contemporaneously with such amendment, the Equity Commitment Letter Letters are amended to increase the commitments thereunder in respect of the Equity Financing by an amount equal to such reduction in the committed Debt Financing; (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred iii) shall not permit any amendment or modification to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibitsbe made to, schedulesor consent to any waiver of any provision or remedy under, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters; (iv) shall not permit, or consent to, any assignment of rights or obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter other than as explicitly permitted pursuant to the proviso to clause (ii) above; and (v) shall not permit, or consent to, any assignment of rights or obligations under the Equity Commitment Letters; provided, that any Sponsor may allocate all or a portion of its obligations to fund the Commitment Amount (as defined in the applicable Equity Commitment Letter) to an Affiliate (as defined in the applicable Equity Commitment Letter) or to an entity sponsored, co-sponsored, managed by or advised by an Affiliate (as defined in the applicable Equity Commitment Letter) of such Sponsor, but without such allocation relieving or otherwise diminishing the obligation of such Sponsor to fund the Commitment Amount in full; and provided, further, that any such allocation shall not relieve such Sponsor of its obligations under the applicable Equity Commitment Letter to fund such Sponsor’s entire Commitment Amount (as defined in the applicable Equity Commitment Letter) except to the extent the entire Commitment Amount (prior to giving effect to such allocation and without giving effect to any amount funded under any other Equity Commitment Letter) is funded to the Purchaser in accordance with the terms of such Equity Commitment Letter. The Purchaser shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any such amendment, modification, consent or waiver. For purposes of this Agreement, references to “Financing” or “Debt Financing,” as applicable, shall include the financing contemplated by the Commitment Letters as permitted to be amended, modified or waived by this Section 7.07(a), and references to “Debt Commitment Letter” shall include such documents to the extent amended, modified or waived as permitted by this Section 7.07(a).
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, nothing contained in this Section 7.07 shall require, and in no event shall the reasonable best efforts of the Purchaser be deemed or construed to require, the Purchaser or any Affiliate thereof to (i) seek the Equity Financing from any source other than those counterparty to, or in any amount in excess of that contemplated by, the Equity Commitment Letter, or (ii) pay any fees materially in excess of those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter or the related fee letter in respect thereof (after giving effect to any “flex” terms with respect thereto).
(c) Without limiting the generality of Section 7.07(a), the Purchaser shall: (i) maintain in effect each of the Commitment Letters and each Definitive Debt Agreement in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions thereof until the Closing Date and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby to occur on the Closing Date; (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (collectively, the “Financing Commitment LettersDefinitive Debt Agreements”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions (including the flex provisions) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter or on other terms not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, with respect to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub as to conditionality than the terms provided in the amounts set forth thereinDebt Commitment Letter; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all of the “market flex” Debt Financing Conditions and any other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted conditions within Purchaser’s control to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none funding of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to in the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Definitive Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub Agreements on or prior to the Closing Date or, if deemed advisable by the Purchaser, seek the waiver of conditions applicable to the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub in the Debt Commitment Letter (other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of Trilogy’s failure to furnish information required to be delivered by such Trilogy Party under Section 7.07(d)). The Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub shall give the Sellers and the Trilogy Parties prompt notice of (A) any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Commitment Letters of which the Purchaser or Finance Merger Sub becomes aware and (B) the receipt by the Purchaser or Finance Merger Sub of any written notice or other written communication from any Debt Financing Source with respect to any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any Commitment Letters of any provisions of the Commitment Letters.
(d) If any portion of the Debt Financing necessary to consummate the Contemplated Transactions becomes unavailable, the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub shall (i) promptly notify the Representative thereof, and (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to arrange to obtain in replacement thereof, as soon as reasonably practicable, any such portion from alternative sources on terms and conditions not materially less favorable to the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub as those contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and, unless otherwise consented to by the Sellers, on a basis that is not subject to any condition precedent materially less favorable to the Purchaser or Finance Merger Sub than the Debt Financing Conditions (“Alternative Financing”). Once obtained, the Purchaser and Finance Merger Sub shall provide the Representative with all agreements pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide the Purchaser or Finance Merger Sub with any portion of the Debt Financing and promptly provide the Representative with such information it may reasonably request regarding any alternative financing arrangements or plans. Upon the entry by the Purchaser or Finance Merger Sub into any commitment letter for an Alternative Financing required pursuant to this clause (c), the term “Debt Commitment Letter” shall include the commitment letter in respect of such Alternative Financing and the term “Fee Letter” shall include any fee letter entered into in respect of such Alternative Financing and the appropriate changes shall be deemed to be made to the terms “Debt Financing Sources,” “Committed Lenders” and “Debt Financing.”
(e) Prior to the Closing, each of the Trilogy Parties shall provide, and the Company shall cause its respective Subsidiaries and Affiliates to provide, and shall respectively use their reasonable best efforts to cause their respective representatives, including legal and accounting, to provide, all cooperation reasonably requested by the Purchaser that is customary in connection with the consummation arrangement of syndicated loans similar to the Debt Financing or other acquisition loan financings (provided that such requested cooperation is made on reasonable notice and does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the transactions Business, the Company or its Subsidiaries and Affiliates), including cooperation that consists of:
(i) furnishing the Purchaser with such pertinent information (other than financial information, which is covered by Section 7.07(e)(ii)) regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries (including information to be used in the preparation of one or more information packages regarding the business, operations, financial projections and prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries) that is customarily provided by a borrower in connection with the arrangement of syndicated loans similar to the Debt Financing or other acquisition loan financings, in each case, as reasonably requested by the Purchaser, for the purposes of assisting the Purchaser in its preparation of customary information documents or rating agency or lender presentations relating to such arrangement of loans (other than financial information, which is covered by Section 7.07(e)(ii));
(ii) (A) furnishing the Purchaser with the unaudited financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, for any fiscal quarter ended after the date of the most recent audited financial statements and more than 45 days prior to Closing and informing the Purchaser if the Sellers, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall have knowledge of any fact that most likely requires the restatement of such financial statements, (B) assisting the Purchaser with the Purchaser’s preparation of the specific pro forma financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries that are required to be delivered under clause (16) under “Conditions Precedent to Initial Funding” in Exhibit A of the Debt Commitment Letter (as in effect on the date hereof), and (C) to the extent reasonably required by the Debt Financing Sources to be included in any marketing documents related to the Debt Financing, assisting the Purchaser with the Purchaser’s preparation of financial information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries that are reasonably and readily derivable from the financial statements and financial records of the Company and its Subsidiaries required to be furnished under clause (A) above; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 7.07(e)(ii) shall be deemed to impose on the Company or its Subsidiaries an obligation to re-issue, restate or otherwise furnish financial statements that are not otherwise specifically required under this Agreement;
(iii) assisting in preparation for and participating and causing senior management of the Company and its Subsidiaries to participate in a reasonable number of meetings, drafting sessions and due diligence sessions (including accounting diligence sessions) (including one or more lender meetings and calls with the parties acting as lead arrangers, bookrunners or agents for, and prospective lenders, for the Debt Financing;
(iv) assisting with the preparation by the Purchaser of customary materials for lender information memoranda and similar documents, including the execution and delivery of customary representation letters in connection with bank information memoranda and reviewing and commenting on the Purchaser’s draft of a business description and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis” of the Company’s financial statements to be included in marketing materials contemplated by the Debt Financing; provided, that (x) this clause (iv) shall not require the Company to provide any information (financial or otherwise) not otherwise required to be delivered by the Company under clause (i) or (ii) above, and (y) any lender information memoranda, “bank books”, marketing materials, authorization letters and any other documents required, or otherwise delivered to any, Committed Lender or prospective Debt Financing Source, in connection with the Debt Financing shall contain (A) disclosure reflecting the Purchaser and its Subsidiaries post-Closing as the obligors, and (B) disclosures and disclaimers exculpating the Representative, the Sellers, the Trilogy Parties and their respective Affiliates with respect to any liability related to the contents or use thereof by the recipients thereof;
(v) assisting the Purchaser in the Purchaser’s preparation, negotiation and execution of one or more credit agreements, pledge agreements, security agreements, guarantees and other definitive financing documents or other certificates, customary closing certificates and documents as may be reasonably requested by the Purchaser and that are required to be obtained under the Debt Commitment Letter at Closing (including cooperation in connection with the pay-off of existing Indebtedness to the extent contemplated by this Agreement (and the “Required Amount”release of liens securing such existing Indebtedness); provided, assuming the satisfaction that no obligation of the conditions set forth Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any such agreements or documents shall be effective until the Closing;
(vi) providing customary authorization letters to the Debt Financing Sources as reasonably requested by the Purchaser in Section 7.02(awriting, authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders, subject to customary confidentiality undertakings;
(vii) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andreasonably requested by the Debt Financing Sources for the purposes of obtaining customary waivers, consents, estoppels and approvals in connection with the Debt Financing from other parties to material licenses, leases, encumbrances and Contracts relating to the knowledge of ParentCompany or its Subsidiaries, using their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange discussions among the Purchaser, the Debt Financing Sources and their respective representatives with such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its termsparties to such material licenses, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcyleases, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally encumbrances and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Contracts as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason Closing;
(viii) taking all reasonable actions necessary to believe that (A) permit the full amount under Debt Financing Sources to evaluate the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on Company’s current assets and cash for the purposes of establishing collateral arrangements by the Purchaser as of the Closing Date. As and to assist with other customary collateral audits and due diligence examinations and (B) establish bank and other accounts and, effective as of the date hereofClosing, blocked account agreements and lock box arrangements and establish other collateral arrangements to the Equity Commitment Letter contains extent necessary in connection with the Debt Financing; and
(ix) providing to the Purchaser for further distribution to the Debt Financing Sources all documentation and other information reasonably required under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations in connection with the Debt Financing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 7.07(e): (A) no Seller, Trilogy Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any of their respective representatives shall be required to pay any commitment or other fee or incur any other liability or expense in connection with the Debt Financing (in the case of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereofTrilogy Parties, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesClosing); (B) no Seller, and will continue Trilogy Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates shall be required to provide, take any action or do anything that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.wou
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Sources: Equity Purchase Agreement (NorthStar Healthcare Income, Inc.), Equity Purchase Agreement (Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as satisfaction of the date hereofcondition set forth in Sections 4.01 and 4.02, of Parent shall provide Sub with the equity financing contemplated by the Commitment Letters.
(ib) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred Parent and Sub shall, and shall cause their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, financial advisors and other representatives to, use their reasonable best efforts to arrange as the “Equity Financing”) promptly as practicable and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt simultaneous consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby) to complete the financing contemplated by (i) the Credit Facility (as defined in the amounts Commitment Letters) on the terms set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to set forth in the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, on such terms as are reasonably satisfactory to Parent and (ii) the net proceeds contemplated by issuance and sale of $150 million principal amount of senior subordinated notes on the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions terms set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) Letters and, to the knowledge extent not set forth in the Commitment Letters, on such terms as are reasonably satisfactory to Parent; provided, that if the issuance and sale of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited senior subordinated notes is not completed by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally the later of (A) the date of the Stockholders' Meeting and by general principles of equity. As of (B) 90 days after the date hereof, then thereafter Parent and Sub shall be obligated to use their reasonable best efforts to consummate as promptly as practicable prior to the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Outside Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, financing pursuant to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of Bridge Loan Facility (as defined in the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent ) on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided Letters and, to the Company extent not set forth in the Commitment Letters, on or prior terms reasonably satisfactory to Parent.
(c) Except to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that extent the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. shall otherwise consent in writing, Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate will not modify or amend in any material respect the Merger and pay terms of, or cancel or waive any material right under, the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingCommitment Letters.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Cpi Corp), Merger Agreement (Essman Alyn V)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Parent’s, US Corp.’s and Merger Sub’s obligations hereunder are not subject to the Company trueany conditions regarding Parent’s, correct and complete copiesUS Corp.’s, as of the date hereofMerger Sub’s or any other person’s ability to finance, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the or obtain financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified thereinfor, the “Debt Transactions.
(b) From and after the execution of this Agreement, Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange the Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Financing Letter and pricing termsshall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any replacement of all or any portion of any facilities (or commitments thereof) described in, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Financing Letter, if such amendment, modification, replacement or waiver (i) reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing (including terms by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount except by operation of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions in the related fee letter entered into in connection letter) unless such reduction is replaced with Replacement Financing or cash on hand or (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the Debt Financing, may have been redacted conditions to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As receipt of the date hereof, none any portion of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person in a manner that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default (A) delay or breach on prevent the part of Parent Closing or Merger Sub orthe Closing Date, to (B) make the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any funding of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing) less likely to occur or (C) adversely impact the ability of Parent, US Corp. or Merger Sub, as applicable, to enforce their rights against other parties to the Financing Letter or the definitive agreements to be entered into with respect to the Financing, including any right to seek specific performance of the Financing Letter or such definitive agreements. Subject to the limitations set forth out in the first sentence of this Section 7.01 6.12(b), Parent, US Corp. and Section 7.02 on Merger Sub may (1) amend, supplement, modify, replace or substitute the Closing DateFinancing Letter as in effect at the date hereof, including to (x) add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Financing Letter as of the date hereofof this Agreement, Parent does not have any reason to believe that (y) increase the full amount of Indebtedness and (z) replace all or a portion of the facility committed under the Financing Commitment Letters Letter as in effect as of the date hereof with one or more new facilities under such Financing Letter or under any new commitment letter or facility or (2) replace all or a portion of the Financing with substitute or replacement debt financing or equity financing (consistent with the equity financing described in Section 4.02(a) of the Parent Disclosure Letter) (any such new commitment or facility described in clause (z) above or Financing described in clause (2) above, a “Replacement Financing”), provided that any amendments, modifications or replacements of any Replacement Financing shall be subject to the same limitations that apply to the Financing Letter as set forth in the first sentence of this Section 6.12(b). From and after the execution of this Agreement, Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain a corporate credit rating from each of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investor’s Services, Inc.
(c) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each of Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub will use its reasonable best efforts to maintain in effect the Financing Letter pursuant to its terms until the Merger is consummated and to obtain the Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Financing Letter, including using its reasonable best efforts (i) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the terms and conditions contained in the Financing Letter (including any applicable “flex” provisions contained in the related fee letter), (ii) to satisfy all conditions on a timely basis to obtaining the Financing applicable to each of Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub set forth in such definitive agreements that are within its control, (iii) to comply in all respects with its covenants and obligations under the Financing Letter and (iv) subject to Section 6.07, to enforce through exercise of all available remedies its rights under the Financing Letter in the event of a breach or other failure to fund by the Lenders. Parent shall give the Company prompt notice upon becoming aware of any of the following: (A) any material breach or default of the Financing Letter by a party to the Financing Letter or definitive document with respect to the Financing of which they become aware; (B) the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Financing Source with respect to any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Financing Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing of any provisions of the Financing Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing and (C) if for any reason Parent, US Corp. or Merger Sub believes in good faith that they will not be available able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing required to consummate the Transactions. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonable basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing and provide to the Company, upon its written request, copies of the definitive material documents related to the Financing (other than fee letters and any other documentation subject to confidentiality restrictions). Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 6.12(c) shall require Parent to disclose any information that is subject to attorney-client or similar privilege if Parent shall have used its reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, in the event that all conditions in the Financing Letter have been satisfied or, upon funding, will be satisfied, Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Lenders to fund on the Closing Date the Financing required to consummate the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other Transactions. In the event that Parent, US Corp. or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As becomes aware of any event or circumstance that makes procurement of any portion of the date hereofFinancing unlikely to occur in the manner or from the sources contemplated in the Financing Letter, Parent, US Corp. or Merger Sub shall, in addition to promptly notifying the Company in writing of such event or circumstance, use their respective reasonable best efforts to, as promptly as practicable, arrange any such portion (other than amounts that are replaced by Parent’s cash on hand and marketable securities) from alternative sources (such portion from alternate sources, the Equity Commitment “Alternate Financing”) in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub shall not be required to agree to terms and conditions (including any “flex” provisions) that are, in the aggregate, materially less favorable to Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub than those contained in the Financing Letter contains all (and the “flex” provisions contained in the related fee letter). For the avoidance of doubt, the syndication of any part of the conditions precedent Financing in accordance with the terms of the Financing Letter shall not be deemed to violate Parent’s obligations under this Agreement.
(d) Prior to the Closing, the Company shall provide, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries to provide, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their Representatives, officers and employees to provide, on a timely basis, all reasonable cooperation requested by Parent in connection with the arrangement of the Financing to the extent that such cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, including (i) using reasonable best efforts to facilitate the provision of guarantees and pledge of collateral (effective as of the actual occurrence of Closing), (ii) providing customary financial and other conditions pertinent information regarding the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and cooperating in the preparation of pro forma financial information for the Transactions (including information to be used in the preparation of an information package, offering memorandum, prospectus, prospectus supplement or similar document regarding the business, assets, operations, financial projections and prospects of Parent and the Company customary for such financing or reasonably necessary for the completion of the Financing), including the financial information required to be delivered pursuant to the obligations Financing Letter and such other information as may be reasonably requested in writing by Parent to assist in preparation of customary offering or information documents to be used for the completion of the parties thereunder Financing, (iii) reasonably cooperating with the marketing efforts for the Financing (it being acknowledged that the Company hereby consents to make the full amount reasonable use of the Equity Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ logos provided that such logos are used in a manner that is not reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or their marks and on such other customary terms and conditions as the Company shall reasonably impose) and using commercially reasonable efforts to provide an introduction and access to the Company’s existing lenders in connection with any syndication efforts, (iv) providing copies of any recent appraisals, environmental reports, evidence of title (including copies of deeds, lease documentation, title insurance policies and/or commitments for title insurance, title opinions, surveys, and similar information), and similar information with respect to the properties and assets of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries that are in the Company’s possession and that are reasonably requested by Parent, (v) providing other reasonably requested customary certificates, opinions or documents, including a customary certificate of the principal financial officer of the Surviving Company (in his capacity as such) with respect to solvency matters, (vi) requesting such customary legal opinions and customary accountant comfort letters (including consents of accountants for use of their reports in any materials relating to the Financing) as may be reasonably requested by Parent, (vii) participating in a reasonable number of meetings (including customary one-on-one meetings with the parties acting as lead arrangers or underwriters, as applicable, for the Financing available and their counsel and senior management and Representatives, with appropriate seniority and expertise, of the Company), presentations, road shows, drafting sessions, due diligence sessions (including accounting due diligence sessions) and sessions with the rating agencies as are customary and reasonably requested by Parent, (viii) providing reasonable and customary assistance to Parent on and its financing sources or underwriters, as applicable, in (A) the terms therein. As preparation of the date hereofall credit agreements (including review of schedules for completeness), there are no side letters currency or interest hedging agreements or other agreements, arrangements offering documents, an offering memorandum, prospectus or understandings to which Parent prospectus supplement and other marketing and rating agency materials for the Financing or (B) the amendment or termination of any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on Company’s or the Company Subsidiaries’ existing credit agreements, currency or interest hedging agreements, or other agreements and the release of all collateral and termination of all security interests thereunder (including by negotiating a payoff letter in customary form satisfactory to Parent with respect to any and all obligations of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries under their existing credit facilities, a copy of which shall be delivered to Parent no less than five Business Days prior to the Closing Date), other than as expressly set forth in each case, on terms satisfactory to Parent and that are reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the Equity Commitment Letter Financing provided that no obligation of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries under any such agreements or amendments shall be effective until the actual occurrence of the Effective Time, in each case it being understood and agreed that information and documents provided by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries may be delivered to the Financing Sources and their Representatives, (ix) using reasonable best efforts, as appropriate, to have its independent accountants provide their reasonable cooperation and assistance, including in connection with due diligence and preparation of pro forma financial information for the Transactions, (x) using reasonable best efforts to permit any cash and marketable securities of the Company on and the Company Subsidiaries to be made available to Parent, US Corp. and Merger Sub at the Closing, (xi) cooperating reasonably with Parent’s financing sources’ or underwriters’, as applicable, due diligence, to the extent customary and reasonable and to the extent not unreasonably interfering with the business of the Company, (xii) furnishing Parent and the financing sources promptly (and in any event no later than ten days prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesClosing Date) with all documentation and other information required by any Governmental Entity with respect to the Financing under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act, (xiii) providing customary authorization letters to the financing sources authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders and other Financing Sources, and will continue (xiv) to providethe extent reasonably requested by Parent, that adopting customary corporate resolutions by the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinand the Company Subsidiaries to permit the completion of the Financing. All non-public or other confidential information provided by the Company or any of its Representatives pursuant to this Section 6.12 shall be (1) kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, except that Parent and US Corp. shall be permitted to disclose such information to potential financing sources and to rating agencies during the syndication and marketing of the Financing subject to customary confidentiality undertakings by such potential financing sources and (2) supplied only to financial institutions or rating agencies or any of their respective representatives for use in connection with the Financing. Parent shall (A) promptly, upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and Merger Sub acknowledge documented out-of-pocket costs (including reasonable and agree that documented attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in connection with the cooperation of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries contemplated by this Section 6.12 and (B) indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and their obligation respective Representatives from and against any and all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by any of them in connection with Third Party claims arising out of the arrangement of the Financing and any information used in connection therewith, except with respect to consummate any information provided in writing by the Merger Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries or contained in the Company SEC Documents.
(e) For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Financing” shall also be deemed to include any Alternate Financing and, in the case of Section 6.12(d), any Replacement Financing, and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt term “Financing Letter” shall also be deemed to include any amendment, replacement, supplement or other modification thereto or waiver thereof permitted pursuant to this Section 6.12 and any commitment letter (or similar agreement) with respect to such Alternate Financing.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (SXC Health Solutions Corp.), Merger Agreement (Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and use their reasonable best efforts to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange the Company trueDebt Financing and to consummate the Debt Financing at the Effective Time, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of including using reasonable best efforts to (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter; (ii) satisfy on a timely basis all of the conditions precedent set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter; (iii) negotiate, execute and deliver definitive documentation for the Debt Financing that reflects the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (subject to any market flex provisions); and (iv) in the event that the conditions set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 and the conditions precedent set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter have been satisfied or, upon funding would be satisfied, cause the financing provided for therein being collectively referred providers to as fund the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms full amount of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent replaced with the Bond Financing. Parent shall give the Company prompt notice of any such amendment is not prohibited material breach or threatened material breach by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter of which Parent becomes aware. Without limiting Parent’s and Merger Sub’s other obligations under this Agreement. Assuming Section 6.15, if a breach of the Equity Financing is funded Debt Commitment Letter occurs, Parent shall (A) promptly notify the Company of such breach and (B) in accordance consultation with the Equity Commitment Letters Company, use reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative financing, in an amount sufficient to make the payments to be made by Parent and Merger Sub at the Effective Time upon terms and conditions not materially less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event. Without the Company’s prior written consent (which shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld or delayed), Parent shall not agree to or permit any amendment, replacement, reduction, supplement, or other modification of, or waive any of its material rights under, the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicableif such amendment, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Lettersreplacement, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the supplement or other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction modification or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default prevent, materially delay, or breach on materially impede the part consummation of Parent the Debt Financing (or Merger Sub or, would add any material additional conditions to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any availability of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming or any replacement financing); provided that, for the satisfaction avoidance of doubt, Parent may (without the prior consent of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 Company) replace and Section 7.02 on amend the Closing DateDebt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, book runners, syndication agents, or similar entities that had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason of this Agreement or to believe that reflect changes to the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Debt Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions made pursuant to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Fee Letter (as defined in the Debt Commitment Letter). Neither Parent nor Merger Sub shall consent to any assignment or rights or obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter provided (I) without the prior written approval of the Company, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or (II) except for assignments under the Company on or prior to terms of the date hereof. Each Equity Debt Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinLetter. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge shall consult with and agree keep the Company reasonably informed of the status of their efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and the Bond Financing.
(b) Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 6.15, if the Marketing Period shall not have been completed by April 3, 2013, then unless the Bond Financing or Debt Financing shall have been previously consummated, Parent shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, including through the payment of commercially reasonable fees, to obtain an amendment to the Debt Commitment Letter on or prior to April 3, 2013 to provide that their obligation the “outside date” of “March 4, 2013, subject to consummate one extension to June 3, 2013 to the Merger and pay extent that the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned Termination Date (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the availability date of this Commitment Letter) is extended to June 3, 2013 in accordance with the terms of the Acquisition Agreement” as set forth in the Debt FinancingCommitment Letter may be further extended, in the event that the Marketing Period shall have begun but not been completed by the Termination Date, by a number of days equal to the lesser of (i) twenty (20) days plus four (4) business days following the Termination Date and (ii) the number of days then remaining in the Market Period plus four (4) business days (such extended date, the “Extension Date”).
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp), Merger Agreement (Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Each of the Buyer Parties shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange, obtain and consummate the Financing at or prior to the Company trueClosing on the terms and conditions described in the Commitment Letters, correct including using reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in full force and complete copieseffect the Commitment Letters, (ii) negotiate, enter into and deliver the definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing to be entered into at or prior to the Closing (the “Definitive Financing Agreements”) consistent with the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letters (taking into account any “flex” provisions included in the Fee Letter), (iii) satisfy at or prior to Closing all conditions and covenants to the funding of the Financing in the Commitment Letters and the Definitive Financing Agreements applicable to the Buyer Parties and their respective Affiliates, (iv) assuming that all conditions set forth in the Commitment Letters have been satisfied, borrow on or prior to the Closing Date an amount necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby on the Closing Date or (v) enforce all of its rights under the Commitment Letters and Definitive Financing Agreements including seeking specific performance of the parties thereunder. The Buyer Parties shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, permit any amendment, supplement or modification to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, restate, substitute or replace, the Commitment Letters if such amendment, supplement, modification, waiver, restatement, substitution or replacement (1) would add new (or expand, amend or modify any existing) conditions to the receipt of the Financing, (2) reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Financing below the Required Amount, (3) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent, impede, impair or delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or (4) would adversely impact the ability of any of the Buyer Parties to enforce their rights against the other parties to the Commitment Letters or the Definitive Financing Agreements; provided, that the Buyer Parties may amend the Debt Commitment Letters to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Debt Commitment Letters as of the date hereofof this Agreement. As promptly as practicable following execution thereof, the Buyer Parties shall furnish to the Company a correct and executed copy of (i) each fully executed Equity any amendment, restatement, replacement, supplement, modification, waiver or consent of or relating to the Debt Commitment Letter (and the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) Fee Letters and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and any other fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter letters entered into in connection with the Debt Financing. Upon any such permitted amendment, supplement, modification, waiver or replacement of the Debt Commitment Letters in accordance with this Section 6.4(b), the terms “Debt Commitment Letters,” “Fee Letters” and “Debt Financing” shall refer to the Debt Commitment Letters as so amended, supplemented, modified, waived or replaced and the financing contemplated thereby.
(b) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor, the Buyer Parties will (i) use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, alternative debt financing (as applicable, in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby) from the same or other sources and on terms and conditions (taking into account any “flex” provisions included in the Fee Letter) in an amount sufficient for satisfaction of all of the Buyer Parties’ payment obligations under this Agreement due on or prior to the Closing or are not materially less favorable to the Buyer Parties (as determined by Parent in its sole discretion) than such unavailable Debt Financing (the “Alternative Financing”), with it being understood and agreed that if the Buyer Parties proceed with any Alternative Financing, the Buyer Parties shall be subject to the same obligations with respect to such Alternative Financing as set forth in this Agreement with respect to the Debt Financing, and (ii) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability. For the purposes of this Agreement, (i) the term “Debt Financing” shall be deemed to include the Debt Financing and any such Alternative Financing, (ii) the term “Debt Commitment Letters” and the “Fee Letter” shall include the Debt Commitment Letter and any Fee Letter, as applicable, shall be deemed to include any commitment letter (or similar agreement) and any fee letter, respectively, with respect to any Alternative Financing arranged in compliance herewith (and any Debt Commitment Letters or Fee Letters remaining in effect at the time in question) and (iii) the “Definitive Financing Agreements” shall include the definitive documentation relating to the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and any such Alternative Financing. Upon the Company’s request, the Buyer Parties shall keep the Company informed, in reasonable detail, of the status of their efforts to arrange the Debt Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Buyer Parties shall provide the Company with prompt written notice of (A) any breach or default (or any event that, with or without notice, passage of time or both, would give rise to any breach or default) by any party to any Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Agreements of which the Buyer Parties become aware that would adversely affect the ability or likelihood of the Buyer Parties to timely consummate the transactions contemplated hereby at the Closing, (B) the termination of the Debt Commitment Letter, (C) the occurrence of an event or development that would adversely impact the ability of the Buyer Parties to obtain all or any portion of the Debt Financing or (D) any condition precedent to the Debt Financing that any of the Buyer Parties has any reason to believe will not be satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Buyer Party shall have an obligation to disclose any information pursuant to this Agreement that is subject to attorney-client or similar legal privilege.
(c) From the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Closing Date and the valid termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article VIII, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts (or, in the case of clause (iv) below, shall), and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, and the Company shall cause its and its Subsidiaries’ Representatives to, at Parent’s sole expense, provide such reasonable cooperation as is customary and reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing (it being understood that, solely for purposes of this Section 6.5(c), the terms “Debt Financing” and “Financing” shall be deemed to include any high yield or other financing incurred in lieu of or in addition to any facility contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter), including by:
(i) participating (and causing senior management and Representatives, with appropriate seniority and expertise, of the Company Group to participate) in a reasonable number of meetings and presentations with actual or prospective lenders, road shows and due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with rating agencies, and otherwise reasonably cooperating with the marketing and due diligence efforts for any of the Debt Financing (which, at the Company’s option, may have been redacted be attended via teleconference or virtual meeting platforms) upon reasonable advance notice, during normal business hours and at reasonable times and locations to be mutually agreed;
(ii) providing reasonable assistance to Parent and the extentDebt Financing Sources with the timely preparation of customary (A) rating agency presentations, bank information memoranda, confidential information memoranda, lender presentations and similar documents, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As solely with respect to information relating to the Company Group, and as required in connection with the Debt Financing and customarily used to arrange transactions similar to the Debt Financing by companies of a comparable size in a comparable industry as the Company; and (B) pro forma financial statements and forecasts of financial statements of the date hereof, none Company Group to the extent required by the Debt Commitment Letter or Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations or necessary or reasonably requested by Parent to be included in any marketing materials or offering documents or of the type required by the Debt Commitment Letter, it being understood that the Buyer Parties shall be responsible for (i) the determination of the proposed aggregate amount of the Debt Financing, the interest rates thereunder or the fees and expenses relating thereto; (ii) the determination of any post-Closing or pro forma cost savings, synergies, capitalization, ownership or other pro forma adjustments desired to be incorporated into any information used in connection with the Debt Financing; or (iii) any financial information related to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any adjustments whether or not directly related to the acquisition of the Company Group;
(iii) to the extent required by the Definitive Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnAgreements, terminatedreasonably assisting in connection with facilitating the pledging of collateral, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, effective no terms thereunder have been waivedearlier than, and no such withdrawalconditioned upon the occurrence of, terminationthe Closing;
(iv) furnishing the Buyer Parties and the Debt Financing Sources, repudiationas promptly as practicable, rescission, amendment, amendment with the Required Information that is Compliant;
(v) cooperating with the Buyer Parties to obtain customary and restatement, modification or waiver has occurredreasonable corporate and facilities ratings, and, solely to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parentrequired by the Definitive Financing Agreements, consents, landlord waivers and estoppels, non-disturbance agreements, non-invasive environmental assessments, non-imputation affidavits, surveys and title insurance as reasonably requested by the Debt Financing Sources;
(vi) providing customary documents reasonably requested by Parent relating to the knowledge repayment of Parentthe Repaid Indebtedness and the release of related guarantees and Liens, there is no condition existing that would require including (A) delivering notices of prepayment (or obtaining waivers thereof in the applicable Payoff Letters) within the time periods required by the relevant agreements governing Indebtedness and obtaining the Payoff Letters, Lien terminations and instruments of discharge to be delivered at the Closing, (B) giving any such withdrawalother necessary notices to allow for the payoff, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment discharge and restatement, modification termination in full at the Closing of all Repaid Indebtedness and (C) any other cooperation reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the repayment or waiver, except other retirement of any Repaid Indebtedness and the release and termination of any and all related Liens on or prior to the Closing Date;
(vii) to the extent required by the Debt Commitment Letter, providing customary authorization letters with respect to the bank information memoranda (provided that all such authorization letters and materials related thereto (A) shall include or otherwise expressly incorporate language that exculpates the Company Group, its Affiliates and its and their Representatives from any liability in connection with the unauthorized use or misuse by the recipients thereof of all such memoranda and other materials and documents and information set forth therein; and (B) shall have been previously identified to, and provided to the Company and the Company and its Representatives shall have been given reasonable opportunity to review and comment thereon);
(viii) reasonably assisting the Buyer Parties with the preparation, and, subject to the occurrence of Closing, the execution and delivery of any Definitive Financing Agreements by furnishing information relating to the Company Group and their respective businesses to be included in the schedules thereto and customary officer’s certificates (including a customary solvency certificate from the chief financial officer of the Company in the form attached to the Debt Commitment Letter, but solely to the extent such officer remains in such capacity with the Surviving Corporation immediately after the Closing) on terms satisfactory to Parent as may be reasonably required by Parent (provided that no obligation of the Company under any such amendment is not prohibited document or agreement shall be effective until the Closing);
(ix) ensuring that the Debt Financing benefits from existing material lending relationships of the Company Group to the extent practicable and reasonably requested by Parent;
(x) taking all reasonable and customary corporate, limited liability company or similar actions necessary to permit the consummation of the Debt Financing (provided that no obligation of the Company to take such action shall be effective until the Closing);
(xi) promptly (but in no event later than four (4) Business Days prior to the Closing Date) all documentation and other information relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer”, anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act, reasonably requested by Parent in writing, at least ten (10) days prior to the Closing Date; and
(xii) (A) executing and delivering customary management representation letters to their independent auditors and (B) causing their independent auditors and any other auditor to the extent that financial statements audited or reviewed by such auditors are or would be included in any offering memorandum relating to any such Debt Financing to (x) provide drafts and executed versions of customary auditor comfort letters (including “negative assurance” comfort and change period comfort) with respect to historical financial information relating to the Company Group as reasonably requested by Buyer Parties or as necessary or customary for financings similar to the Debt Financing (including any offering or private placement of debt securities pursuant to Rule 144A) and (y) attend a reasonable number of accounting due diligence sessions and drafting sessions at reasonable times and places.
(d) All non-public or otherwise confidential information regarding the Company, its Subsidiaries and their Affiliates obtained by the Buyer Parties or their Representatives pursuant to this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Section 6.5 shall be kept confidential in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and Confidentiality Agreements, including any joinder or other agreement entered into in connection therewith; provided, that notwithstanding the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicableConfidentiality Agreements or any other provision of this Agreement, the net proceeds contemplated Buyer Parties and their respective Affiliates and Representatives shall be permitted to disclose any information provided by, or on behalf of, the Company or its Subsidiaries to any actual or potential debt financing sources, subject to customary confidentiality undertakings by such actual and potential debt financing sources. The Company hereby consents to the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment use of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt logos of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementin connection with the Debt Financing; provided, that such logos shall be used solely in a manner that is not intended or reasonably likely to pay harm, disparage or otherwise adversely affect the Company or its Subsidiaries or their reputation or goodwill.
(e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) none of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their Affiliates or any other amounts persons who are directors or managers of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates shall be required to pass resolutions or consents to approve or authorize the execution of the Debt Financing or to execute, deliver or enter into, or perform any agreement, certificate, arrangement, document or instrument, including any Definitive Financing Agreements, with respect to the Debt Financing that will be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or effective prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation (other than any customary authorization letters and management representation letters), (ii) no obligation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”)Company, assuming the satisfaction its Subsidiaries or their Affiliates or any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (their respective Representatives undertaken pursuant to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may foregoing shall be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provideseffective until Closing, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.(iii
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Sources: Merger Agreement (R1 RCM Inc. /DE), Merger Agreement (R1 RCM Inc. /DE)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall take, or cause to the Company truebe taken, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesactions, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain funds sufficient to fund the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters aggregate Cash Consideration and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation funds otherwise necessary to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with effect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement on or prior to the date upon which the Merger is required to be consummated pursuant to the terms hereof. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, advisable or proper to arrange and obtain the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions (including any “market flex” provisions) described in the Debt Commitment Letter pursuant to the terms thereof, including using reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter; (ii) negotiate, execute and deliver definitive documentation for the Debt Financing that reflects the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (subject to any “market flex” provisions included in the fee letters or any fee letters relating to an Alternative Debt Financing) or such other terms that are more favorable to Parent; (iii) satisfy (or seek a waiver of) on a timely basis all of the conditions precedent set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and any definitive document related to the Debt Financing, in each case that are within the control of Parent and comply with their obligations thereunder; and (iv) to seek to enforce its rights with respect to funding under the Debt Commitment Letter in the event of a breach thereof by the financing provider(s) thereunder. Without the consent of the Company, Parent shall not permit any amendment, supplement, replacement or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Debt Commitment Letter (other than pursuant to “flex” provisions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter) if such amendment, supplement, replacement, modification or waiver (A) subject to Parent’s right to obtain substitute financing set forth in this Section 7.13, reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount) to an amount below the amount needed (in combination with all funds held by or otherwise available to Parent and Sub, including the cash on hand of the Company) to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (B) imposes new or additional conditions to the initial funding of the Debt Financing or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the receipt of the initial Debt Financing, or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Debt Commitment Letter, in each case, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding in full of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) on the Closing Date, (y) adversely impact the ability of Parent and Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or (z) adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights with respect to funding against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto (provided, that Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities so long as such action would not reasonably be expected to delay or prevent or make less likely the Acceptance Time, Closing or Parent’s ability to consummate the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing)). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company true, complete and correct copies of any such amendment, supplement, modification or replacement (including, all such amendments, supplements, modifications or replacements that are permitted hereunder).
(b) Parent shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use its reasonable best efforts (A) to, subject to Parent’s right to obtain substitute financing set forth in this Section 7.13, maintain in full force and effect the Debt Commitment Letter, (B) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter (the “Required AmountDebt Financing Agreements”) on the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto) or on other terms that are on terms no less favorable, in all material respects to Parent and Sub than the terms and conditions (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter, or, if available, obtain alternative financing on other terms that are acceptable to Parent, provided, that (i) Parent promptly provides notice to the Company of such other terms (in the case of the fee letters, with only the fee amounts, pricing, “market flex” provisions and other economic terms that do not adversely affect the enforceability, availability or conditionality of, or the aggregate amount of proceeds available under, the Debt Financing contained therein redacted) or such alternative financing, and (ii) such other terms or the terms of such alternative financing are (x) in respect of certainty of funding, equivalent in all material respects to (or more favorable to Parent, Sub and the Company than) the conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof and (y) no less beneficial in any material respect to Parent in terms of its ability to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof or the definitive agreements with respect thereto, (C) to satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of), assuming and in a manner that will not adversely impede the ability of the parties to consummate the Offer or the Merger, all conditions to receipt of the full amount of the Debt Financing at the Closing set forth therein that are within its control and, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(athe Debt Commitment Letter, to consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing, (D) to comply with its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter, and Section 7.02(b(E) to consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Effective Time. Parent and Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to enforce their rights with respect to funding under, and cause the Financing Sources, lenders and the other persons providing or committing to provide the Debt Financing to comply with their obligations with respect to funding under the Debt Commitment Letter and definitive financing agreements and to fund on or before the Effective Time the Debt Financing. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing, including, as the Company’s request, promptly providing copies of all executed definitive agreements for the Debt Financing Agreements.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, Parent agrees to notify the Company promptly, after obtaining Knowledge thereof (and in any event within two (2) Business Days after obtaining Knowledge thereof), if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) the Debt Commitment Letter expires or is terminated for any reason, (ii) Parent becomes aware of, or receives any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to, any actual or potential material breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Debt Financing Agreement or any provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter or any Debt Financing Agreement, (iii) if for any reason Parent or Sub believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Debt Financing required (together with available cash on hand of the Parent, Sub and the Company) for Parent and Sub to pay all of the cash amounts required to be provided by Parent, Sub and the Company for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (iv) a counterparty indicates in writing or orally that it will not provide, or it refuses to provide, all or any portion of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter on the Closing Dateterms set forth therein. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against ParentParent shall promptly provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstances referred to in this Section 7.13(c); provided, Merger Sub however, that in no event will Parent be under any obligation to disclose (x) any ordinary course negotiations with respect to the extent terms of the Financing and (y) any information shared among Parent or Merger Sub and its professional advisors in connection with matters contemplated by this Section 7.13(c) that is a party thereto) and, subject to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization attorney-client or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles privilege if Parent shall have used its reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. Parent shall not, nor shall it permit any of equity. As its Subsidiaries to, without the prior written consent of the date hereofCompany, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction take any action or waiver enter into any transaction that could reasonably be expected to impair, delay or prevent consummation of all or any portion of the Debt Financing. Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 7.13(c), if the commitments with respect to all or any portion of the Debt Financing expire or are terminated or all or any portion of the Debt Financing otherwise becomes unavailable or it becomes reasonably likely that any portion of the Debt Financing may become unavailable to Parent on the terms and conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, and such portion of the Debt Financing are reasonably required to consummate the Merger and other transactions contemplated hereby, then Parent shall (x) promptly notify the Company of such event and the reasons therefor, (y) use reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain, at its sole expense, in replacement thereof alternative financing from the same or alternative financing sources in an amount sufficient to pay all amounts required to be paid by Parent and Sub in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event (the “Alternative Debt Financing”), and (z) obtain, and when obtained, promptly provide the Company with a true, correct and complete copy of each alternative financing commitment in respect of such Alternative Debt Financing (“New Debt Commitment Letter”), together with all related fee letters and associated engagement letters (solely in the case of the fee letters, with only the fee amounts, pricing, “market flex” provisions and other economic terms that do not adversely affect the enforceability, availability or conditionality of, or the aggregate amount of proceeds available under, the Debt Financing contained therein redacted). Parent’s obligations under the foregoing sentence in this Section 7.01 7.13(c) shall apply to any other Alternative Debt Financing. In the event any New Debt Commitment Letter is obtained, (i) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Financing” shall include the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as modified pursuant to clause (ii) below, (ii) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter which is not superseded by a New Debt Commitment Letter at the time in question and Section 7.02 on each New Debt Commitment Letter to the extent then in effect, and (iii) any reference in this Agreement to “fee letter” shall be deemed to include any fee letter relating to the Debt Commitment Letter that is not superseded by any New Debt Commitment Letter at the time in question and each fee letter relating to New Debt Commitment Letter to the extent then in effect.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Parent’s obligations under this Agreement are not subject to a condition regarding Parent’s or any of its Affiliates’ obtaining funds to consummate the Offer, the Merger and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(e) On the Closing Date, Parent has no reason shall provide all funds required to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse effect the repayment of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount all indebtedness under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the Company Credit Agreement in full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to accordance with the Company on or prior Credit Agreement, subject to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingcompliance with Section 7.14(a)(x).
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Qlogic Corp), Merger Agreement (Cavium, Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the Company truecontrary, correct Parent and complete copiesSub acknowledge and agree that Parent’s and Sub’s obligations hereunder are not conditioned in any manner upon Parent’s or Sub’s obtaining any financing. In addition, as for the avoidance of doubt, Parent and Sub acknowledge and agree that the date hereof, existence of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the any conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of Financing Commitments or the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnshall not constitute, terminatednor be construed to constitute, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, a condition to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Agreement.
(b) Parent and Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) arrange the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) Financing on the Closing Date. Each terms and conditions described in the Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against ParentCommitments, Merger Sub (to ii) enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andterms and conditions contained in the Financing Commitments, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto which agreements shall be in accordance with its terms, except effect as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of promptly as practicable after the date hereof, but in no event later than the Closing, and (iii) consummate the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming no later than the satisfaction or waiver Closing. In the event that any portion of the conditions set forth Financing becomes unavailable in the manner or from the sources contemplated in the Financing Commitments, (A) Parent shall immediately notify the Company and (B) Parent and Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange to obtain any such portion from alternative sources, on terms that are no more adverse to the Company, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, including entering into definitive agreements with respect thereto (such definitive agreements entered into pursuant to the first or second sentence of this Section 7.01 6.10(b) being referred to as the “Financing Agreements”). Parent and Section 7.02 Sub shall, shall cause their Affiliates to, and shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause their Representatives to, comply with the terms, and satisfy on a timely basis the Closing Dateconditions, Parent has no reason to believe that of the Financing Commitments, any event has occurred whichalternative financing commitments, with or without noticethe Financing Agreements and any related fee and engagement letters. Any material breach of the Financing Commitments, lapse of time or boththe Financing Agreements, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of any alternative financing commitment and any related fee and engagement letter by Parent or Merger Sub or, shall be deemed a breach by Parent and Sub of this Section 6.10(b). Parent shall (x) furnish to the knowledge Company complete, correct and executed copies of Parentthe Financing Agreements promptly upon their execution, (y) give the Company prompt notice of any other parties thereto, under breach by any party of any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing DateCommitments, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under alternative financing commitment or the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As Agreements of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or Sub becomes aware or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect termination thereof and (z) otherwise keep the availability Company reasonably informed of the Equity status of Parent’s and Sub’s efforts to arrange the Financing.
(c) The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, at Parent’s sole expense, reasonably cooperate in connection with the arrangement of the Financing on as may be reasonably requested by Parent (provided that such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the Closing Dateongoing operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries). Such cooperation by the Company and its Subsidiaries shall include, other than at the reasonable request of Parent, (i) using its reasonable best efforts to cause to be delivered such officer’s certificates as expressly set forth are customary in financings of such type and as are, in the Equity Commitment Letter good faith determination of the persons executing such officer’s certificates, accurate, (ii) agreeing to enter into such agreements as are customary in financings of such type, including lock-box, blocked account and similar agreements, and agreeing to pledge, grant security interests in, and otherwise grant liens on, the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ assets pursuant to such agreements, as may be reasonably requested, provided that no obligation of the Company or its Subsidiaries under any such agreement, pledge or grant contemplated by this clause (ii) shall be effective until the Effective Time, (iii) using its reasonable best efforts to cause its independent registered public accountants to deliver such comfort letters as are customary in financings of such type, (iv) providing financial and other information in the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ possession (including financial statements and monthly financial reports of the Company and its Subsidiaries prepared in the ordinary course of business) with respect to the Company on and its Subsidiaries, (v) making the Company’s or prior Subsidiaries’ executive officers reasonably available to assist the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provideslenders providing the Debt Financing, including customary and reasonable participation in road shows, due diligence sessions and sessions with rating agencies, assisting Parent and such lenders in developing financial projections and pro forma financial statements, and will continue otherwise reasonably cooperating in connection with the consummation of the Financing, (vi) permitting the lenders providing the Debt Financing to provideconduct field audits and facility visits as part of their evaluation of the Company’s assets, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. cash management and accounting systems and their policies and procedures relating thereto, and (vii) assisting Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge with their preparation of materials for rating agency presentations, offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and agree that their obligation similar documents required in connection with the Financing, and (viii) providing reasonable cooperation and assistance in connection with any proposed tender offer and consent solicitation with respect to consummate outstanding debt securities. The Company hereby consents to the Merger use of its and pay its Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any commitment or other fee or incur any other liability or obligation or authorize any of corporate action in connection with the Financing (or any replacements thereof) prior to the Effective Time.
(d) Each of Parent and Sub acknowledges and agrees that the Company and its Affiliates and employees of the Company and its Affiliates have no responsibility for any financing that Parent or Sub may raise in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. Any rating agency presentations, offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and similar documents prepared by or on behalf of Parent or Sub or any of their Affiliates, or Parent’s or Sub’s financing sources, in connection with Parent’s or Sub’s financing activities in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (collectively, “Offering Materials”) which include any information provided by or on behalf of the Company and its Affiliates shall include a conspicuous disclaimer to the effect that the Company and its Affiliates and employees of the Company and its Affiliates have no responsibility for the content of such Offering Materials and disclaim all responsibility therefor and shall further include a disclaimer with respect to the Company and its Affiliates and employees of the Company and its Affiliates in any oral disclosure with respect to such financing activities.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (J.M. Tull Metals Company, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Ryerson Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to consummate on the Closing Date the Debt Financing on the terms and subject to the conditions (including the “market flex” provisions) set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, including using its commercially reasonable efforts to:
(i) maintain in full force and effect the Debt Commitment Letter in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions thereof until the Merger is consummated or this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms; and without the prior written consent of the Company true(which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, correct conditioned or delayed) not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, not consent to any waiver of any provision or remedy under, and complete copiesnot replace, the Debt Commitment Letter, in any case if such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise materially amends or modifies any of the conditions to the funding of the Debt Financing in a manner that could reasonably be expected to delay or prevent the Closing; provided, that, Parent may amend, modify or supplement the Debt Commitment Letter to (x) add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof, of (iy) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the effectuate any “market flex” provisions contained therein; provided further, however, that, Parent shall disclose to the Company its intention to enter into any such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement of the Debt Commitment Letter prior to the effectiveness of such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement and shall promptly furnish to the Company copies of executed versions of any such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement;
(ii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to the Debt Financing that are within its control;
(iii) negotiate, execute and deliver Debt Financing Documents that reflect and are consistent with the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto) as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented as permitted by this Agreement; and in the event that all conditions set forth in Section 6.01 and Section 6.02 have been satisfied or waived or, upon funding of the Debt Financing would be satisfied, cause the full amount of the Debt Financing to be funded as contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter at the Closing.
(b) Parent shall provide to the Company, upon request, copies of all executed agreements and other documents relating to the Debt Financing and keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of all material developments with respect to the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing.
(c) Without the prior written consent of the Company (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), neither Parent nor any of its affiliates shall take any action that could reasonably be expected to materially delay or prevent the consummation of the Debt Financing.
(d) If any Financing Failure Event occurs, Parent shall (unless Parent determines that the affected portion of the Debt Financing is not reasonably required to consummate the Merger) promptly notify the Company thereof and use its commercially sensitive informationreasonable efforts to obtain, as promptly as practicable, on terms reasonably as favorable to Parent (as reasonably determined by Parent) as the terms of the Debt Commitment Letter, alternative debt financing (“Debt Replacement Financing”) in an amount that would, together with other funds readily available to Parent, be sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration on the Closing Date. Parent shall deliver to the Company copies of all executed contracts or other arrangements pursuant to which any alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Debt Replacement Financing (provided that any fee letter entered into letters in connection therewith may be redacted with respect to interest rates, fee amounts, pricing caps and other similar economic terms (including any “market flex” provisions). Any Debt Replacement Financing shall be subject to the same obligations as set forth in this Section 5.19 with respect to the Debt Financing.
(e) All non-public or otherwise confidential information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries obtained by Parent or its representatives shall be kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, except that Parent shall be permitted to disclose such information to potential investors and lenders in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted Financing subject to such investors and lenders entering into customary confidentiality undertakings with respect to such information.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 5.19 or anything else in this Agreement to the extentcontrary, in each caseno event shall the commercially reasonable efforts of Parent be deemed or construed to require Parent to, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As and Parent shall not be required to, (x) incur or pay any fees to obtain a waiver or amendment of any term of the date hereof, none of the Financing Debt Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated Letter or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded Documents in accordance with excess (in the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds aggregate) of those contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason (y) agree to believe conditionality or economic terms of the Debt Financing that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available are less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub on than those contemplated by the Closing Date. As Debt Commitment Letter (including any market flex provisions therein) as of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains or (z) obtain or seek equity financing to supplement or replace all or any portion of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (SPAR Group, Inc.), Merger Agreement (SPAR Group, Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered received, and previously provided to the Company trueSpecial Committee, correct fully executed commitment letters from Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, Bank of America, N.A. and complete copiesThe Bank of Nova Scotia (the “Lenders”) dated the date hereof providing for financing in an aggregate amount equal to $1,150,000,000 (the “Debt Financing”) and describing the terms and conditions upon which such Lenders (together with their officers, employees, directors, affiliates, partners, controlling parties, advisors, agents and representatives, the “Financing Sources”) will arrange and provide such financing (the “Debt Commitment Letter”) (it being understood and agreed that each related fee letter shall have been redacted in a customary manner as required by the terms of the date hereofDebt Commitment Letter, which shall include, without limitation, the fee amounts and certain economic terms of the market “flex” (i) each none of which redacted terms would adversely affect the amount or availability of the Debt Financing). Parent has received, and previously provided to the Special Committee, a fully executed Equity Commitment Letter commitment letter from ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ dated the date hereof providing for financing in an aggregate amount equal to $200,000,000 (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and describing the terms and conditions upon which ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ will provide such financing (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Equity Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Debt Commitment LettersLetter, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms). As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing The Commitment Letters are in full force and effect on the date hereof and assuming have not been withdrawn, rescinded, amended or modified in any respect. There are no conditions precedent to the satisfaction or waiver funding of the conditions full amount of the financing contemplated by the Commitment Letters other than as expressly set forth in Section 7.01 the Commitment Letters. There are no facts and Section 7.02 circumstances known to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Parent, Purchaser or any of their respective affiliates that are or that any of them believe is likely to (i) prevent the conditions described in the Commitment Letters from being satisfied on a timely basis, (ii) constitute a default or breach on the Closing Datepart of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Parent has no reason to believe that Parent, Purchaser or any event has occurred which, of their respective affiliates under the Commitment Letters (whether with or without notice, lapse of time or both), would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of (iii) prevent Parent or Merger Sub or, Purchaser from receiving financing pursuant to the knowledge terms of Parent, any other parties thereto, under the Commitment Letters or (iv) make any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly assumptions set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided Letters unreasonable. There are no facts and circumstances known to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Parent, the Purchaser or any of their respective affiliates that are or that any of them believe is likely to cause the financings contemplated by the Commitment Letters not to be consummated substantially in accordance with the terms thereof. The aggregate proceeds of the financings contemplated by the Commitment Letters, when taken together with the unrestricted cash of the Company and its Subsidiaries, are sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration, to pay cash amounts payable to the holders of the Company on Options pursuant to Section 3.3(a), to effect all refinancings of existing indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries required as a result of the Merger or prior as required by the Commitment Letters and to pay the anticipated fees and expenses related to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that Merger (the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing“Required Cash Amount”).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Dole Food Co Inc), Merger Agreement (Murdock David H)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to the Company a true, correct accurate and complete copies, as copy of the date hereofexecuted Debt Commitment Letter, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred pursuant to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, scheduleswhich, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) subject to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions thereof, the lenders party thereto have committed to lend the conditions expressly stated therein, amount set forth therein to VimpelCom for the purpose of VimpelCom providing debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsfor acquisitions, including terms the acquisition of shares of Common Stock of the Company (the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationFinancing”). The Debt Commitment Letter, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financingform so delivered, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) legal, valid and binding obligation of VimpelCom and, to the knowledge of Parent, such the other Persons party thereto parties thereto. The Debt Commitment Letter has not been amended, modified, withdrawn or rescinded in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equityany respect. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any No event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of VimpelCom under any term or condition of the Debt Commitment Letter. VimpelCom has fully paid any and all commitment fees or other fees required by the Debt Commitment Letter to be paid on or before the date of this Agreement.
(b) Merger Sub has delivered to the Company a true, accurate and complete copy of the executed Merger Sub Commitment Letter, pursuant to which, and subject to the terms and conditions thereof, VimpelCom has committed to lend the amount set forth therein to Merger Sub for the purpose of funding the Offer, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Merger Sub Financing”). The Merger Sub Commitment Letter, in the form so delivered, is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the parties thereto. The Merger Sub Commitment Letter has not been amended, modified, withdrawn or rescinded in any respect. No event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach on the part of VimpelCom or Merger Sub under any term or condition of the Merger Sub Commitment Letter.
(c) Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties contained in the first four sentences of Section 4.5(a) and the first sentence of Section 4.5(b), the proceeds of the Merger Sub Financing, together with cash otherwise available to Merger Sub, are sufficient to allow Merger Sub to perform all of its obligations under this Agreement, including payment of (i) the aggregate consideration to be paid in the Offer, (ii) the Merger Consideration, (iii) the Reverse Termination Fee, (iv) the Additional Termination Fee and (v) all fees and expenses to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub or, related to the knowledge of Parenttransactions contemplated by this Agreement. There are no contractual contingencies, any other parties thereto, side letters or similar arrangements under any of agreement relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on Financing, as the Closing Date. As of case may be, or the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Merger Sub Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent Parent, Merger Sub, VimpelCom or any Equity Investor of their Affiliates is a party that would adversely affect permit the lenders party to the Debt Commitment Letter or VimpelCom with respect to the Merger Sub Commitment Letter to reduce the total amount of the Financing or impose any additional condition precedent to the availability of the Equity Financing on or the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinMerger Sub Financing. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Offer and the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is are not conditioned on the availability receipt of Debt the Financing or the Merger Sub Financing.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Golden Telecom Inc), Escrow Agreement (Lillian Acquisition, Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Buyer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange the Company true, correct and complete copies, Debt Financing as of promptly as practicable following the date hereof, of hereof and to consummate the Debt Financing on the Closing Date. Such actions shall include commercially reasonable efforts to: (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and Letters; (ii) satisfy on a fully executed commitment letter timely basis all Financing Conditions; (together with all exhibitsiii) negotiate, schedules, execute and annexes thereto) deliver definitive agreements and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the other documentation (“Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with Documents”) that reflect the Equity terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”; and (iv) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided event that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) 6.1 and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing DateFinancing Conditions have been satisfied or, upon funding would be satisfied, cause the financing providers to fund the Debt Financing in an amount sufficient, together with available cash, to consummate the Transactions. Each Financing Buyer shall give the Company prompt notice of any breach, repudiation, or threatened or anticipated breach or repudiation, by any party to a Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentof which Buyer or its Affiliates becomes aware. Without limiting Buyer’s other obligations under this Section 4.8(a), Merger Sub if a Financing Failure Event occurs Buyer shall (x) promptly notify Seller of such Financing Failure Event and the reasons therefor, (y) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain alternative financing, in an amount sufficient, together with available cash, to consummate the Transactions, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (z) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, and when obtained, provide Seller with a copy of, a new financing commitment, subject only to financing conditions substantially comparable to the extent Parent Financing Conditions, that provides for such alternative financing. Neither Buyer nor any of its Affiliates shall amend, modify, supplement, restate, assign, substitute or Merger Sub is replace a party theretoDebt Commitment Letter or any Debt Financing Document except for (a) and, substitutions and replacements pursuant to the knowledge immediately preceding sentence or (b) if such amendment, modification, supplement, restatement, assignment, substitution or replacement is not reasonably likely to (x) impair or materially delay the funding of Parentthe Debt Financing or (y) impair or materially delay the Closing. Upon any such amendment, such other Persons party thereto supplement, modification or replacement of a Debt Commitment Letter or Debt Financing Document in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereofthis Section 4.8(a), the Financing term “Debt Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction Letter” shall include such “Debt Commitment Letter” as so amended, supplemented, modified or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, replaced. Notwithstanding anything herein to the knowledge contrary, in no event shall “commercially reasonable efforts” of Parent, any other parties thereto, Buyer under this Section 4.8 be deemed or construed to require Buyer to instigate or pursue litigation against any of the Debt Financing Commitment LettersSources. Assuming the satisfaction For purposes of this Agreement, a “Financing Failure Event” shall mean any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on following: (A) the Closing Date, as commitments with respect to all or any portion of the date hereofDebt Financing necessary to consummate the Transactions expiring or being terminated, Parent does not have (B) for any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent reason, all or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As any portion of the date hereofDebt Financing necessary to consummate the Transactions becoming unavailable, the Equity or (C) a material breach or repudiation, by any party to a Debt Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date(in each case, other than as expressly set forth in a result of a breach by the Equity Commitment Letter provided to Seller of this Agreement which prevents or renders impracticable the Company on or prior to consummation of the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Purchase Agreement (Cree Inc), Purchase Agreement (Cree Inc)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Subsidiary shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Financing Commitment Letters, and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Financing Commitment Letters if such amendment, modification or waiver (i) reduces (or could have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount unless (A) the Debt Financing or the Equity Financing is increased by a corresponding amount and (B) after giving effect to any of the transactions referred to in clause (A) above, the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.06 shall be true) or (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Financing, or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Financing Commitment Letters in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (A) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions expressly stated thereinto the Financing) on the date of the Closing or (B) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Subsidiary to enforce its rights against other parties to the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive documents relating thereto (provided that, debt financing subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Section 7.05(a), Parent and Merger Subsidiary may amend the Debt Commitment Letters to add additional lenders, arrangers, bookrunners and agents). Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall promptly notify and deliver to the Company copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement.
(b) Each of Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall use its reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in full force and effect the Financing Commitment Letters, (ii) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing Commitment Letters on the terms and conditions contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Financing Commitment Letters (or on terms no less favorable to Parent or Merger Subsidiary than the terms and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, conditions in the fee letter entered into Financing Commitment Letters), (iii) to satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to funding in connection with the Debt Financing Commitment Letters and such definitive agreements thereto and to consummate the Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termsat or prior to the Closing, including using its reasonable best efforts to cause the lenders and the other persons committing to fund the Financing to fund the Financing at the Closing, (iv) to enforce its rights under the Financing Commitment Letters and (v) to comply with its obligations under the Financing Commitment Letters. As Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of the date hereofstatus of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, none Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall give the Company prompt notice (A) of any breach or default by any party to any of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, definitive agreements related to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate Financing of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by which Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation Subsidiary becomes aware, and (B) of the transactions contemplated receipt of (x) any written notice or (y) other written communication, in each case from any Financing source with respect to any (1) breach, default, termination or repudiation by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (any party to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming Letters or definitive agreements related to the satisfaction Financing of any provisions of the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing or (2) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to any of the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing with respect to the obligation to fund the Financing or the amount of the Financing to be funded at Closing. As promptly as practicable, but in any event within two (2) Business Days of the date the Company delivers to Parent or Merger Subsidiary a written request therefor, Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (A) or (B) of the immediately preceding sentence. Upon the occurrence of any circumstance referred to in clause (A) or (B) of the second preceding sentence or if any portion of the Debt Financing otherwise becomes unavailable, and such portion is reasonably required to fund an amount sufficient to consummate the Merger upon the terms contemplated by this Agreement and pay all related fees and expenses of Parent, Merger Subsidiary and their respective Representatives pursuant to this Agreement, then Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain replacement debt commitment letters (each a “Replacement Debt Commitment Letter”) in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, provided that, Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall have no obligation to obtain Replacement Debt Commitment Letters on terms and conditions less favorable to Parent and Merger Subsidiary (or their Affiliates) than the terms and conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Debt Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinLetters. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge Subsidiary shall, upon request of the Company, keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange any Replacement Debt Commitment Letters and agree that their obligation shall provide to consummate the Merger Company true and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability complete copies of all material documents related to any such Replacement Debt FinancingCommitment Letters.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (ChyronHego Corp), Merger Agreement (ChyronHego Corp)
Financing. Parent has delivered shall procure and have available, as of the Closing, funds sufficient to pay all of the cash amounts required to be provided by Parent for the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the amounts payable in connection with the consummation of the Merger, all related fees and expenses required to be paid as of the date of the consummation of the Merger and the funds to be provided by (or on behalf of) Parent to the Company to enable the Company to fund the repayment or refinancing of the Notes and the Company Credit Agreement, in each case to the extent required to be repaid or refinanced, and the amounts payable pursuant to Sections 6.14(b) and 6.14(c). In furtherance and not in limitation to the foregoing:
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including clauses (I) and (II) of this Section 6.13(a)), Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, advisable or proper to arrange and obtain the proceeds of the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letter pursuant to the terms thereof on or prior to the Closing Date. Parent shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, (I) permit any amendment, supplement, replacement or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Debt Commitment Letter, if such amendment, supplement, replacement, modification or waiver (A) reduces (or could reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount), except (x) to the extent cash on hand is available and will be available as of the Closing Date on the Parent Balance Sheet in an aggregate amount at least equal to the amount of any such reduction or (y) to the extent of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes with respect to which the Consent Solicitations are successful (but taking into account all amounts payable in connection with the Consent Solicitations, including consent fees, solicitation agent fees and other expenses payable in connection with the Consent Solicitations) or (B) imposes new or additional conditions to the initial funding or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the receipt of the initial Debt Financing, or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Debt Commitment Letter, in each case with respect to clause (B), in a manner that would reasonably be expected (x) taking into account the expected timing of the Marketing Period, to delay or prevent or make less likely the funding in full of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) on the Closing Date or (y) to adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto, in each case, as so amended replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified, relative to the ability of the Parent to enforce its rights against such other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof or the definitive agreements with respect thereto (provided, that Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities, so long as such action would not reasonably be expected to materially delay or prevent the Closing or adversely impact Parent’s ability to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter) or (II) terminate the Debt Commitment Letter unless at the time of such termination such Debt Commitment Letter is replaced with a new commitment letter that, were it structured as an amendment to the Debt Commitment Letter, would satisfy the requirements of the foregoing clause (I) (which replacement commitment letter shall be considered the Debt Commitment Letter hereunder). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company true, complete and correct copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement.
(b) Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter (as, for the avoidance of doubt, may be amended, modified or replaced pursuant to the terms and complete copiesconditions of this Agreement), as of (B) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity FinancingDebt Financing Agreements”) on the terms and conditions consistent with the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter or, if available, obtain alternative financing on other terms that are acceptable to Parent, provided, that (i) Parent promptly provides notice to the Company of such alternative financing, and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter the terms of such alternative financing are (together with x) in respect of certainty of funding, equivalent in all exhibits, schedules, and annexes theretomaterial respects to (or more favorable to the Company than) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, conditions set forth in the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Letter as in effect on the date hereof and (y) not less beneficial in any material respect to Parent in terms and subject only of its ability to enforce its rights in connection with such alternative financing, relative to Parent’s ability to enforce its rights against the other parties to the conditions expressly stated thereinDebt Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof or the definitive agreements with respect thereto (any such permitted replacement, debt amended, modified or alternative financing in to the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsDebt Financing, including terms any potential issuance of the “market flex” and cash convertible or other commercially sensitive informationnotes by Parent or its Subsidiaries, in the fee letter entered into in connection collectively with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted the “Available Financing”), (C) to satisfy on a timely basis, taking into account the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As expected timing of the date hereofMarketing Period, none and in a manner that will not impede the ability of the parties to consummate the Merger, all conditions to receipt of the full amount of the Available Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated at the Closing set forth therein that are within its control or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, subject to its influence and, to upon satisfaction of the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded conditions set forth in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment LetterLetter (or, as applicable, the net proceeds conditions in connection with other Available Financing), to consummate the Available Financing at or prior to the Closing, (D) to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter relating to the Available Financing, including using reasonable best efforts to cause the Persons committing to fund the Available Financing to fund on the Closing Date the Available Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and (E) to comply with its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter relating to the Available Financing. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and provide to the Company copies of all substantially final drafts and executed definitive agreements for the Available Financing, at each time promptly upon the Company’s request.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, Parent agrees to notify the Company promptly if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) the Debt Commitment Letter is terminated for any reason, (ii) Parent becomes aware of any material breach or default by any party to the Equity Debt Commitment LettersLetter or any Debt Financing Agreement, and or (iii) a Lender indicates either in writing or orally that it will not provide, or it refuses to provide, all or any portion of the net proceeds Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter on the terms set forth therein. Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 6.13, if the commitments with respect to all or any portion of the Debt Financing Commitment Letterexpires or is terminated or all or any portion of the Debt Financing otherwise becomes unavailable or it becomes reasonably foreseeable that such events will occur, will in then Parent shall (x) promptly notify the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub Company of such event and the Surviving Corporation reasons therefor, (y) use reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative financing from the same or alternative financing sources in an amount sufficient to pay the all cash amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (z) obtain, and when obtained, provide the Company with a copy of, a new financing commitment that provides for such alternative financing, together with the related fee letter (subject to pay any redaction solely of fee amounts, original issue discount amounts, pricing caps and other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date economic provisions that are customarily redacted in connection with merger agreements of this type, provided, that such redactions do not relate to any terms that would adversely affect the consummation conditionality, enforceability, availability, termination or aggregate principal amount of the Debt Financing (other than through the operation of original issue discount)) (which new financing commitment shall be considered the Debt Commitment Letter hereunder). Parent’s obligations under this Section 6.13(c) shall apply to any other Available Financing.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Parent’s obligations hereunder are not subject to a condition regarding Parent’s or any of its Affiliates’ obtaining funds to consummate the Merger and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (Agreement, including the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction payment of any fees and expenses and repayment or refinance of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aNotes and the Company Credit Agreement and all amounts payable pursuant to Sections 6.14(b) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing6.14(c).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (NXP Semiconductors N.V.), Merger Agreement (Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd.)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (of Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Transaction Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) described in the Commitment Letter at Closing (taking into account the Marketing Period), and shall not, without the prior written consent of Marigold (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Commitment Letter, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter (or satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the conditions expressly stated thereinTransaction Financing) on the Closing Date in any material respect or (y) extend or permit the extension of the marketing period under the Commitment Letter (provided that, debt financing in without the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts consent of Marigold, Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 may amend the Commitment Letter (x) to favorably modify pricing termsterms or add additional lenders, including terms arrangers, bookrunners and agents or (y) to implement or exercise any of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions (including pricing terms) contained in the fee letter entered into executed in connection with the Debt Commitment Letter). Montage shall promptly deliver to Marigold copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement. For purposes of this Section 6.12, references to “Transaction Financing” shall include the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, may have been redacted modified or replaced by this Section 6.12(a) and references to “Commitment Letter” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 6.12(a).
(ii) Each of Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 shall use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Commitment Letter, (B) to enter into definitive agreements with respect to the extentCommitment Letter consistent in all material respects with the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) contained in the Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable (taken as a whole) to Montage, New Holdco or Merger Sub 2 than the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Commitment Letter), and (C) to satisfy (or obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions precedent to funding in the Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto (taking into account the Marketing Period and other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of Marigold’s failure to furnish information described in Section 6.12(b)) that are within Montage’s control and to consummate the Transaction Financing at the Closing.. Montage shall keep Marigold reasonably informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Transaction Financing and provide to Marigold copies of the material definitive agreements for the Transaction Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Montage shall give Marigold prompt notice (x) of any material breach or default by any party to any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of which Montage becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of (A) any written notice or (B) other written communication, in each casecase from any Financing Source with respect to any actual or potential material breach, they are Permissible Redacted Termsdefault, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of any provisions of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing, and (z) if at any time for any reason Montage believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Transaction Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable after any notice by Montage to Marigold of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence, but in any event within two Business Days of the date hereofMarigold delivers to Montage a written request, none Montage shall use reasonable best efforts to provide any information reasonably requested by Marigold relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (x), (y) or (z) of the immediately preceding sentence; provided, that they need not provide any information believed to be privileged or that is requested for purposes of litigation. If all or any portion of the Transaction Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, and such portion is reasonably required to pay the aggregate Cash Consideration, repay the Retired Debt and pay all fees, expenses and other amounts contemplated to be paid by Montage, New Holdco, Merger Sub 2 or the Montage Surviving Corporation pursuant to this Agreement, Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof alternative debt Transaction Financing from alternative sources in an amount sufficient, when taken together with available cash of Montage and any then-available Transaction Financing pursuant to the Commitment Letters has been withdrawnLetter, terminatedto consummate the Mergers with terms and conditions not materially less favorable (taken as a whole) to Montage, repudiatedNew Holdco and Merger Sub 2 than the terms and conditions (taken as a whole) set forth in the Commitment Letter (“Available Transaction Financing”), rescindedas promptly as reasonably practicable following the occurrence of such event. Montage shall deliver to Marigold true and complete copies of all commitment letters and fee letters pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Transaction Financing. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.12 or elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, amendedin no event shall the “reasonable best efforts” of Montage, amended and restated New Holdco or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedMerger Sub 2 be deemed or construed to require any such Person to, and no such withdrawalPerson shall be required to, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to pay any debt financing fees in the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate aggregate in excess of Parent, to those contemplated by the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, or agree to conditionality or economic terms of the debt financing that are (other than as applicable, specified in the net proceeds preceding sentence) materially less favorable than those contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth related fee letter (including any “flex” provision therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Meredith Corp), Merger Agreement (Meredith Corp)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter, including using reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter in accordance with their terms, (ii) negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Agreements”) consistent with the terms and conditions expressly stated thereincontained therein (including, debt financing as necessary, the “flex” provisions contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided Fee Letter) and (iii) satisfy (or, if deemed advisable by Parent, obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions in the Commitment Letter, Fee Letter and the Definitive Agreements and comply with its obligations thereunder. In the event that fee amounts all conditions contained in the Commitment Letter and pricing termsFee Letter have been satisfied and Parent is required to consummate the Closing pursuant to Section 2.4, including terms Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to cause each Lender to fund its respective committed portion of the “market flex” Debt Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and other commercially sensitive informationto pay related fees and expenses on the Closing Date. Parent shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), permit any amendment or modification to, or any waiver of any provision (including any remedy) under, or voluntarily replace (it being understood that any Alternative Debt Financing shall not be deemed a voluntary replacement for purposes of the sentence), the Commitment Letter or Fee Letter if such amendment, modification, or waiver or voluntary replacement (w) adds new (or adversely modifies any existing) conditions to the consummation of the Debt Financing as compared to those in the fee letter entered into Commitment Letter and Fee Letter as in connection with effect on the date of this Agreement, (x) adversely affects the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter, Fee Letter or the Definitive Agreements as so amended, replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified, relative to the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against such other parties to the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter as in effect on the date hereof or in the Definitive Agreements, (y) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing, may have been redacted or (z) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or materially delay the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As consummation of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement; provided, that for the avoidance of doubt no consent from the Company shall be required for: (A) any amendment, replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letter that is limited to pay adding lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement (including in replacement of a Lender), (B) implementation or exercise of any other amounts required to be paid by Parent “flex” provisions provided in the Fee Letter as in effect as of the date hereof or Merger Sub on (C) any amendment, replacement, supplement or prior modification to the Closing Date in connection with Commitment Letter or Definitive Agreements so long as such action would not be prohibited by the foregoing clauses (w)-(z).
(b) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor (other than a breach by the Company of this Agreement which prevents or renders impracticable the consummation of the Debt Financing) Parent will (1) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative debt financing (the “Alternative Debt Financing”) (in an amount sufficient, when taken together with available cash on hand, and any then-available Debt Financing pursuant to any then-existing Commitment Letter, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to pay related fees and expenses earned, due and payable as of the Closing Date) on terms not less favorable in the aggregate to Parent than those contained in the Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter that the alternative financing would replace (taking into account any flex provisions) from the “Required Amount”), assuming same or other sources and which do not include any incremental conditionality to the satisfaction consummation of such alternative debt financing that are more onerous to Parent or the Company (in the aggregate) than the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereofof this Agreement and (2) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and the reason therefor. In furtherance of and not in limitation of the foregoing, Parent does not have in the event that (A) any portion of the Debt Financing structured as high yield financing is unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor, (B) all closing conditions contained in Article VII and Annex I shall be satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature are to believe be satisfied or waived at the Closing, provided that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on such conditions are capable of being satisfied as of such day assuming the Closing Date. As of was to occur on such day) and (C) the date hereof, bridge facilities contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing (or alternative bridge facilities obtained in accordance with this Section 6.9) are available to Parent on the terms therein. As and conditions described in the Commitment Letter (or replacements thereof), then Parent shall cause the proceeds of such bridge financing to be used in lieu of such affected portion of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation high yield financing to consummate the Merger Closing when Parent is required to do so pursuant to Section 2.4.
(c) For purposes of the foregoing Sections 6.9(a) and pay (b), (i) the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned term “Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include any commitment letter (or similar agreement) with respect to any alternative debt financing arranged in compliance herewith (and any Commitment Letters remaining in effect at the time in question), (ii) the term “Fee Letter” shall be deemed to include any fee letter (or similar agreement) with respect to any alternative debt financing arranged in compliance with this Section 6.9, and (iii) the term “Lenders” shall be deemed to include any lenders providing the alternative debt financing arranged in compliance herewith. Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed on a reasonably current basis of the availability status of its efforts to consummate the Debt Financing. Parent shall provide the Company with prompt oral and written notice of any breach or default by any party to any Commitment Letters or the Definitive Agreements of which Parent gains knowledge and the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Lender, guarantor, or other financing source with respect to any breach or default or, termination or repudiation by any party to any Commitment Letters or the Definitive Agreements or any provision thereof. For the avoidance of doubt, Parent shall, directly or indirectly, make all proceeds of the Debt Financing received by Parent available to Acquisition Sub as are required for Acquisition Sub to perform its obligations hereunder (including with respect to the consummation of the Offer and the payment for shares tendered thereby).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Harland Clarke Holdings Corp), Merger Agreement (Valassis Communications Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts, taking into account, with respect to the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters, the expected timing of the Trigger Date, the Expiration Dates, the Marketing Period and, with respect of the New NewPage Term Loan Facility, the provisions of Section 5.20(d), in respect of each of the facilities contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters, to take or cause to be taken, all actions to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or customary to arrange and obtain the Debt Financing, on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) described in the Debt Commitment Letters and any Fee Letter, to the extent applicable, including using reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letters and the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions thereof until the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) to negotiate and/or enter into the Definitive Debt Financing Documents on or prior to the expiration of the applicable Debt Commitment Letter(s) (each such date, an “Expiration Date”) on the terms specifically set forth in the term sheets and the other exhibits attached to the Debt Commitment Letters (after giving effect to the “market flex” in the Fee Letters), the proviso in the second to last sentence of Section 15 of the Debt Commitment Letters and any upfront, arrangement or agency fees specifically set forth in the Fee Letters, or with the prior written consent of the Company, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld, on terms that are in the good faith judgment of Parent in the aggregate not materially less favorable to each of Parent and the Company than the terms specifically set forth in the term sheets and other exhibits attached to the Debt Commitment Letters (after giving effect to the “market flex” in the Fee Letters), the proviso in the second to last sentence of Section 15 of the Debt Commitment Letters and any upfront, arrangement or agency fees specifically set forth in the Fee Letters, (iii) to satisfy (or if deemed reasonably advisable by Parent, obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent in the Debt Financing that are within its control (other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of the Company’s failure to furnish the information required under this Section 5.12) as set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters and the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments, and to comply with all of its material obligations pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letters and the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments, (iv) to cause the funding of the Debt Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (v) to exercise any rights Parent may have under the Debt Commitment Letters to extend the Expiration Dates in accordance with the terms of the Debt Commitment Letters and to negotiate and agree with the Lenders to further extend such Expiration Dates beyond the commitment periods provided for therein (to the extent specified in Section 5.20(d)), and (vi) to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letters and/or the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments, including by pursuing litigation against the lenders in good faith; provided, however, solely with respect to this clause (vi), that the Trigger Date shall have occurred and all of the conditions to the Lenders’ obligations under the Debt Commitment Letters to the funding of the New NewPage Term Loan Facility or the New NewPage ABL Facility, as applicable, have been satisfied or waived.
(b) Parent shall not agree to any amendments or modifications to, or grant any waivers of, any condition or other provision under the Debt Commitment Letters, the Fee Letters or the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Parent may from time to time without the Company’s consent enter into discussions regarding, and may amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments and/or enter into other arrangements, amendments and agreements of the Debt Commitment Letters or the Fee Letters relating to the Debt Financing, so long as such action would not reasonably be expected to delay or prevent the New NewPage Term Loan Facility Closing Date or the Closing, and the terms (with respect to terms that are specifically set forth in the term sheets and other exhibits attached to the Debt Commitment Letters (after giving effect to the “market flex” in the Fee Letters), the proviso in the second to last sentence of Section 15 of the Debt Commitment Letters and any upfront, arrangement or agency fees specifically set forth in the Fee Letters) are not, in the aggregate, materially less beneficial to Parent or the Company than those set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters, the Fee Letters and Existing Credit Agreement Amendments as in effect on the date of this Agreement or would not reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the value, rights and priorities of the Verso First Lien Notes, and would not have the effect of (I) reducing or being reasonably expected to reduce the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount of the Debt Financing, unless the financing is increased by such amount), or (II) adversely affect the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Commitment Letters, the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments or any Fee Letter or, if definitive agreements are executed prior to the Closing Date, the ability of the Company or any other borrower under such definitive agreements related to the Debt Commitment Letters to enforce its rights against the other parties to such definitive agreements or Parent’s ability to timely consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Parent shall provide the Company with reasonable advance notice of any such amendment, replacement, waiver, modification or agreement. The Company shall not agree to any amendments or modifications to, or grant any waivers of, any condition or other provision under the Definitive Debt Financing Documents without the prior written consent of Parent, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld. The Company shall provide Parent with reasonable advance notice of any such amendment, replacement, waiver, modification or agreement. For purposes of this Agreement, references to “Debt Commitment Letters”, “Fee Letters”, “Existing Credit Agreement Amendments” and the “Definitive Debt Financing Documents” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 5.12. None of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries existing as of the date hereof (including Merger Sub or its successor) may guarantee any Debt Commitment Letters, Definitive Debt Financing Documents or alternative financing obtained in substitution therefor, but for purposes of clarity, such prohibition shall not apply to the Company true, correct and complete copies, or any of its Subsidiaries existing as of the date hereof.
(c) Without limiting the generality of Section 5.12(a) and Section 5.12(b), at any time prior to the Closing Date, Parent shall give the Company prompt notice of, and the opportunity to comment on, (A) its knowledge of (i) each fully executed Equity any material breach or default or termination by any party to any Existing Credit Agreement Amendment or, in the case of any Debt Commitment Letter or Fee Letter, any breach or default or termination by any party thereto or (B) the financing provided for therein being collectively referred receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to as any material breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any Existing Credit Agreement Amendment or, in the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) case of any Debt Commitment Letter or Fee Letter, any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party thereto. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from reasonably current basis in reasonable detail of material developments in its efforts to arrange the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with and substantially concurrently therewith provide copies of all final or substantially final Definitive Debt Financing Documents provided to the Equity Commitment Letters, lenders to the “Company. If any portion of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, becomes unavailable on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing contemplated in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of Debt Commitment Letters (after giving effect to the “market flex” in the Fee Letters) and the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments and such portion is reasonably required to fund the Aggregate Closing Merger Consideration, the Repayment Amount and/or (if applicable in accordance with Section 5.20) the Recapitalization Dividend, Parent shall promptly notify the Company in writing and shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain substitute financing for such portion as promptly as reasonably practicable following the occurrence of such event with terms and conditions not materially less favorable (as determined in the good faith judgment of Parent) to Parent, the Company and to the holders of the Verso First Lien Notes than the terms and conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters (after giving effect to the “market flex” in the Fee Letters), the Fee Letters and the Existing Credit Agreement Amendments. Parent shall deliver to the Company true and complete copies of all contracts or other arrangements pursuant to which any such alternative financing source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Debt Financing. Any alternative financing secured by Parent shall be deemed to be part of the Debt Financing for purposes of this Agreement. The Company shall give Parent prompt notice: (A) of its knowledge of any material breach or default or termination by any party to any Definitive Debt Financing Documents, or (B) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to any material breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any Definitive Debt Financing Documents.
(d) At and prior to the Closing or the New NewPage Term Loan Facility Closing Date, as applicable, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to provide, and shall cause its Subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents, financial advisors, attorneys, accountants or other representatives to use reasonable best efforts to provide, in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing and the issuance and registration of the Note Consideration, all reasonable cooperation requested by Parent or Merger Sub, as applicable, including (i) execution of customary authorization letters with respect to Offering Documents, participating in a reasonable and customary number of meetings, drafting sessions, presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions and sessions with prospective lenders, investors and rating agencies and assisting Parent in obtaining ratings as contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters or as otherwise reasonably necessary for the Debt Financing (including customary one-on-one meetings with the parties acting as lead arrangers or agents for, and prospective lenders and purchasers of, the Debt Financing and senior management and representatives, with appropriate seniority and expertise, of the Company and its external auditors and advisors), (ii) assisting with the preparation of Offering Documents required in connection with the Debt Financing solely to the extent relating to the Company’s historical financial statements and other commercially sensitive information and operations), and requesting any consents of accountants for use of their historical reports in any materials relating to the Debt Financing (including the execution and delivery of customary representation letters in connection with bank information memoranda relating to the Company’s historical financial statements and other information and reviewing and commenting on Parent’s draft of a business description and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis” of the Company’s (but not the Surviving Corporation’s) financial statements to be included in offering documents contemplated by the Debt Financing), (iii) preparing and furnishing to Parent and the Lenders as promptly as practicable all Required Information to assist in preparation of the Offering Documents, (iv) providing monthly financial statements within thirty (30) days of the end of each month prior to the Closing Date and providing annual financial statements within seventy five (75) days of the end of fiscal years ending December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2014 with respect to the Company’s year-end financial results for such periods, in all cases prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis and that fairly presents, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the lack of footnote disclosures), (v) informing Parent if the Company shall have knowledge of any facts that would likely require the restatement of its financial statements, (vi) assisting in obtaining customary accountant’s reports and comfort letters, field exams, surveys, engineering reports, collateral audits and appraisals (including providing reasonable access at reasonable times to Parent, the Lenders or any lenders in connection with the Debt Financing and their respective agents to all Company-Owned Real Property for such purposes) and title insurance, and to permit and/or facilitate environmental and other inspections, title information, and other documentation and items related to the Debt Financing, as reasonably requested by Parent, (vii) causing the Company’s independent public accountants to provide all reasonable cooperation and assistance to the extent reasonably requested by Parent (including any permission as may be required from the Company’s independent public accountants in connection with the use of the Required Information), (viii) to the extent reasonably requested by Parent, assisting with the preparation and negotiation of, and facilitating the execution and delivery of, any pledge and security documents, guarantees, loan agreements, indentures, purchase agreements, and other definitive financing documents, legal opinions and officer’s certificates as may be requested by Parent (including delivering a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company (or at Parent’s option, a solvency opinion from an independent investment bank or valuation firm of nationally recognized standing) with respect to solvency matters in the fee letter entered into form set forth as an annex to the Debt Commitment Letters), (ix) taking customary and commercially reasonable actions necessary to (A) permit the prospective Lenders involved in the Debt Financing, upon reasonable advance notice at reasonable times, to evaluate the Company’s current assets, cash management and accounting systems, policies and procedures relating thereto for the purposes of establishing collateral arrangements as of the Closing Date or the New NewPage Term Loan Facility Closing Date, as applicable and (B) assisting Parent to establish or maintain, effective as of the Closing Date, bank and other accounts and blocked account agreements and lock box arrangements, in each case in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted (x) using reasonable best efforts to assist Parent to obtain required waivers, consents, estoppels and approvals from other parties to material leases, encumbrances and contracts to which the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As Company or any of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended its Subsidiaries is a party and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of arrange discussions among Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require Lenders and any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded lenders in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance connection with the Debt Financing Commitment Letterwith other parties to such material leases, encumbrances and contracts as of the Closing Date or the New NewPage Term Loan Facility Closing Date, as applicable, (xi) taking all legally permissible corporate actions, subject to the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment occurrence of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with or the New NewPage Term Loan Facility Closing Date, as applicable, reasonably requested by Parent that are necessary or customary to permit the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesDebt Financing, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.permit t
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (NewPage Holdings Inc.), Merger Agreement (Verso Paper Corp.)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Kimberly-Clark shall, and shall cause the Kimberly-Clark Subsidiaries to, use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain the Committed Financing on the terms and conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, including using their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter until the Transactions are consummated and (ii) unless Kimberly-Clark shall have reduced the commitments under the Debt Commitment Letter to zero in accordance with the immediately preceding clause (i), (A) negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Company truefacilities contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter on the terms and conditions set forth therein (including any “market flex” provisions applicable to the Financing) (or on terms that will not materially delay or prevent the Closing or make the funding with respect to the Committed Financing less likely to occur), correct (B) satisfy or cause to be waived on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Kimberly-Clark set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter or such definitive agreements that are within its control, (C) upon the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions, consummate the Committed Financing on the Closing Date and complete copies(D) enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements. Kimberly-Clark shall not, without the prior written consent of Kenvue, amend, modify, supplement, waive (or otherwise grant consent under) the Debt Commitment Letter or any definitive agreements in respect of the Committed Financing or replace all or any portion of the commitments in respect of the Financing, to the extent such amendment, modification, supplement, replacement or waiver would reasonably be expected to (w) reduce the amount of the Committed Financing to an amount that would result in Kimberly-Clark having insufficient funds, when added with cash and marketable securities of Kimberly-Clark and any then-available Committed Financing, to pay the Required Amounts, (x)(i) impose new or additional conditions precedent to the initial funding of the Committed Financing other than as contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (as in effect on the date of this Agreement) or (ii) otherwise modify the conditions precedent to the initial funding of the Committed Financing (as in effect on the date of this Agreement) in a manner reasonably expected to delay, prevent or impede the funding of the Committed Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the Committed Financing) on the Closing Date or make such funding materially less likely to occur, (y) delay in any material respect the Closing Date or (z) adversely affect the ability of Kimberly-Clark to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter (the effect described in clause (w) through (z), a “Prohibited Modification”); provided, however, Kimberly-Clark may amend, modify, supplement or waive any provision of the Debt Commitment Letter to (A) add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extentthis Agreement, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termsas contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter on the date of this Agreement, (B) reduce or terminate the commitments thereunder as a result of the consummation of an alternative financing which generates, taken together with other sources of funds immediately available to Kimberly-Clark, the Required Amounts, and (C) in any manner that does not result in a Prohibited Modification. As soon as reasonably practicable, Kimberly-Clark will provide Kenvue with true and complete executed copies of any material amendment or supplement to, or modification or replacement of or waiver under, the Debt Commitment Letter (subject, in the case of any fee letters, to redaction solely of fee and other economic provisions that are customarily redacted in connection with transactions of this type) made in compliance with this Section 7.07(a). Upon any such amendment, modification, supplement, replacement, waiver or consummation of an alternative financing, (A) the definitions of “Debt Commitment Letter” and “Financing” set forth in this Agreement shall be deemed to have been modified as appropriate to reflect such amendment, modification, supplement, replacement, waiver or alternative financing and (B) any reference in this Agreement to the “Committed Financing” shall mean financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as modified pursuant to clause (A) above.
(b) If the Committed Financing in an aggregate principal amount (together with cash and marketable securities on hand or other sources of funds immediately available to Kimberly-Clark) at least equal to Required Amounts becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter, and such unavailable amount is necessary to pay the Required Amounts (such event, an “Original Financing Failure”), Kimberly-Clark shall promptly notify Kenvue in writing of the date hereofOriginal Financing Failure and Kimberly-Clark shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, none as promptly as reasonably practicable, alternative financing from alternative sources that does not include conditions to obtaining the financing that are more onerous to Kimberly-Clark, taken as a whole, than those contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and in an amount at least equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Committed Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnor such unavailable portion thereof, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedas the case may be (the “Alternate Financing”) that is necessary to pay the Required Amounts, and to obtain new financing commitment letter(s) with respect to such Alternate Financing (the “New Commitment Letter(s)”), which shall replace the existing Debt Commitment Letter; provided that any such Alternate Financing shall not obligate Kenvue prior to the Closing as a surety, guarantor or indemnitor or to extend credit to any Person. Kimberly-Clark shall promptly provide true and complete copies of such New Commitment Letter(s) (including all attachments thereto) and all related fee letters (subject, in the case of any fee letters, to redaction solely of fee and other economic provisions that are customarily redacted in connection with transactions of this type) to Kenvue. In the event New Commitment Letter(s) are obtained, (i) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the New Commitment Letter(s) and related fee letters and (ii) any reference in this Agreement to the “Committed Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the New Commitment Letter(s).
(c) Kimberly-Clark shall keep Kenvue informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing, including, for the avoidance of doubt, notifying Kenvue of any reduction in the aggregate principal amount of the Committed Financing in connection with Kimberly-Clark obtaining other Financing in lieu thereof as contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and permitted hereby and thereby. Kimberly-Clark shall give Kenvue prompt notice of (i) any material breach or material default by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter, or any definitive agreements related to the Committed Financing, in each case, of which Kimberly-Clark becomes aware, (ii) the receipt of any written notice or other written communication, in each case received from any Financing Source with respect to any (x) material breach of Kimberly-Clark’s obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Committed Financing, or default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Committed Financing or (y) material dispute between or among any parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Committed Financing or any provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter, in each case with respect to the obligation to fund the amount of the Committed Financing to be funded at Closing and (iii) if for any reason Kimberly-Clark has determined in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Committed Financing on the terms contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter in an amount sufficient, when added with cash and marketable securities of Kimberly-Clark, to pay the Required Amounts. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall Kimberly-Clark be required to provide access to or disclose information that would jeopardize any attorney-client privilege of, or conflict with any confidentiality requirements applicable to, to Kimberly-Clark or any of its Subsidiaries (as reasonably determined in good faith by Kimberly-Clark); provided that Kimberly-Clark and the Kimberly-Clark Subsidiaries shall use reasonable best efforts to provide an alternative means of disclosing or providing such withdrawalinformation, terminationand in the case of any confidentiality obligation, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, andKimberly-Clark shall, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parentpermitted by such confidentiality obligations, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require notify Kenvue if any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment information that Kenvue has specifically identified and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent requested is being withheld as a result of any such amendment is not prohibited under obligation of confidentiality.
(d) From and after the date of this Agreement. Assuming , and through the Equity Financing earlier of the Closing and the date on which this Agreement is funded terminated in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment LetterArticle IX, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment LettersKenvue shall, and Kenvue shall cause each Kenvue Subsidiary to, and Kenvue and each Kenvue Subsidiary shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letterappropriate Representatives of Kenvue and each Kenvue Subsidiary to (or, will in the aggregatewith respect to clauses (iv) and (v), be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required take or cause to be paid taken (without any “reasonable best efforts” or other qualifier)), provide such customary cooperation as is reasonably requested by Kimberly-Clark, any Kimberly-Clark Subsidiary or any of its or their respective Representatives in connection with the Merger arrangement and consummation of the Committed Financing or any other Financing, including using reasonable best efforts to (i) cause appropriate senior management of Kenvue and any Kenvue Subsidiary reasonably available, upon reasonable advance notice and during normal business hours, to participate in a reasonable number of meetings and calls, diligence sessions, drafting sessions, road shows, sessions with rating agencies in connection with the Financing, (ii) assist with the preparation of (x) materials for rating agency presentations, lender presentations and investor and road show presentations, (y) bank information memoranda, registration statements, prospectuses, offering memoranda and private placement memoranda and (z) similar documents, in each case, required or customary in connection with the Financing or otherwise reasonably requested by Kimberly-Clark, (iii) provide customary authorization and representation letters to the Financing Sources authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders, (iv) provide the lead arrangers, agents, underwriters and initial purchasers for, and prospective lenders of, the Financing, at least three Business Days prior to the closing date of the applicable Financing (to the extent requested at least ten Business Days prior to the closing date of the applicable Financing) with all documentation and other information required with respect to Kenvue and the other transactions contemplated herebyKenvue Subsidiaries in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including payment the USA PATRIOT Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 and 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230, the Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, (v) provide, as promptly as reasonably practicable, the Required Financial Information, (vi) cause its independent accountants to provide assistance and cooperation with any offering of securities, including (x) providing any necessary written consents to use their audit reports relating to Kenvue and the Kenvue Subsidiaries and to be named as an “Expert” in any document related to any Financing, (y) providing any customary “comfort” letters (including customary “negative assurance” comfort) and (z) participating in accounting due diligence sessions, (vii) cooperate with the Financing Related Parties’ due diligence, to the extent customary or reasonable, (viii) provide, as promptly as reasonably practicable, all financial and other customary financial information regarding Kenvue and the Kenvue Subsidiaries as may be reasonably necessary for Kimberly-Clark to prepare pro forma financial statements required or desirable for a public offering of debt or equity or equity-linked securities or required by Regulation S-K and Regulation S-X, including in connection with the Financing (it being understood that Kimberly-Clark shall be solely responsible for the preparation of any pro forma financial information or pro forma financial statements), (ix) cooperate with the preparation and delivery of customary definitive financing documents, including, in each case, the schedules thereto, or documents contemplated by the Financing, (x) cooperate with Kimberly-Clark and the Kimberly-Clark Subsidiaries in connection with any replacement letters of credit issued pursuant to the Kenvue Credit Facility, (xi) facilitate discussions with Kenvue’s existing lender and banking relationships and (xii) provide customary guarantee documentation at the Closing of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationFinancing, as required by the Financing Related Parties.
(i) The cooperation set forth in Sections 7.07(d), (j) and (k) shall not be required to make the extent that it would (A) require Kenvue to take any repaymentaction that, repurchase in the good faith judgment of Kenvue, unreasonably interferes with the ongoing business or refinancing operations of debt Kenvue and/or Kenvue Subsidiaries, (B) require Kenvue or any Kenvue Subsidiary to incur (1) any financing fee or (2) any other fee, expense or other liability that is not, subject to the limitations contained therein , subject to reimbursement or is not otherwise indemnified by Kimberly-Clark, (C) cause any representation or warranty in this Agreement to be breached (unless waived in advance by Kimberly-Clark), (D) cause any condition to Closing to fail to be satisfied or otherwise cause any breach of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, (E) be reasonably expected to pay cause any other amounts director, officer or employee of Kenvue or any Kenvue Subsidiary to incur any personal liability or (F) cause any breach of any applicable Law or any material Contract to which Kenvue or any Kenvue Subsidiary is a party and (ii) Kenvue and the Kenvue Subsidiaries shall not be required to be paid by Parent (w) enter into, execute, or Merger Sub on approve any agreement or other documentation prior to the Closing Date or agree to any change or modification of any existing agreement or other documentation that would, in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”)each case, assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on be effective prior to the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to other than the extent Parent execution of customary authorization and representation letters) (x) deliver any certificate or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such take any other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe action that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute result in personal liability to a default director, officer or breach on other personnel, (y) deliver any legal opinion or (z) otherwise provide any information or take any action to the part extent it could result in (I) a loss or waiver of Parent any privilege or Merger Sub or(II) the disclosure of any trade secrets, customer-specific data or competitively sensitive information not otherwise required to be provided under this Agreement or the violation of any confidentiality obligation; provided that Kenvue and the Kenvue Subsidiaries shall use reasonable best efforts to provide an alternative means of disclosing or providing such information, and in the case of any confidentiality obligation, Kenvue shall, to the knowledge extent permitted by such confidentiality obligations, notify Kimberly-Clark if any such information that Kimberly-Clark has specifically identified and requested is being withheld as a result of Parentany such obligation of confidentiality.
(f) Subject to Kimberly-Clark’s indemnification obligations under Section 7.07(g), any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions Kenvue hereby consents to the obligations customary use of its and Kenvue Subsidiaries’ logos and trademarks in connection with the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there Financing; provided that such logos and trademarks are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is used solely in a party manner that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.intended to and would not reasonably be expected to harm or dispara
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Kimberly Clark Corp), Merger Agreement (Kenvue Inc.)
Financing. (a) On or prior to the date of this Agreement, Parent has delivered to the Company true, complete and correct copy of the fully executed debt commitment letter, together with any related fee letters (with only the fee amount, economic flex and complete copiescertain other economic terms redacted in a customary manner (none of which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect conditionality, enforceability or termination provisions of the Commitment Letter or reduce the aggregate principal amount of the Financing)), dated as of the date hereofof this Agreement, of by and among the Financing Sources named therein and Parent providing for debt financing as described therein (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with together, including all exhibits, schedules, schedules and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified thereinannexes, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and”), together with the Equity Commitment Letterspursuant to which, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on upon the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated set forth therein, debt financing in each of the Financing Sources named therein has agreed, severally but not jointly, to lend the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms for the purpose of, among other things, paying the aggregate Merger Consideration. As of the “market flex” date of this Agreement, the Commitment Letter is in full force and other commercially sensitive informationeffect and constitutes the valid, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financingbinding and enforceable obligation of Parent and, may have been redacted to the extentKnowledge of Parent, the other parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms, in each case, they subject to the Enforceability Exceptions. There are Permissible Redacted Termsno conditions precedent related to the funding of the full amount of the Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter, other than the conditions precedent set forth in the Commitment Letter (such conditions precedent, the “Financing Conditions”).
(b) As of the date of this Agreement, the Commitment Letter has not been amended or modified in any manner, and the respective commitments contained therein have not been terminated, reduced, withdrawn or rescinded in any respect by Parent or, to the Knowledge of Parent, any other party thereto, and no such termination, reduction, withdrawal or rescission is contemplated by Parent or, to the Knowledge of Parent, any other party thereto, other than to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or other similar entities who had not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement to the extent permitted by Section 7.12 and mandatory reductions expressly contemplated thereby. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) 8.1 and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may 8.2 will be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Datesatisfied, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under (i) any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 Conditions will not be satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under Date or (ii) the Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letters Letter will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date.
(c) As of the date of this Agreement, Parent is not in default or breach under the terms and conditions of the Commitment Letter. As of the date hereofof this Agreement, there are no side letters, understandings or other agreements or arrangements (other than customary fee credit letters and engagement letters) affecting the Equity Commitment Letter contains all availability of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor of its Affiliates is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Dateparty, other than as expressly those set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided and the fee letters related to the Commitment Letter delivered to the Company pursuant to Section 4.9(a). Parent or an Affiliate thereof on its behalf has fully paid any and all commitment or other fees and amounts required by the Commitment Letter to be paid on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity of this Agreement.
(d) Assuming that (i) the parties to the Commitment Letter provides(other than Parent or Merger Sub) perform their obligations in accordance with the terms of the Commitment Letter and (ii) the satisfaction or waiver of the condition set forth in Section 8.2(a) hereof, Parent will have at and will continue as of the Closing Date sufficient available funds to providesatisfy all of Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement and under the Commitment Letter and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, that including the payment of the Merger Consideration, any payments in respect of equity compensation obligations to be made in connection with the Merger, any repayment or refinancing of any outstanding indebtedness of Parent, the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge their respective Subsidiaries contemplated by, or required in connection with the transactions described in, this Agreement or the Commitment Letter and agree that their obligation all other amounts to consummate be paid pursuant to this Agreement and associated costs and expenses of the Merger and pay the Aggregate transactions contemplated thereby (such amounts, collectively, the “Merger Consideration is Amounts”). As of the date of this Agreement, Parent has no reason to believe that the representation contained in the immediately preceding sentence will not conditioned on be true at and as of the Closing Date. In no event shall the receipt or availability of Debt Financingany funds or financing (including the Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter) by or to Parent or any of its Affiliates or any other financing transaction be a condition to any of the obligations of Parent or Merger Sub hereunder.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Nexstar Media Group, Inc.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Tribune Media Co)
Financing. (a) The Parent has delivered Entities and the Merger Subs shall, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates to, use its reasonable best efforts to obtain and consummate the Equity Financing at or prior to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Effective Time on the terms described in, and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereofin, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided delivered to the Company Entities on or prior to the date hereof, including using its reasonable best efforts to maintain in full force and effect the Equity Commitment Letter. Each Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that all conditions contained in the Equity Commitment Letter provideshave been satisfied (or upon funding will be satisfied), the Parent Entities and the Merger Subs shall, and will continue shall cause the Equity Investors to, fund at, prior to provideor concurrently with the Effective Time, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation Equity Financing required to consummate the Transactions and to pay a portion of the Required Amount at, prior to or concurrently with the Effective Time. The Parent Entities and the Merger Subs shall use their reasonable best efforts to comply with their respective obligations, and pay enforce their rights, under the Aggregate Equity Commitment Letter in a timely and diligent manner. The Parent Entities and the Merger Consideration is not conditioned Subs shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company Entities, (A) permit any amendment, assignment, supplement or other modification to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, restate, substitute or replace, the Equity Commitment Letter if such amendment, assignment, supplement, modification, waiver, restatement, substitution or replacement would reasonably be expected to (1) (x) adversely impact the ability of any Parent Entity or Merger Sub to enforce their respective rights against any other parties to the Equity Commitment Letter in any respect as so amended, assigned, replaced, restated, substituted, supplemented or otherwise modified, relative to the ability of the Merger Subs to enforce their rights against any of such other parties to the Equity Commitment Letter as in effect on the availability date hereof, (y) add new (or expand, amend, or otherwise modify any existing) conditions to the receipt of any Equity Financing or otherwise adversely affect (including with respect to timing) the ability or likelihood of the Parent Entities or the Merger Subs to timely consummate the Mergers at the Closing or any of the Transactions or (z) make the timely funding of any Equity Financing or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Equity Financing less likely to occur, (2) reduce the amount of the Equity Financing or (3) prevent, impede, impair or delay the consummation of the Mergers and the Transactions or obtaining an amount of the Equity Financing that, together with the Debt Financing and, following the consummation of any Company Sale undertaken at the request of the Parent Entities and in accordance with Section 7.16, any Available Company Sale Net Cash Proceeds, would at least equal the Required Amount, (B) terminate any Equity Commitment Letter, (C) take or fail to take any action or enter into any transaction that would reasonably be expected to impede, impair, delay or prevent the timely consummation of the Equity Financing contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letter or (D) adversely affect the ability of the Parent Entities and the Merger Subs to enforce their rights against the other parties to any of the Equity Commitment Letter.
(b) The Parent Entities and the Merger Subs shall, and shall cause each of their Affiliates to, use their reasonable best efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and obtain the financing contemplated thereby on the terms and conditions on or prior to the Effective Time (including, to the extent required, the full exercise of any flex provisions) set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, including using their reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in full force and effect the Debt Commitment Letter in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, (ii) comply with their obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter, (iii) negotiate, execute and deliver the Definitive Financing Agreements contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) that are no less favorable to the Parent Entities and the Merger Subs than the terms contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter; provided, that such other terms do not include or result in a Prohibited Modification, (iv) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain a waiver of) all conditions to funding that are applicable to the Parent Entities and Merger Subs in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Financing Agreements, (v) enforce their rights pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letter in a timely and diligent manner and (vi) consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing on the terms and conditions contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter, including by causing the Debt Financing Sources to fund the Debt Financing at the Closing. The Parent Entities shall provide to the Company, upon reasonable request, copies of all agreements and other documents relating to the Debt Financing and shall keep the Company reasonably informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of material developments in respect of the Debt Financing. The Parent Entities shall give the Company prompt notice of any Financing Failure Event of which the Parent Entities or their Affiliates becomes aware and, as soon as reasonably practicable, the Parent Entities shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any Financing Failure Event; provided, that providing such information will not violate any applicable privilege or confidentiality obligation. The Parent Entities and the Merger Subs will fully pay, or cause to be fully paid, all commitment or other fees arising pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letter as and when they become due.
(c) The Parent Entities shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, (i) terminate or permit the termination, withdrawal, repudiation or rescission of, or release any of the obligations of any Debt Financing Source under the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Agreements (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, pursuant to any reduction in the amount of the Debt Financing pursuant to Section 10 of the Debt Commitment Letter), unless such Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Agreement is replaced at such time with a new commitment letter or definitive agreement that, were it structured as an amendment to such Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Agreement, would satisfy the following clause (ii), or (ii) permit any amendment, assignment, supplement or other modification to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, or restate, substitute or replace, the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Agreements if such amendment, assignment, supplement modification, waiver, restatement, substitution or replacement (w) would reasonably be expected to adversely impacts in any material respect the ability of the Parent Entities or Merger Subs to enforce their respective rights against the Debt Financing Sources party to such Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Agreement as so amended, assigned, replaced, restated, substituted, supplemented or otherwise modified, relative to the ability of the Parent Entities or Merger Subs to enforce their rights against any of such other parties to the Debt Commitment Letters as in effect on the date hereof, (x) would be reasonably expected to (1) add any new condition to the Debt Financing (or amend or modify any existing condition in any manner adverse to the Parent Entities) or otherwise be reasonably expected to delay or adversely affect the ability of the Parent Entities or the Merger Subs to consummate the Mergers at the Closing or any of the Transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (2) reasonably be expected to delay or prevent or make less likely the timely funding of the Debt Financing or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Debt Financing, (y) reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing provided for under such Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Agreement (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid in respect of the Debt Financing or original issue discount in respect of the Debt Financing) to an amount, when taken together with the available portion of the Debt Financing and the Equity Financing together with, following the consummation of any Company Sale undertaken at the request of the Parent Entities and in accordance with Section 7.16, any Available Company Sale Net Cash Proceeds, less than the Required Amount, or (z) would reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or delay the consummation of the Mergers and the other Transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the effects described in clauses (w) through (z), collectively, the “Prohibited Modifications”); provided, that, subject to Section 7.05(e), the Parent Entities may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add Debt Financing Sources, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. In the event any such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement of the Debt Financing in accordance with this Section 7.13(c) is effected, any reference in this Agreement to the term (A) the “Debt Commitment Letter” will be deemed to mean the Debt Commitment Letter as so amended, supplemented, modified, waived or replaced, (B) the “Definitive Financing Agreements” will be deemed to mean the Definitive Financing Agreements as so amended, supplemented, modified, waived or replaced, (C) the “Debt Financing” will be deemed to mean the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Agreements, as applicable, each as modified pursuant to the foregoing, and (D) the “Debt Financing Sources” will be deemed to include the Persons signatory to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Agreements, as applicable, each as modified pursuant to the foregoing.
(d) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, including on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter (such unavailability of Debt Financing, a “Financing Failure Event”), the Parent Entities shall use their reasonable best efforts to, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, (i) obtain alternative financing from alternative sources in an amount, when taken together with the available portion of the Debt Financing, the Equity Financing and, following the consummation of any Company Sale undertaken at the request of the Parent Entities and in accordance with Section 7.16, any Available Company Sale Net Cash Proceeds, sufficient to pay the Required Amount at Closing, and (ii) obtain one or more new debt financing commitment letters with respect to such alternative debt financing, which new debt financing commitment letters will replace the existing Debt Commitment Letter in whole or in part, provided in no event shall their reasonable best efforts be deemed or construed to require them to, obtain alternative financing that includes terms and conditions, taken as a whole, that are less favorable in any material respect to the Parent Entities and the Merger Subs than the terms and conditions, taken as a whole, set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, and in each case, as of the date hereof (taking into account any flex provisions applicable thereto contained in the related fee letters) or would require them to pay any fees or agree to pay any interest rate amounts or original issue discounts, in either case, in excess of those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof (taking into account any flex provisions applicable thereto), or which would add any new condition to the consummation of such alternative debt financing, or otherwise be reasonably expected to make the timely funding of such alternative financing in full less likely to occur, than the conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof; provided, further, for the avoidance of doubt, that in no event shall a reduction in the amount of Debt Financing pursuant to Section 10 of the Debt Commitment Letter be deemed to be a Financing Failure Event. The Parent Entities shall promptly provide the Company Entities with a copy of any such new debt financing commitment letter (and a redacted fee letter in connection therewith (of which only the fee amounts, price caps and economic “flex” terms have been redacted; provided, that such redacted terms do not affect the conditionality of or the amount of Debt Financing to be funded at the Closing)). In the event that any new debt financing commitment letters are obtained in accordance with this Section 7.13(d), any reference in this Agreement to (A) the “Debt Commitment Letter” will be deemed to mean the Debt Commitment Letter to the extent not superseded by one or more new debt financing commitment letters at the time in question and any new debt financing commitment letters to the extent then in effect, (B) the “Financing” or the “Debt Financing” will be deemed to mean the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as modified pursuant to the foregoing and (C) the “Debt Financing Sources” will be deemed to include the Persons signatory to the new debt financing commitment letters.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Emanuel Ariel)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Buyer shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange the Company true, correct and complete copies, Debt Financing as of promptly as practicable following the date hereofof this Agreement and to consummate the Debt Financing on the Closing Date, of including the following:
(i) each fully executed Equity Buyer shall have the right from time to time to amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under, the Debt Commitment Letter, and/or substitute other debt (but not equity financing) for all or any portion of the Debt Financing from the same financing sources or alternative financing sources (with Parent’s consent), if any such amendment, replacement, supplement or other modification to or waiver of any provision of the Commitment Letter that amends the Debt Financing and/or substitution of all or any portion of the Debt Financing shall not (i) impose new or additional or expand upon or modify the financing provided for therein being collectively referred conditions precedent to the Debt Financing as set forth in the “Equity Financing”) and Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated prevent or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification impede or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Agreement, (iii) adversely impact the ability of Buyer to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter or (iv) provide for terms and conditions (including any “Required Amount”)flex” provisions) that are, assuming in the satisfaction aggregate, less favorable to Buyer and the Sellers than those in the Debt Commitment Letter. Buyer shall not be permitted to reduce the amount of Debt Financing under the Debt Commitment Letter unless it provides an equity commitment letter of a corresponding amount.
(ii) participation by senior management of Buyer in, and assistance with, the preparation of rating agency presentations and meetings with rating agencies;
(iii) satisfying on a timely basis (or obtain a waiver of) all Financing Conditions that are within its control;
(iv) negotiating, executing and delivering Debt Financing Documents that reflect the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto) and providing copies of drafts thereof exchanged with the Financing Sources to Parent, subject to any customary redaction;
(v) in the event that the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aSections 8.01 and 8.02 and the Financing Conditions have been satisfied or, upon funding would be satisfied, causing the Financing Sources to fund the full amount of the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing (and, for the avoidance of doubt, Buyer acknowledges and agrees that (A) in the event that on the final day of the Marketing Period (x) all or a portion of the Debt Financing structured as high yield debt or contemplated to be sold pursuant to a Rule 144A transaction has not been issued or sold, (y) all conditions precedent to Buyer’s obligations hereunder shall have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions which by their nature will not be satisfied until the Closing) and Section 7.02(b(z) on the Closing Date. Each Financing bridge financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentavailable, Merger Sub then on such date Buyer shall borrow under and use the proceeds of the bridge financing to finance, in part, the Closing Date Payments and (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party theretoB) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance Buyer shall comply with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization any “securities demand” or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ provisions included in the Debt Commitment Letter or any related fee letter and use any proceeds from the sale of securities issued thereunder to finance, in part, the Closing Date Payments); and
(vi) enforcing its rights generally and by general principles of equity. As under the Debt Commitment Letters.
(b) Buyer shall keep Parent informed in reasonable detail of the date hereofstatus of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing. Buyer shall give Parent prompt notice (a) of any breach or repudiation, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any anticipated or threatened breach or repudiation (including any event has occurred whichor circumstance that, with without or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default give rise to any breach or breach repudiation), by any Party to the Debt Commitment Letters of which Buyer or its Affiliates becomes aware or (b) if, for any reason, Buyer no longer believes in good faith that it will be able to obtain all or any portion of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters on the part terms described therein. Without limiting Buyer’s other obligations under this Section 5.15, if a Financing Failure Event occurs, Buyer shall (i) promptly notify Parent of such Financing Failure Event and the reasons therefor, (ii) in consultation with the Parent or Merger Sub orand the Sellers, use its reasonable best efforts to obtain (on terms as favorable to Buyer in the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any aggregate as are reasonably available for financings of the Financing type contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters. Assuming Letter in the satisfaction debt markets at such time) alternative financing from alternative financing sources, in an amount sufficient to make the Closing Date Payments and any payments pursuant to Section 2.06 and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and when obtained, provide Parent and the Sellers with a copy of, a replacement financing commitment in accordance with Section 5.15(a)(i) that provides for such alternative financing.
(c) As promptly as practicable following the receipt of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 financial information required by clause (A) of the definition of Financing Information, Holdings shall prepare and Section 7.02 file with the SEC a prospectus supplement to its currently effective Registration Statement on Form S-3 with respect to, and commence an offering of, the common stock of Holdings (the “Common Stock Offering”), which Buyer will use to pay a portion of the Purchase Price for the Equity Interests on the Closing Date, .
(d) As promptly as practicable following the consummation of the date hereof, Parent does not have Common Stock Offering (and in any reason to believe that event following the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As receipt of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all financial information required by clause (A) of the conditions precedent definition of Financing Information), Holdings shall prepare and other conditions file with the SEC and deliver to the obligations holders of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent its common stock a prospectus supplement for a rights offering on the terms therein. As and conditions described in the Parent Backstop generating gross proceeds to Holdings of no less than $125 million less the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings net proceeds received by Holdings pursuant to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of Common Stock Offering (the Equity Financing on “Subscription Rights Offering”).
(e) Prior to the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in Buyer shall promptly notify Parent upon the Equity Commitment Letter provided receipt of any comments from the SEC or its staff or any request from the SEC or its staff with respect to the Company Common Stock Offering or the Subscription Rights Offering, and Buyer and Holdings shall provide Parent with copies of all correspondence between it and its Representatives, on or prior the one hand, and the SEC and its staff, on the other hand, relating to the date hereofCommon Stock Offering or the Subscription Rights Offering or the transactions contemplated hereby. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, Buyer and will continue Holdings shall use their reasonable best efforts to provide, that respond as promptly as practicable to any comments of the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation SEC with respect to consummate the Merger and pay Common Stock Offering or the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on Subscription Rights Offering or the availability of Debt Financingtransactions contemplated hereby.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Purchase and Sale Agreement (Aleris Corp), Purchase and Sale Agreement (Signature Group Holdings, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and MergerSub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain the Company true, correct Debt Financing on the terms and complete copies, conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letters as of promptly as practicable after the date hereof, of including (but subject in all respects to Section 11.13) their reasonable best efforts to (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and Letters, (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, respect thereto on the terms and subject only conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letters (including the flex provisions) or on other terms no less favorable to Parent and MergerSub as to conditionality, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent and MergerSub in the Debt Commitment Letters that are within their control (including by consummating the Equity Financing pursuant to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” Equity Commitment Letter), (iv) consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing and other commercially sensitive information(v) enforce their rights under the Equity Commitment Letter to the extent set forth in Section 11.13 (but not the Debt Commitment Letters as more fully described in Section 11.13); it being understood that Parent and MergerSub may seek to obtain financing in a private placement of securities pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act in lieu of a portion of the Debt Financing (and references to the Debt Financing in this Section 8.03 shall be deemed to include such private placement); provided, however, that (1) Parent and MergerSub shall not release or waive the Debt Commitment Letters or the obligations of the arrangers and lenders thereunder and (2) Parent and MergerSub shall proceed with, and consummate, the financing contemplated in the fee letter entered into Debt Financing Letters in connection the event that such alternative private placement financing is not available. Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed with respect to all material activity concerning the status of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters and shall give the Company notice of any material adverse change with respect to such Financing as promptly as practicable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and MergerSub shall give the Company prompt notice (x) of any material breach or material default by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letters, or any definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing, may have been redacted in each case of which Parent or MergerSub becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication, in each case received from any Debt Financing source with respect to any (3) material breach of Parent’s or MergerSub’s obligations under the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the extentDebt Financing, or default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or (4) material dispute between or among any parties to any of the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or any provisions of any of the Debt Commitment Letters, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termswith respect to the obligation to fund the Debt Financing or the amount of the Debt Financing to be funded at Closing and (z) of the receipt of any notice or other communication (written or verbal) on the basis of which Parent expects that a party to the Debt Financing will fail to fund the Debt Financing or is reducing the amount of the Debt Financing; provided that in no event shall Parent or MergerSub be under any obligation to disclose any information pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) that would waive the protection of attorney-client or similar privilege if such party shall have used reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within five Business Days of the date hereofthe Company delivers to Parent or MergerSub a written request, none Parent and MergerSub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clauses (x), (y) or (z) of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to immediately preceding sentence. In the extent related to event that any Person that is not an Affiliate portion of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with becomes unavailable on the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, terms and the net proceeds conditions contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment LetterLetters (including the flex provisions), will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of (A) Parent shall promptly notify the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by (B) Parent and MergerSub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain any such portion from alternative sources, on terms, taken as whole, that are no more adverse to Parent and the Company (including after giving effect to the market flex provisions), as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event but in no event later than the last day of the Marketing Period. In furtherance of the provisions of this AgreementSection 8.03, to pay any other amounts required to one or more Debt Commitment Letters may be paid by amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified or superseded at the option of Parent or Merger Sub on or after the date of this Agreement but prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.the
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Rennes Fondation), Merger Agreement (Ebix Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use reasonable best efforts to the Company truetake, correct or cause to be taken, all actions and complete copiesto do, as of the date hereofor cause to be done, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred all things necessary, advisable or proper to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of obtain the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in an amount sufficient, together with any available cash of the Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, to fund the Merger Financing Amount, including by using reasonable best efforts to:
(i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letter (unless the Committed Financing has been fully replaced with other debt financing in compliance with the terms of Section 7.15(f)),
(ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing (the “Definitive Agreements”),
(iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to the funding of the Financing and the Definitive Agreements (or, if necessary or deemed advisable by Parent, seek the waiver of such conditions applicable to Parent contained in the Financing or such Definitive Agreements), including (unless and until the Committed Financing has been fully replaced with other financing in compliance with the terms of Section 7.15(f)) using reasonable best efforts to (w) provide diligence information requested by the Financing Entities party to the Commitment Letter, (x) obtain third-party reports (including the reliance language contained therein) with respect to the Parent Commitment Letter Properties, including (A) engineering reports, (B) Phase I environmental reports (and Phase II if recommended), (C) a seismic report (if applicable), including SEL/SUL calculations, (D) title insurance and survey with such endorsements as Lender shall reasonably request, (E) zoning report and (F) FIRREA compliant appraisals, in each case in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Financing Entities party to the Commitment Letter, (y) provide estoppels (including from any tenants, ground lessors or condominium or REA counterparties) and SNDAs and (z) create a transaction steps memorandum in connection with the Committed Financing satisfactory to the Financing Entities party to the Commitment Letter, and
(iv) comply with Parent’s obligations under the Commitment Letter and the Definitive Agreements, and cause the Financing Entities party to the Commitment Letter to comply with their respective obligations thereunder, including to fund the Committed Financing if it is required in order for Parent to fund the Merger Financing Amount on the Closing Date.
(b) In the event that the Closing Date is not expected to occur on or prior to June 30, 2023, Parent shall deliver a written notice to the Financing Entities party to the Commitment Letter to extend the expiration date thereunder to September 30, 2023 and pay the related extension fee in a timely manner so that such expiration date is so extended, unless, prior to the date on which such notice is due, the Committed Financing has been fully replaced with other debt financing in compliance with the terms of Section 7.15(f). Parent shall enforce its rights under the Commitment Letter and the Definitive Agreements in a timely and diligent manner. Except as permitted pursuant to Section 7.15(f), Parent shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company and the Company Special Committee (in each case, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), (x) to the extent Parent is entitled to withhold its consent pursuant to the terms of the Commitment Letter, consent to any release of the obligations of JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association under the Commitment Letter prior to the funding of the loan thereunder or (y) permit any amendment or modification to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements if such amendment, modification or waiver (i) adds new or modifies any existing conditions to the consummation of all or any portion of the Financing, (ii) reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing, when together with any available cash of the Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, below the Merger Financing Amount; provided that, the aggregate amount of the Committed Financing may be reduced by the Financing Entities in accordance with the terms thereof, (iii) adversely affects the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements as so amended, modified or waived, relative to the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof or (iv) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay the ability of Parent to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (Date pursuant to the extent terms hereof (the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv), collectively, the “Prohibited Financing Modifications”). Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, shall promptly deliver to the knowledge Company copies of Parentany such amendment, such other Persons party thereto in accordance modification, waiver or replacement.
(c) Parent shall give the Company prompt notice upon becoming aware of, or receiving written notice with its termsrespect to, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcyany material breach of or default under, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, or circumstance that (with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or ) would reasonably be expected to constitute give rise to any material breach of or default under, the Commitment Letter by a default party thereto or breach any termination, withdrawal or rescission of the Commitment Letter. In the event that any portion of the Committed Financing becomes unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor, unless the Committed Financing has been fully replaced with other financing in compliance with the terms of Section 7.15(f), Parent will (i) use reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative financing (in an amount sufficient, when taken together with the available portion of the Committed Financing and any available cash of the Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, to fund the Merger Financing Amount on the part of Parent Closing Date) from the same or Merger Sub or, other sources that does not include any conditions to the knowledge consummation of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of such alternative financing that are more onerous than the conditions set forth in the Commitment Letter and (ii) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and the reason therefor.
(d) Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to satisfy the Parent Credit Agreement Condition as soon as practicable following the date hereof (it being understood and agreed that this Section 7.01 7.15(d) does not require Parent to accept terms that are, taken as a whole, materially less favorable than prevailing market terms available to borrowers similar to Parent, after giving effect to the Merger, with respect to industry, size, credit rating, management projections, balance sheet, assets and leverage).
(e) At the Company’s request, Parent shall (i) keep the Company and the Company Special Committee informed on a reasonable and timely basis and in reasonable detail of the status of Parent’s efforts to arrange the Financing (including any plans to obtain financing pursuant to Section 7.02 7.15(f)) and satisfy the Parent Credit Agreement Condition, (ii) provide to the Company and the Company Special Committee copies of drafts or final versions of any engagement letters, marketing materials, term sheets, rating agency materials or definitive documents relating to the Financing or efforts to satisfy the Parent Credit Agreement Condition and (iii) reasonably consider comments provided by the Company or Company Special Committee on any such materials or documents.
(f) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Parent may terminate the Commitment Letter or reduce, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, the aggregate amount of the Committed Financing, in the event Parent consummates, or obtains commitments to obtain, another debt financing in an amount sufficient, when taken together with any available cash of the Parties and their respective Subsidiaries reasonably expected to be available for such purpose at Closing (such amount, in the case of cash of the Company and its Subsidiaries, not to exceed an amount that the Company Special Committee reasonably considers reasonable), to fund the Merger Financing Amount on the Closing Date; provided that, any such replacement of the Committed Financing (A) shall not result in a Prohibited Financing Modification occurring with respect to any remaining portion of the Committed Financing as of set forth in the Commitment Letter on the date hereof, Parent does (B) shall not have any reason to believe contain conditions that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available are taken as a whole less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub and the Company than the Committed Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter in effect on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, (C) shall not be reasonably expected to prevent or delay the Equity Commitment Letter contains all Closing or the ability of Parent to consummate the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing transactions contemplated by this Agreement on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth Date pursuant to the terms hereof and (D) in the Equity Commitment Letter provided case of any new Financing commitments, shall have an expiration date no earlier than the Outside Date. To the extent that any new Financing commitment is obtained in accordance with this Section 7.15(f), after obtaining such commitments, Parent will not make any Prohibited Financing Modification thereto or to the Company on or related definitive documentation for such Financing without the prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that written consent of the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation the Company Special Committee (in each case, not to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingbe unreasonably withheld or delayed).
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Diversified Healthcare Trust), Merger Agreement (Office Properties Income Trust)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange, obtain and consummate the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn(or, terminatedif available, repudiatedon other terms that are acceptable to Parent in its sole discretion, rescinded, amended, amended and restated so long as such other terms do not include or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedresult in a Prohibited Modification), and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, shall not permit any amendment, amendment and restatement, replacement, supplement or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Financing Commitment Letters if such amendment, restatement, replacement, supplement, modification or waiver has occurred(A) reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Financing to an amount less than, and, to when taken together with the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate available portion of the Financing and cash on hand at Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any Company and its Subsidiaries (assuming such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt cash on hand of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementis equal to the Minimum Cash Amount), the amount required to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to for the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Financing Purposes (the “Required Amount”), assuming (B) imposes new or additional conditions precedent to the satisfaction funding of the Financing, or otherwise expands any of the conditions precedent to the funding of the Financing or (C) would reasonably be expected to (i) material delay (taking into account Section 2.01) or prevent the Closing or (ii) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Sub or, in the case of the Equity Commitment Letters, the Company, to enforce its rights against other parties to the Financing Commitment Letters (the effects described in clauses (A) through (C), collectively, “Prohibited Modifications”); provided that Parent may add (pursuant to the terms of the Debt Commitment Letter) as parties to the Debt Commitment Letter lenders, arrangers, bookrunners, agents, managers or similar entities who have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. For purposes of this Section 6.17, references to “Equity Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters as permitted to be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced by this Section 6.17(a) and references to “Debt Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced by this Section 6.17(a). The parties agree that Parent may assign the Equity Commitment Letters and/or the Guarantees, in whole or in part, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a6.17(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule (any such assignment, an “Equity Assignment,” and Section 7.02(bthe date thereof, the “Equity Assignment Date”).
(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, of Parent and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party theretoA) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are maintain in full force and effect the Financing Commitment Letters, (B) satisfy on a timely basis (taking into account Section 2.01) all conditions to funding in the Financing Commitment Letters and assuming to consummate the satisfaction Financing at or waiver prior to the Closing, including using its reasonable best efforts to cause the Persons committing to fund the Financing to fund the Financing at the Closing, (C) enforce its rights under the Financing Commitment Letters and (D) comply with its obligations under the Financing Commitment Letters. Without limiting the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall promptly notify the Company in writing if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any Financing Commitment Letter is terminated for any reason, (ii) any Person party to any Financing Commitment Letter indicates in writing that it will not provide, or it refuses to provide, all or any portion of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing DateFinancing, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of (iii) Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of ParentParent or Merger Sub, any other parties thereto, under Person party to the Financing Commitment Letters defaults or breaches any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the terms or conditions set forth in Section 7.01 any Financing Commitment Letter, (iv) any event occurs that, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would reasonably be expected to result in a default or breach of any of the terms or conditions set forth in any Financing Commitment Letter, or (v) Parent or Merger Sub receives any written notice or other written communication with respect to any (A) early termination of, repudiation by any Person party to or material default or material breach under any Financing Commitment Letter or (B) material dispute or disagreement between or among any Persons party to the Financing Commitment Letters with respect to the obligation to fund the Financing on the Closing Date in an amount necessary to fund the Required Amount.
(c) Prior to the Closing, the Company shall, and Section 7.02 shall cause its Subsidiaries and use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their respective Representatives to, provide such reasonable cooperation as is customary and reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the obtaining and arranging of the Debt Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such reasonable best efforts in any event shall include:
(i) participating in a reasonable number of meetings (including meetings with prospective Debt Financing Sources), presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions and sessions with rating agencies, at reasonable and mutually agreed times and with reasonable advance notice;
(ii) to the extent required by the Debt Commitment Letter, facilitating the pledging of, and perfection of security interests in, collateral, effective no earlier than the Effective Time;
(iii) furnishing Parent as promptly as reasonably practicable the Company Financial Information and, following the delivery of a request therefor to the Company by Parent (which notice shall state with specificity the information requested), such other financial and other information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as is reasonably requested by Parent or the Debt Financing Sources and as is customarily required in connection with financings of a type similar to the Debt Financing;
(iv) in each case following Parent’s reasonable request, assisting Parent and Merger Sub in the preparation of (A) confidential information memoranda (including a version that does not include material non-public information) and other customary marketing materials required in connection with financings similar to the Debt Financing and (B) materials for rating agency presentations;
(v) following Parent’s reasonable request, using commercially reasonable efforts to cause directors and officers who will continue to hold such offices and positions from and after the Effective Time to execute and provide resolutions or consents of the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to entering into the Definitive Financing Agreements and otherwise as necessary to authorize consummation of the Debt Financing; provided that no such resolution or consent shall become effective until the Effective Time;
(vi) providing (A) customary authorization and representation letters to the Debt Financing Sources with respect to marketing materials from a senior officer of the Company (which authorization and representation letters will become effective before the Effective Time) to the extent required in the Debt Commitment Letter and (B) a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company in the form set forth on Annex I to Exhibit C of the Debt Commitment Letter (as in effect on the date hereof) with respect to solvency matters;
(vii) if requested by Parent, providing (A) at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as is required by United States regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act, to the extent requested by Parent in writing at least nine (9) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date and (B) a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by 31 C.F.R. §1010.230 to any Debt Financing Source that has requested such certification, to the extent requested by Parent in writing at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date;
(viii) assisting reasonably in the preparation and execution of necessary and customary Definitive Financing Agreements (including one or more credit agreements, security agreements, mortgages and/or guarantees and the schedules and exhibits thereto) in connection with the Debt Financing or other certificates or documents as may reasonably be requested by Parent, in each case, to be held in escrow pending release by the Company at, and subject to the occurrence of, the Effective Time; and
(ix) to the extent required in the Debt Commitment Letter, using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the syndication efforts with respect to the Debt Financing benefit materially from the existing lending and investment banking relationships of the date hereofCompany, Parent does it being understood and agreed that (x) such cooperation shall not have unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company or any reason of its Affiliates and (y) the provisions set forth in this Section 6.17(c) represent the sole obligation of the Company and its Affiliates with respect to believe that the full amount under Debt Financing and no other provision of this Agreement (including the Financing exhibits and schedules hereto) or the Debt Commitment Letters Letter will not be available deemed to expand such obligations. All non-public or otherwise confidential information regarding the Company or its Affiliates obtained by Parent or Merger Sub on or their Representatives pursuant to this Section 6.17(c) shall be kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, as modified by Section 6.19. The Company hereby consents to the use of its and its Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the Debt Financing; provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or its Subsidiaries in any respect.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) no directors or managers of the Company or its Affiliates (other than any director or manager who is continuing as a director or manager of any the Company or its Subsidiaries following the consummation of the Transactions) shall be required to pass resolutions or consents to approve or authorize the execution or delivery of the Debt Financing or to execute, deliver or enter into, or perform any agreement, certificate, arrangement, document or instrument with respect to the Debt Financing (other than the documents to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.17(c)(vi) and the prepayment and termination notices contemplated by Section 6.24), including any definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Financing Agreements”), (ii) no obligation of the Company, its Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives undertaken pursuant to the foregoing shall be effective until Closing (other than the authorization and representation letters to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.17(c)(vi)) and the prepayment and termination notices contemplated by Section 6.24), and (iii) none of the Company, its Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives shall be required to (A) pay any commitment or other similar fee in connection with the Debt Financing or incur any other cost or expense that is not promptly reimbursed by Parent in connection with the Debt Financing, (B) take any actions to the extent such actions would unreasonably interfere with the ongoing business or operations of the Company and its Affiliates, (C) take any actions that would conflict with or violate the Company’s or its Affiliates’ organizational documents or any Laws, or that would reasonably be expected to result in a violation or breach of, or default under, any material Contract to which any of them are a party or by which any of their assets are bound, (D) give to any other Person any indemnities in connection with the Financing that are effective prior to the Closing Dateor (E) take any actions that would cause any representation or warranty in this Agreement to be breached or that would cause any closing condition set forth in Article 7 to fail to be satisfied or that would otherwise cause a breach of this Agreement. As Nothing contained in this Section 6.17 or otherwise shall require the Company or its Affiliates to be an issuer or other obligor with respect to the Debt Financing prior to the Effective Time.
(e) Notwithstanding this Section 6.17 or anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, but subject to, and without limiting the effect of, Section 9.09, Parent and Merger Sub each acknowledges, affirms and agrees that it is not a condition to the Closing or to any of its other obligations under this Agreement that Parent or Merger Sub obtain any debt, equity or other financing for or related to any of the date hereoftransactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or any portion of any Financing).
(f) Each of Parent and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sub acknowledges and agrees that the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the only obligations of the parties thereunder Company or any of its Affiliates or Representatives with respect to make the full amount any portion of the Equity Financing available prior to Parent on the terms therein. As of Effective Time are the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement. Parent shall, promptly upon request by the Equity Commitment Letter provided Company, reimburse the Company for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Company, its Affiliates or their respective Representatives in connection with such cooperation by the Company or any of its Affiliates and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Affiliates and their respective Representatives for and against any and all liabilities, losses, obligations, damages, costs and expenses of any kind (whether direct or indirect, known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, due or to become due and whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise) suffered or incurred by them in connection with the arrangement of any Financing, any alternative financing, any action taken by them pursuant to this Section 6.17 and any information utilized in connection therewith, except, in each case, to the extent resulting from the gross negligence, fraud or willful misconduct of Company on or prior to any of its Subsidiaries or Representatives (the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as obligations set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate in this subsection (f) collectively, the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing“Reimbursement Obligations”).
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Tzuo Tien), Merger Agreement (Slaa Ii (Gp), L.L.C.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and Acquisition Sub shall not permit any amendment, modification, supplement, or replacement to be made to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Debt Commitment Letter without the consent of the Company if such amendment, modification, supplement, replacement or waiver (i) reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing, (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands or adversely amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Debt Financing, (iii) would modify the confidentiality provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter in any respect or (iv) would reasonably be expected to (A) materially delay, prevent, or impede the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) or the consummation of the Offer, the Merger and the other Transactions or (B) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Acquisition Sub to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Agreements (as defined below) (provided that Parent and Acquisition Sub may amend or replace the Debt Commitment Letter to add or replace lenders, arrangers or similar entities so long as such action would not reasonably be expected to materially delay, prevent, or impede the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) or the consummation of the Offer, the Merger and the other Transactions, or adversely impact Parent’s or Acquisition Sub’s ability to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter). Parent and Acquisition Sub shall promptly deliver to the Company true, correct true and complete copiescopies of any such amendment, as modification or replacement. For purposes of this Agreement, references to “Debt Financing” shall include the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred as permitted to as the “Equity Financing”be amended or modified by this Section 7.13(a) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the references to “Definitive Financing Agreements” or “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” andshall include such documents as amended or modified in accordance with this Section 7.13(a).
(b) Parent and Acquisition Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to take, together with or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary, to arrange and obtain the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing set forth in the amounts Debt Commitment Letter by the Acceptance Time (assuming, for the purposes hereof, that (a) in the event that no Financing Extension Notices have been delivered, that no such Financing Extension Notices will be delivered and that the Acceptance Time will occur on the date, as reasonably estimated by the Parties, on which all conditions set forth therein; provided on Annex II related to Antitrust Laws have been satisfied, and (b) in the event that fee amounts and pricing termsone or more Financing Extension Notices have been delivered, that the Acceptance Time will occur no later than 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the business day immediately following the then scheduled expiration date of the Offer), including by using their reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter (the “Debt Financing Agreements”) on the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter or on other terms (subject to the limitations contained in Section 7.13(a)) that would not reasonably be expected to materially prevent or delay the Offer, the Merger, and the other Transactions or the date on which the Debt Financing could be obtained or make the funding of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationfull amount of the Debt Financing less likely to occur on or prior to the Acceptance Time (assuming, for the purposes hereof, that (a) in the fee letter entered into event that no Financing Extension Notices have been delivered, that no such Financing Extension Notices will be delivered and (b) in connection the event that one or more Financing Extension Notices have been delivered, that the Acceptance Time will occur no later than 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the business day immediately following the then scheduled expiration date of the Offer), (iii) to comply on a timely basis with (or obtain any waiver of) their covenants and obligations set forth in, and satisfy (or obtain a waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions to the funding in, the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to Commitment Letter and the extentDebt Financing Agreements, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termsas necessary to consummate the Transactions and satisfy all obligations of Parent and Acquisition Sub pursuant to this Agreement, including to pay the aggregate Offer Price at the Acceptance Time and the aggregate Merger Consideration on the Closing Date and satisfy the obligations of Parent under Section 3.4, and to pay any fees and expenses of or payable by Parent, Acquisition Sub, and the Surviving Corporation. As of In the date hereof, none of event that all conditions contained in the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder Agreements have been waivedsatisfied, and no such withdrawalParent shall cause the Debt Providers thereunder to comply with their respective obligations, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, including to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and fund the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with required to consummate the Transactions on the Closing Date, including to pay the aggregate Offer Price at the Acceptance Time and the aggregate Merger Consideration on the Closing Date and satisfy the obligations of Parent under Section 3.4, and to pay any fees and expenses of or payable by Parent, Acquisition Sub, and the Surviving Corporation (including by promptly commencing a litigation proceeding against any breaching Debt Provider to compel such Debt Provider to provide its portion of the Debt Financing or otherwise comply with its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment LettersLetter or Definitive Financing Agreements). Parent and Acquisition Sub shall comply with their obligations, and enforce their rights, under the net proceeds Debt Commitment Letter and Definitive Financing Agreements in a timely and diligent matter. In each case promptly upon the Company’s request to Parent and Acquisition Sub, Parent and Acquisition Sub shall (A) provide to the Company copies of all substantially final drafts and executed definitive agreements for the Debt Financing Agreements (excluding any provisions related solely to fees and other economic terms), and (ii) keep the Company reasonably informed of the status of their efforts to arrange the Debt Financing.
(c) In the event that, at any time prior to the Effective Time, (i) the Debt Commitment Letter is terminated for any reason, (ii) Parent or Acquisition Sub becomes aware of any material breach or default by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Debt Financing Agreement, (iii) a counterparty provides notice that it will not provide, or it refuses to provide, all or any portion of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter on the terms set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, or (iv) any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, Parent will (A) use reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative debt financing (in an amount sufficient, when taken together with the aggregateavailable portion of the Debt Financing, be sufficient for to consummate the Transactions on the Closing Date and satisfy all of the obligations of Parent and Acquisition Sub hereunder, including the payment of the aggregate Offer Price at the Acceptance Time and the aggregate Merger consideration on the Closing Date and Parent’s obligations under Section 3.4, and to pay any fees and expenses of or payable by Parent, Merger Sub Acquisition Sub, and the Surviving Corporation Corporation) from the same or other sources and which does not include any conditions to pay the amounts required consummation of such alternative debt financing that are more onerous than the conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and Definitive Financing Agreements and (B) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and the reason therefor; provided, that in no event will Parent or Acquisition Sub be under any obligation to disclose any information that (A) is subject to attorney-client or similar privilege if Parent or Acquisition Sub shall have used its reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a manner that would not waive such privilege, or (B) would contravene any Law. In furtherance of and not in limitation of the foregoing, in the event that (1) any portion of the Debt Financing structured as high yield bond financing shall become unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor and (2) all conditions contained in Annex II shall have been satisfied or waived (other than (x) any such conditions that by their nature are to be paid in connection with satisfied at the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment expiration of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationOffer, but subject to make any repayment, repurchase the satisfaction or refinancing waiver of debt such conditions at the expiration of the Company Offer, and its Subsidiaries (y) those conditions the failure of which to be satisfied is attributable to a breach by Parent or Acquisition Sub of their representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement), and (3) the term loan credit facilities contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (or alternative facilities obtained in accordance with this Section 7.13) are available on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letter (or replacements thereof), then each of Parent and Acquisition Sub shall cause the proceeds of such term financing to be used immediately in lieu of such affected portion of the high yield bond financing. For the purposes of this Agreement, references to pay “Debt Financing” shall include any other amounts required alternative financing arranged in compliance herewith (and any Debt Financing pursuant to be paid any Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Agreement remaining in effect at the time in question), and references to “Debt Commitment Letter” and “Definitive Financing Agreements” shall include any commitment letter (or similar agreement) with respect thereto and any definitive documents or agreements with respect thereto, respectively (and any Debt Commitment Letter and Definitive Financing Agreements, respectively, remaining in effect at the time in question). Parent shall provide the Company with prompt written notice of any breach or default by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior any party to the Closing Date in connection Debt Commitment Letter or any Definitive Financing Agreements and the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Debt Provider or other financing source with respect to any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Definitive Financing Agreement of any provision thereof.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (i) Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations hereunder shall not constitute a condition to the consummation of the Transactions, and (ii) compliance by Parent and Acquisition Sub with this Section 7.13 shall not relieve Parent of its obligation to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (whether or not the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Debt Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingavailable.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc), Agreement and Plan of Merger (On Semiconductor Corp)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Unless, and to the extent, Parent shall have demonstrated to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company true(as confirmed in writing by the Company) that Parent shall have sufficient cash from other sources (including by reason of a capital market or other financing transaction) available to satisfy its cash payment obligations under this Agreement, correct from and complete copiesafter the execution of this Agreement, Parent shall: (i) use its reasonable best efforts to arrange the Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Commitment Letter; (ii) shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to the Commitment Letter, if such amendment or modification (A) reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing or (B) imposes additional conditions or otherwise amends any of the conditions to the receipt of the Financing in a manner that could reasonably be expected to (I) prevent the Closing from occurring prior to the Outside Date, (II) make the funding of the Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing) materially less likely to occur or (III) adversely impact the ability of Parent or the Merger Subs, as applicable, to enforce their respective rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto; and (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange the Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Commitment Letter. For the avoidance of doubt, but subject to the foregoing, Parent may amend, supplement, modify or replace the Commitment Letter as in effect at the date hereof (x) to add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date hereofof this Agreement, (y) to increase the amount of indebtedness or (z) to replace all or a portion of the facility committed under the Commitment Letter as in effect as of the date hereof with one or more new facilities under such Commitment Letter or under any new commitment letter or facility (any such new commitment or facility, a “Replacement Facility”); provided, that the terms of such Replacement Facility shall comply with clauses (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) above. Promptly following the execution of a Replacement Facility by Parent, Parent shall notify the Company to such effect and shall promptly provide a fully executed commitment letter copy of such Replacement Facility and any related agreements. For purposes of this Agreement, (together with all exhibits1) the term “Financing” shall be deemed to include the financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter as amended, schedulesmodified or replaced pursuant to this Section 5.10 (including any Replacement Facility, any Alternative Financing and, in the case of Section 5.10(d), any offering of debt or equity securities the proceeds of which are intended to be used to satisfy the obligations under this Agreement), and annexes thereto(2) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the term “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” andshall be deemed to include the Commitment Letter as may be amended, together modified or replaced pursuant to this Section 5.10, any commitment letters with the Equity Commitment Lettersrespect to any Replacement Facility, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only any commitment letters with respect to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Alternative Financing.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Health Net Inc), Merger Agreement (Centene Corp)
Financing. (a) During the Applicable Period, Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use, shall cause their respective directors, officers, and Subsidiaries to use, and shall instruct their other Representatives to use, commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and use commercially reasonable efforts to do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary or advisable, to arrange and obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as Financing promptly (in light of the anticipated timeline to Closing) following the date hereofof this Agreement, in an amount of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (not less than the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) Required Amount and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, otherwise on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing set forth in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, Commitment Letters (including terms by complying with any request requiring the exercise of the any “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions set forth in the fee letter entered into in connection with Commitment Letters), and to consummate the Debt Financing, may have been redacted Financing on or prior to the extentClosing Date. Such actions shall include, but not be limited to, using commercially reasonable efforts to: (i) maintain in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As full force and effect the Commitment Letters and comply with their respective obligations thereunder and (from and when executed) the other Debt Financing Documents through the consummation of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Closing in accordance with the Equity terms and conditions thereof; (ii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions in the Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with Documents (including the Debt payment of any fees, costs and expenses required as a condition to the Financing), including the Financing Commitment LetterConditions, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Lettersto be satisfied by, and within the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Lettercontrol of, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub or their respective Affiliates; (iii) negotiate, execute and deliver Debt Financing Documents that reflect the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Papers (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto) or on such other terms acceptable to Parent and its Financing Sources (which other terms shall not include any Prohibited Modifications), so that such agreements are in full force and effect as soon as reasonably practicable but in no event later than the Closing; and (iv) in the event that the conditions set forth in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 have been satisfied or waived or, upon funding would be satisfied or waived, consummate the Financing on or prior to the Closing Date (including by instructing the Financing Sources to fund the Debt Financing in connection accordance with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, and otherwise enforcing their rights under the Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing Documents in a timely and diligent manner). Parent and Merger Sub shall pay, or cause to be paid, as the same shall become due and payable, all fees, costs, expenses and other amounts under the Debt Commitment Papers and the Debt Financing Documents.
(b) During the Applicable Period, Parent and Merger Sub shall give the Company prompt (but in any event within two (2) Business Days) written notice of (A) any material breach, default, cancellation, termination or any repudiation or threatened or anticipated material breach, default, cancellation, termination or any anticipated repudiation by any party to the extent Commitment Letters or any other agreements, documents or instruments (including any definitive agreements relating thereto) relating to the Financing of which Parent or its Affiliates becomes aware, and (B) the receipt by Parent or Merger Sub is a or any of their respective Affiliates of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to any actual or potential breach, default, termination, cancellation, or repudiation by any party to any Commitment Letter or other agreements, documents or instruments (including any definitive agreements relating thereto) and, relating to the knowledge of Financing. Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 5.14, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization if for any reason all or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As any portion of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would becomes unavailable or would reasonably be expected to constitute become unavailable (including as a result of repudiation, expiration or termination of any portion of the commitments set forth in the Commitment Letters or a breach or default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under by any of the Financing Sources) on the terms, in the manner, or from the sources contemplated by any Commitment Letters. Assuming Letter or any other agreement, document or instrument relating to the satisfaction Financing and the portion of the Financing that remains available, together with Available Cash, then Parent and Merger Sub shall (i) promptly (but in any event within two (2) Business Days) notify the Company in writing thereof and the reasons therefor, (ii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, arrange and consummate alternative financing from alternative Financing Sources (on terms containing no new, additional or more onerous conditions to the consummation of such financing relative to the Financing Conditions or any other Prohibited Modifications) reasonably acceptable to Parent acting in good faith that, when taken together with the portion of the Debt Financing that remains available and is not reasonably expected to become unavailable and Available Cash, is at least equal to the Required Amount, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, and when obtained, provide the Company with a true, correct and complete copy of, a new financing commitment, engagement letter, and related fee letters that provides for such alternative financing subject only to the Financing Conditions; provided, that any provisions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on such new financing commitment may be redacted in a manner consistent with the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions permitted redactions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Debt Fee Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity of this Agreement, so long as such redaction does not extend to any terms that would reasonably be expected to impose any Prohibited Modification; provided, further, that, in no event shall commercially reasonable efforts be construed to require that Parent (A) pay any fees or original issue discount in excess of those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter providesand the Debt Fee Letter as in effect on the date hereof or (B) agree to pricing or other economic terms that are less favorable (taken as a whole) than those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and the Debt Fee Letter as in effect on the date hereof (in each case of clauses (A) and (B), and will continue to provideassuming the full exercise of any “market flex” provisions in the Debt Commitment Letter).
(c) During the Applicable Period, that without the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. prior written consent of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub shall not amend, modify, supplement, restate, assign, substitute or replace the Equity Commitment Letter, Debt Commitment Papers or any Debt Financing Document or substitute other debt or equity financing for all or any portion of the Financing, except, solely in the case of the Debt Commitment Papers, the Debt Financing Documents and any substitution of other debt financing for all or any portion of the Debt Financing, if such amendment, modification, supplement, restatement, assignment, substitution or replacement would not, and would not reasonably be expected to, (i) impose new or additional conditions precedent or expand upon (or amend or modify in any manner) the conditions precedent to the funding of the Debt Financing, (ii) reduce the net cash amount of the Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid) to an amount that, together with Available Cash, is less than the Required Amount, (iii) materially impair, delay or prevent the consummation of the Financing or the other Transactions contemplated to occur under this Agreement on the Closing Date (taking into account the timing of the Marketing Period), or (iv) adversely affect Parent’s or Merger Sub’s ability to consummate the Transactions; provided, that Parent may, without the prior written consent of the Company, amend, modify, supplement, restate, assign, substitute or replace the Debt Commitment Letter to (A) add and appoint additional arrangers, bookrunners, underwriters, agents, lenders and similar entities, to provide for the assignment and reallocation of a portion of the financing commitments contained therein and to grant customary approval rights to such additional arrangers and other entities in connection with such appointments, (B) modify pricing and/or (C) increase the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing, in each case, so long as such amendments would not be reasonably expected to materially impair, delay or prevent the consummation of the Transactions on the Closing Date (taking into account the timing of the Marketing Period) or adversely affect Parent’s or Merger Sub’s ability to consummate the Transactions on or prior to the Termination Date. Upon request of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub shall keep the Company informed in reasonable detail of the status of Parent’s and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sub’s efforts to obtain the Financing and to satisfy the conditions thereof. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sub expressly acknowledge and agree that their obligation obligations under this Agreement, including their obligations to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate other Transactions, are not subject to, or conditioned on, Parent’s or Merger Consideration Sub’s receipt of financing. Any alternative, substitute or replacement debt financing obtained by Parent in accordance with this Section 5.14 is not conditioned on the availability “Alternative Financing.” For purposes of this Agreement, references to “Debt Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by any Alternative Financing and references to “Debt Commitment Letter,” “Debt Fee Letter,” “Debt Financing Documents” or “Financing Sources” shall include the documents (or commitments or financing sources, as applicable) in connection with any Alternative Financing to the extent permitted by this Section 5.14, and such Alternative Financing shall be required to comply with the provisions of this Agreement to the same extent as the Debt Financing.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.), Merger Agreement (DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc.)
Financing. (i) Parent has delivered to the Company a true, complete and correct copy of (A) an executed commitment letter, dated as of the date of this Agreement (as amended, modified, supplemented, replaced or extended from time to time after the date of this Agreement in compliance with Section 6.17, the “Debt Commitment Letter”), from the lenders (including any lenders who become party thereto by joinder or otherwise) party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders”), together with their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, equityholders, advisors and representatives and their respective successors and assigns involved in the Debt Financing (the “Financing Sources”), pursuant to which the Lenders or their respective Affiliates have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, to provide the debt amounts set forth therein (the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (including any debt securities to be incurred in connection with the Bond Financing), together with any permitted Alternative Debt Financing (as defined below), is collectively referred to in this Agreement as, the “Debt Financing”), and (B) the fee letter referred to in the Debt Commitment Letter (with solely the fee amounts, pricing caps and other economic “market flex” monetary terms redacted in a customary manner (none of which would adversely affect or reduce the amount or availability of the Debt Financing (other than as may be permitted pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 1.3 and as set forth on Section 1.1 of the Parent Disclosure Letter)) (as amended, modified, supplemented, replaced or extended from time to time after the date of this Agreement in compliance with Section 6.17, the “Fee Letter”).
(ii) The Purchasers have delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copiescopies of the executed Plan Support Agreement, the executed Backstop Agreement, the Guarantee and the executed Equity Commitment Letter, each dated on or about the date of this Agreement, executed by each of the Purchaser Transaction Parties that is party thereto.
(iii) Except as expressly set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, Equity Commitment Letter, the Backstop Agreement and the Guarantee (collectively, the “Commitment Documents”) (or in the unredacted portions of the Fee Letter) delivered to the Company, there are no conditions precedent to the obligations of the Lenders or their respective Affiliates or Equity Commitment Parties to provide the financings contemplated thereby (collectively, the “Financing”) or any contingencies that would permit the Lenders or their respective Affiliates or Equity Commitment Parties to reduce the total amount of the Debt Financing or Equity Financing, as applicable. There are no other agreements, side letters or arrangements relating to the Financing to which either of the Purchasers is a party as of the date of this Agreement which could impose conditions to the funding of the Financing, other than those set forth in the Commitment Documents (or in the unredacted portions of the Fee Letter) and the payment of fees to applicable Lenders and Purchaser Transaction Parties or their respective Affiliates in connection with the Financing. As of the date of this Agreement, assuming the truth and accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and EFIH contained in this Agreement and the Backstop Agreement, neither Purchaser has any reason to believe that it will be unable to satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to be satisfied by it in the Commitment Documents or the Fee Letter at the time it is required to consummate the First Closing hereunder, nor does either Purchaser have knowledge, as of the date hereofof this Agreement, that any of (i) each fully executed the Lenders or their respective Affiliates or Equity Commitment Letter (Parties will not perform their respective funding obligations under the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Documents in accordance with the Equity its terms and conditions.
(iv) The Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment LetterDocuments are a valid, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment binding obligation of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) each Purchaser and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereofeach Purchaser, the Financing Commitment Letters other parties thereto, are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Dateand, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred whichthat, with or without notice, lapse of time time, or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach or a failure to satisfy a condition precedent on the part of Parent either Purchaser, or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parenteither Purchaser, any other parties thereto, party thereto under any the terms and conditions of the Financing Commitment LettersDocuments and Fee Letter. Assuming The Purchasers have paid in full any and all commitment fees or other fees required to be paid on or before the satisfaction date of this Agreement pursuant to the terms of the conditions set forth Commitment Documents and Fee Letter, and will pay in Section 7.01 full any such amounts due on or before the First Closing Date pursuant to such terms and Section 7.02 the terms of this Agreement. Neither the Commitment Documents nor the Fee Letter have been modified, altered or amended on or prior to the Closing Datedate of this Agreement. None of the commitments under the Commitment Documents have been withdrawn or rescinded prior to the date of this Agreement, nor, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have is any reason such amendment, modification, withdrawal or rescission currently contemplated or the subject of current discussions.
(v) After giving effect to believe the Equity Draw-Down, and assuming that the full amount under First Closing Date occurs on or about March 31, 2016, the Financing Purchasers will hold cash contributed (A) by the Equity Commitment Letters will not Parties pursuant to the Equity Draw-Down and (B) pursuant to the Rights Offering and Backstop Agreement, which amounts, together with the other funding sources referred to in Section 1.4 and cash to be available provided by the OV2 Contribution, shall be sufficient to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As (x) repay 100% of the date hereofInterim Financing, (y) fund the Repayment Amount and (z) pay all other amounts payable at the Closings by any Purchaser or the Surviving Company pursuant to or in connection with any Signing Date Agreement, the Debt Financing, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of Financing and/or the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingTransactions.
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Sources: Purchase Agreement (Ovation Acquisition I, L.L.C.), Purchase Agreement (Energy Future Competitive Holdings Co LLC)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange the Company true, correct and complete copies, Debt Financing as of promptly as practicable following the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred this Agreement and to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with consummate the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to and obtain the extentproceeds thereof, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date on the terms and conditions set forth in connection the Debt Commitment Letter. Such actions shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(i) maintaining in effect and complying with its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter; provided that Parent and Merger Sub may replace or amend the Debt Commitment Letter so long as such replacement or amendment (A) provides for Debt Financing in an amount not less than the existing Debt Commitment Letter, (B) does not contain conditions precedent to the funding thereof that are additions to the conditions precedent with respect to the Debt Financing set forth in the existing Debt Commitment Letter, (C) would not reasonably be expected to prevent, impair or delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aD) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Financing Agreements (it being understood that a replacement or amendment may include a replacement or substitution of Debt Financing Sources);
(ii) participation by senior management of Parent in, and assistance with, the preparation of rating agency presentations and meetings with rating agencies;
(iii) satisfying, or causing their respective Representatives to satisfy, on a timely basis, or obtaining waivers of, all Financing Conditions and all conditions contemplated by the Debt Financing Documents (it being understood and agreed that such conditions shall be limited to the Financing Conditions);
(iv) negotiating, executing and delivering Debt Financing Documents that reflect the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions related thereto); and
(v) enforcing their rights under the Debt Commitment Letter.
(b) Parent and Merger Sub shall keep the Company reasonably informed, upon the Company’s request, with respect to all material activity concerning the status of the Equity Debt Financing on contemplated by the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Debt Commitment Letter provided to and shall give the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof notice of any material adverse change with respect thereto as set forth thereinpromptly as practicable. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge shall give the Company prompt written notice of any default, breach or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter, or any termination the Debt Commitment Letter, in each case, of which Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates becomes aware.
(c) Without limiting Parent’s and agree that their obligation Merger Sub’s other obligations under this Section 6.20, if a Financing Failure Event occurs Parent and Merger Sub shall (i) promptly notify the Company of such Financing Failure Event and the reasons therefor, (ii) in consultation with the Company, arrange and obtain alternative debt financing from alternative financing sources (A) in an amount sufficient to make the Required Payment Amount and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (B) upon terms no less favorable, taken as a whole, than the existing Debt Commitment Letter and that in any event do not impose additional conditions precedent or expand upon the conditions precedent set forth in the existing Debt Commitment Letter (such alternative debt financing, an “Alternative Financing”), and negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to such Alternative Financing from the same or alternative sources, and (iii) obtain, and when obtained, provide the Company with a copy of, a new financing commitment that provides for the Alternative Financing including any related fee letters (with redactions of only the fee amounts payable on the Closing Date to the financing sources thereunder and of the amounts by which interest rates or OID may change; provided that no redactions have been made of terms that could affect the availability of, or conditionality applicable to the funding of, the Debt Financing or reduce the net proceeds thereof to an amount, when combined with other funds available to Parent and Merger and Sub at Closing, less than the amount necessary to pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration Required Payment Amount) (including all exhibits, schedules and annexes thereto and together with the related fee letters, the “New Debt Commitment Letter”). In the event any Alternative Financing is obtained and a New Debt Commitment Letter is entered into in accordance with this Section 6.20(c) (i) any reference in this Agreement to “Debt Financing” shall mean the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as modified pursuant to clause (ii) below, and (ii) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Commitment Letter” (or defined terms that use such phrase) shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter to the extent not conditioned superseded by a New Debt Commitment Letter, as the case may be, at the time in question and any New Debt Commitment Letter to the extent then in effect; provided that in no event shall the Company’s obligations to cooperate in respect of the Debt Financing pursuant to this Agreement (including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 6.19 this Agreement) be expanded in connection with any Alternative Financing (but for the avoidance of doubt, the Company’s obligations set forth in Section 6.19 shall continue to apply with respect to any Alternative Financing, but to no greater extent than would have been required in connection with the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter in effect on the availability of Debt Financingdate hereof).
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered advised CTI and the Company that Parent or its Affiliate has received a written commitment from Fleet Capital Corporation, as successor in interest to BankBoston, N.A., committing to provide such Affiliate and the Surviving Corporation, subject to the Company trueterms and condition thereof, correct a credit facility in the aggregate principal amount of $52,000,000 (the "Financing Commitment"). Parent will use all reasonable efforts to enter into and complete copiescause its Affiliates to enter into definitive agreements (the "Definitive Financing Agreements") on terms and conditions substantially in accordance with the Financing Commitment and otherwise acceptable to Parent, as soon as practicable, following the date of this Agreement.
(b) The Company shall expeditiously provide, and cause its officers and employees to expeditiously provide, to Parent and Sub all cooperation reasonably necessary in connection with the execution and delivery of the date hereofDefinitive Financing Agreements, including the execution and delivery of any pledge or security documents, underwriting or placement agreements, other financing documents, or other requested certificates, consents, documents or financial information as may be reasonably requested by Parent; provided, however, that in connection with the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to incur or suffer the imposition of any liability, obligation, Lien or other burden, the imposition of which is not contingent upon the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions.
(c) In connection with the issuance by Parent to CTI of the Merger Note and the Tax Refund Notes referred to in the Tax Refund Agreement called for in Section 7.1(f) (the "Tax Refund Notes"), (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter CTI and Parent agree to execute and deliver at the Closing a Subordination Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit 6.4(c)(i) (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as "New Lender Subordination Agreement") in favor of the “Equity Financing”) lenders and agent under the Definitive Financing Agreements and (ii) CTI and Parent agree to execute and deliver at the Closing a fully executed commitment letter Subordination Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit 6.4(c)(ii) (together with the "Bank Note Subordination Agreement") in favor of the holders of the Bank Notes. In the event that Parent and/or its Subsidiaries decide to refund or refinance all exhibitsor a portion of the "Obligations" as defined in the New Lender Subordination Agreement ("Refi- nanced Debt"), scheduleswhich term shall be deemed to include any indebtedness resulting from any refundings or refinancings subsequent to the first refunding or refinancing) at any time outstanding, CTI agrees, and annexes theretowill cause any subsequent holder of a Merger Note or Tax Refund Note to agree, upon not less than fifteen (15) and fee letter days notice in writing from the financial institutions identified thereinParent, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together to enter into a subordination agreement with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”holders of such proposed Refinanced Debt (a proposed form of such subordination agreement to be included with such written notice in order to commence said fifteen (15) to provide, on day period); provided that the terms and subject only provisions of such subordination agreement are no less favorable to CTI or such subsequent holder than the conditions expressly stated thereinNew Lender Subordination Agreement, debt financing in it being understood that the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” proposed Refinanced Debt (including those relating to amount, interest rate, maturity and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As nature and extent of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(acollateral therefor) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available deemed to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on cause the terms therein. As and provisions of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings any such subordination agreement to which Parent be less favorable to CTI or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect such subsequent holder. In connection therewith, CTI and any subsequent holder shall execute and deliver any further documents as may be necessary to effect the availability purposes of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingsuch new subordination agreement.
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Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange, obtain and consummate the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn(or, terminatedif available, repudiatedon other terms that are acceptable to Parent in its sole discretion, rescinded, amended, amended and restated so long as such other terms do not include or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedresult in a Prohibited Modification), and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, shall not permit any amendment, amendment and restatement, replacement, supplement or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Financing Commitment Letters if such amendment, restatement, replacement, supplement, modification or waiver has occurred(A) reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Financing to an amount less than, and, to when taken together with the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate available portion of the Financing and cash on hand at Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any Company and its Subsidiaries (assuming such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt cash on hand of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementis equal to the Minimum Cash Amount), the amount required to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to for the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Financing Purposes (the “Required Amount”), assuming (B) imposes new or additional conditions precedent to the satisfaction funding of the Financing, or otherwise expands any of the conditions precedent to the funding of the Financing or (C) would reasonably be expected to (i) material delay (taking into account Section 2.01) or prevent the Closing or (ii) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Sub or, in the case of the Equity Commitment Letters, the Company, to enforce its rights against other parties to the Financing Commitment Letters (the effects described in clauses (A) through (C), collectively, “Prohibited Modifications”); provided that Parent may add (pursuant to the terms of the Debt Commitment Letter) as parties to the Debt Commitment Letter lenders, arrangers, bookrunners, agents, managers or similar entities who have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. For purposes of this Section 6.17, references to “Equity Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters as permitted to be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced by this Section 6.17(a) and references to “Debt Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced by this Section 6.17(a). The parties agree that Parent may assign the Equity Commitment Letters and/or the Guarantees, in whole or in part, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a6.17(a) of the Parent Disclosure Schedule (any such assignment, an “Equity Assignment,” and Section 7.02(bthe date thereof, the “Equity Assignment Date”).
(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, of Parent and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party theretoA) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are maintain in full force and effect the Financing Commitment Letters, (B) satisfy on a timely basis (taking into account Section 2.01) all conditions to funding in the Financing Commitment Letters and assuming to consummate the satisfaction Financing at or waiver prior to the Closing, including using its reasonable best efforts to cause the Persons committing to fund the Financing to fund the Financing at the Closing, (C) enforce its rights under the Financing Commitment Letters and (D) comply with its obligations under the Financing Commitment Letters. Without limiting the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall promptly notify the Company in writing if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any Financing Commitment Letter is terminated for any reason, (ii) any Person party to any Financing Commitment Letter indicates in writing that it will not provide, or it refuses to provide, all or any portion of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing DateFinancing, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of (iii) Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of ParentParent or Merger Sub, any other parties thereto, under Person party to the Financing Commitment Letters defaults or breaches any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the terms or conditions set forth in Section 7.01 any Financing Commitment Letter, (iv) any event occurs that, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would reasonably be expected to result in a default or breach of any of the terms or conditions set forth in any Financing Commitment Letter, or (v) Parent or Merger Sub receives any written notice or other written communication with respect to any (A) early termination of, repudiation by any Person party to or material default or material breach under any Financing Commitment Letter or (B) material dispute or disagreement between or among any Persons party to the Financing Commitment Letters with respect to the obligation to fund the Financing on the Closing Date in an amount necessary to fund the Required Amount.
(c) Prior to the Closing, the Company shall, and Section 7.02 shall cause its Subsidiaries and use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their respective Representatives to, provide such reasonable cooperation as is customary and reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the obtaining and arranging of the Debt Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such reasonable best efforts in any event shall include:
(i) participating in a reasonable number of meetings (including meetings with prospective Debt Financing Sources), presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions and sessions with rating agencies, at reasonable and mutually agreed times and with reasonable advance notice;
(ii) to the extent required by the Debt Commitment Letter, facilitating the pledging of, and perfection of security interests in, collateral, effective no earlier than the Effective Time;
(iii) furnishing Parent as promptly as reasonably practicable the Company Financial Information and, following the delivery of a request therefor to the Company by Parent (which notice shall state with specificity the information requested), such other financial and other information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as is reasonably requested by Parent or the Debt Financing Sources and as is customarily required in connection with financings of a type similar to the Debt Financing;
(iv) in each case following Parent’s reasonable request, assisting Parent and Merger Sub in the preparation of (A) confidential information memoranda (including a version that does not include material non-public information) and other customary marketing materials required in connection with financings similar to the Debt Financing and (B) materials for rating agency presentations;
(v) following Parent’s reasonable request, using commercially reasonable efforts to cause directors and officers who will continue to hold such offices and positions from and after the Effective Time to execute and provide resolutions or consents of the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to entering into the Definitive Financing Agreements and otherwise as necessary to authorize consummation of the Debt Financing; provided that no such resolution or consent shall become effective until the Effective Time;
(vi) providing (A) customary authorization and representation letters to the Debt Financing Sources with respect to marketing materials from a senior officer of the Company (which authorization and representation letters will become effective before the Effective Time) to the extent required in the Debt Commitment Letter and (B) a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company in the form set forth on Annex I to Exhibit C of the Debt Commitment Letter (as in effect on the date hereof) with respect to solvency matters;
(vii) if requested by Parent, providing (A) at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as is required by United States regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act, to the extent requested by Parent in writing at least nine (9) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date and (B) a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by 31 C.F.R. §1010.230 to any Debt Financing Source that has requested such certification, to the extent requested by Parent in writing at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date;
(viii) assisting reasonably in the preparation and execution of necessary and customary Definitive Financing Agreements (including one or more credit agreements, security agreements, mortgages and/or guarantees and the schedules and exhibits thereto) in connection with the Debt Financing or other certificates or documents as may reasonably be requested by Parent, in each case, to be held in escrow pending release by the Company at, and subject to the occurrence of, the Effective Time; and
(ix) to the extent required in the Debt Commitment Letter, using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the syndication efforts with respect to the Debt Financing benefit materially from the existing lending and investment banking relationships of the date hereofCompany, Parent does it being understood and agreed that (x) such cooperation shall not have unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company or any reason of its Affiliates and (y) the provisions set forth in this Section 6.17(c) represent the sole obligation of the Company and its Affiliates with respect to believe that the full amount under Debt Financing and no other provision of this Agreement (including the Financing exhibits and schedules hereto) or the Debt Commitment Letters Letter will not be available deemed to expand such obligations. All non-public or otherwise confidential information regarding the Company or its Affiliates obtained by Parent or Merger Sub on or their Representatives pursuant to this Section 6.17(c) shall be kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, as modified by Section 6.19. The Company hereby consents to the use of its and its Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the Debt Financing; provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or its Subsidiaries in any respect.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) no directors or managers of the Company or its Affiliates (other than any director or manager who is continuing as a director or manager of any the Company or its Subsidiaries following the consummation of the Transactions) shall be required to pass resolutions or consents to approve or authorize the execution or delivery of the Debt Financing or to execute, deliver or enter into, or perform any agreement, certificate, arrangement, document or instrument with respect to the Debt Financing (other than the documents to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.17(c)(vi) and the prepayment and termination notices contemplated by Section 6.24), including any definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Financing Agreements”), (ii) no obligation of the Company, its Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives undertaken pursuant to the foregoing shall be effective until Closing (other than the authorization and representation letters to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.17(c)(vi)) and the prepayment and termination notices contemplated by Section 6.24), and (iii) none of the Company, its Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives shall be required to (A) pay any commitment or other similar fee in connection with the Debt Financing or incur any other cost or expense that is not promptly reimbursed by Parent in connection with the Debt Financing, (B) take any actions to the extent such actions would unreasonably interfere with the ongoing business or operations of the Company and its Affiliates, (C) take any actions that would conflict with or violate the Company’s or its Affiliates’ organizational documents or any Laws, or that would reasonably be expected to result in a violation or breach of, or default under, any material Contract to which any of them are a party or by which any of their assets are bound, (D) give to any other Person any indemnities in connection with the Financing that are effective prior to the Closing Dateor (E) take any actions that would cause any representation or warranty in this Agreement to be breached or that would cause any closing condition set forth in Article 7 to fail to be satisfied or that would otherwise cause a breach of this Agreement. As Nothing contained in this Section 6.17 or otherwise shall require the Company or its Affiliates to be an issuer or other obligor with respect to the Debt Financing prior to the Effective Time.
(e) Notwithstanding this Section 6.17 or anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, but subject to, and without limiting the effect of, Section 9.09, Parent and Merger Sub each acknowledges, affirms and agrees that it is not a condition to the Closing or to any of its other obligations under this Agreement that Parent or Merger Sub obtain any debt, equity or other financing for or related to any of the date hereoftransactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or any portion of any Financing).
(f) Each of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledges and agrees that the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the only obligations of the parties thereunder Company or any of its Affiliates or Representatives with respect to make the full amount any portion of the Equity Financing available prior to Parent on the terms therein. As of Effective Time are the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement. Parent shall, promptly upon request by the Equity Commitment Letter provided Company, reimburse the Company for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Company, its Affiliates or their respective Representatives in connection with such cooperation by the Company or any of its Affiliates and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Affiliates and their respective Representatives for and against any and all liabilities, losses, obligations, damages, costs and expenses of any kind (whether direct or indirect, known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, due or to become due and whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise) suffered or incurred by them in connection with the arrangement of any Financing, any alternative financing, any action taken by them pursuant to this Section 6.17 and any information utilized in connection therewith, except, in each case, to the extent resulting from the gross negligence, fraud or willful misconduct of Company on or prior to any of its Subsidiaries or Representatives (the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as obligations set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate in this subsection (f) collectively, the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing“Reimbursement Obligations”).
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including Financing Commitments or terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification not adversely impact the ability of Parent or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and to timely consummate the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of using its reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in effect the Aggregate Merger Consideration, Financing Commitments and to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection negotiate definitive agreements with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) respect thereto on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto terms and conditions contained in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming Commitments (or other terms that would not adversely impact the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part ability of Parent or Merger Sub orto timely consummate the transactions contemplated hereby), (ii) to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of satisfy all conditions applicable to Parent in such definitive agreements and consummate the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on at or prior to the date hereofClosing, (iii) to comply with its obligations under the Financing Commitments and (iv) to enforce its rights under the Financing Commitments. Each Equity Parent shall give the Company prompt notice upon becoming aware of any material breach by any party of the Financing Commitments or any termination of the Financing Commitments. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing and provide to the Company copies of all documents related to the Financing (other than any ancillary documents subject to confidentiality agreements). In connection with its obligations under this Section 5.9, Parent shall be permitted to amend, modify or replace the Debt Commitment Letters with new Debt Commitment Letters (the “New Financing Commitments”), provided that Parent shall not permit any replacement of, or amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any material provision or remedy under, the Debt Commitment Letter providesif such replacement, and will continue to provideamendment, modification, waiver or remedy (1) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing below that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.amount required to
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company trueterms and conditions of this Agreement, correct each of Parent and complete copiesMerger Subsidiary shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain the Debt Financing on the terms, as and subject to the conditions, set forth in the Debt Financing Letters. Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall be permitted to amend or modify, or waive any provision under, or supplement or replace in whole or in part (including through co-investments or by financing from one or more additional parties), the Debt Financing Letters; provided, that Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall not effect any such amendment, modification, waiver, supplement or replacement without the Company’s prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) if such amendment, modification, waiver, supplement or replacement:
(i) reduces (or could have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the date hereofDebt Financing;
(ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Debt Financing, or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Debt Financing Letters, in each case, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to delay or prevent or make materially less likely the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) on the Closing Date; or (iii) otherwise adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Subsidiary to enforce their rights against other parties to the Debt Financing Letters or any definitive agreements with respect thereto or otherwise to timely consummate the Debt Financing and the Merger, in the case of (i) through (iii) above, in any material respect.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each fully executed of Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain the Equity Financing on the terms, and subject to the conditions, set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter Letters.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, nothing contained in this Agreement shall require, and in no event shall the reasonable best efforts of Parent or Merger Subsidiary be deemed or construed to require, either Parent or Merger Subsidiary to (i) pay any fees or other amounts related to the Debt Financing in excess of those contemplated by the Debt Financing Letters or (ii) threaten, commence or pursue litigation, arbitration or other adversarial proceedings against any financing provided for therein being collectively referred source (whether of debt or equity) or affiliate thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company acknowledges and agrees that it (i) derives no contractual rights, whether as third party beneficiary or otherwise, under the Debt Financing Letters, Equity Commitment Letters or any debt or equity financing document related to the Debt Financing and Equity Financing and shall not be entitled to enforce any such Debt Financing Letters or Equity Commitment Letters or documents against any agent, arranger, bookrunner, lender, letter of credit issuer or other financing party that is a party to any such Debt Financing Letters, Equity Commitment Letters or document (including, without limitation, GSO Capital Partners LP, PNC National Bank and their respective Affiliates) (collectively, the “Equity FinancingFinancing Group”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter waives any claim (together including, without limitation, any claim under contract, any claim in tort and any claim for specific performance) it may have against any member of the Financing Group with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from respect to the financial institutions identified therein, failure of the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the or Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth thereinclose; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including nothing contained in this sentence shall prevent the Company from enforcing any of the terms of this Agreement against the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Subsidiary (the “Required Amount”including under Section 11.13), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.
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Sources: Merger Agreement
Financing. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letter, and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Debt Commitment Letter if such amendment, modification or waiver (i) reduces (or could have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount unless (x) the Debt Financing is increased by a corresponding amount or additional Debt Financing is otherwise made available to fund such fees or original issue discount any (y) after giving effect to any of the transactions referred to in clause (x) above, the representation and warranty set forth in Section 6.2(i) shall be true and correct as of the time of such transaction), or (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Debt Financing, or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) on the Closing Date or (y) adversely impact the ability of Parent, Merger Sub or the Company, as applicable, to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter, in each of clauses (x) and (y) in any material respect. Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company truecopies of any such amendment, correct modification or replacement.
(b) Each of Parent and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts (i) each fully executed Equity to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub than the financing provided terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Debt Commitment Letter), the terms and conditions of which shall not expand the conditions to the closing of the Debt Financing contained in the Debt Commitment Letter, (iii) to satisfy, or cause its Representatives to satisfy, on a timely basis all conditions to funding in the Debt Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto and to consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing, including using its reasonable best efforts (including through litigation pursued in good faith) to cause the Lenders to fund the Debt Financing at the Closing, (iv) to enforce its rights (including through litigation pursued in good faith) under the Debt Commitment Letter and (v) to comply with its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and provide to the Company copies of the material definitive agreements for therein being collectively referred the Debt Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent shall give the Company prompt notice of (1) any breach or default by any party under the Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to as the “Equity Debt Financing of which Parent or Merger Sub becomes aware, (2) any notices or communications from the Lender with respect to any (A) actual or potential breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing of any provisions thereof or (B) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing with respect to the obligation to fund the Debt Financing or the amount of the Debt Financing to be funded at Closing or (3) if at any time for any reason Parent or Merger Sub believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing”. In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable in the manner or from the sources contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letter despite Parent’s reasonable best efforts to obtain the Debt Financing, (i) Parent shall promptly notify the Company and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, Parent and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) Merger Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to provide, on the terms and subject only arrange to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require obtain any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and portion of the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letterfrom alternative sources, on terms and conditions that are not materially less favorable to Parent, as applicablepromptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event (and in any event no later than ten business days prior to the Termination Date), the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be an amount sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement (the “Alternate Financing”), including payment entering into definitive agreements with respect thereto (the “New Financing Documents”). In the event any New Financing Document is entered into, (A) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Financing” shall meant the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as modified pursuant to clause (B) below, (B) any reference in this Agreement to “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter that is not superseded by a New Financing Document at the time in question and the New Financing Document to the extent then in effect and (C) any reference in this Agreement to a “Redacted Fee Letter” shall be deemed to include any fee letter relating to the Debt Commitment Letter that is not superseded by a New Financing Document at the time in question and the New Financing Document to the extent then in effect. Parent shall deliver to the Company true and complete copies of all Contracts or other arrangements (including Redacted Fee Letters) pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Aggregate Debt Financing. Parent and Merger ConsiderationSub acknowledge and agree that the obtaining of the Debt Financing, or any Alternate Financing, is not a condition to make Closing.
(c) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to use its reasonable best efforts to, cooperate, in each case at Parent’s sole expense, in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing as may be reasonably requested by the Lender or any repaymentalternative sources arranged by Parent in compliance with Section 7.9(b) (provided, repurchase however, that such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries). Such cooperation by the Company and its Subsidiaries shall include, at the request of the Lender or refinancing any alternative sources arranged by Parent in compliance with Section 7.9(b), (i) delivering such officer’s and other certificates (and related documents thereto) as reasonably required by the Lender or any alternative sources arranged by Parent in compliance with Section 7.9(a) and as are, in the good faith determination of debt the persons executing such certificates, accurate, (ii) entering into such agreements and arrangements as reasonably required the Lender or any alternative sources arranged by Parent in compliance with Section 7.9(b) and on terms reasonably satisfactory to Parent, including agreements to pledge, guarantee, grant security interests in, and otherwise grant liens on, the Company’s or its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries’ assets; provided, however, that no obligation of the Company or its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries under any such agreement, pledge, guarantee or grant contemplated by this clause (ii) shall be effective until the Effective Time, (iii) using its reasonable efforts to cause its independent registered public accountants to deliver such comfort letters as reasonably required by the Lender or any alternative sources arranged by Parent in compliance with Section 7.9(b), (iv) providing Parent and its Debt Financing sources as promptly as practicable with financial and other pertinent information with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries as reasonably required by Parent, the Lender, or any alternative sources arranged by Parent in compliance with Section 7.9(b), (v) making the Company’s executive officers and other relevant employees reasonably available to assist the Lender providing the Debt Financing, and (vi) taking all corporate actions, subject to the occurrence of the Closing, reasonably requested by Parent to permit consummation of the Debt Financing and the direct borrowing or incurrence of all proceeds of the Debt Financing by the Surviving Corporation immediately following the Effective Time.
(d) Parent shall promptly, upon the termination of this Agreement, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the cooperation of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this AgreementSection 7.9 and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, to pay its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives from and against any other amounts required to be paid and all liabilities or losses suffered or incurred by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date any of them in connection with the consummation arrangement of the transactions contemplated Debt Financing and any information used in connection therewith (except with respect to any information provided by this Agreement (or on behalf of the “Required Amount”Company or any of its Subsidiaries), assuming except in the satisfaction event such liabilities or losses arose out of or result from the willful misconduct of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against ParentCompany, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent its Subsidiaries or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereintheir respective Representatives. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that the Company and its Subsidiaries and their obligation respective Representatives shall not, prior to consummate the Effective Time, incur any liability to any person under any financing that Parent and Merger and pay Sub may raise in connection with the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingtransactions contemplated by this Agreement.
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Each of Parent, Purchaser and Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to consummate and obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescindedLetter (as replaced, amended, amended and restated or supplemented, modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification waived or waiver has occurred, and, superseded to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming by Section 6.10(b)) on a timely basis to facilitate the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts Closing when required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, including: (i) to pay maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter until the Closing has occurred (other than to the extent amended or replaced in accordance with its terms and subject to Section 6.10(b)), (ii) enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter or any other amounts required alternate Debt Financing, and (iii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (or on the terms of the definitive documentation related to any alternate Debt Financing). In the event that all the conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter have been satisfied (or upon funding will be paid by Parent or Merger satisfied), each of Parent, Purchaser and Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to cause the Debt Financing Sources party to the Debt Commitment Letter to comply with their respective obligations, including to fund the Debt Financing at the Closing (and in any event on or prior to the Closing Date Outside Date). Each of Parent, Purchaser and Sub shall use reasonable best efforts to comply with their respective obligations, and use reasonable best efforts to enforce their respective rights, under the Debt Commitment Letter, in connection with each case in a timely and diligent manner.
(b) None of Parent, Purchaser or Sub shall agree to any amendments or modifications to, or grant any waivers of, any condition or other provision or remedy under the consummation Debt Commitment Letter or Debt Financing Agreements without the prior written consent of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Company (which may be granted or withheld in the “Required Amount”Company’s sole discretion), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent such amendments, modifications or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or waivers would reasonably be expected to constitute a default impose new or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, additional conditions precedent to the knowledge Debt Financing or otherwise expand, amend or modify any of the conditions precedent to the Debt Financing in a manner that would be reasonably expected to (A) prevent or delay or impair the ability of Parent, any Purchaser and Sub to consummate the Transactions to be consummated on the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement, (B) adversely impact the ability of Parent, Purchaser or Sub to enforce its rights or remedies against the other parties theretoto the Debt Commitment Letter or Debt Financing Agreements (or, under if applicable, any documentation related to an alternate Debt Financing) or (C) make the funding of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming on the Closing Date or satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 precedent to obtaining the Debt Financing on the Closing DateDate materially less likely to occur; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, Parent may also amend (or amend and restate) the Debt Commitment Letter, the Debt Fee Letter and any fee credit or discount and engagement letters or any Debt Financing Agreements to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or any person with similar roles or titles who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereofhereof and amend titles, Parent does not have any reason allocations and fee sharing arrangements with respect to believe that the full amount under existing and additional lenders, arrangers, bookrunners, agents, managers or similar entities) in all material respects in accordance with the Financing terms of the Debt Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub Letter as in effect on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof. Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any such amendment, modification or waiver of any of the Equity Debt Commitment Letter contains all or the Debt Financing Agreements. Parent shall release or consent to the termination of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make lenders and other Persons under the full amount Debt Commitment Letter or Debt Financing Agreements, except for replacements of the Equity Financing available Debt Commitment Letter with alternative financing commitments pursuant to Parent on Section 6.10(c).
(c) In the terms therein. As event that any portion of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect Debt Financing becomes unavailable in the availability of manner contemplated in the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, Debt Commitment Letter (other than as expressly set forth a result of the termination of the Debt Commitment Letter pursuant to the terms thereof), Parent shall reasonably promptly so notify the Company. Upon the occurrence of any circumstance referred to in the Equity preceding sentence, Parent, Purchaser and Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof, and to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to, alternative financing from the same or alternative financial institutions or other persons (which such alternative financing shall be in an amount, when combined with Parent’s, Purchaser’s and Sub’s other sources of funds, equal to not less than the Merger Consideration) on terms and conditions that are not less favorable to Parent, Purchaser and Sub than those in the Debt Commitment Letter provided to the Company as in effect on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity In the event any new Debt Commitment Letter providesis obtained as permitted or required in accordance herewith, (A) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Financing” means the financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced pursuant to this Section 6.10, and will continue (B) any reference in this Agreement to provide, the “Debt Financing Agreements” or the “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on superseded in accordance herewith by a new Debt Commitment Letter at the availability of time in question and the new Debt FinancingCommitment Letter to the extent then in effect.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (2U, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Financing Letters (or on terms no less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub (including with respect to the Company trueconditionality thereof)) and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, correct or any waiver of any material provision or remedy under the Financing Letters, if such amendment, modification or waiver reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing or amends the conditions precedent to the Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to delay or prevent the Closing Date or make the funding of the Financing less likely to occur; provided, however, that Parent and complete copiesMerger Sub may replace and amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof, . Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts (i) each fully executed Equity to maintain in effect the Financing Letters and to negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub than the terms and conditions in the Debt Commitment Letter), (ii) to satisfy on a timely basis all conditions applicable to it in such definitive agreements that are within its control, (iii) upon satisfaction of such conditions, to consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing, (iv) to comply with its obligations under the Financing Letters and (v) to enforce all of its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter and the definitive agreements related thereto. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing and provide to the Company, upon its request, copies of the definitive documents related to the Financing. In the event that all conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may Commitment Letter have been redacted satisfied or, upon funding will be satisfied, Parent and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and Persons providing the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with to fund on the Closing Date the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby (including by taking enforcement action to cause the Persons providing the Debt Financing to fund such Debt Financing).
(b) If any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter, (i) Parent and Merger Sub shall immediately notify the Company and (ii) Parent and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain alternative financing from alternative sources in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby with terms and conditions no less favorable from the standpoint of Parent and Merger Sub than the terms and conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event. Parent shall give the Company prompt notice if any condition to the Financing Letters is not likely to be satisfied, in each case, of which Parent or Merger Sub becomes aware or any termination of the Financing Letters. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that the obtaining of the Financing, or any alternative financing, is not a condition to Closing. For purposes of this Section 5.6, references to "Financing" shall include the financing contemplated by the Financing Letters as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 5.6 and references to "Debt Commitment Letter" shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 5.6.
(c) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their Representatives to, provide to Parent and Merger Sub all cooperation reasonably requested by Parent and that is customary in connection with the arrangement of the Financing and the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that no such requested cooperation may unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Such cooperation shall include (i) furnishing Parent, Merger Sub and their Financing sources as promptly as practicable with financial and other pertinent information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as may be reasonably requested in writing by Parent, including payment all financial statements and financial and other data of the Aggregate Merger Considerationtype required by Regulation S-X (other than Item 3-10 of Regulation S-X) and Regulation S-K under the Securities Act for registered offerings of debt securities, and of the type and form customarily included in offering documents used in private placements under Rule 144A of the Securities Act, to make consummate the Financings at the time the Financings are to be consummated, including all information and data necessary to satisfy the conditions set forth in paragraphs 4 and 5 of Exhibit C of the Debt Commitment Letter (information required to be delivered pursuant to this clause (i) being referred to as "Required Financial Information), (ii) participating in a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with prospective lenders, investors and rating agencies in connection with the Financing, (iii) assisting with the preparation of materials for rating agency presentations, offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and similar documents required in connection with the Financing, (iv) using reasonable best efforts to obtain accountant's comfort letters and legal opinions as reasonably requested by Parent, (v) taking all corporate actions, subject to the occurrence of the Effective Time, required to permit the consummation of the Financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available to the Surviving Corporation immediately after the Effective Time, (vi) providing unaudited consolidated monthly financial statements of the Company (excluding footnotes) consisting of a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows to the extent the Company customarily prepares such financial statements and (vii) executing and delivering any repaymentpledge and security documents, repurchase other definitive financing documents or refinancing other certificates or documents as may be requested by Parent (including a certificate of debt the chief financial officer of the Company with respect to solvency matters and consents of accountants for use of their reports in any materials relating to the Debt Financing) and otherwise reasonably facilitating the pledging of collateral; provided, however, that no obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any certificate, document or instrument shall be effective until the Effective Time, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any commitment or other similar fee or incur any other liability in connection with the Financing prior to the Effective Time.
(d) The Company hereby consents to the use of its and its Subsidiaries' logos in connection with the Financing; provided, however, that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Parent shall promptly, upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the cooperation of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this AgreementSection 5.6 and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, to pay its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives from and against any other amounts required to be paid and all losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date any of them in connection with the consummation arrangement of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Financing (other than to the “Required Amount”), assuming extent such losses arise from the satisfaction willful misconduct of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aCompany, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its Representatives) and Section 7.02(bany information used in connection therewith, except with respect to any information provided by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(e) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against In no event shall Parent, Merger Sub or the Equity Provider (i) retain any financial advisor on an exclusive basis other than advisors to which the extent Parent board of directors of the Company consents (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or Merger Sub is a party theretoconditioned) andor (ii) enter into any exclusive, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization lock-up or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereofagreement, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction arrangement or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred whichunderstanding, with any bank or without notice, lapse investment bank or other potential provider of time debt or both, would or would equity financing that could reasonably be expected to constitute prevent such provider from providing or seeking to provide such financing to any third party in connection with a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided transaction relating to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesits Subsidiaries, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate in connection with the Merger and pay or the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingother transactions contemplated hereby.
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Financing. (1) Each of the Parent has delivered and the Purchaser shall, subject to the Company trueterms and conditions of this Agreement, correct and complete copies, as use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the proceeds of the date hereofDebt Financing at Closing on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter, of including using reasonable best efforts to (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter, as in effect on the date of this Agreement (subject to the last sentence of this Section 4.7(1)), in accordance with its terms, (ii) negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Debt Agreements”) consistent with the terms and conditions contained therein and (iii) satisfy (or, if deemed advisable by the Parent, obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions applicable to the Purchaser and the Parent (as applicable) in the Debt Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter and the Definitive Debt Agreements and otherwise comply with all of its obligations thereunder. In the event that all conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter have been satisfied or waived and the Parent is required to consummate the Closing pursuant to Section 2.9, the Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause each Financing Source to fund its respective committed portion of the Debt Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to pay related fees and expenses at Closing. Neither the Parent nor the Purchaser shall, without the prior written consent of the Company, permit any amendment or modification to, or any waiver of any provision (including any remedy) under, or replace (it being understood that any Alternative Debt Financing shall not be deemed a replacement for purposes of this sentence), the Debt Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter if such amendment, modification, or waiver or replacement (w) adds new (or adversely modifies any existing) conditions to the consummation of the Debt Financing as compared to those in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter as in effect on the date of this Agreement in a manner that would reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or materially delay the consummation of the Arrangement and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (x) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing below the amount (taking into account all other available sources of funds) required to consummate the Arrangement and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to pay related fees and expenses, or (y) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or materially delay the consummation of the Arrangement and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(2) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions set out in the Debt Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter, and such portion is necessary for Purchaser to satisfy its payment obligations hereunder and under the Debt Commitment Letter and Fee Letter at Closing, regardless of the reason therefor, each of the Parent and the Purchaser will (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain alternative debt financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as from the same or other source(s) (the “Equity Alternative Debt Financing”) (in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) on terms not less favorable in the aggregate to the Parent than those contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter that the Alternative Debt Financing would replace (taking into account any flex provisions) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and annexes thereto) the reason therefor and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Lettercommercially reasonable efforts” and, together with described in this Section shall not be deemed to require the Equity Commitment Letters, Purchaser or the “Financing Commitment Letters”) Parent to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and incur any out-of-pocket expenses (other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into than its own out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the Debt Financing) in connection therewith that are in excess of those specified in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter.
(3) For purposes of the foregoing Section 4.7(1) and Section 4.7(2), may have been redacted (i) the term “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include any commitment letter (or similar agreement) with respect to any Alternative Debt Financing arranged in compliance herewith (and any Debt Commitment Letters remaining in effect at the time in question), (ii) the term “Fee Letter” shall be deemed to include any fee letter (or similar agreement) with respect to any Alternative Debt Financing arranged in compliance with this Section 4.7 and (iii) the term “Financing Sources” shall be deemed to include any financing sources providing the Alternative Debt Financing arranged in compliance herewith. The Parent and the Purchaser shall keep the Company reasonably informed of any actual material breach or default by any party to any Debt Commitment Letters or the Definitive Debt Agreements of which the Parent or the Purchaser gains knowledge and termination or repudiation by any party to any Debt Commitment Letters or the Definitive Debt Agreements or any provision thereof.
(4) In the event that the need for an extension of the Outside Date becomes reasonably foreseeable to allow for the condition in Section 6.1(4) or Section 6.1(7) to be satisfied, the Parent shall promptly use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an extension to the extentDebt Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter for the Debt Financing, provided that it is on terms no less favorable in the aggregate to the Parent, , or an Outside Date Alternative Financing, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As case with an expiration date that would be coterminous or later than such contemplated extension of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Outside Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.
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Financing. Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to the Company truetake, correct and complete copiesor cause to be taken, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesactions, and annexes thereto) to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange, and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together close concurrently with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated thereinClosing, debt financing on terms and conditions described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with or comparable to the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn(including using reasonable best efforts to obtain rating agency approvals, terminatedmaintain in effect the Commitments, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended satisfy on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, Merger Sub to obtaining the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to financing contemplated by the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to Commitments (including by consummating the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds financing contemplated by the Equity Commitment LettersLetter), negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter on terms and conditions contained therein or with respect to any replacement commitments, satisfy all conditions applicable to Parent and Merger Sub in such definitive agreements that are within its control and, if necessary, borrow pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letters in the event any "flex" provisions are exercised). Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to comply with the terms of, and satisfy the net proceeds conditions contemplated by, the financing contemplated by the Commitments in accordance with this Section 6.13 and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Commitments without obtaining the prior written consent of the Company; provided, that Parent and Merger Sub may amend the Debt Commitment Letters to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Commitments as of the date of this Agreement, or otherwise so long as the terms are not less beneficial in any material respect to Parent or Merger Sub (as reasonably determined by the Company), including with respect to conditions precedent, than those in the Commitments as in effect on the date of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that on the final day of the Marketing Period (x) all or a portion of the debt financing structured as high yield debt or contemplated to be sold pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities Act has not been consummated, (y) all conditions to Closing contained in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 shall have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions which by their nature will not be satisfied until the Closing) and (z) the bridge financing contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will Letters (or alternative bridge financing) is available on terms and conditions described in the aggregateDebt Commitment Letters (or amendments thereof), be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub then on such date Parent shall borrow under and use the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment proceeds of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make bridge financing (or such alternative bridge financing). Parent shall give the Company prompt notice of any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt material breach by any party of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this AgreementCommitments, to pay any termination of any of the Commitments or any other amounts required circumstance, event or condition that would reasonably be likely to be paid by Parent impede, prevent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with delay the consummation of the financing contemplated by the Commitments, to the extent it becomes aware of such breach, termination, circumstance, event or condition. If any portion of the financing contemplated by the Commitments becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions set forth in the Commitment Letters, Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange alternative financing from alternative sources on terms not materially less beneficial to Parent and Merger Sub (as determined in the reasonable judgment of Parent) in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (as promptly as practicable following the “Required Amount”)occurrence of such event. For the avoidance of doubt, assuming if the satisfaction of financing provided for by the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) Commitments has not been or cannot be obtained, Parent and Section 7.02(b) Merger Sub shall continue to be obligated to consummate the Merger on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (terms contemplated by this Agreement and subject only to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 Sections 7.1 and Section 7.02 on 7.2, the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions limitations set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides8.5, and will continue to provideParent's rights under Section 8.1, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. regardless of whether Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that have complied with all of their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingother obligations under this Agreement (including their obligations under this Section 6.14).
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Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (ia) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net aggregate proceeds contemplated by of the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Financing 42 Commitment Letter, will in together with any available cash and other sources of immediately available funds of Parent and its Subsidiaries, shall constitute sufficient funds to make the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts payments required to be paid in connection with made by Parent and its Subsidiaries hereunder at the Acceptance Time and on the Closing Date, to consummate the Offer and the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement and the Merger Agreement, including payment of to pay in full the Aggregate Offer Consideration, the Merger Consideration, the Company Warrant Consideration, the Option Consideration, the Vested Restricted Share Award Consideration and the Payoff Amount and to make any repaymentpayment of all fees, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company costs, expenses and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementother amounts, to pay any other amounts in each case, required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub and its Subsidiaries at the Acceptance Time and on or prior to the Closing Date in connection accordance with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (such amount, the “Required Amount”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, assuming the satisfaction parties acknowledge and agree that the availability of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aDebt Financing (or other financing) shall not be a condition to the obligations of Parent and Section 7.02(bMerger Sub to consummate the Offer and the Merger and/or the transactions contemplated hereby. (i) on Parent has delivered to the Closing Date. Each Financing Company a true, complete and correct copy of the executed Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) the Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parenthas not been amended, Merger Sub supplemented or modified, (to iii) the extent Parent respective commitments contained in the Debt Commitment Letter have not been withdrawn, terminated or Merger Sub is a party thereto) rescinded in any respect and, to the knowledge Knowledge of the Parent, no such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its termswithdrawal, termination or rescission is contemplated and (iv) except as enforcement for any fee letter (a complete copy of which has been provided to the Company, which may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization redacted with respect to fees and other economic terms (provided that Parent represents and warrants that the redactions in such fee letter do not permit the imposition of any new conditions (or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles the expansion of equity. As of any existing conditions) to obtaining the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, Debt Financing)) with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, respect to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Debt Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereofLetter, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings agreements to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely could reasonably be expected to affect the availability conditionality, amount, availability, enforceability or termination of the Equity Debt Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Debt Commitment Letter provided delivered to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity As of the date hereof, the Debt Commitment Letter provides, is in full force and will continue to provide, that the Company effect and is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. enforceable against each of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge (once incorporated) and, to the Knowledge of Parent, the commitment parties thereto in accordance with its terms, except to the extent enforcement is limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and agree similar Laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity). There are no conditions precedent to the provision or initial funding of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter, other than as expressly set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter delivered to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. (b) As of the date hereof, no event has occurred which (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) would reasonably be expected to (i) constitute a breach or default under the Debt Commitment Letter on the part of Parent or, to the Knowledge of Parent, any other party thereto or (ii) constitute a failure to satisfy a condition precedent as a result of actions taken or expected to be taken by Parent or, to the Knowledge of Parent, any other party under the Debt Commitment Letter, which, in each case, is reasonably likely to result in the Debt Financing not being available at the Acceptance Time. Parent has fully paid, or has caused to be fully paid by it, any and all commitment fees or other fees required by such Debt Commitment Letter to be paid by it on or before the date hereof and will, directly or indirectly, continue to pay in full any such amounts required to be paid by it on or prior to the Closing Date, as and when they become due and payable at the Acceptance Time and on or prior to the Closing Date (including at the 43 Acceptance Time). Assuming satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Annex C, (A) Parent has no reason to believe that their obligation the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (in an amount, together with any available cash and other sources of immediately available funds of Parent and its Subsidiaries) will not be sufficient to consummate the Merger enable Parent and its Subsidiaries to pay the Aggregate Required Amount or will not be made available to Parent or Merger Consideration Sub, as applicable, in an amount necessary to fund (when taken together with any available cash and other sources of immediately available funds of Parent and its Subsidiaries) the Required Amount, in each case, at or prior to the Acceptance Time, and (B) as of the date hereof, Parent is not conditioned on aware of the availability existence of any fact or event that would or would reasonably be expected to cause such conditions to the Debt FinancingFinancing not to be satisfied or the full amount of the Debt Financing necessary to fund, when taken together with any available cash and other sources of immediately available funds of Parent or Merger Sub and its Subsidiaries, the Required Amount not to be made available to Parent, as applicable, at the Acceptance Time.
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Aebi Schmidt shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain the Company trueDebt Financing on terms and conditions described in the Commitment Papers (including the flex provisions) or on other terms no less favorable to Aebi Schmidt, correct Holdco, Merger Sub and complete copiesShyft, as of the date hereof, of including to (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Commitment Letter Papers (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred subject to as the “Equity Financing”) and any amendment, supplement, replacement, substitution, termination or other modification or waiver that is permitted by Section 7.18), (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, respect thereto as promptly as practicable on the terms and subject only conditions contained in the Commitment Papers (including the flex provisions) or on other terms no less favorable to Aebi Schmidt, Merger Sub and Shyft, (iii) satisfy, or obtain a waiver thereof, on a timely basis all conditions to funding the Commitment Papers and such definitive agreements thereto, (iv) assuming that all conditions contained in the Commitment Papers have been satisfied, consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the conditions expressly stated thereinClosing and (v) enforce Aebi Schmidt’s rights under the Commitment Papers.
(b) Aebi Schmidt, debt financing in Holdco, and Merger Sub shall keep Shyft informed with respect to all material activity concerning the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms status of the “market flex” Debt Financing contemplated by the Commitment Papers and other commercially sensitive informationshall give Shyft notice of any material change with respect to such Debt Financing as promptly as practicable. Aebi Schmidt, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt FinancingHoldco, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As and Merger Sub shall give Shyft prompt notice (w) of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification cancellation or waiver has occurred, and, expiration of the Commitment Papers or the definitive agreements related to the extent related to Debt Financing, (x) of any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification breach or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase default (or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred whichor circumstance that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would could reasonably be expected to give rise to any breach or default) by any party to any of the Commitment Papers, or any definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing, in each case of which Aebi Schmidt, Holdco, or Merger Sub becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication, in each case received from any Lenders with respect to any (1) material breach of any party’s obligations under the Commitment Papers or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing, or default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Commitment Papers or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing (including any proposal by any Lender or other Person to withdraw, terminate, repudiate, rescind or make a material change in the terms of (including the amount of Debt Financing contemplated) the Commitment Papers) or (2) material dispute between or among any parties to any of the Commitment Papers or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or any provisions of any of the Commitment Papers and (z) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication on the basis of which Aebi Schmidt expects that a party to the Debt Financing will fail to fund the Debt Financing or is reducing the amount of the Debt Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within two Business Days of the date Shyft delivers to Aebi Schmidt a written request, Aebi Schmidt, Holdco and Merger Sub shall provide any information reasonably requested by Shyft relating to any circumstance referred to in clauses (w), (x), (y) or (z) of the immediately preceding sentence. Aebi Schmidt shall allow Shyft to reasonably consult with the Lenders and providers of the Debt Financing regarding the status of such Debt Financing; provided that, Aebi Schmidt shall have the right to have one or more Representatives present during any such consultation.
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, Aebi Schmidt shall only have the right to amend, supplement, replace, substitute, terminate or otherwise modify or waive its rights under the Commitment Papers with the consent of Shyft. Aebi Schmidt shall furnish to Shyft a copy of any executed written amendment, supplement, replacement, substitution, termination, modification or waiver of the Commitment Papers.
(d) If any portion of the Debt Financing necessary for the Financing Uses becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated by the Commitment Papers, (i) Aebi Schmidt shall promptly notify Shyft in writing (an “Availability Notice”) and (ii) Aebi Schmidt and Merger Sub shall (A) arrange and obtain, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, any such portion from alternative sources on terms that (i) are reasonably satisfactory to Shyft, (ii) taken as whole, are no more adverse to Shyft, Aebi Schmidt and Merger Sub than the existing Commitment Papers (including after giving effect to the market flex provisions), (iii) do not impose new or additional conditions precedent or expand upon the conditions precedent to the Debt Financing set forth in the existing Commitment Papers, and (iv) do not reduce the aggregate amount of available Debt Financing to less than the amount required to consummate the Transactions or otherwise would reasonably be expected to constitute materially delay or prevent the Closing (an “Alternative Financing”), and (B) provide Shyft with a default or breach on copy of the part of Parent or Merger Sub ornew financing commitment that provides for such Alternative Financing (including all related exhibits, to the knowledge of Parentschedules, any other parties annexes, supplements and term sheets thereto, under and including any related fee letter, which may be redacted in a manner consistent with Section 7.01, as each of the foregoing may be amended, supplemented, replaced, substituted, terminated or otherwise modified or waived from time to time thereafter in compliance with this Section 5.04, the “Alternative Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction Letter”).
(e) If an Availability Notice is delivered on or prior to April 1, 2025, for a period of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Datethirty (30) days following delivery of such Availability Notice, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have Aebi Schmidt shall (x) use reasonable best efforts to cure any reason to believe that the full amount breach under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available Papers and to Parent or Merger Sub on otherwise obtain any waiver from the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder Lenders necessary to make the full amount of the Equity Debt Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As and conditions contemplated by the Commitment Papers, and (y) if, at the conclusion of such thirty (30) day period, any portion of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect Debt Financing necessary for the availability of the Equity Financing Uses remains unavailable on the Closing Dateterms and conditions contemplated by the Commitment Papers, other Aebi Schmidt shall promptly notify Shyft in writing. Following the delivery of such written notice, no later than as expressly set forth fifteen (15) Business Days following receipt of such written notice, Shyft may deliver written notice to Aebi Schmidt of its election to coordinate and direct the timing and strategy (in consultation with Aebi Schmidt) for obtaining an Alternative Financing (an “Alternative Financing Election Notice”).
(f) If an Availability Notice is delivered at any time after April 1, 2025, no later than fifteen (15) Business Days following receipt of such Availability Notice, Shyft may deliver to Aebi Schmidt an Alternative Financing Election Notice.
(g) Following the Equity delivery of any Alternative Financing Election Notice, (i) Shyft shall use reasonable best efforts, in good faith consultation with Aebi Schmidt, to arrange and obtain an Alternative Financing and shall promptly provide Aebi Schmidt with a copy of any Alternative Financing Commitment Letter provided to the Company Letter, (ii) unless otherwise agreed in writing by Shyft, Aebi Schmidt shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates and its and their respective Representatives not to, directly or indirectly, continue, conduct, engage or participate in any discussions or negotiations with sources of Alternative Financing initiated on or prior to the delivery of an Alternative Financing Election Notice, and (iii) each of Shyft and Aebi Schmidt shall act in good faith and consult with one another in respect of any communications with sources of any Alternative Financing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, (A) neither Shyft nor any of its Affiliates shall have any liability or obligation as a result of any failure to obtain and consummate the Debt Financing or any Alternative Financing for all purposes under this Agreement, including in respect of any purported Willful Breach of this Agreement resulting from or relating to Shyft’s efforts to obtain Alternative Financing following the issuance of an Alternative Financing Election Notice, and Aebi Schmidt, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, any right to bring any claim against Shyft and its Affiliates in any action, suit or proceeding in connection with any failure to obtain and consummate the Debt Financing or any Alternative Financing, and (B) following delivery of any Alternative Financing Election Notice and until the date hereof. Each Equity that Shyft delivers a copy of any Alternative Financing Commitment Letter providesto Aebi Schmidt, Aebi Schmidt may, in good faith consultation with Shyft, cure any breach under the Commitment Papers and otherwise obtain any waiver from the Lenders necessary to make the Debt Financing available on the terms and conditions contemplated by the Commitment Papers (including the flex provisions).
(h) For purposes of this Agreement (other than with respect to representations in this Agreement made by or with respect to Aebi Schmidt that speak as of the date hereof or another specified date), references to the “Commitment Papers” shall include any such document as permitted or required by this Section 5.04 to be amended, supplemented, replaced, substituted, terminated or otherwise modified or waived, in each case from and after such amendment, supplement, replacement, substitution, termination or other modification or waiver and, for the avoidance of doubt, references to “Debt Financing” shall include, in whole or in part (as applicable), any supplemental, replacement or substitute financing provided for thereunder.
(i) Following delivery of an Alternative Financing Election Notice, (i) Shyft’s obligations and liabilities under Section 7.18(a) will immediately and automatically terminate with no further action on the part of any Person, and will continue (ii) Aebi Schmidt shall use its reasonable best efforts to provideprovide necessary, that customary, proper, and advisable cooperation in connection with the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof arrangement of the Alternative Financing as may be reasonably requested by Shyft; provided that, nothing in this Section 5.04(i) shall require Aebi Schmidt or its Affiliates to take any of the actions set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation in Section 7.18(b) with respect to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Alternative Financing.
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Unless, and to the Company trueextent, correct Parent or Merger Sub have sufficient cash from other sources (including by reason of a capital market or other financing transaction) available to satisfy their obligations under this Agreement, from and complete copiesafter the execution of this Agreement, as of Parent and Merger Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Commitment Letter (including any “market flex” provisions applicable thereto) and pricing termsshall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any replacement of all or any portion of any facilities (or commitments thereof) described in, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Commitment Letter, if such amendment, modification, replacement or waiver (i) reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing (including terms by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount except by operation of the “market flex” provisions) or (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the receipt of any portion of the Financing in a manner that would or would reasonably be expected to (A) materially delay or prevent the Closing, (B) make the funding of the Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing) less likely to occur or (C) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Sub, as applicable, to enforce their rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements (as defined below), in any material respect, including any right to seek specific performance of the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements. Subject to the limitations set out in the first sentence of this Section 5.15(a), Parent and Merger Sub may amend, supplement, modify or replace the Commitment Letter as in effect at the date of this Agreement (1) to add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement, (2) to increase the amount of indebtedness and (3) to replace all or a portion of the facility committed under the Commitment Letter as in effect as of the date of this Agreement with one or more new facilities under such Commitment Letter or under any new commitment letter or facility (any such new commitment or facility, a “Replacement Facility”); provided, that any amendments, modifications or replacements of any Replacement Facility shall be subject to the same limitations that apply to the Commitment Letter as set forth in the first sentence of this Section 5.15(a). For purposes of this Agreement (other commercially sensitive informationthan with respect to any representations made by Parent or Merger Sub), (x) the term “Financing” shall be deemed to include the financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced pursuant to this Section 5.15 (including any Replacement Facility, any Alternative Financing (as defined below) and, in the case of Section 5.15(e), any offering of debt or equity securities the proceeds of which are intended to be used to satisfy the obligations under this Agreement), and (y) the term “Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Commitment Letter as may be permitted to be amended, modified or replaced pursuant to this Section 5.15 and any commitment letters with respect to any Replacement Facility and the Alternative Financing and any related fee letter entered letters.
(b) Unless, and to the extent, Parent or Merger Sub have sufficient cash from other sources (including by reason of a capital market or other financing transaction) available to satisfy their obligations under this Agreement, each of Parent or Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letter pursuant to its terms (except for amendments not prohibited by Section 5.15(a)) until the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, are consummated, (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing on the terms and conditions (including any “market flex” provisions applicable thereto) contained in the Commitment Letter (“Definitive Agreements”) or on other terms not materially less favorable to Parent and Merger Sub, in the aggregate, than the terms and conditions (including any “market flex” provisions applicable thereto) contained in the Commitment Letter, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of) all conditions to funding in the Commitment Letter applicable to Parent or Merger Sub that are within its control and consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Commitment Letter at or prior to the Closing and (iv) enforce their rights under the Commitment Letter in the event of a breach or other failure to fund the Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, on the Closing Date by the Financing Sources.
(c) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall give the Company reasonably prompt notice: (i) of any material breach or default by any party to the Commitment Letter or definitive document related to the Financing of which they become aware; (ii) of the receipt of any oral or written notice or other oral or written communication from any Financing Source with respect to any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing of any provisions of the Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing and (iii) if for any reason Parent or Merger Sub believe in good faith that they will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger.
(d) Unless, and to the extent, Parent or Merger Sub have sufficient cash from other sources (including by reason of a capital market or other financing transaction) available to satisfy their obligations under this Agreement, in the event any portion of the Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Commitment Letter, Parent and Merger Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to, as promptly as practicable, arrange alternative debt financing from the same or alternative sources in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger (the “Alternative Financing”), following the occurrence of such event; provided, however, that Parent shall not be required to obtain financing which includes terms and conditions materially less favorable (taking into account any “market flex” provisions) to Parent and Merger Sub, in each case relative to those in the Financing being replaced.
(e) The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts, shall cause its Subsidiaries to use commercially reasonable efforts, and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its and their Representatives to provide, at Parent’s cost and expense, on a timely basis in each case, all reasonable cooperation requested by Parent in connection with (x) the arrangement of Financing to be incurred in connection with the Debt Financingtransactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Merger, and (y) Refinancing Transactions, including, in the case of both (x) and (y):
(i) promptly providing the Financing Sources and/or Refinancing Sources and their respective agents with all financial statements, pro forma financial statements and other information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries required to be delivered pursuant to Exhibit D of the Commitment Letter or is otherwise necessary to satisfy the conditions thereof (the information required to be delivered pursuant to this clause (i) and the letters referred to in clause (ix) below, the “Required Information”);
(ii) promptly providing all other information as may have been redacted be reasonably requested by Parent, the Financing Sources or Refinancing Sources or their respective agents to prepare customary bank information memoranda, lender presentations, offering memoranda, private placement memoranda (including under Rule 144A under the Securities Act), registration statements and prospectuses under the Securities Act in connection with such Financing and/or Refinancing Transaction;
(iii) participating (including by making members of senior management with appropriate seniority and expertise available to participate) in a reasonable number of meetings, due diligence sessions, presentations, “road shows”, drafting sessions and sessions with the rating agencies in connection with the Financing and Refinancing Transactions;
(iv) reasonably cooperating with the Financing Sources’ and/or Refinancing Sources’ and their respective agents’ due diligence, to the extentextent not unreasonably interfering with the business of the Company, including access to documentation reasonably requested by Persons in connection with capital markets transactions;
(v) reasonably cooperating with the marketing efforts for any portion of the Financing and Refinancing Transactions;
(vi) reasonably cooperating with Parent’s preparation of bank information memoranda, prospectuses and similar documents, rating agency presentations, road show presentations and written offering materials used to complete such Financing or Refinancing Transaction, to the extent information contained therein relates to the business, financial performance or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including reasonable assistance in the preparation of pro forma financial statements by Parent and/or Merger Sub; provided, that it is understood that assumptions underlying the pro forma adjustments to be made are the responsibility of Parent and/or Merger Sub;
(vii) using commercially reasonable efforts to cause its certified independent auditors to provide (A) consent to the inclusion or incorporation in SEC filings and offering memoranda of the Company’s consolidated financial information (with such changes as the Company and its auditors deem necessary or appropriate) and their reports thereon, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that such consent is not required by law, regulation or customary market practice in connection with an Affiliate underwritten offering of securities of Parent, (B) auditors reports and comfort letters with respect to financial information relating to the knowledge Company and its Subsidiaries in customary form, (C) reasonable assistance in the preparation of Parentpro forma financial statements by Parent and/or Merger Sub, there provided, that it is no condition existing understood that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment assumptions underlying the pro forma adjustments to be made are the responsibility of Parent and/or Merger Sub and restatement, modification or waiver, except (D) other documentation to the extent such other documentation is required or customary;
(viii) furnishing all documentation and other information required by Governmental Entities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001, but in each case, solely as relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(ix) issuing customary letters to the Financing Sources and/or Refinancing Sources authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders and making customary representations to the Financing Sources and/or Refinancing Sources that such information does not contain a material misstatement or omission and, if requested, confirming that such information does not contain material non-public information with respect to the Company or its Affiliates or any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity of its or their respective securities for purposes of any applicable securities Laws;
(x) providing customary certificates, legal opinions or other customary closing documents as may be reasonably requested by Parent and/or Merger Sub or their respective Financing is funded in accordance Sources or Refinancing Sources;
(xi) assisting with the Equity Commitment Letters pledging of, and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Lettergranting and perfection of security interests in, as applicable, the net proceeds collateral contemplated by the Equity Commitment LettersFinancing; and
(xii) arranging for customary payoff letters, lien terminations and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required instruments of discharge to be paid in connection with delivered at Closing providing for the Merger payoff, discharge and termination on the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment Closing Date of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt all indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required the Commitment Letter to be paid off, discharged and terminated on the Closing Date; provided, that no obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any agreement, certificate, document or instrument related to the Financing (other than the authorization letters referred to in clause (ix) above) shall be effective until the Closing.
(f) All non-public or other confidential information provided by the Company or any of its Representatives pursuant to this Section 5.15 shall be kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, except that Parent or and Merger Sub on may disclose such information to potential financing sources and to rating agencies during the syndication and marketing of the Financing or prior Refinancing Transactions subject to customary confidentiality undertakings by such potential financing sources or rating agencies. The Company hereby consents to the Closing Date use of its and its Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the consummation Financing or Refinancing Transactions; provided, however, that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent Company or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinits Subsidiaries. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge shall promptly indemnify and agree that hold harmless the Company, its Subsidiaries and their obligation respective Representatives from and against any and all (1) costs and expenses incurred in connection with their cooperation pursuant to consummate this Section 5.15 and (2) Claims asserted by Financing Sources or Refinancing Sources in connection with the Merger arrangement of the Financing or Refinancing Transactions and pay any information used in connection therewith (other than information relating to the Aggregate Merger Consideration Company or its Subsidiaries provided to Parent in writing on or behalf of the Company, its Subsidiaries or its and their Representatives) except in the event such Claim arose out of or result from the willful misconduct, gross negligence, fraud, or intentional misrepresentation of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Representatives; the foregoing indemnification shall survive termination of this Agreement.
(g) Notwithstanding the obligations of the Company under Section 5.15(e), neither the obtaining of the Financing, any Alternative Financing or Refinancing Transaction, nor the completion of any issuance of securities contemplated by the Financing, is a condition to the Closing. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Company has made commercially reasonable efforts to provide the cooperation, documents and information contemplated by Section 5.15(e) and Section 5.16, the Company’s failure to provide all items contemplated thereby shall not conditioned on affect its rights or privileges under this Agreement (or be construed as a waiver of any such rights or privileges), including the availability of Debt FinancingCompany’s right to specific enforcement set forth in Section 8.13.
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Financing. (a) Without limiting Sellers' and the Company's obligations under this Agreement, Parent has delivered to and Buyer each acknowledges and agrees that none of Sellers, the Company true, correct and complete copies, as nor any of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the their Affiliates have any responsibility for any financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into Buyer may raise in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extenttransactions contemplated hereby. Any offering materials and other related documents prepared by or on behalf of or utilized by Parent or Buyer or their respective Affiliates and financing sources, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated connection with Parent's or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid Buyer's financing activities in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, that include any information provided by the Sellers, the Company or any of their Affiliates, including payment any offering memorandum, banker's book or similar document used, or any other written offering materials used (collectively, “Offering Materials”), in connection with any debt or securities offering or other such Parent or Buyer financing will include a conspicuous disclaimer to the effect that none of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationSellers, the Company nor any of their Affiliates have any responsibility for the content of such document and disclaim all responsibility therefor and will further include a disclaimer with respect to make any repaymentthe Sellers, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementtheir Affiliates in any oral disclosure with respect to such financing.
(b) Parent and Buyer will use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, to pay any other amounts required or cause to be paid by Parent taken, all actions and do, or Merger Sub on cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or prior advisable to (i) maintain in effect the Debt Financing Commitments, (ii) enter into definitive financing agreements with respect to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”)Debt Financing and Debt Financing Commitments, assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, so that such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters agreements are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth as promptly as practicable but in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 any event no later than on the Closing Date, and (iii) consummate the Debt Financing at the Closing. Parent has no reason will provide to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse Sellers and the Company copies of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, all final documents relating to the knowledge Debt Financing and will keep Sellers and the Company fully informed of Parentmaterial developments in respect of the financing process relating thereto. Prior to the Closing, Parent will not agree to, or permit, any amendment or modification of, or waiver under, the Debt Financing Commitments or other parties theretofinal documentation relating to the Debt Financing which would reduce the maximum borrowing amount or delay funding past March 1, under 2011 or reduce the likelihood of consummating the Debt Financing, without the prior written consent of Sellers' Representative (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld).
(c) If any of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming or the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Debt Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent Commitments (or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on definitive financing agreement relating thereto) expire or are terminated prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesClosing, in whole or in part, for any reason, Parent will (i) promptly notify the Sellers' Representative of such expiration or termination and the reasons therefor and (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to promptly arrange for alternative financing (which will continue be in an amount sufficient to provide, that pay for Purchase Price and the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation transactions contemplated herein from other sources) to consummate replace the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingfinancing contemplated by such expired or terminated commitments or agreements.
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Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Acquisition Sub shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under the Debt Commitment Letter or fee letter (except in compliance with the provisions of the fee letter in effect as of the date hereof), if such amendment, modification or waiver reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount) in a manner that would prevent or delay the consummation of the Debt Financing, amends the conditions precedent to the Debt Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to make the funding of the Debt Financing less likely to occur or imposes additional material obligations on the Company, its Subsidiaries or Affiliates of the Company prior to the Offer Closing Date; provided, however, that Parent and Acquisition Sub may amend or restate the Debt Commitment Letter or fee letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities as parties thereto who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any such amendment, modification or waiver. If any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions (such terms and conditions to include provisions contained in the fee letter) contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter or fee letter, (i) Parent and Acquisition Sub shall promptly notify the Company and (ii) Parent and Acquisition Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain alternative financing from alternative sources in an amount and on terms sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event (the “Alternative Debt Financing”). Parent shall promptly provide a true, correct and complete copiescopy of each Alternative Debt Financing commitment to the Company. For purposes of this Section 7.4(a), references to “Debt Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 7.4(a) and references to “Debt Commitment Letter” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 7.4(a). Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed of the date hereofstatus of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and provide to the Company copies of the material definitive documents for the Debt Financing and shall give the Company prompt notice (and in any event, of within one (1) Business Day) (i) each fully executed Equity of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from a financing source for the Debt Financing with respect to any actual or potential breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Debt Commitment Letter (or any definitive document related to the financing provided for therein being collectively referred Debt Financing or any material provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to as the “Equity Debt Financing”) ; and (ii) of the occurrence of an event or development that Parent or Acquisition Sub expects to have a fully executed commitment letter (together with material and adverse impact on the ability of Parent or Acquisition Sub to obtain all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from or any portion of the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Letter on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered manner or from the sources contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive documents related to the Debt Financing. Parent and Acquisition Sub shall publicly file the Debt Commitment Letter with the SEC and take such actions required by applicable Law. Once funded with the total, aggregate proceeds necessary to consummate the Offer and the Merger in accordance with the penultimate sentence of Section 2.1(d), Parent and Acquisition Sub shall cause the escrow account established pursuant to the Acceptable Escrow Agreement to remain in place and fully funded until at least the Extended Expiration Date (after taking into account all extensions thereof required by Section 2.1(d)), to the extent such aggregate proceeds are not released prior thereto in accordance with Section 2.1(d).
(b) Prior to the Merger Closing, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the respective officers, employees, consultants and advisors, including legal and accounting advisors, of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries to, provide to Parent and Acquisition Sub any cooperation reasonably requested by Parent and Acquisition Sub in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As arrangement of debt financing for any portion of the date hereofaggregate funds to consummate the Offer and the Merger, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnincluding, terminatedwithout limitation, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of (i) furnishing Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment Acquisition Sub and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Lettertheir financing sources, as applicablepromptly as practicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, with financial and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of pertinent information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to as may reasonably be paid requested in writing by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior and identifying any portion of such information that constitutes material non-public information, (ii) in each case upon reasonable notice and in reasonably convenient locations, making senior management of the Company available to the Closing Date participate in a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with prospective lenders, investors and rating agencies in connection with the financing, (iii) assisting with the preparation of customary materials for rating agency presentations (and assisting in the obtaining of corporate, credit and facility ratings from ratings agencies), offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and all other material to be used in connection with the financing (including customary authorization and management representation letters) and all documentation and other information required in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001, (iv) using reasonable best efforts to obtain accountant’s comfort letters as reasonably requested by Parent, (v) entering into one or more credit or other agreements on terms reasonably satisfactory to Parent and Acquisition Sub in connection with such debt financing immediately prior to the Offer Closing, (vi) taking all corporate actions, subject to and only effective upon the occurrence of the Acceptance Time, required to permit the consummation of the financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available to the Surviving Corporation immediately after the Acceptance Time, and (vii) otherwise taking actions within its control to cooperate in satisfying the conditions precedent set forth in any definitive document related to the financing; provided, however, that (A) no obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any such credit or other agreement shall be effective until the Effective Time, (B) nothing herein shall require such cooperation to the extent it would interfere unreasonably with the business or operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries, and (C) neither the Company nor any of the Company’s Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any commitment fee or similar fee or incur any liability with respect to such debt financing prior to the Merger Closing. Each of Parent and Acquisition Sub shall promptly, upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in connection with the foregoing cooperation, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and other Representatives from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by any of them in connection with the arrangement of such debt financing and any information utilized in connection therewith to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law and with appropriate contribution to the extent such indemnification is not available (other than arising from (x) such Person’s fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or intentional misrepresentation or (y) material misstatements or omissions in written historical information of the type prepared by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business that is provided by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries specifically for use in connection with the debt financing).
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are not subject to any conditions regarding Parent’s, Acquisition Sub’s or any other Person’s ability to finance, or obtain financing for, the Offer or the Merger.
(the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(ad) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto Acquisition Sub and the Company agree that (i) any Legal Proceeding involving ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Group, Inc. or any Investor (as defined in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization the Debt Commitment Letter) arising out of or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of relating to the date hereofOffer, the Financing Merger, the Debt Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming Letter, the satisfaction engagement letter, the fee letter, or waiver the performance of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably services thereunder be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, subject to the knowledge exclusive jurisdiction of Parenta state or federal court sitting in the State of Delaware, (ii) it will not, and it will not permit any of its Affiliates to, bring or support anyone else in bringing any such Legal Proceeding in any other parties theretocourt, under (iii) it waives any right to trial by jury in respect of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 any such Legal Proceeding, and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date(iv) that ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Group, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent Inc. or any Equity Investor is a (and their respective affiliates) are express third-party that would adversely affect the availability beneficiaries of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingthis Section 7.4(d).
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Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (McCormick & Schmicks Seafood Restaurants Inc.)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (ia) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on On the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated thereinof this Agreement, debt financing Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to:
(i) maintain in effect the Equity Commitment Letter;
(ii) satisfy on a timely basis (taking into account the anticipated timing of the Closing) all conditions applicable to (and within control of) Parent in the amounts set forth thereinEquity Commitment Letter;
(iii) comply with its material payment obligations under the Equity Commitment Letter in accordance with its terms; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms and
(iv) enforce its rights pursuant to the Equity Commitment Letter in accordance with the provisions of the “market flex” Equity Commitment Letter and other commercially sensitive information, in this Agreement.
(b) On the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted terms and subject to the extentconditions of this Agreement, each of Parent and the Merger Subs will not effect or permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver by Parent of any provision or remedy pursuant to, the Equity Commitment Letter, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As except as otherwise permitted by the terms of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters Letter.
(c) Parent and the Debt Financing is funded Merger Subs shall give the Company prompt notice of, and keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letterreasonable detail of, as applicable(i) any actual or potential material breach, the net proceeds contemplated material default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Equity Commitment LettersLetter of which Parent or a Merger Sub becomes aware, including the receipt of any written notice with respect thereto, and (ii) the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment occurrence of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase an event or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe development that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on materially and adversely impact the part ability of Parent or the Merger Sub or, Subs to obtain all or a portion of the Equity Financing at or prior to the knowledge Closing.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, nothing contained in this Section 6.4 will require, and in no event will the reasonable best efforts of Parent, Parent be deemed or construed to require Parent to (i) bring any other parties thereto, under enforcement action against any source of the Equity Financing to enforce its rights pursuant to the Equity Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing DateLetter (it being understood that Parent will seek to enforce, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereofincluding by bringing suit for specific performance, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all if the Company seeks and is granted a decree of specific performance of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay Mergers); or (ii) seek the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on Equity Financing from any source other than a counterparty to, or in any amount in excess of that contemplated by, the availability of Debt FinancingEquity Commitment Letter.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Fathom Digital Manufacturing Corp)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and Merger Sub have provided to the Company true, correct a true and complete copiescopy of executed commitment letters from ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Senior Funding, as Inc. and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Senior Funding (Nova Scotia) Co. to provide debt financing in an aggregate amount of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter $460,000,000 (the “Debt Commitment Letter”) and from Francisco Partners II, L.P. to provide equity financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as in an aggregate amount of $300,546,000 (the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Debt Commitment LettersLetter, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) ). There are no conditions to providethe funding of the financings described in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter, other than those expressly set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and Equity Commitment Letter delivered to the Company on the terms and subject only to date hereof (the conditions expressly stated thereinso set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, the “Debt Disclosed Conditions,” and the conditions so set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter, the “Equity Disclosed Conditions”). No Person (other than the Parent in the case of clause (ii) below) has any right to (i) impose, and Parent and Merger Sub have no obligation to accept, any condition precedent to such debt financing other than the Debt Disclosed Conditions, (ii) impose, and Parent and Merger Sub have no obligation to accept, any condition precedent to such equity financing other than the Equity Disclosed Conditions, (iii) reduce the amounts of the financing commitments made in the Debt Commitment Letter or (iv) reduce the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, financing commitments made in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. Equity Commitment Letter.
(b) As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation each of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are is in full force and effect effect, in all material respects, and assuming the satisfaction there has been no breach, default, action or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason omission to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach act on the part of Parent or Merger Sub orSub, or to the knowledge of Parent, any on the part of the other parties thereto, under that would permit any of party thereto to terminate or cancel the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available .
(c) The aggregate proceeds to Parent or Merger Sub on contemplated by the Closing Date. As of Commitment Letters, together with the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing cash available to Parent and its Subsidiaries, are sufficient to enable Parent or Merger Sub to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration in accordance with Section 2.02, to make all payments in respect of Company Stock Awards pursuant to this Agreement, to repay or refinance debt or other obligations as contemplated by the Commitment Letters and to pay all fees and expenses related to this Agreement, the Commitment Letters and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(d) The consolidated audited financial statements of Parent for the year ended April 30, 2006, and the related audited statements of income and cash flow of Parent for the year ended April 30, 2006, were prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the terms therein. As period indicated (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto) and fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of Parent and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations and cash flows for the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingperiods then ended.
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Financing. 68 (a) Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall, use reasonable best efforts to take actions and to do all things necessary to arrange, obtain and consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as Acceptance Time. Without limiting the generality of the date hereofpreceding sentence, each of Parent and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sub agrees, to (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (use reasonable best efforts to negotiate, finalize and execute prior to Acceptance Time the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”Documents (A) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth thereinDebt Commitment Letter or (B) on such other terms as may be acceptable to both Parent and the applicable Debt Financing Sources; provided that fee amounts such other terms do not contain any Prohibited Changes (as defined below), (ii) keep in full force and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with effect the Debt FinancingCommitment Letter or, may have been redacted to if applicable the extentDebt Financing Documents, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with their respective terms (provided, that Parent and Merger Sub may replace or amend the Equity Debt Commitment Letters and Letter subject to Section 7.14(d)), (iii) use reasonable best efforts to satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of) all applicable conditions to the initial funding of the Debt Financing is funded set forth in accordance with the Debt Commitment Letter or, if applicable, the Debt Financing Commitment LetterDocuments, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts each case that are required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid satisfied by Parent or Merger Sub on at or prior to the Closing Date in connection with Acceptance Time, (iv) use reasonable best efforts to procure the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Debt Financing at the Acceptance Time (in an amount, together with any available cash and other sources of immediately available funds of Parent and its Subsidiaries, sufficient to enable Parent and its Subsidiaries to pay the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b(v) on use reasonable best efforts to enforce their rights under the Closing Date. Each Financing Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentor, Merger Sub (if applicable, the Debt Financing Documents to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation necessary to consummate the Merger transactions contemplated herein. Upon the reasonable request of the Company, Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis in reasonable detail of any material developments in the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing (or Alternative Financing) (including providing copies of Definitive Financing Documents to the extent reasonably necessary to allow the Company to monitor the progress of such efforts, in each case, which may be redacted with respect to fee amounts and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingany other economic terms).
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Sources: Transaction Agreement (Global Blue Group Holding AG)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including Financing Commitments or terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification not adversely impact the ability of Parent or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and to timely consummate the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of using its reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in effect the Aggregate Merger Consideration, Financing Commitments and to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection negotiate definitive agreements with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) respect thereto on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto terms and conditions contained in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming Commitments (or other terms that would not adversely impact the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part ability of Parent or Merger Sub orto timely consummate the transactions contemplated hereby), (ii) to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains satisfy all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount Financing in such definitive agreements available to Parent and consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing, (iii) to comply with its obligations under the Financing Commitments and (iv) to enforce its rights under the Financing Commitments. Parent shall give the Company prompt notice upon becoming aware of any material breach by any party of the Equity Financing Commitments or any termination of the Financing Commitments. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing and provide to the Company copies of all documents related to the Financing to the extent such documents contain any additional conditions precedent not set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the Financing available to Parent on and consummate the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on at or prior to the date hereofClosing (it being understood that no such document will contain any such conditions precedent that would have any of the effects described in clauses (1)-(4) of the following sentence). Each Equity In connection with its obligations under this Section 5.09, Parent shall be permitted to amend, modify or replace the Debt Commitment Letters with new Debt Commitment Letters (the “New Financing Commitments”), provided that Parent shall not permit any replacement of, or amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any material provision or remedy under, the Debt Commitment Letter providesif such replacement, and will continue to provideamendment, modification, waiver or remedy (1) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing below that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation amount required to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate other transactions contemplated hereby, (2) adversely amends or expands the conditions to the drawdown of the Debt Financing in any respect that would make such conditions less likely to be satisfied by the End Date or that would expand the possible circumstances under which such conditions would not be satisfied by such date, (3) can reasonably be expected to delay the Closing, or (4) is otherwise adverse to the interests of the Company in any material respect; and provided, further, that nothing in this Section 5.09 shall be deemed to excuse, waive compliance with or modify any of the obligations set forth in the Confidentiality Agreement. In the event that all conditions to the Financing Commitments (other than, in connection with the Debt Financing, the availability or funding of any of the Equity Financing) have been satisfied, Parent shall, from and after the final day of the Marketing Period and subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Sections 6.01 and 6.03 hereof, use its reasonable best efforts to cause the lenders and other Persons providing such Financing to fund the Financing required to consummate the Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability Closing Date. In the event that Parent becomes aware of Debt Financing.any event or circumstance that makes procurement of any portion of the Financing unlikely to occur in the manner or from the sources contemplated in the Financing Commitments or generally less likely as on the date of this Agreement, Parent shall notify the
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Harman International Industries Inc /De/)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered to and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sub acknowledges and agrees that the Company trueand its Affiliates have no responsibility for any financing Parent or Merger Sub may raise in connection with the Transactions; provided that, correct for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing does not limit, modify, or supersede Section 5.19. Each of Parent and complete copiesMerger Sub shall use reasonable best efforts to take (and shall cause its Affiliates to use reasonable best efforts to take) all actions, as and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain the proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsapplicable Commitment Letter on a timely basis, on or prior to the date on which the Merger is required to be consummated pursuant to the terms hereof, including terms of by using reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letters, (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing (the “market Definitive Agreements”) consistent with the terms and conditions contained in the Commitment Letters (including, as necessary, the Marketing Period and implementation of any “flex” and other commercially sensitive informationprovisions contained in any related fee letter), or, in the fee letter entered into in connection with case of the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extenton such other terms and conditions that, in each caseif implemented through an amendment, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As modification, waiver, supplement, or replacement of the date hereofDebt Commitment Letter, none of would not constitute a Prohibited Modification, and (iii) satisfy, on a timely basis, all conditions in the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnand the Definitive Agreements that are within its control. Without limiting the foregoing, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the extent related Equity Investors to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming fund the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicableincluding, the net proceeds contemplated if necessary, by enforcing its rights under the Equity Commitment LettersLetter against the Equity Investors. Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to comply with its respective obligations, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing enforce its rights, under each Commitment Letter, will Letter in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, a timely and diligent manner.
(b) Each of Parent and Merger Sub and shall not without, the Surviving Corporation prior written consent of the Company, permit any amendment or modification to, or consent to pay any waiver of any provision or remedy under, any of the amounts required to be paid in connection with Commitment Letters or any of the Merger and the Definitive Agreements if such amendment, modification or waiver (A) imposes new or additional conditions or other transactions contemplated herebycontingencies or adversely modifies any existing conditions, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Considerationby expanding, to make amending or modifying any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth or other contingencies, in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andeach case, to the knowledge consummation or receipt of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization all or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As any portion of the date hereofFinancing, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe a manner that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default (x) delay or breach on prevent the part Closing or (y) make the timely funding of the Financing or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing, in each case, that is required for the Financing Amounts, materially less likely to occur (taking into account the Marketing Period), (B) reduces the aggregate principal amount of the Debt Financing contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letter (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or the original issue discount) or the aggregate amount of the Equity Financing contemplated in the Equity Commitment Letter, when taken together with other available lines of credit and other sources of immediately available funds, below the Financing Amounts, (C) would or would reasonably be expected to adversely affect in any material respect the ability of Parent or Merger Sub or, to enforce its rights against other parties to the knowledge Commitment Letters or the Definitive Agreements as so amended, modified or waived, relative to the ability of Parent, any Parent or Merger Sub to enforce its rights against the other parties theretoto the Commitment Letters as in effect on the date of this Agreement, under any (D) would otherwise reasonably be expected to make the timely funding (taking into account the Marketing Period) of the Financing, in each case, that is required for the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the Amounts, or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing on the date on which the Merger is required to be consummated pursuant to the terms hereof less likely to occur or (E) would otherwise reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or delay (taking into account the Marketing Period) the consummation of the Merger and the other Transactions contemplated by this Agreement (each of clauses (A) through (E), a “Prohibited Modification”); provided that, however, for the avoidance of doubt, Parent and Merger Sub may amend, replace, supplement and/or modify the Debt Commitment Letter to (x) effectuate any “market flex” terms contained in the fee letter or as expressly contemplated thereby as of the date hereof or (y) solely to add or replace in part lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities as parties thereto who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof but only to the extent doing so would not have the effect of imposing a Prohibited Modification. Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any such amendment, modification or waiver. Any reference in this Agreement to “Equity Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letter as amended or modified in express compliance with this Section 5.18(b), and “Equity Commitment Letter” shall include such document as amended or modified in express compliance with this Section 5.18(b). Any reference in this Agreement to “Debt Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter as amended or modified in express compliance with this Section 5.18(b), and “Debt Commitment Letter” shall include such document as amended or modified in express compliance with this Section 5.18(b). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, permit any amendment, modification or waiver of the Equity Commitment Letter that would adversely affect the rights or interests of the Company thereunder (including the Company’s third-party beneficiary rights and enforcement rights under Section 8.10).
(c) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing that is required for the Financing Amounts becomes unavailable, regardless of the reason therefor, Parent shall, (i) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and the reason therefor and (ii) use reasonable best efforts to arrange and as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event obtain alternative debt financing (in an amount sufficient, when taken together with the available portion of the Financing, other available lines of credit and other sources of immediately available funds, to consummate the Transactions and to pay the Financing Amounts) from alternative sources on terms and conditions no less favorable, in the aggregate, to Parent or Merger Sub than those contained in the Debt Commitment Letter, or on such other terms and conditions that, if implemented through an amendment, modification, waiver, supplement, or replacement of the Debt Commitment Letter, would not constitute a Prohibited Modification (except with the prior written consent of the Company) (the “Alternate Debt Financing”), and to obtain a new financing commitment letter with respect to such Alternate Debt Financing (together with any related fee letter, the “New Debt Commitment Letter”), a true and complete copy of which shall be provided by Parent or Merger Sub, as applicable, to the Company promptly and in any event within two (2) Business Days after Parent or Merger Sub, as applicable, obtains it (it being understood and agreed that any fee letter so provided to the Company in connection with any New Debt Commitment Letter may be redacted in the same manner as set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 the definition of “Debt Commitment Letter” as in effect on the Closing Datedate hereof); provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall not be required to obtain Alternate Debt Financing that would require Parent or Merger Sub to pay fees, pricing or other amounts that, taken as a whole, exceed the aggregate fees, pricing and other amounts contemplated to be paid under the Debt Commitment Letter and with terms (including after giving effect to any “flex provisions” in the Debt Commitment Letter) that are less favorable, in the aggregate, in any material respect to Parent and Merger Sub than those set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof. In the event any New Debt Commitment Letter is obtained, (A) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Financing” shall mean, with respect to the Debt Financing, the debt financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (as the meaning of such term is modified pursuant to clause (B) below) and (B) any reference in this Agreement to the “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter to the extent not superseded by the New Debt Commitment Letter at the time in question and the New Debt Commitment Letter to the extent then in effect. Parent does not have or Merger Sub, as applicable, shall provide the Company with prompt written notice of any reason actual or threatened breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to believe that any of the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will or any Definitive Agreement with respect to which Parent or Merger Sub, as applicable, is aware, and a copy of any written notice or other written communication from any Debt Financing Source or other debt financing source with respect to any actual or threatened breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Commitment Letters or any Definitive Agreement of any provision thereof. Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall, upon request, keep the Company reasonably informed on a current basis of the status of its efforts to consummate the Financing. The foregoing notwithstanding, compliance by Parent and Merger Sub with this Section 5.18(c) shall not be available to relieve Parent or Merger Sub on of its obligations to consummate the Closing Date. As of Transactions whether or not the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Debt Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor other financing is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesavailable, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. each of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge acknowledges and agree agrees that their its obligation to consummate the Merger Transactions on the terms and pay subject to the Aggregate Merger Consideration is conditions set forth herein are not conditioned upon or contingent on the availability or consummation of the Debt FinancingFinancing or any other financing, the availability of any Alternate Debt Financing or receipt of the proceeds therefrom.
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and except as otherwise contemplated by Section 5.12(d), Purchaser will not (without the prior written consent of Seller and the Company) consent or agree to any termination, replacement, amendment or modification to, or any waiver of any provision of, the Commitment Letters if such amendment, replacement, modification or waiver would or would reasonably be expected to, (i) reduce the aggregate amount of the Financing, including by changing the amount of the fees to be paid or the original issue discount of the Financing; (ii) impose new or additional conditions precedent to the Financing or other terms or otherwise expand, amend or modify any of the conditions to the receipt of the Financing on the Closing Date in any manner that would reasonably be expected to prevent, impede or delay the timely consummation of the Financing or the Closing or make the funding of the Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing) less likely to occur; (iii) adversely impact the ability of Purchaser to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Commitment Letters or the definitive agreements with respect thereto or adversely impact the ability of Purchaser, Seller or the Company trueto enforce its rights against the other parties to the Equity Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto or (iv) impose additional obligations on Seller or any of its Affiliates (including any of the Acquired Companies or the JV Entities); provided, correct and complete copiesthat Purchaser may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof, of Effective Date. Any reference in this Agreement to (i1) each fully executed Equity the “Financing” will include the financings contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extentLetter, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of as amended, replaced or modified; and (2) “Equity Commitment Letter,” “Debt Commitment Letters” or “Commitment Letters” will include such documents as amended, replaced or modified.
(b) Purchaser will use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper and advisable to obtain the date hereof, none proceeds of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended on the terms and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, andconditions (including, to the extent required, the full exercise of any flex provisions) described in the Commitment Letters and any related Fee Letter, including using its reasonable best efforts to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to (i) maintain in effect the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Commitment Letters in accordance with the Equity terms and subject to the conditions thereof; (ii) negotiate, execute and deliver definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters as soon as possible after the Effective Date (and in any event no later than the Closing Date) on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters and the Debt Fee Letter; (iii) satisfy on a timely basis (taking into account the expected timing of the Closing) all conditions to funding that are applicable to Purchaser in the Commitment Letters; (iv) enforce its rights with respect to the Financing is funded Sources’ obligation to fund the Financing at the Closing; and (v) comply with its obligations pursuant to the Commitment Letters.
(c) Purchaser shall (i) upon written request by the Seller, keep Seller and the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in accordance reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing; (ii) provide Seller and the Company with copies of all material executed definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing Commitment LetterFinancing; and (iii) take the actions set forth Section 5.12(c) of the Disclosure Schedule. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, Purchaser will give Seller and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment Company prompt notice (A) if Purchaser becomes aware of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase breach or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent default (or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, or circumstance that with or without notice, the lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default give rise to any breach or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, default) by any party to the knowledge Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing to the extent entered into and effective prior to the Closing Date; (B) of Parentthe receipt by Purchaser of any written notice or written communication from any Financing Source with respect to any material (1) breach, default, termination or repudiation by any other party to the Commitment Letters or any definitive agreements related to the Financing of any provisions of the Commitment Letters or such definitive agreements to the extent entered into and effective prior to the Closing Date; or (2) dispute or disagreement between or among any parties thereto, under to the Commitment Letters or any definitive agreements related to the Financing to the extent entered into and effective prior to the Closing Date; or (C) if for any reason Purchaser at any time believes that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing on the terms, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by the Commitment LettersLetters or any definitive agreements related to the Financing. Assuming Purchaser will provide any information reasonably requested by Seller or the satisfaction Company relating to the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing as soon as reasonably practical after the date that the Company delivers a written request therefor to Purchaser.
(d) If any portion of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Debt Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent becomes unavailable on the terms therein. As and conditions (including the flex provisions) contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letters and the Fee Letter, Purchaser will use its reasonable best efforts to arrange, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, to (i) obtain alternative debt financing from alternative debt financing sources in an amount sufficient, when added to the portion of the date hereofavailable Financing that is and remains available to Purchaser, there are no side letters or other agreementsto fund the Required Amount, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect as the availability of case may be (the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of “Alternate Debt Financing.”); and (ii) obtain one or more new financing commitment
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company trueterms and conditions of this Agreement, correct each of Parent and complete copiesMerger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, as of or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to arrange the date hereof, of Financing including using reasonable best efforts to (i) each maintain in full force and effect the Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) satisfy, or cause to be satisfied, on a timely basis all conditions in the Debt Commitment Letter that are within Parent and/or Merger Sub’s control, (iii) fully executed Equity enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter, (iv) negotiate and execute a definitive debt financing agreement substantially on the terms set out in the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity FinancingDebt Financing Agreement”) and (iiv) a fully executed commitment letter (together with assuming all exhibitsconditions precedent in the Debt Commitment Letter have been satisfied, schedulessubject to the requirements of Section 2.2, draw upon and annexes thereto) and fee letter from consummate the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with at or prior to the Equity Commitment Letters, Closing.
(b) In the “event any portion of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters”) has become or is likely to provide, be unavailable on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing contemplated in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Debt Commitment Letter, Parent and pricing termsMerger Sub shall (i) promptly so notify the Company, including terms (ii) use their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, alternative financing from alternative sources (the “market flex” Alternative Financing”), and other commercially sensitive information(iii) enter into new definitive agreements with respect to such Alternative Financing (the “Alternative Financing Agreements”, in the fee letter entered into in connection and together with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters Letter and the Debt Financing is funded Agreement, each a “Financing Agreements”), provided that an Alternative Financing shall be on terms not less favorable in accordance with the aggregate to Parent and Merger Sub (from the standpoint of the Company) than those set forth in the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, Letter as applicable, in effect on the net proceeds date of this Agreement in an amount sufficient (assuming the Rollover Securities are cancelled without payment of consideration as contemplated by under the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation Support Agreement) to pay and consideration for the Merger and any other amounts as are required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement upon the terms and conditions herein. Parent shall deliver to the Company true and complete copies of each such Alternative Financing Agreements as promptly as practicable after execution. Any reference in this Agreement to (A) the “Required Amount”), assuming Debt Financing” shall be deemed to include the satisfaction of Alternative Financing and any modification to the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentpursuant to this Section 6.6, Merger Sub and (B) the “Debt Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Debt Commitment Letter to the extent so amended, restated, supplemented, replaced, substituted or modified (including any Financing Agreements to the extent then in effect).
(c) Neither Parent or nor Merger Sub is a party theretoshall agree to or permit any amendments or modifications to, or grant any waivers of, any condition or other provision under any Financing Agreement without the prior written consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) andif such amendments, modifications or waivers would (i) reduce the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing or (ii) impose new or additional conditions to the knowledge of ParentDebt Financing or otherwise expand, such other Persons party thereto amend or modify the Debt Financing in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe a manner that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default (A) prevent or breach on materially delay the part ability of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate other transactions contemplated hereunder or (B) adversely impact in any material respect the ability of Parent or Merger Consideration is Sub to enforce its rights against the other parties to any Financing Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither Parent nor Merger Sub shall release or consent to the termination of the obligations of the financing sources under any Financing Agreement except as expressly contemplated hereby.
(d) Each of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledges and agrees that the obtaining of the Debt Financing or Alternative Financing shall not conditioned on be a condition to the Closing, and reaffirms its obligation to consummate the transactions contemplated hereunder irrespective and independently of the availability of the Debt Financing or Alternative Financing, subject to the applicable conditions set forth in Article VII, the breach of which obligation will give rise to the remedies set forth in Article VIII.
(e) Nothing in this Section 6.6 or any other provision of this Agreement shall require, and in no event shall the “reasonable best efforts” of Parent or Merger Sub be deemed or construed to require, Parent or Merger Sub to waive any term or condition of this Agreement.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (China Customer Relations Centers, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with Merger Sub shall take all exhibits, schedulesactions, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from do all things, necessary, proper or advisable to obtain the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds Required Amount contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, including (i) maintaining in effect the Equity Commitment Letters, (ii) satisfying on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent and Merger Sub set forth in the net proceeds Equity Commitment Letters, (iii) entering into definitive agreements to consummate the Equity Commitment, (iv) consummating the Equity Commitment contemplated by the Debt Financing Equity Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub Letters on or prior to the Closing Date (and in any event prior to the Outside Date) and (v) fully enforcing the rights of Parent and Merger Sub and the obligations of Investors under the Equity Commitment Letters, including (at the request of the Company) by filing one or more lawsuits against the Investors to fully enforce the rights of Parent and Merger Sub and the obligations of Investors thereunder (and the Company shall be entitled to enforce the rights of Parent and Merger Sub and of the Company and its stockholders by filing such lawsuits against the Investors on behalf of Parent and Merger Sub and the Company and its stockholders). Neither Parent nor Merger Sub shall amend, alter, waive, terminate, modify or rescind, or agree to amend, alter, waive, terminate, modify or rescind, any term of the Equity Commitment Letters without the prior written consent of the Company. Parent shall promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) notify the Company of (x) the expiration or termination (or attempted or purported termination, whether or not valid) of the Equity Commitment Letters, (y) any breach or threatened breach by the Investors of the Equity Commitment Letters or (z) any refusal by the Investors to provide, any stated intent by the Investors to refuse to provide, or any expression of concern or reservation by the Investors regarding their obligation and/or ability to provide, the Required Amount.
(b) Nothing herein prevents Parent from pursuing potential Debt Financing Sources to fund a portion of the Required Amount. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties acknowledge and agree that securing financing is not a condition to the Closing. Between the date of this Agreement and the Closing, the Company shall provide such reasonable assistance and cooperation as Parent may reasonably request in connection with any proposed debt financing (the “Financing”) (provided, that such requested assistance and cooperation does not interfere with the ongoing operation of the Company’s business), including (A) making senior management available for customary lender meetings, meetings with parties acting as arrangers or agents, sessions with rating agencies and “roadshow” presentations and cooperating with prospective lenders in performing their due diligence, (B) reasonably cooperating in the preparation of any offering memorandum, marketing materials, bank information memoranda (including with respect to presence of or absence of material non-public information relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries contained therein), lender presentations or similar document, (C) furnishing Parent and its Debt Financing Sources and their respective Representatives with financial and other pertinent information reasonably available regarding the Company as may be requested by Parent or as is required to permit Parent to prepare pro forma financial statements (provided, that Parent shall be responsible for the preparation of any pro forma financial statements and pro forma adjustments giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby for use in connection with the Financing), (D) if requested in writing by a Debt Financing Source, furnishing to such Debt Financing Source information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries that is required by U.S. regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, (E) assisting Parent in preparing presentations with respect to corporate, corporate family, credit, facility and securities ratings from rating agencies, (F) reasonably facilitating the pledging of collateral, provided, that no such pledging or related documents or agreements shall be effective prior to Closing, (G) taking all corporate actions, subject to the occurrence of the Closing, reasonably requested by Parent to permit the consummation of the transactions contemplated Financing (provided, that no such action shall be required of the Company Board prior to the Closing) and (H) executing customary officers’ certificates as may be reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the Financing, provided, however, that (x) any such certificate will be not be executed except in connection with the closing of any Financing and only by officers who will continue after the Effective Time as an officer of the Surviving Company and (y) no personal liability will be imposed on the officers or employees involved. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement (Agreement, the “Required Amount”)Company’s breach or violation of any of its representations, assuming the satisfaction warranties or covenants in this Section 7.14(b) shall not be deemed a breach or violation for purposes of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 7.02(a8.02(a) and Section 7.02(b8.02(b).
(c) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (Notwithstanding anything to the extent Parent contrary in this Section 7.14, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to take or Merger Sub is a party theretopermit the taking of any action pursuant to Section 7.14(b) and, to that would (i) (A) contravene any applicable Law or conflict with or violate the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As organizational documents of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction Company or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.its Subsidiaries,
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Sonic Corp)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to and Merger Sub shall not, without the prior written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) of the Company true(approved by the Company Board), correct and complete copiesamend, as of modify or supplement (including in the date hereof, of definitive documents) (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (any of the financing provided for therein being collectively referred material conditions or contingencies to as funding contained in the “Equity Financing”) and Financing Commitments or (ii) any other material provision of the Financing Commitments, in either case to the extent such amendment, modification or supplement would reasonably be expected to adversely affect or delay the ability of Parent or Merger Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or the likelihood of consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to (i) satisfy on a fully executed commitment letter timely basis all material terms, conditions, representations and warranties applicable to Parent set forth in the Financing Commitments that are within its control; (together ii) maintain in effect the Financing Commitments, negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, respect thereto on the terms and subject only conditions contemplated by the Financing Commitments or on other terms acceptable to Parent not less favorable to Parent and Merger Sub and not in violation of this Section 6.09; (iii) consummate the Financing at the Closing; and (iv) enforce its material rights under the Financing Commitments. Parent will furnish correct and complete copies of all such definitive agreements (excluding any fee letters or ancillary documents which, by their terms, are confidential) to the Company promptly upon their execution. If any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions expressly stated thereindescribed above, Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain alternative debt financing (the “Alternative Financing”) from alternative sources (on terms and conditions that are no less favorable to Parent than the terms and conditions as set forth in the amounts set forth thereinCommitment Letter) in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Parent and Merger Sub shall use commercially reasonable efforts (which shall not include acceptance by Parent of the exercise by Parent's financing sources of their market flex or require Parent to borrow under the Bridge Loans (as defined in the Debt Commitment Letters)) to consummate the Financing using the consolidated unaudited financial statements of the Company for the nine months ended March 31, 2007; provided that fee amounts if the Company Stockholders' Meeting is not held prior to July 31, 2007, then the Parent and pricing termsMerger Sub shall have no obligation to consummate the Financing using the consolidated unaudited financial statements of the Company for the nine months ended March 31, 2007. Parent and Merger Sub shall keep the Company promptly apprised of material developments relating to the Financing, including terms any breach by any party or termination of the “market flex” Financing Commitments or any other document relating to the Financing.
(b) The Company agrees to, and other commercially sensitive informationshall cause the Company Subsidiaries to, in the fee letter entered into and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their Representatives to, provide, such cooperation (including with respect to timeliness) in connection with the Debt arrangement of the Financing (which for purposes of this Section 6.09 shall be deemed to include the Alternative Financing) as may be reasonably requested by Parent, including at reasonable times, locations and intervals (i) participation in a reasonable number of meetings, drafting sessions, due diligence sessions and presentations to prospective lenders and investors, (ii) furnishing, or using reasonable best efforts to cause third parties to furnish, Parent and its financing sources with financial and other pertinent business and other pertinent information, documents and materials regarding the Company and its operating segments and Company Subsidiaries as may have been redacted be reasonably requested by Parent, including all opinions and consents (including audit reports) with respect to the extentfinancial statements of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, all financial statements and other financial information required to be included in a Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed under the Securities Act (including such financial statements and information meeting the requirements of Regulation S-X and Regulation S-K under the Securities Act) and such financial statements and other financial information of type and form customarily included in offering documents used in connection with private placements under Rule 144A under the Securities Act, in each casecase to consummate the offering of debt securities, they until such time as such financial statements, opinions and consents are Permissible Redacted Terms. As no longer required to be included in such filings by the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations promulgated, (iii) assisting Parent and its financing sources in the preparation of the date hereof, none (A) offering documents for any of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnand (B) materials and financial and other information for rating agency presentations, terminated(iv) cooperating with the marketing efforts of Parent and its financing sources for any of the Financing (including making its senior management available to participate in “road shows”), repudiated(v) providing and executing documents as may be reasonably requested by Parent, rescindedincluding customary legal opinions, amended, amended a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company with respect to solvency matters and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, consents of accountants for use of their reports in any materials relating to the extent Debt Financing or Alternative Financing, provided that no obligation of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries under any agreement, document or pledge shall be effective until the Effective Time, (vi) facilitating the pledging of collateral (including entering into mortgages and leasehold mortgages and all other documentation reasonably required for any real property related financing, if reasonably requested) and removal of Liens, (vii) using reasonable best efforts to obtain the assistance of its accountants to provide consents for the use of their reports in materials related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Debt Financing or Alternative Financing and comfort letters, (viii) using reasonable best efforts to obtain surveys, consents, environmental assessments and title insurance (including by providing such affidavits and non-imputation endorsements in connection therewith) as reasonably requested by Parent, (ix) providing reasonable and customary management and legal representations to the knowledge Company’s accountants and (x) forming new Company Subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and taking such other actions as Parent shall reasonably request in order to effectuate the organizational structure set forth on Exhibit C hereto or any substantially similar structure. Parent shall promptly upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Company or the Company Subsidiaries in connection with such cooperation. Parent shall also indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and its and their Representatives from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by any of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require them in connection with the arrangement of the Financing and any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification information utilized in connection therewith (other than information provided by the Company or waiverthe Company Subsidiaries), except to the extent that such losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses, directly or indirectly, resulted from or arose out of the willful misconduct of the Company or any such amendment is not prohibited under of the Company Subsidiaries. Nothing in this Section 6.09(b) shall require the Company or any Company Subsidiaries to provide any assistance which would interfere unreasonably with the business or operations of the Company or any Company Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, Company shall not be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid execute and deliver any commitment letters, underwriting or placement agreements, pledge and security documents, or other definitive financing documents in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, Financing prior to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of Closing . Nothing herein shall obligate the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay provide any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe information that would violate any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount confidentiality or result in a violation of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As Law or loss of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provideprivilege; provided, that the Company is shall make appropriate substitute arrangements to cause such information to be provided, if reasonably practicable, in a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree manner that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability reasonably likely to result in any such violations or loss of Debt Financingprivilege.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Aeroflex Inc)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company trueprovisions hereinafter set forth, correct LCI Parent, Holdings, the Trust and complete copiesthe Purchaser agree that they shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assist Gaming and Gaming Holdings to arrange the Gaming Financing, including (i) with respect to LCI Parent and the Trust, to enter into (A) a joint and several guaranty of performance and completion in connection with the Bank Debt, and (B) a joint and several guaranty of performance and completion in favor of the holders of the Discount Notes and in favor of the Contingent Guarantor (as shall be defined therein) (collectively, the "COMPLETION GUARANTIES"); (ii) with respect to LCI Parent and Holdings, to enter into a Keep Well Agreement (the "KEEP WELL AGREEMENT") with the providers of the Bank Debt (the "BANK LENDERS") under which Holdings and LCI Parent shall jointly and severally covenant to make certain cash equity contributions to Gaming in certain circumstances; (iii) with respect to LCI Parent, Holdings and the Trust, to enter into a contribution agreement (the "CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT") pursuant to which (A) LCI Parent and the Trust shall agree to be obligated, notwithstanding the joint and several obligations of LCI Parent and the Trust stated in the Completion Guaranties, for such portion of any liability incurred under the Completion Guaranties in the proportion of twenty-five percent for LCI Parent and seventy-five percent for the Trust, and (B) pursuant to which LCI Parent and Holdings shall agree to be obligated, notwithstanding the joint and several obligations of LCI Parent and Holdings stated in the Keep Well Agreement, for such portion of any liability incurred under the Keep Well Agreement in the proportion of twenty-five percent for LCI Parent and seventy-five percent for Holdings; and (iv) with respect to the Purchaser, LCI Parent, the Trust and Holdings, to enter into a tax indemnity agreement (the "Tax Indemnity Agreement") consistent with the terms of the Agreement entered into by the Purchaser, LCI Parent, the Trust and Holdings, dated as of January 29, 1998 pursuant to which the Trust and Holdings jointly and severally shall agree to indemnify on an after tax basis the Purchaser and LCI Parent, and each of them against various taxes, losses, costs or damages; PROVIDED that the terms and conditions of each of the Completion Guaranties, the Keep Well Agreement, the Contribution Agreement and the Tax Indemnity Agreement are satisfactory to LCI Parent, Holdings and the Trust, each in its respective sole discretion. In consideration of the foregoing, LCI Parent shall receive (x) an initial fee of $2.65 million and (y) a fee accruing from the Closing Date of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per annum of Gaming's average annual indebtedness with respect to that portion of the Bank Debt which is supported and enhanced by the Keep Well Agreement for each relevant twelve month period (or part thereof) (which amount shall reflect the extent, if any, by which the obligations under the Keep Well Agreement are reduced or eliminated under certain circumstances over time), which (A) in respect of the fee accruing during the period from the Closing Date to the Opening Date, shall be paid following the Opening Date out of First Available Proceeds and (B) in respect of the fee accruing during the period from and after the Opening Date shall be payable annually in arrears within thirty days after each twelve month anniversary of the Opening Date, failing which Gaming Holdings shall pay such fee by issuing to LCI Series A Preferred Shares in the capital of Gaming Holdings at the rate of one Series A Preferred Share for each $100 which is not paid at the end of such thirty day period.
(b) On or prior to the Closing, Gaming Holdings and Gaming shall enter into all Redevelopment Documents comprising the Gaming Financing that have been approved by the Purchaser pursuant to Section 6.1 or Section 2.2.
(c) Each of Holdings and the Purchaser agrees to pay, within thirty days after receipt of a request therefor (together with reasonably detailed documentation evidencing such costs), its pro rata share (i.e., seventy-five percent for Holdings and twenty-five percent for the Purchaser) of all fees and expenses paid or incurred in connection with the Gaming Financing to the extent previously mutually approved in writing by the Purchaser and Holdings. Without limiting the foregoing, the parties acknowledge and agree to pay their respective shares of the commitment fee which is due upon execution of a commitment letter in respect of the Bank Debt. All such payments shall become obligations of Gaming (and shall be reimbursed as appropriate) as of the date hereofClosing Date.
(d) Subject to the consummation of the Closing, of Gaming shall pay (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as fees of Westwood Capital, LLC and HK Group, LLC, respectively, arising under the “Equity Financing”) agreements set forth in Schedule 4.2, and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms fees of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co. in connection with the Debt Financingtransactions contemplated herein, may have been redacted and (iii) the legal fees relating to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termstransactions contemplated herein. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, The parties acknowledge that Gaming shall pay to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Trust (A) in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated consideration for certain expenses incurred by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or Trust prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”)Closing, assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on $3 million at the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentand (B) after the Closing, Merger Sub (amounts to reimburse the Trust for out-of-pocket expenses relating to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party theretoRedevelopment, not to exceed $900,000.
(e) andThe parties agree to exercise reasonable diligent efforts to coordinate the Gaming Financing and the Bazaar Financing, to including facilitating inter-creditor agreements and the knowledge delivery of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally attornment and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe nondisturbance agreements; PROVIDED that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available terms and conditions thereof are satisfactory to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations each of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingrespective sole discretion.
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Sources: Purchase Agreement (Aladdin Gaming Enterprises Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary to arrange and obtain the Financing on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) no less favorable to Parent than those described in the Financing Commitments, and shall not, without the consent of the Company, take any action or permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Financing Commitments if such action, amendment, modification or waiver would (x) reduce the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing or (y) impose new or additional conditions or otherwise amend, modify or expand any conditions precedent to the receipt of the Debt Financing (or any portion thereof) in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (I) delay or prevent the Closing, (II) make the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Debt Financing (or any portion thereof)) less likely to occur or (III) adversely impact the ability of Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Financing Commitments or the definitive agreements with respect thereto, the ability of Parent or Merger Sub to consummate the Transactions or the likelihood of consummation of the Transactions (provided, however, that Parent and Merger Sub may replace, amend or modify the Debt Financing Commitments to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Debt Financing Commitments as of the date of this Agreement, in each case in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitments as of the date hereof). Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall use (a) reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Debt Financing Commitments (including by consummating the financing pursuant to the terms of the Equity Financing Commitment) until the Transactions are consummated (subject to Parent’s rights to amend, waive, supplement, modify or replace the Debt Financing Commitments in accordance herewith), (ii) satisfy (or obtain a waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions and covenants applicable to Parent, Merger Sub and any of their respective Affiliates party thereto in the Financing Commitments and otherwise comply with its obligations thereunder, (iii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) no less favorable to Parent than those contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitments and (iv) upon satisfaction of the conditions contained in the Financing Commitments and satisfaction or waiver of all closing conditions contained in Sections 6.1 and 6.2, use its reasonable best efforts to consummate the Financing at Closing and (b) commercially reasonable efforts to enforce its rights under the Debt Financing Commitments. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall give the Company prompt notice (which shall in no event be more than two Business Days from their knowledge thereof): (A) of any material breach or material default by any party to any Financing Commitment or definitive document related to the Financing; (B) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to any: (1) breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any Financing Commitment or any definitive document related to the Financing or any provisions of any Financing Commitment or any definitive document related to the Financing or (2) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to any Financing Commitment or any definitive document related to the Financing (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any ordinary course negotiations with respect to the terms of the Financing or any definitive agreement with respect thereto); and (C) if Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates party thereto will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing on the terms, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by the Financing Commitments or the definitive documents related to the Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable, Parent or Merger Sub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) of the immediately preceding sentence; provided that in no event will Parent or Merger Sub be under any obligation to disclose any information that is subject to attorney-client or similar privilege. If any portion of the Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions contained in the Redacted Fee Letter) contemplated in the Debt Financing Commitments for any reason (other than due to the failure of a condition to the consummation of the Debt Financing resulting from the failure of the condition set forth in Section 6.2(a)), Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain alternative financing from the same or alternative sources in an amount sufficient to consummate the Transactions on terms not materially less favorable from the standpoint of Parent, Merger Sub, the Affiliates of Parent and Merger Sub party thereto and the Company than those in the Financing Commitments (taking into account the flex provisions) as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event but no later than the Closing Date. Parent shall promptly provide a true, correct and complete copiescopy of each alternative financing commitment (together with a redacted copy of any related fee letter) to the Company.
(b) Parent and Merger Sub shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, as or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the date hereof, of Equity Financing Commitment and shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) each fully executed maintain in effect the Equity Financing Commitment Letter (until the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) Transactions are consummated and (ii) subject to Section 8.5(c), enforce their rights under the Equity Financing Commitment.
(c) Prior to the Closing, the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause their respective Representatives to, provide to Parent, at the Parent’s sole expense, all cooperation reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the arrangement and consummation of the Financing (including the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth therein) and any alternative financing as set forth in Section 5.15(a), including (in each case, to the extent reasonably requested):
(i) participating in a fully executed commitment letter reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions between senior management and prospective lenders, investors and rating agencies;
(together ii) assisting with the preparation of customary materials for rating agency presentations (and assisting in the obtaining of public corporate or corporate family, credit and facility ratings from ratings agencies, including ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc. and Standard and Poor’s Financial Services LLC), bank information memoranda and similar documents required in connection with the Financing (including customary authorization and management representation letters) and/or other customary marketing materials or memoranda for the Debt Financing or any alternative Financing and providing such customary documentation and other information required in connection with applicable (a) “know your customer” rules and regulations (which documentation and information shall be provided no later than 3 Business Days prior to the Closing if requested in writing at least 10 days prior to the Closing) and (b) anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001;
(iii) providing authorization letters to the Financing Sources authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders (including, if applicable, customary 10b-5 and material non-public information representations);
(A) assisting with the execution and delivery of any pledge and security documents, currency or interest hedging arrangements, other definitive financing documents, or other certificates or documents and back-up therefor and for legal opinions or as may be reasonably requested by Parent, including obtaining a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company with respect to solvency of the Company on a consolidated basis (after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby) in the form attached as Annex I to Exhibit A of the Debt Financing Commitments; provided that (1) failure of the chief financial officer of the Company to deliver such a certificate shall be deemed not to be a breach of this Agreement by the Company, if any of the statements in such Annex I are not accurate, and (2) the Board of Directors of the Company and any committee thereof (including the Special Committee) are not required to pass any resolutions pursuant to this clause (iv)(A) that are effective prior to the Effective Time, (B) assisting with obtaining consents of accountants for use of their reports in any materials relating to the Debt Financing and (C) cooperating to facilitate the pledging of collateral;
(v) (A) furnishing Parent and the Financing Sources as promptly as reasonably practicable with (x) audited consolidated balance sheets and related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows and changes in stockholders’ equity of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP for the three most recently completed fiscal years ended at least 90 days prior to the Closing Date and (y) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income (loss), cash flows and changes in stockholders’ equity of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP for each subsequent fiscal quarter ended at least 45 days before the Closing Date and for the comparable period of the prior fiscal year; (B) furnishing to Parent and the Financing Sources with all exhibitsaudited and unaudited financial statements, schedulesbusiness and other financial data, audit reports and other information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries of the type customarily included in marketing materials for the Debt Financing (other than (i) separate financial statements and footnote disclosures with respect to guarantors and non-guarantors and required by Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and (ii) separate financial statements with respect to subsidiaries pursuant to Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act) (provided that Parent shall be responsible for the preparation of pro forma financial statements based on information furnished by the Company and its Subsidiaries and with the reasonable cooperation of the Company and its Subsidiaries), and annexes theretoother pertinent information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as may be reasonably requested in writing by Parent and identifying any portion of such information that constitutes material non-public information; and (C) furnishing to Parent and fee letter from the financial institutions identified thereinFinancing Sources projections and information required in connection with information memoranda and the lenders’ presentation in respect of the Debt Financing, in each case customarily used for the “syndication of the Debt Financing Commitment Letter” andor the alternative financing transactions to Parent and the Financing Sources (such information in this clause (v), together with the Equity Commitment Lettersauthorization letter described in clause (iii) above, the “Required Financial Information”);
(vi) at the request of Parent, filing a Form 8-K with the SEC disclosing information identified by Parent relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries for purposes of permitting such information to be included in marketing materials or memoranda for the Debt Financing Commitment Lettersor any alternative Financing to be provided to potential investors who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, which information shall be subject to the approval of the Company, not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned (any such filing, a “Company SEC Filing”);
(vii) obtaining customary payoff letters, Lien terminations and instruments of discharge to be delivered at Closing with respect to the Credit Facility;
(viii) using reasonable best efforts to assist Parent in obtaining accountants’ comfort letters, consents, surveys, legal opinions from outside counsel and title insurance as reasonably requested by Parent for financings similar to the Financing; and
(ix) cooperating with the Financing Sources’ due diligence, to the extent customary and reasonable, including by granting the Financing Sources, at reasonable times and on reasonable notice, access to the Company’s properties, asset, cash management and accounting records. Nothing in this Section 5.15(c) shall require such cooperation to the extent it would interfere unreasonably with the business or operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required pursuant to this Section 5.15(c) to provideenter into or perform under any certificate, on agreement, document or other instrument that is not contingent upon the terms and subject only Closing or that would be effective prior to the conditions expressly stated thereinEffective Time (other than the authorization letters and representation letters referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, debt financing any Company SEC Filing or any customary payoff letters with respect to the Credit Facility). None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to take any action pursuant to this Section 5.15(c) that would subject it to actual or potential liability for which it would not be indemnified hereunder or to bear any cost or expense or to pay any commitment or other similar fee or make any other payment (other than reasonable out-of-pocket costs) or provide or agree to provide any indemnity in connection with the Financing or any of the foregoing prior to the Effective Time. Parent shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Subsidiaries and its and their Representatives from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, claims, costs, expenses, interest, awards, judgments and penalties suffered or incurred by them in connection with the arrangement of the Financing (including any action taken in accordance with this Section 5.15(c)) and any information utilized in connection therewith (other than historical information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries provided by the Company in writing specifically for use in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsFinancing offering documents), including terms except to the extent any of the “market flex” foregoing arises from the bad faith or willful misconduct of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates or Representatives (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and other commercially sensitive informationnon-appealable decision). Parent shall, promptly upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with this Section 5.15(c). The Company hereby consents to the fee letter entered into use of its and its Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, ; provided that such logos shall be used solely in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person a manner that is not an Affiliate intended or reasonably likely to harm, disparage or otherwise adversely affect the Company or any of Parent, to its Subsidiaries.
(d) Not more than five days after the knowledge amount in Euros of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited portion of the “Term Facility” under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid denominated in Euros (the “Euro Tranche”) is determined, which shall be the time at which the Financing Sources allocate the Euro Tranche (including amounts added in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyexercise of any “flex” rights) to third party syndicated lenders (such time, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required AmountDetermination Time”), assuming Merger Sub shall enter into forward foreign exchange contracts or similar hedging agreements that provide that amounts borrowed under the satisfaction Euro Tranche will be converted into an amount of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) U.S. dollars based on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against ParentEuro/U.S. dollar spot exchange rate at the Determination Time.
(e) The Company shall, Merger Sub (to or shall cause its Subsidiaries to, supplement the extent Parent Required Financial Information or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.SEC
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Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall take, or cause to be taken, all actions necessary, proper or advisable to arrange and obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicableincluding: (i) entering into definitive agreements with respect thereto, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters(ii) satisfying, or causing to be satisfied, on a timely basis all conditions applicable to, and within the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Lettercontrol of, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub or their respective representatives in such definitive agreements and (iii) causing such Equity Financing to be funded at the Surviving Corporation to Closing such that Parent or Merger Sub may pay all of the amounts required to be paid payable by them in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyTransactions.
(b) Parent shall not agree to any amendment or modification to, including payment of or grant any waiver of, any condition or other provision under the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt Equity Commitment Letter without the prior written consent of the Company to the extent any such amendment, modification or waiver would reduce the aggregate amount of cash proceeds available from the Equity Financing to fund the Merger and its Subsidiaries the other Transactions (as compared to the amount of such aggregate proceeds contemplated by this Agreement, under the Equity Financing as in effect on the date hereof) or would impose new or additional conditions that would be reasonably likely to pay any other amounts required to be paid by (i) prevent or materially delay or impair the ability of Parent or Merger Sub on to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions or prior (ii) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Sub to enforce their respective rights against the other parties to the Closing Date Equity Commitment Letter. Parent shall not release or consent to the termination of the obligations of the other parties to the Equity Commitment Letter, except for assignments and replacements of investors in connection accordance with the express terms of the Equity Commitment Letter. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, Parent shall have the right to amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under, the Equity Commitment Letter or any definitive agreements with respect to the Equity Financing, and/or substitute debt or other equity financing for all or any portion of the Equity Commitment Letter from the same and/or alternative financing sources; provided that any such amendment, replacement, supplement or other modification to or waiver of any provision of the Equity Commitment Letter or such definitive agreements with respect to the Equity Commitment Letter and/or substitution for all or any portion of the Equity Commitment Letter shall not (i) expand upon the conditions contained therein in any way or prevent or cause any delay of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Merger or the other Transactions or (ii) otherwise result in financing terms that are materially less favorable, in the “Required Amount”)aggregate, assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against to Parent, Merger Sub and the Company than those in the Equity Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof.
(c) If any portion of the Equity Financing becomes or could become unavailable in the manner or from the sources contemplated in the Equity Commitment Letter, (i) Parent shall immediately so notify the Company in writing and (ii) Parent and Merger Sub shall arrange and obtain, and negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to, alternative financing from the same or alternative sources in an amount sufficient to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions on terms and conditions not materially less favorable, in the aggregate, to Parent, Merger Sub and the Company than those in the Equity Commitment Letter as in effect on the date hereof, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event.
(d) Parent shall (i) furnish to the extent Company complete, correct and executed copies of the agreements for the Equity Financing or any alternative financing promptly upon their execution, (ii) give the Company prompt notice of any breach or threatened breach of which Parent or Merger Sub is or becomes aware by any party to any of the Equity Commitment Letter, any alternative financing commitment or any alternative financing agreement of which Parent or Merger Sub is or becomes aware or any termination or threatened termination thereof, and (iii) otherwise keep the Company reasonably informed of the status of its efforts to arrange the Equity Financing (or any alternative financing).
(e) For the avoidance of doubt, Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that neither the obtaining of the Equity Financing nor any alternative financing, including any debt financing, is a party thereto) and, condition to the knowledge obligations of Parent, such Parent and Merger Sub to consummate the Merger and the other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally Transactions and by general principles of equity. As reaffirm their obligations to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions irrespective and independently of the date hereofavailability of the Equity Financing or any alternative financing, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction subject to fulfillment or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingArticle 7.
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered will use reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, as promptly as possible, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange and obtain the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in each Debt Commitment Letter, including promptly relative to the reasonably anticipated Closing Date and in any event at or prior to the Closing: (i) satisfying, or causing to be satisfied (or obtaining a waiver), on a timely basis, all conditions applicable to Parent for Parent to obtain the Debt Financing set forth therein (including the payment of any fees required as a condition to the Debt Financing); (ii) negotiating and entering into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions contemplated by each Debt Commitment Letter that are not less favorable, taken as a whole, to Parent, so that the agreements are in effect no later than the Closing Date; provided, however, that this Section 7.05(a) will not prohibit Parent from agreeing to terms that are less favorable to Parent if such terms would be permitted in an amendment to a Debt Commitment Letter entered in accordance with Section 7.05(b); (iii) maintaining in effect the Debt Commitment Letters through the consummation of the Closing; (iv) complying with its obligations under each Debt Commitment Letter and the express conditions thereof until the Closing occurs; (v) enforcing its rights under each Debt Commitment Letter and the definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing; and (vi) consummating the Debt Financing or causing the Debt Financing to be consummated at or prior to the Closing.
(b) Without the prior written consent of the Company true(such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, correct conditioned or delayed), Parent shall not permit any amendment, restatement, modification, waiver of any provision or remedy under, termination, replacement or assignment of any Debt Commitment Letter, any fee letter or any definitive agreement with respect thereto (or any portion of the Debt Financing thereunder) that, when taken together with all such amendments, restatements, modifications, and complete copieswaivers, (i) reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the amount of aggregate cash proceeds available from the Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount) below an amount necessary to comply with Section 4.22(f), (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or contingencies to the receipt of all or any portion of the Debt Financing or expands or adversely amends or modifies any conditions or contingencies to the receipt of all or any portion of the Debt Financing, (iii) would or could reasonably be expected to (A) materially delay, prevent or impede the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Debt Financing) on the Closing Date or otherwise prevent, delay or impair the ability of Parent to timely consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (B) adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against the Financing Sources or any other parties to any Debt Commitment Letter, any fee letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto or (iv) relieves or releases any Financing Source from its obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter or any definitive agreement with respect thereto (such amendments, restatements, modifications and waivers described in clauses (i) through (iv), the “Restricted Modifications”); provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent may modify, supplement or amend any Debt Commitment Letter to the extent such modification, supplement or amendment (I) is limited to adding or replacing lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereofhereof or (II) increases the commitments or the amount of indebtedness thereunder. Parent shall as promptly as reasonably practicable deliver copies of any amendment, modification, supplement or waiver to any Debt Commitment Letter or the fee letter contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letter to the Company (which may, in the case of the fee letter contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letter, be redacted). Parent will pay, or cause to be paid, in full all commitment fees or other fees required to be paid under each Debt Commitment Letter or otherwise in connection with the Debt Financing as and when they become payable.
(c) The Company will, and will cause its Subsidiaries to, use their respective reasonable best efforts to, and will cause their respective Representatives to use their reasonable best efforts to, provide all cooperation in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing as may be reasonably requested by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and at Parent’s sole cost and expense. Such cooperation shall include using reasonable best efforts to do the following (in each case, to the extent so requested as set forth above):
(i) participation in, and assistance with, the marketing efforts related to the Debt Financing, including causing the Company’s management team, with appropriate seniority and expertise, and other Representatives and advisors to communicate directly and participate in a reasonable number of lender meetings, presentations, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with the Financing Sources and other prospective financing sources, in each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter case, upon reasonable advance notice and at mutually agreeable dates and times; provided that (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the A) any such communication may be conducted telephonically, virtually by videoconference or other media and (B) there will not be more than two general “Equity Financingbank meetings”) and ;
(ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together furnishing Parent and the Financing Sources, no later than five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, with all exhibitsdocumentation and other information that the Financing Sources reasonably determine are required by Governmental Authorities under applicable “know your customer,” beneficial ownership and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, schedulesincluding the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, that has been reasonably requested by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ in writing, at least eight Business Days prior to the Closing Date; and
(iii) subject to the limitations set forth in the proviso to this Section 7.05(c), executing and delivering any credit agreements, guarantees, pledge and security documents, other definitive financing documents or other certificates or documents contemplated by the Debt Financing; provided, however, that such cooperation does not: (i) require (A) the entry by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries into any Contract the effectiveness of which is, or under which any of their obligations are, not conditioned on the Closing or (B) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective directors, officers, managers, general partners or employees as of prior to the Effective Time to execute, deliver or enter into, or perform any Contract, document or instrument with respect to the Debt Financing except those that only take effect upon the Effective Time; (ii) unreasonably interfere with the normal operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries in their reasonable business judgment exercised in good faith; (iii) include any actions that the Company reasonably believes would (A) result in a violation of any Contract or any Law, or the loss of any attorney-client privilege or other similar legal privilege or (B) cause any representation, warranty, covenant or other obligation in this Agreement to be breached or any condition set forth in Article 8 to fail to be satisfied; (iv) involve consenting to the pre-filing of UCC-1s or any other grant of Liens that result in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries being responsible to any third parties for any representations or warranties prior to the Effective Time; (v) require delivery of any solvency certificate or similar certification or representation; (vi) require the waiver or amendment of any terms of this Agreement or the payment of any fees or reimbursement of any expenses prior to the Closing for which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has not received prior reimbursement or is not otherwise indemnified by Parent, or incur any other liability or obligation, or provide or agree to provide any indemnity; (vii) cause any director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to incur any personal liability (including that the Board of Directors will not be required to enter into any resolutions or take any similar action approving the Debt Financing that are not contingent on the occurrence of the Effective Time); or (viii) require the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to prepare or deliver any financial statements or information other than the financial statements included in any Form 10-K or Form 10-Q required to be filed by the Company, with it being further understood that Parent (and not the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) will be responsible for the preparation of any pro forma financial statements for the Debt Financing, including the preparation of any pro forma calculations, any post-Closing or other pro forma cost savings synergies, capitalization, ownership or other pro forma adjustments that may be included therein. Parent agrees that the effectiveness of any documents executed by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the Debt Financing will be subject to, and annexes theretowill not be effective until, the Effective Time. All non-public or otherwise confidential information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries obtained by Parent pursuant to this Section 7.05(c) will be kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement. Any such confidential information may be shared with prospective lenders solely to the extent they are subject to customary confidentiality arrangements, including “click through” confidentiality agreements and provisions contained in customary bank information memoranda and other offering materials. As a condition to the obligations of the Company pursuant to this Section 7.05(c), Parent will as promptly as reasonably practicable upon request by the Company reimburse the Company for all documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses and disbursements) incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the cooperation contemplated by this Section 7.05(c) and fee letter from will reimburse, defend, indemnify and hold harmless the financial institutions identified thereinCompany and its Subsidiaries from, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” andagainst and in respect of any and all liabilities resulting from, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) or that exist or arise due to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into or in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to including providing the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedcooperation contemplated by this Section 7.05(c), and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiverinformation used in connection therewith, except to the extent such liabilities arise out of or in connection with (x) the gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud of the Company or any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming of its Subsidiaries or (y) any material inaccuracy of any financial historical information of the Equity Financing is funded Company or any of its Subsidiaries provided in accordance with writing by or behalf of the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient Company specifically for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid use in connection with the Merger assistance obligations set forth in this Section 7.05(c).
(d) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall have no responsibility in connection with the other transactions contemplated herebyDebt Financing, with the sole exception of the cooperation obligations set forth in Section 7.05(c) (and subject to the limitations contained therein). The Company will be given the opportunity to review any document prepared or utilized in connection with such Debt Financing activities that includes any information provided by the Company, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Considerationany offering memorandum, banker’s book or similar document, any slide presentations or any other offering materials and such materials will include customary disclaimers with respect to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Company will have no responsibility for the manner in which information provided about itself or any of its Subsidiaries contemplated by is presented, used or interpreted in any document or material (including any offering memorandum, banker’s book or similar document, any slide presentations or any other offering materials) provided to any actual or potential provider of Debt Financing.
(e) Subject to Section 10.14, Parent’s obligations to perform its agreements under this Agreement, including to pay consummate the Merger subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, are not in any other amounts required way conditioned on obtaining the Debt Financing or any alternative Debt Financing or on the performance of any party to any Debt Commitment Letter.
(f) Parent will as promptly as reasonably practicable provide the Company with copies of all executed amendments, modifications or replacements of any Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing. Parent will notify the Company as promptly as reasonably practicable (i) of any breach or default (or any circumstance that could reasonably be paid expected to give rise to any breach or default) by any party to any Debt Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing of which Parent becomes aware, and (ii) of the receipt by Parent of any written notice or Merger Sub on communication from any Financing Source with respect to any actual breach or prior default, or any termination or repudiation, in each case by any party to a Debt Commitment Letter or any definitive agreements related to the Closing Date Debt Financing of any provisions of any Debt Commitment Letter or such definitive agreements.
(g) The Company hereby consents to the use of its logos in connection with the consummation Debt Financing; provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or its Affiliates or the reputation or goodwill of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent Company or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingAffiliates.
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Financing. (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each of Parent has delivered and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Financing on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) described in the Financing Letters, and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Financing Letters if such amendment, modification or waiver (A) with respect to the Financing Letters, reduces (or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount unless (x) the Debt Financing or the Equity Financing is increased by a corresponding amount or the Debt Financing is otherwise made available to fund such fees or original issue discount and (y) after giving effect to any of the transactions referred to in clause “(x)” above, the representation and warranty set forth in Section 4.10 shall be true and correct) or (B) imposes new or additional conditions precedent or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions precedent to the receipt of the Financing in a manner adverse to Parent and Merger Sub or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any other provision of the Financing Letters, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the Financing) on the Closing Date or (y) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Sub or the Company, as applicable, to enforce its rights against other parties to the Financing Letters or the definitive agreements with respect thereto, in each of clauses “(x)” and “(y)” in any material respect (provided that, subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Section 6.11(a), Parent and Merger Sub may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add additional lenders, arrangers, bookrunners and agents). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company truecopies of any such amendment, correct modification or replacement. For purposes of this Section 6.11, references to “Financing” shall include the financing contemplated by the Financing Letters as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 6.11(a) and references to “Debt Commitment Letter” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 6.11(a).
(ii) Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Financing Letters, (B) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable (taken as a whole) to Parent or Merger Sub than the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Debt Commitment Letter), (C) to satisfy on a timely basis all conditions precedent to funding in the Debt Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto (other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of the Company’s failure to furnish information described in Section 6.11(b)) and in the Equity Funding Letter and to consummate the Financing at or prior to the earlier to occur of the Acceptance Time and the Closing, and to instruct the lenders and the other persons committing to fund the Financing at the Closing to provide such Financing, (D) to satisfy the conditions precedent required to be satisfied by Parent or Merger Sub under the Financing Letters to cause the funding of the Financing and (E) if appropriate and practical under the circumstances and available sources of cash are not otherwise available to contemplate the transactions contemplated herein, enforce its rights under the Financing Letters (including, if appropriate, through litigation pursued in good faith). Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and provide to the Company copies of the material definitive agreements for the Debt Financing (provided that any fee letter may be redacted). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and Merger Sub shall give the Company prompt notice (x) of any breach or default by any party to any of the Financing Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing of which Parent or Merger Sub become aware, (y) of the receipt of (A) any written notice or (B) other written communication, in each case from any Financing Source with respect to any (1) actual or potential breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Financing Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing of any provisions of the Financing Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing or (2) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to any of the Financing Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing with respect to the obligation to fund the Financing or the amount of the Financing to be funded at Closing, and (z) if at any time for any reason Parent or Merger Sub believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Financing Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within two business days of the date the Company delivers to Parent or Merger Sub a written request, Parent and Merger Sub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause “(x)”, “(y)” or “(z)” of the immediately preceding sentence; provided, that they need not provide any information believed to be privileged or that is requested for purposes of litigation. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, upon the occurrence of any circumstance referred to in clause “(x)”, “(y)(A)” or “(z)” of the second preceding sentence or if any portion of the Debt Financing otherwise becomes unavailable, and such portion is reasonably required to pay the Offer Price in respect of each Share validly tendered and accepted for payment in the Offer, the aggregate Merger Consideration, and all fees, expenses and other amounts contemplated to be paid by Parent, Merger Sub or the Surviving Corporation pursuant to this Agreement, Parent and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof alternative debt financing from alternative sources in an amount sufficient to consummate the Transactions with terms and conditions not materially less favorable (taken as a whole) to Parent and Merger Sub than the terms and conditions (taken as a whole) set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter (“Available Financing”), as promptly as reasonably practicable following the occurrence of such event. Parent shall deliver to the Company true and complete copiescopies of all Available Financing Letters (including Redacted Fee Letters) pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Debt Financing.
(iii) Without the prior written consent of the Company, other than with respect to the Merger, the Financing, and the other Transactions contemplated hereby, Parent shall not, nor shall it permit any of its controlled Affiliates to, enter into any merger, acquisition, joint venture, disposition or debt or equity financing that would reasonably be expected to impair, delay or prevent consummation of all or any portion of the Debt Financing.
(b) Prior to the earlier to occur of the Acceptance Time and the Closing, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to use its reasonable best efforts to provide and or cause its and its Subsidiaries’ Representatives to provide to Parent and Merger Sub, in each case at Parent’s sole expense, all cooperation reasonably requested by Parent or Merger Sub that is customary in connection with the arrangement of the type of Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (provided in all cases that such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries), which reasonable best efforts shall include (i) (A) furnishing Parent and Merger Sub and their Financing Source, as promptly as reasonably practicable following Parent’s or Merger Sub’s request, with such pertinent and customary information, to the extent reasonably available to the Company or its Subsidiaries, regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, and any supplements thereto, as may be reasonably requested by Parent or Merger Sub to consummate the Debt Financing and (B) furnishing Parent and Merger Sub and their Financing Sources, as promptly as reasonably practicable following Parent’s or Merger Sub’s request, with information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries (including information to be used in the preparation of one or more information packages regarding the business, operations, financial projections and prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries) customary for the arrangement of loans contemplated by the Debt Financing, to the extent reasonably available to the Company, its Subsidiaries or its Representatives and reasonably requested in writing by Parent or Merger Sub to assist in preparation of customary rating agency or lender presentations relating to such arrangement of loans, (ii) furnishing all consolidated financial statements, pro forma consolidated financial statements, business and other financial data, and audit reports of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and any supplements thereto required under the Debt Financing Letter and written financial information reasonably necessary for the Parent and the Financing Sources to prepare the “Confidential Information Memorandum” referred to in the Debt Financing Letter (the information referred to in clauses “(i)” and “(ii)” being referred to in this Agreement as the “Required Information”), provided that the Company shall be required to furnish a pro forma consolidated balance sheet and related pro forma statement of operations, prepared after giving effect to the Merger and the Financing as if the Merger and Financing had occurred as of the date hereofof the pro forma financial statements and as if Regulation S-X under the Securities Act were applicable to such pro forma financial statements and such pro forma financial statements shall be considered part of the Required Information, only if Parent or Merger Sub has provided the Company information relating to the proposed debt and equity capitalization and preliminary allocation of purchase price in accordance with ASC 805 “Business Combinations” prior to the date pro forma financial statements are required to be delivered, which information shall include (iA) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter any post-Closing or pro forma cost savings, capitalization and other post-Closing or pro forma adjustments (and the financing provided for therein being collectively referred assumptions relating thereto) desired by the Parent to as the “Equity Financing”) be reflected in such pro forma financial statements and (iiB) any other information that may be reasonably and timely requested by the Company concerning the assumptions underlying the post-Closing or pro forma adjustments to be made in such pro forma financial statements, which assumptions shall be the responsibility of Parent, (iii) participating and having senior management and its Representatives participate in a fully executed commitment letter reasonable number of meetings, presentations, confidential information memorandum presentations and meetings, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with rating agencies in connection with the Debt Financing (together including customary one-on-one meetings with all exhibitsthe Financing Sources), schedules(iv) assisting with the preparation of materials for rating agency presentations, bank information memoranda, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into similar documents required in connection with the Debt Financing; provided that any rating agency presentations, may have been redacted bank information memoranda, and similar documents required in connection with the Debt Financing shall contain disclosure reflecting the Surviving Corporation and/or its Subsidiaries as the obligor, (v) taking all corporate actions, subject to and only effective upon the occurrence of the Effective Time, reasonably requested by Parent to permit the consummation of the Debt Financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available to the extentSurviving Corporation immediately after the Effective Time, (vi) executing and delivering any customary pledge and security documents, credit agreements, ancillary loan documents and customary closing certificates and documents (in each case, subject to and only effective upon occurrence of the Effective Time) and assisting in preparing schedules thereto as may be reasonably requested by Parent or Merger Sub (including delivery of borrowing base certificates and delivery of a solvency certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company in substantially the form contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (as in effect on the date hereof), (vii) assisting in (A) the preparation, execution and delivery of one or more credit agreements, indentures, currency or interest hedging agreements or (B) the amendment or modification of any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ currency or interest hedging agreements, if any, in each case, they on terms that are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated reasonably requested by Parent or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded Merger Sub in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance connection with the Debt Financing Commitment LetterFinancing; provided that no obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any such agreements or amendments shall be effective until the Effective Time, as applicable, (viii) in connection with the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds loan financing contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in providing customary authorization letters to the aggregateFinancing Source for the Debt Financing authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders and containing a customary representation to the Financing Source for the Debt Financing that such information does not contain a material misstatement or omission and containing a representation to the Financing Sources that the public side versions of such documents, if any, do not include material non-public information about the Company or its Subsidiaries or their securities, (ix) using reasonable best efforts to arrange for customary payoff letters, lien terminations and instruments of discharge to be sufficient delivered at Closing providing for Parentthe payoff, Merger Sub discharge and termination on the Surviving Corporation to pay Closing Date of all indebtedness contemplated by the amounts required Debt Commitment Letter to be paid off, discharged and terminated on the Closing Date, (x) providing at least five business days prior to the expected Closing Date all documentation and other information about the Company and each of its Subsidiaries as is requested by the Financing Source for the Debt Financing and required under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations including the USA PATRIOT Act, (xi) using reasonable best efforts to cause accountants to consent to the use of their reports in any material relating to the Debt Financing, (xii) assisting in obtaining corporate and facilities ratings for the Debt Financing, (xiii) assisting with the execution, preparing and delivering of original stock certificates and original stock powers to the Financing Sources (including providing copies thereof prior to the Closing Date) on or prior to the Closing Date, and (xv) ensuring that there are no competing issues of debt securities or syndicated credit facilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries being offered or arranged between the execution of this Agreement and the Effective Time. Parent shall promptly, upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ and accountants costs and expenses) incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt cooperation of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this AgreementSection 6.11 and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, to pay its Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives from and against any and all direct and actual losses (other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”than lost profits), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentdamages, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andclaims, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.costs o
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Websense Inc)
Financing. Parent (a) As of the date hereof, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ has delivered to the Company true, complete and correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, copies of (i) each fully executed Equity the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”.
(b) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, Parent has also delivered to the Company true, complete and correct copies of each fee letter executed by Parent or any of its Affiliates in connection with the Debt Financing (collectively, the “Fee Letters”), subject, in the case of each such Fee Letter, to redaction solely of fee amounts and other commercially sensitive terms, none of which redactions covers terms that would reasonably be expected to (i) reduce the amount of the Debt Financing below the amount required to satisfy the Financing Uses (after taking into consideration the amount of the then available Equity Financing), (ii) impose any new condition precedent to the initial funding of the Debt Financing or otherwise adversely amend, modify or expand any existing conditions precedent to the initial funding of the Debt Financing set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter or (iii) adversely affect the enforceability, availability or termination of the Debt Financing.
(c) As of the date of this Agreement, (i) none of the Financing Commitment Letters has in the form delivered to the Company have been amended, supplemented or modified, (ii) no such amendment, supplement or modification is contemplated by Parent or, to the Knowledge of Parent, by the other parties thereto (other than to add Debt Financing Sources or other lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or other entities who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement), and (iii) the respective commitments contained in the Commitment Letters have not been withdrawn, terminatedreduced, repudiatedterminated or rescinded in any respect and, rescindedto the Knowledge of Parent, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, terminationreduction, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment termination or rescission is contemplated. As of the date hereof and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to except for the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing Fee Letters, there are no side letters or other Contracts to which Parent or any of its Affiliates is funded in accordance with party related to the Debt Financing Commitment Letterfunding or investing, as applicable, of the net proceeds Financing or the transactions contemplated by hereby that would reasonably be expected to (i) reduce the Equity Commitment Lettersamount of the Financing below the amount required to satisfy the Financing Uses, and (ii) impose any new condition precedent to the net proceeds contemplated by initial funding of the Debt Financing Commitment Letteror otherwise adversely amend, will modify or expand any existing conditions precedent to the initial funding of the Financing set forth in the aggregateCommitment Letters or (iii) adversely affect the enforceability, be sufficient for Parentavailability or termination of the Financing.
(d) As of the date of this Agreement, Merger Sub Parent has fully paid any and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid all commitment fees or other fees in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub Commitment Letters that are payable on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with date hereof pursuant to the consummation terms of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Commitment Letters or the Fee Letters.
(the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(ae) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and are the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of Parent and Merger Sub, as the case may be, and, to the Knowledge of Parent, each of the other parties party thereto, except, in each case, as such enforceability may be limited by the Bankruptcy and Equity Exception. As of the date hereof, assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 to Parent’s and Section 7.02 on Merger Sub’s obligations to consummate the Closing DateMerger, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to (i) constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Parent, Merger Sub Sub, the Equity Commitment Parties or, to the knowledge Knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, party thereto under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming , (ii) constitute a failure to satisfy a condition on the satisfaction part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Equity Commitment Parties or any other party thereto under any of the conditions set forth Commitment Letters or (iii) result in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 any portion of the amounts to be funded or invested in accordance with the Commitment Letters being unavailable on the Closing Date, as .
(f) As of the date hereof, assuming satisfaction of the conditions to Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations to consummate the Merger, Parent does not have any has no reason to believe that it or any of the full amount under other parties to the Financing Commitment Letters will be unable to satisfy on a timely basis any conditions precedent to the initial funding of the Financing set forth in the Commitment Letters, or that the Financing will not be made available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing DateDate in the amount required to satisfy the Financing Uses. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all assuming satisfaction of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent Parent’s and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation Sub’s obligations to consummate the Merger and assuming the Financing is funded and/or invested in accordance with the Commitment Letters, as applicable, and along with the available cash of the Company and its Subsidiaries, Parent and Merger Sub will have on the Closing Date funds sufficient to (i) pay the Aggregate aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on and the other payments contemplated by Article II, in each case, to the extent required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub in cash at Closing, (ii) pay any and all fees and expenses required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub in cash at Closing in connection with the Merger and the Financing, (iii) prepay or repay any outstanding indebtedness of the Company or its Subsidiaries required by this Agreement to be prepaid or repaid at the Closing, and pay all expenses of the Company and its Subsidiaries incurred in connection with this Agreement and unpaid as of the Closing and (iv) satisfy all of the other payment obligations of Parent and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Sub contemplated hereunder (the payments described in clauses (i) through (iv), the “Financing Uses”).
(g) Subject to Section 8.08, in no event shall the receipt or availability of Debt Financingany funds or financing by or to Parent or any of its Affiliates or any other financing transaction be a condition to any of the obligations of Parent or Merger Sub hereunder.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange, consummate and obtain the Committed Financing on or prior to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provideClosing, on the terms and subject only solely to the conditions expressly stated therein(including, debt financing in to the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsextent applicable, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions) described in the fee letter entered into Debt Commitment Letter, including using its, and causing its Subsidiaries to use their, reasonable best efforts to: (i) maintain in connection with full force and effect the Debt FinancingCommitment Letter in accordance with its terms, may have been redacted (ii) timely (and in any event by the Closing) negotiate, enter into and deliver definitive agreements with respect to the extentCommitted Financing (the “Definitive Financing Documents”), in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of on the date hereof, none of terms and subject solely to the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, andconditions (including, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parentapplicable, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded “market flex” provisions) described in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable(iii) satisfy (or obtain a waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions and comply on a timely basis with (or obtain a waiver of) all covenants and obligations applicable to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Financing Documents, (iv) enforce all of its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Financing Documents in a timely and diligent manner, and (v) consummate the Committed Financing no later than the Closing.
(b) Parent shall not (and shall cause its Subsidiaries not to) amend, restate, supplement or modify, replace (or replace any commitment under), or grant any consent or waive any provision under, the net proceeds contemplated Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Documents, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the Company if such amendment, restatement, supplement, replacement, modification, consent or waiver would or would reasonably be expected to: (i) impose new or additional conditions or otherwise expand or adversely amend or modify any conditions to the Committed Financing; (ii) reduce (or have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Committed Financing (including by increasing the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount) to an amount that would result in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation Parent having insufficient funds to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with Required Amounts, (iii) impede, delay, prevent or otherwise adversely impact the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyhereby or the funding of the Committed Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Committed Financing) or make the funding of the full amount of the Committed Financing less likely to occur on or prior to the Closing, or (iv) adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Documents (it being understood that Parent may (notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Non-Disclosure Agreement or the Clean Team Agreement) amend, restate, modify or supplement the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Documents solely to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, underwriters, syndication agents or similar entities that have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date of this Agreement without the Company’s consent (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, such amendment, restatement, modification or supplement shall otherwise comply with this clause (b)). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company true and complete copies of any amendment, restatement, supplement, replacement, modification or waiver of or to, or consent under, the Debt Commitment Letter; provided that any fee letter to be delivered by Parent in connection herewith may be customarily redacted as provided for in Section 3.8(a).
(c) In the event that, at any time prior to the Effective Time, any portion of the Committed Financing becomes unavailable for any reason such that Parent would not have available cash, after giving effect to all other sources of cash that would be available to Parent on the Closing Date, to satisfy Parent’s payment obligations under this Agreement due on the Closing Date, including payment of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationRequired Amounts, (i) Parent shall notify the Company in writing thereof as promptly as practicable after obtaining knowledge thereof, and (ii) Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to make any repaymentobtain as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, repurchase or refinancing of alternative debt financing (A) in an amount sufficient, together with the available portion of the Company Financing and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, all other sources of cash that would be available to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, to consummate the Merger on the Closing Date and to otherwise pay the Required Amounts, (B) that does not impose new or additional conditions precedent or expand upon the conditions precedent to the Committed Financing as set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter (as in effect on the date of this Agreement), and (C) which would not reasonably be expected to impede, delay, prevent or otherwise adversely impact the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby (an “Alternative Financing”).
(d) Upon (i) obtaining any commitment for any Alternative Financing or any other Financing constituting a replacement permitted by Section 4.19(b), or (ii) any amendment, restatement, supplement, replacement, modification or waiver of the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Documents, in each case, as permitted by Section 4.19(b), the definitions of “Debt Commitment Letter” or “Definitive Financing Documents”, as applicable, shall be deemed to have been modified as appropriate to reflect such Alternative Financing, replacement Financing or amendment, restatement, supplement, replacement, modification or waiver, as applicable.
(e) Parent has no reason shall keep the Company reasonably informed upon the Company’s written request of the status of its efforts to believe that arrange the Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent shall (i) furnish the Company with executed copies of any amendments, restatements, supplements, replacements, modifications to or waivers of the Debt Commitment Letter, Definitive Financing Documents or Alternative Financing permitted by Section 4.19(b) (with any fee letter redacted in a customary manner to the extent described in Section 3.8(a)) promptly after their execution, and (ii) give the Company prompt written notice (A) of any actual or threatened in writing default or breach (or any event has occurred whichor circumstances that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would could reasonably be expected to constitute a give rise to any default or breach) under, or in repudiation, rescission, cancellation or expiration of, the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Financing Documents by any party thereto, in each case, of which Parent becomes aware, (B) of any termination of the Debt Commitment Letter or reduction in aggregate commitments thereunder, (C) of the receipt by Parent or any Affiliate of Parent of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to (x) a breach of Parent’s or any of its Affiliates’ obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Documents, or actual or potential default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letter or Definitive Financing Documents (including any proposal by any Financing Source, lender or other Person to withdraw, terminate, repudiate, rescind or make a material change in the terms of (including the amount of the Committed Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter) the Debt Commitment Letter), and (y) any material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or any Definitive Financing Document relating to the initial availability of the Committed Financing or the amount of the Committed Financing to be funded at Closing, and (D) of the receipt by Parent or any Affiliate of Parent of any written notice or other written communication on the part basis of which Parent expects that a party to the Committed Financing will fail to fund the Committed Financing or is reducing the amount of the Committed Financing. In the event that Parent commences an enforcement action to enforce its rights under any agreement in respect of the Committed Financing or to cause any Financing Source to fund all or any portion of the Committed Financing, Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed of the status of such enforcement action upon the Company’s written request.
(f) P▇▇▇▇▇ and M▇▇▇▇▇ Sub expressly acknowledge and agree that neither P▇▇▇▇▇’s nor M▇▇▇▇▇ Sub’s obligations hereunder, including to consummate the Closing subject to the terms and conditions hereof, are conditioned upon Parent or Merger Sub or, to obtaining the knowledge of ParentFinancing, any Alternative Financing or any other parties theretodebt, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters equity or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingfinancing.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (On Semiconductor Corp)
Financing. (a) Each of Merger Sub and Parent has delivered shall take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as proceeds of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described herein and in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Equity Commitment Letter on a timely basis to facilitate the Closing and pricing terms, including terms pay all Required Amounts when required by Section 1.2. Each of Merger Sub and Parent shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to consummate and obtain the proceeds of the “market flex” Debt Financing on the terms and other commercially sensitive information, conditions (including the flex provisions) described in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescindedPapers (as replaced, amended, amended and restated or supplemented, modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification waived or waiver has occurred, and, superseded to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, prohibited by Section 4.15(b) below) on a timely basis (after giving effect to the knowledge of ParentMarketing Period) to facilitate the Closing when required by Section 1.2, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded including using their respective reasonable best efforts to: (i) maintain in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and effect the Debt Financing is funded Commitment Papers until the Transactions are consummated, (ii) enforce (including through specific performance, litigation or other appropriate proceedings, each of the foregoing pursued in accordance with good faith) its rights under the Debt Financing Commitment LetterPapers, as applicable, (iii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, terms and the net proceeds contemplated by conditions (including flex provisions) contained in the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation Papers (or on terms not materially less favorable to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub than the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Financing Commitments), and (iv) satisfy, or cause their Representatives to satisfy, on or prior to the Closing Date (or obtain the waiver of) all conditions in connection the Debt Commitment Papers and such definitive agreements applicable to it that are within its control. In the event that all the conditions contained in any Financing Commitment (other than, with respect to the Debt Financing, the availability of the Equity Financing) have been satisfied (or upon funding will be satisfied), each of Merger Sub and Parent shall use their respective reasonable best efforts (including through litigation pursued in good faith) to cause the Financing Sources party to the Debt Financing Papers to, and shall cause the Financing Sources party to the Equity Commitment Letter to, comply with their respective obligations, including to fund the Financing at the Closing (and in any event prior to the Outside Date). Each of Merger Sub and Parent shall comply with their respective obligations, and enforce their respective rights, under the Equity Commitment Letter in accordance with the consummation terms therein, in each case in a timely and diligent manner. Each of Merger Sub and Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to comply with their respective obligations, and use reasonable best efforts to enforce their respective rights, under the Debt Commitment Papers, in each case in a timely and diligent manner.
(b) Neither Merger Sub nor Parent shall agree to any amendments or modifications to, or grant any waivers of, any condition or other provision or remedy under the Financing Commitments or Financing Agreements without the prior written consent of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Company (which may be granted or withheld in the “Required Amount”Company’s sole discretion), assuming to the extent such amendments, modifications or waivers could or could reasonably be expected to (i) reduce (or have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of aggregate cash proceeds available from the Financing (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount) unless (but only to the extent that) Parent and Merger Sub do not require the full amount of the Financing to fund the Required Amount at the Closing or Parent delivers the Company an amended Equity Commitment Letter, duly executed by the affiliates of the Sponsor listed therein, to increase the Equity Financing by an amount equal to such reduction to such Financing; provided, however, that no Financing Commitment shall be reduced unless and until such financing is actually funded at the Closing or the Company receives such amended Equity Commitment Letter, or (ii) impose new or additional conditions precedent to the Financing or otherwise expand, amend or modify any of the conditions precedent to the Financing in a manner that could reasonably be expected to be adverse to Merger Sub, Parent or the Company, including any expansion, amendment or modification that would or could be reasonably be expected to (A) prevent or delay or impair the ability of Merger Sub and Parent to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions to be consummated on the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement, (B) adversely impact the ability of Merger Sub or Parent to enforce its rights or remedies against the other parties to the Financing Commitments or Financing Agreements or (C) make the funding of the Financing on the Closing Date or satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) precedent to obtaining the Financing on the Closing Date. Each Financing Date any less likely to occur; provided that, subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Section 4.15, Parent and Merger Sub may amend the Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentto add arrangers, bookrunners, agents or similar entities if such modifications, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to prevent or delay or impair the ability of Merger Sub (and Parent to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions to be consummated on the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement, including, for the avoidance of doubt, to modify pricing or implement or exercise any of the flex provisions contained in the Debt Commitment Papers. Parent shall promptly deliver to the extent Parent Company copies of any such amendment, modification or waiver of any of the Financing Commitments or the Financing Agreements. Neither Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, nor Parent shall release or consent to the knowledge termination of Parent, such the obligations of the lenders and other Persons party thereto under the Financing Commitments or Financing Agreements, except for (i) replacements of the Debt Commitment Letter with alternative financing commitments pursuant to Section 4.15(c), or (ii) assignments and replacements of lenders under the terms of the syndication of the Financing Commitments in accordance with its termsthe terms thereof so long as any such assignment or replacement would, except were it structured as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcyan amendment to the existing Financing Commitment, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As not result in any of the date hereof, circumstances described in the first sentence of this Section 4.15(b).
(c) In the event that any portion of the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction (A) becomes or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or (B) would reasonably be expected to constitute become unavailable in the manner contemplated in the Financing Commitments (including the flex provisions) (other than as a default or breach result of the termination of the Financing Commitments on the part Outside Date pursuant to the terms thereof), Parent shall promptly so notify the Company. As soon as reasonably practicable, Parent and Merger Sub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in the immediately preceding sentence or in Section 4.15(d)(ii); provided, however, subject to the rules of discovery otherwise applicable, that Parent or Merger Sub need not provide any information that it believes after consultation with external legal counsel to be privileged. Upon the occurrence of any circumstance referred to the second preceding sentence or in Section 4.15(d)(ii), Merger Sub and Parent shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof, and to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to, alternative financing from the same or alternative financial institutions or other Persons (which such alternative financing (x) shall be in an amount, when combined with Merger Sub’s and Parent’s other source of funds, equal to the Required Amount on terms (unless otherwise agreed by Parent) and conditions that are not materially less favorable, in the aggregate, to Merger Sub and Parent than those in the Financing Commitments (including flex provisions) as in effect on the Agreement Date and (y) shall not contain any terms that would not be permitted to be effected by an amendment, modification or waiver of the Financing Commitments pursuant to Section 4.15(b)). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in no event shall the “reasonable best efforts” of Parent or Merger Sub or, be deemed or be construed to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to require Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereofto, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to neither Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereofnor Merger Sub shall be required to, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or seek equity financing from any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, source other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.those counterparty to,
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company trueterms and conditions of this Agreement, correct the Debt Commitment Letter and complete copiesthe Equity Commitment Letter and other than as permitted in accordance with this Section 6.17(a) and Section 6.17(d), as prior to the Closing, each of the date hereof, of Parent and Merger Sub shall not permit (i) each fully executed any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver, release or limitation of any provision or remedy pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Equity Commitment Letter and (ii) any termination of the Debt Commitment Letter or the Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together other than in accordance with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing its terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent), in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As without the prior written consent of the date hereofCompany (not to be unreasonably withheld, none conditioned or delayed) (it being understood that the exercise of any “market flex” provisions contained in the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, Debt Fee Letter shall not be deemed an amendment, amendment and restatementmodification, modification waiver, release or waiver has occurred, andlimitation), to the extent related such amendment, modification, waiver, release or limitation would (x) reduce the aggregate amount of the Financing such that Parent would not or does not have sufficient immediately available cash to permit Parent to pay all obligations of Parent hereunder due on the Closing Date, or (y) impose new or additional conditions, or otherwise replace, amend, supplement or modify any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parentthe conditions, to the knowledge receipt of Parentthe Financing, there is no condition existing in each case, in a manner that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except reasonably be expected to (A) make the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment funding of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase Financing (or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(ato obtaining the Financing) less likely to occur or (B) materially delay or prevent the Closing; provided that Parent may amend, modify, restate and Section 7.02(b) on supplement the Closing Date. Each Financing Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parentto add lenders, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andlead arrangers, to the knowledge of Parentbookrunners, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization syndication agents or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of entities (or titles with respect to such entities) that have not executed the date hereof, the Financing Debt Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Letter as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe of this Agreement (it being understood that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As aggregate commitments of the date hereoflenders party to the Debt Commitment Letter prior to such replacement, amendment, supplement or modification may be reduced in the amount of such additional party’s commitments). Upon any modification or amendment of, or waiver or release under, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of or Debt Commitment Letter in accordance with this Section 6.17(a), the conditions precedent term “Equity Commitment Letter” or “Debt Commitment Letter”, as applicable thereto (and other conditions to consequently the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of terms “Debt Financing,” “Equity Financing” and “Financing” shall mean the Equity Financing available to Parent on and the terms therein. As of the date hereofDebt Financing contemplated by such Commitment Letters as so replaced, there are no side letters amended, supplemented, modified or other agreementswaived), arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity shall mean such Commitment Letter provided to the Company on as so replaced, amended, supplemented, modified or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingwaived.
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company trueterms and conditions of this Agreement (including Section 5.13(e)), correct each of Parent and complete copies, as Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts (taking into account the anticipated timing of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (Marketing Period and the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”Termination Date) to provide, obtain the proceeds of the Financing as soon as reasonably practicable on the terms and subject only conditions, taken as a whole (including the "flex" provisions) described in the Financing Letters, including using its reasonable best efforts to (i) comply with its obligations under the Financing Letters, (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing Letters on terms and conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including (as such terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated be modified or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded adjusted in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters terms of, and within the Debt limits of the flex provisions contained in any Fee Letter) no less favorable to Parent and Merger Sub than those contained in the Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will Merger Sub contained in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyFinancing Letters (including definitive agreements related thereto), including the payment of any commitment, engagement or placement fees required as a condition to the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of Financing and (iv) consummate the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on Financing at or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”)Date, assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (subject to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions contained herein. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the immediately preceding sentence, each of Parent and Merger Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause each of its Affiliates to take, all actions necessary to maintain in effect, and enforce its rights under, the Financing Letters (including any definitive agreements relating thereto); provided that each of Parent and Merger Sub may (i) amend, replace or modify the Debt Financing Letters to add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities, and (ii) subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 7.01 5.13, otherwise amend or modify, grant any waiver of any provision or remedy under, or increase the amount of indebtedness or otherwise replace the Debt Financing Letters or one or more facilities. Parent and Section 7.02 on Merger Sub shall promptly deliver to the Closing DateCompany copies of any such replacement, amendment, supplement, modification or waiver. Parent has no reason and Merger Sub shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, enter into any amendment or modification to, replacement of, or grant any waiver of any provision or remedy under, or exercise its right to believe that terminate any event has occurred whichcommitment under, with the Financing Letters, if such amendment, modification, replacement, waiver or without notice, lapse of time or both, termination would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on (A) reduce the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any aggregate amount of the Debt Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe such that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not aggregate funds that would be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree at the Closing (taking into account other sources of funding that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.would be
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Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct (a) Each of Investor and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesAcquisition Sub shall use, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from shall cause their Affiliates to use, their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, as promptly as practicable on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsCommitment Letters, including using (and causing their Affiliates to use) their respective reasonable best efforts to: (i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letters, (ii) enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto as promptly as practicable on the terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, conditions contained in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and (iii) satisfy, or cause their Representatives to satisfy, on a timely basis (or, if deemed advisable by Investor, seek the net proceeds waiver of) all conditions applicable to Investor, Acquisition Sub or their respective Representatives in such definitive agreements that are within their control; provided that this covenant shall not require Investor or Acquisition Sub to (A) commence any action against any of the other parties to the Debt Commitment Letters or the Financing Agreements, if any, with respect thereto, or (B) pay any material fees in excess of those contemplated by the Commitment Letters.
(b) Investor shall have the right to amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under the Commitment Letters, and/or substitute or add other debt financing for all or any portion of the Debt Financing from the same and/or alternative Lenders, and/or permit the parties to the Equity Commitment LetterLetter to assign their commitments thereunder to other equity Financing Sources; provided that Investor shall not agree to, will or permit, any amendments or modifications to, or any waivers under, or any replacements of, the Commitment Letters without the prior written consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) if such amendments, modifications, waivers or replacements would (i) reduce the aggregate amount of the Financing to an amount committed that is below the amount required, together with other financial resources of Investor and Acquisition Sub, including cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of Investor and Acquisition Sub on the Closing Date, to consummate the Merger on the terms contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) impose new or additional conditions or otherwise expand upon the then-existing conditions precedent to funding of the Financing at or prior to the Effective Time as set forth in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required Commitment Letters that would make such conditions materially less likely to be paid in connection with satisfied by the Closing; (iii) otherwise be reasonably expected to prevent or materially delay or impair the ability of Investor to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment by this Agreement; or (iv) reduce the aggregate amount of commitments of the Aggregate Merger Considerationparties to the Equity Commitment Letter as of the date hereof and their Affiliates to less than 75% of the aggregate amount of commitments thereunder. Investor shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any amendment, to make replacement, supplement, modification or waiver of the Commitment Letters.
(c) In the event that any repaymentportion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letters, repurchase or refinancing of debt of (i) Investor shall promptly so notify the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement(ii) Investor and Acquisition Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain, and to pay any other amounts required negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to, alternative bank debt financing from alternative Financing Sources in an amount sufficient to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement upon conditions not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, to Investor’s interests than those in the Debt Commitment Letters, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event (and in any event no later than the Effective Time). The definitive agreements entered into pursuant to the first sentences of this Section 6.15(c) or Section 6.15(a) are referred to in this Agreement, collectively, as the “Required AmountFinancing Agreements.”), assuming
(d) Each of Investor and Acquisition Sub acknowledges and agrees that the satisfaction obtaining of the Financing or any alternative financing is not a condition to the Closing, and reaffirms its obligation to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement irrespective and independently of the availability of the Financing or any alternative financing, subject to applicable conditions set forth in Article VII and the requirements of Section 7.02(a2.3.
(e) and Section 7.02(bInvestor shall (i) on prior to the Closing Date. Each Financing Closing, give the Company prompt notice (A) upon becoming aware of any material breach of any provision of, or termination by any party thereto of any Commitment Letter or Financing Agreement, (B) upon the receipt of any written communication from any Person party to any Commitment Letter or Financing Agreement with respect to any threatened breach or termination thereof by such Person or (C) if it is enforceable against Parent, Merger reasonably expected that Investor or Acquisition Sub (will not be able to the extent Parent obtain all or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any portion of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount terms and conditions under the Commitment Letter or Financing Commitment Letters will not Agreements and (ii) prior to the Closing, otherwise keep the Company reasonably informed, at the Company’s request, of material developments in Investor’s and Acquisition Sub’s efforts to arrange the Financing.
(f) Nothing in this Section 6.15 or any other provision of this Agreement shall require, and in no event shall Investor or Acquisition Sub be available required to Parent (i) seek the Equity Financing from a source other than the Equity Consortium or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As in any amount in excess of the date hereof, that contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letter contains all Letter, (ii) amend or waive any term or condition of the conditions precedent and other conditions this Agreement, or (iii) commence any legal action or proceeding against any Financing Source party to the obligations of the parties thereunder Debt Commitment Letters or, subject to make the full amount of the Equity Section 9.8(c), against any other Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt FinancingSource.
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to consummate the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of Financing on or before the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Closing Date on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Financing Commitment (including any “flex” provisions applicable to the Financing Commitment (as amended, restated, amended and pricing termsrestated, supplemented, replaced, terminated, reduced, waived or otherwise modified in a manner not in violation of Section 7.13(b)), including by using reasonable best efforts to: (i) comply with, maintain in effect and enforce the Financing Commitment in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, in each case until the funding of the Financing at or prior to Closing, and, once entered into, any Financing Agreement with respect thereto; (ii) negotiate Financing Agreements with respect to the Financing on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Financing Commitment (including any “market flex” provisions) or on other terms reasonably acceptable to Parent and other commercially sensitive information, not in violation of Section 7.13(b); and (iii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of) all conditions applicable to the Financing in the fee letter entered into in connection Financing Commitment and any Financing Agreements with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extentrespect thereto, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As to the extent within the control of Parent.
(b) Subject to the date hereofterms and conditions of this Agreement, none of Parent shall not agree to or permit any amendment, supplement or other modification or replacement of, or any termination or reduction of, or grant any waiver of, any condition, remedy or other provision under the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn(other than to effect any “flex” provisions set forth in the Financing Commitment), terminatedin each case, repudiatedwithout the prior written consent of the Company if (and only if) such amendment, rescindedsupplement, amendedmodification, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawalreplacement, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default (i) reduce the net cash proceeds available from the Financing such that the Parent would not have sufficient cash proceeds to consummate the Combination (taking into account other sources of funding (other than cash of the Company and its Subsidiaries)), (ii) impose new or breach on the part of Parent additional conditions or Merger Sub orotherwise expand, amend or modify any condition precedent to the knowledge receipt of Parentthe Financing, any other parties theretoin each case, under any in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (A) materially delay or prevent the Closing, or (B) make the timely funding of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming or the satisfaction of the conditions set forth to obtaining the Financing materially less likely to occur, or (iii) adversely impact in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on any material respect the Closing Dateability of Parent to enforce its or their rights against the other parties to the Financing Commitment; it being understood that notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent may (1) replace, amend, supplement, or modify or consent to the replacement, amendment, supplement or modification of the Financing Commitment to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Financing Commitment as of the date hereofof this Agreement, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount and/or (2) make or permit assignments and replacements of an individual lender under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on in connection with the Closing Date. As syndication of the date hereofFinancing; provided that Parent may, without the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereofCompany’s prior written consent: (i) enter into any amendment, there are no side letters replacement, supplement or other agreements, arrangements modification to or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability waiver of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.any
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Zynga Inc)
Financing. Parent has delivered The Buyer undertakes to the Company trueSeller that:
(a) the Buyer shall take, correct or cause to be taken, all actions and complete copiesdo, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange the Debt Financing as promptly as practicable following the date of this deed and to consummate the Debt Financing on the Completion Date, including (in each case at its own cost, and indemnifying and holding harmless the Seller from any costs incurred by the Seller in respect of any of the date hereof, of following):
(i) each fully executed Equity maintaining in effect the Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and Letters;
(ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesparticipation by senior management of the Buyer in, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified thereinassistance with, the “preparation of rating agency presentations and meetings with rating agencies;
(iii) causing the Debt Financing Commitment Letter” andto be consummated upon satisfaction of the Debt Financing Conditions;
(iv) satisfying on a timely basis all Debt Financing Conditions;
(v) negotiating, together with executing and delivering the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on definitive agreements that reflect the terms and subject only contained in the Commitment Letters or on such other terms acceptable to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt Buyer and its financing sources (Debt Financing Documents);
(vi) in the amounts set forth therein; provided event that fee amounts and pricing termsthe Debt Financing Conditions have been satisfied, including terms or upon funding would be satisfied, cause the financing providers to fund the full amount of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing; and
(vii) enforcing its rights under the Commitment Letters in the event of a Financing Failure Event (including by seeking damages or taking other enforcement actions, may have been redacted to including seeking an order of specific performance), and assisting in the extentSeller enforcing such rights directly if the Seller so elects; Share sale deed 89
(b) neither the Buyer nor any of its Affiliates shall amend, in each casemodify, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As supplement, restate, assign, substitute or replace any of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended or any Debt Financing Document except for substitutions and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, replacements as a result of any alternative financing to be obtained pursuant to clause 33.1(c);
(c) without limiting the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited Buyer’s other obligations under this Agreement. Assuming clause 33, or the Equity Seller’s other rights, if a Financing is funded Failure Event occurs, the Buyer shall:
(i) immediately notify the Seller of such Financing Failure Event and the reasons therefore;
(ii) in accordance consultation with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded Seller, obtain alternative financing from alternative financing sources in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be an amount sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company payments required under this deed (including the Completion Payment) and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement deed (Alternative Financing), as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of the Financing Failure Event;
(iii) obtain, and when obtained, provide the Seller with a copy of, a new financing commitment and/or the definitive agreements that reflect such new financing commitment (Alternative Financing Documents), subject only to conditions precedent (Alternative Financing Conditions) substantially the same as the Debt Financing Conditions; and
(iv) be deemed to warrant to the Seller as at Completion by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing all the statements set out in paragraph 1.4 of Schedule 8 mutatis mutandis, it being specified that any reference to the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (Debt Financing” will be deemed to be a reference to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is “Alternative Financing”, any reference to “Commitment Letters” shall be deemed to be a party thereto) and, reference to the knowledge “Alternative Financing Documents” and any reference to “Debt Financing Conditions” shall be deemed to be a reference to the “Alternative Financing Conditions”;
(d) the Buyer shall give the Seller prompt notice of Parentany breach, such other Persons repudiation, or threatened or anticipated breach or repudiation, by any party thereto to the Commitment Letters or the Debt Financing Documents (or to the agreements in connection with the Alternative Financing to be obtained in accordance with clause 33.1(c)) of which the Buyer or its terms, except as enforcement may Affiliates becomes aware;
(e) the Buyer shall not consent to any assignment or rights or obligations under the Commitment Letters or any Debt Financing Document (or any agreement in connection with the Alternative Financing to be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As obtained in accordance with clause 33.1(c)) without the prior written approval of the date hereofSeller, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld; and
(f) the Financing Commitment Letters are Buyer shall keep the Seller informed in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver reasonable detail of the conditions set forth status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing (or the Alternative Financing to be obtained in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on accordance with clause 33.1(c)), provided, for the Closing Dateavoidance of doubt, Parent has that in no reason to believe that any event has occurred whichshall the receipt by, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of any funds or financing to, the Equity Financing on Buyer or any of its Affiliates (including the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided Debt Financing) be a condition to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their Buyer’s obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.transactions contemplated by this deed. Share sale deed 90
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to the Company a true, complete and correct copy of each of the fully executed Royalty Purchase Agreement and complete copies, Revenue Participation Rights Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as of the date hereofof this Agreement, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (by and among the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as Financing Sources party thereto and the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter Parent (together with all exhibits, schedules, schedules and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” andRoyalty Purchase Agreements”), together with the Equity Commitment Letterspursuant to which, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on upon the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Royalty Purchase Agreements, the Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Sources party thereto have agreed to purchase certain royalty streams of Parent, Merger Sub the Company and their Subsidiaries in consideration of the purchase prices set forth in the Royalty Purchase Agreements and aggregating not less than $1,425,000,000 in cash (to the extent “Financing”).
(b) As of the date of this Agreement, the Royalty Purchase Agreements are in full force and effect and constitute the valid, binding and enforceable obligations of Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such the other Persons party thereto parties thereto, enforceable against the Parent in accordance with its their respective terms, except as such enforcement may be limited by subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally rights, and by general principles equitable principles. There are no conditions precedent related to the provision of equity. the full amount of the Financing other than the conditions precedent expressly set forth in the respective Royalty Purchase Agreement.
(c) As of the date hereofof this Agreement, the Financing Commitment Letters are Royalty Purchase Agreements have not been amended or modified in full force any manner, and effect the respective commitments contained in the Royalty Purchase Agreements have not been terminated, reduced, withdrawn or rescinded in any respect by Parent or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other party thereto, and assuming no such termination, reduction, withdrawal or rescission is contemplated by Parent or, to the satisfaction knowledge of Parent, any other party thereto. Parent is not in default or waiver material breach under the terms and conditions of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 any Royalty Purchase Agreement and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred whichthat, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or material breach on the part by Parent or a failure to satisfy a condition of Parent or Merger Sub or, to under the knowledge terms and conditions of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as Royalty Purchase Agreement.
(d) As of the date hereofof this Agreement, Parent does not have any has no reason to believe that (i) any of the full amount under conditions precedent expressly set forth in the Royalty Purchase Agreements will not be satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date or (ii) the Financing Commitment Letters contemplated by the Royalty Purchase Agreements will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there .
(e) There are no side letters letters, understandings or other agreements, agreements or arrangements relating to any Royalty Purchase Agreement or understandings the Financing to which Parent or any Equity Investor of its Affiliates is a party that would could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the availability availability, conditionality, enforceability, termination or amount of Financing contemplated by the Equity Financing Royalty Purchase Agreements in any material respect. Parent or an Affiliate of Parent on its behalf has fully paid any and all fees and other amounts required by the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided Royalty Purchase Agreements to the Company be paid on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter providesof this Agreement, and will continue pay in full any such amounts due on or before the Closing Date.
(f) In no event shall the receipt or availability of any funds or financing (including the Financing and the closing of the Royalty Purchase Agreements) by or to provideParent or any of its Affiliates or any other financing transaction be a condition to any of the obligations of Parent hereunder.
(g) No transfer of property is being made and no obligation is being incurred in connection with the Transactions with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud either present or future creditors of Parent and its Subsidiaries (including the Company and its Subsidiaries). Immediately after giving effect to the consummation of the Transactions, assuming that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent Solvent immediately prior to the Closing and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their the satisfaction of the conditions to Parent’s obligation to consummate the Merger transactions set forth herein, Parent and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, will be Solvent. For purposes of Debt Financing.this Section 4.11(g), “Solvent” means, with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that:
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Constellation Pharmaceuticals Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to consummate the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of Financing on or before the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Closing Date on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Financing Commitment (including any “flex” provisions applicable to the Financing Commitment (as amended, restated, amended and pricing termsrestated, supplemented, replaced, terminated, reduced, waived or otherwise modified in a manner not in violation of Section 7.13(b)), including by using reasonable best efforts to: (i) comply with, maintain in effect and enforce the Financing Commitment in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, in each case until the funding of the Financing at or prior to Closing, and, once entered into, any Financing Agreement with respect thereto; (ii) negotiate Financing Agreements with respect to the Financing on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Financing Commitment (including any “market flex” provisions) or on other terms reasonably acceptable to Parent and other commercially sensitive information, not in violation of Section 7.13(b); and (iii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of) all conditions applicable to the Financing in the fee letter entered into in connection Financing Commitment and any Financing Agreements with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extentrespect thereto, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As to the extent within the control of Parent.
(b) Subject to the date hereofterms and conditions of this Agreement, none of Parent shall not agree to or permit any amendment, supplement or other modification or replacement of, or any termination or reduction of, or grant any waiver of, any condition, remedy or other provision under the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn(other than to effect any “flex” provisions set forth in the Financing Commitment), terminatedin each case, repudiatedwithout the prior written consent of the Company if (and only if) such amendment, rescindedsupplement, amendedmodification, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawalreplacement, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on (i) reduce the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of net cash proceeds available from the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming such that the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does would not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation sufficient cash proceeds to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.Combination (taking into
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Take Two Interactive Software Inc)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesMerger Sub shall use, and annexes thereto) shall cause their Affiliates to use, their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and fee letter from do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange and obtain the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, as promptly as practicable on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing termsFinancing Documents, including using (and causing their Affiliates to use) their respective reasonable best efforts to: (i) maintain in effect the Financing Documents, (ii) enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto as promptly as practicable on the terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, conditions contained in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and (iii) satisfy, or cause their Affiliates to satisfy, on a timely basis (or, if deemed advisable by Parent, seek the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for waiver of) all conditions applicable to Parent, Merger Sub or their respective Affiliates in the Financing Documents that are within their control and (iv) consummate the Surviving Corporation Financing at or prior to pay the amounts required Closing. Table of Contents
(b) Parent shall not agree to, or permit, any amendments, replacements, supplements or modifications to, or any waivers or assignment of commitments under, either of the Commitment Letters without the prior written consent of the Company (such consent not to be paid unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); provided, that Parent shall have the right to amend, replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under each of the Commitment Letters, and/or substitute or add other equity or debt financing, and/or permit the parties to the Commitment Letters to assign their commitments thereunder to other equity or debt Financing Sources without the prior written consent of the Company if, and only if, such amendments, modifications, waivers, assignments or replacements would not (i) reduce the aggregate amount of the Financing to an amount committed that is below the amount required, together with other financial resources of Parent and Merger Sub, including cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of Parent and Merger Sub on the Closing Date, to consummate the Merger on the terms contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) adversely impact the ability of Parent and/or Merger Sub to enforce their rights under the Financing Documents; (iii) amend or modify the then-existing conditions precedent to funding of the Financing in connection with a manner that would make such conditions materially less likely to be satisfied by the Closing or impose new or additional conditions precedent to funding of the Financing; or (iv) otherwise be reasonably expected to prevent or materially delay or impair the ability of Parent to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement; provided that Parent shall have the right to permit any Financing Source to assign its commitment under the Commitment Letters to other financing sources and to permit the parties to the Financing Documents other than the Commitment Letters to assign its or their commitments thereunder to other financing sources, including payment in each case, solely to the extent consistent with the other terms of this Section 6.15(b). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any amendment, replacement, supplement, modification or waiver of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationFinancing Documents.
(c) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing or Equity Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Commitment Letters, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of (i) Parent shall promptly so notify the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement(ii) Parent and Merger Sub shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, to pay any other amounts required or cause to be paid by Parent taken, all actions and do, or Merger Sub on cause to be done, all things necessary or prior advisable to the Closing Date arrange and obtain, and to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to, alternative bank debt financing or equity financing from alternative Financing Sources in connection with the consummation of an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement upon conditions not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, to Parent’s interests than those in the Commitment Letters, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event (and in any event no later than the “Required Amount”Effective Time).
(d) Prior to the Closing, assuming Parent shall (i) give the satisfaction Company prompt notice (A) upon becoming aware of any material breach of any provision of, or termination by any party thereto of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aFinancing Documents, (B) and Section 7.02(b) on upon the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (receipt of any written communication from any Person party to the extent Financing Documents with respect to any threatened breach or termination thereof by such Person or (C) if it is reasonably expected that Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, will not be able to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization obtain all or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As any portion of the date hereof, Financing on the terms and conditions under the Financing Commitment Letters are Documents and (ii) keep the Company reasonably informed, at the Company’s request, of material developments in full force Parent’s and effect Merger Sub’s efforts to arrange the Financing.
(e) Nothing in this Section 6.15 or any other provision of this Agreement shall require, and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of shall Parent or Merger Sub or, be required to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of (i) seek the Financing from a source other than the Sponsor or Lender or in any amount in excess of that contemplated by the Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction , (ii) amend or waive any term or condition of the conditions set forth in this Agreement, or (iii) commence any legal action or proceeding, subject to Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date9.7, as against any Financing Source.
(f) Each of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge acknowledges and agree agrees that their obligation to consummate in no event shall the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the receipt or availability of Debt any funds or financing (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Financing) by Parent or any Affiliate or any other financing or other transaction be a condition to any of Parent’s or Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement.
(g) Sponsor acknowledges that it shall be a major source of financing to Parent in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. Table of Contents
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Xcerra Corp)
Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Subject to the Company trueterms and conditions of this Agreement, correct each of Acquiror and complete copies, as of Acquiror Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Financing Letters, and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Financing Letters; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, Acquiror shall be entitled to amend or waive any provision of or remedy under the Debt Commitment Letter, or replace it, provided that no such amendment, waiver or replacement may (i) reduce the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (unless the Ultimate Parent increases its funding commitment under the Equity Commitment Letter by an amount equal to the amount of such reduction subject to receipt of the proceeds of Debt Financing and the satisfaction or waiver of all of the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts in Section 6.1 and pricing terms6.2) or (ii) impose new or additional conditions or otherwise expand, including terms amend or modify any of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationconditions to the receipt of the Debt Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (A) delay or prevent the Closing Date, in (B) make the fee letter entered into in connection with funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Debt Financing, may have been redacted ) less likely to occur or (C) adversely impact the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As ability of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated Acquiror or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment LetterAcquiror Sub, as applicable, to enforce its rights against other parties to the net proceeds Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto. Each of Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall use its reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in effect the Financing Letters, to execute and deliver the Senior Credit Facilities and the Bridge Facility (each as defined in the Debt Commitment Letter) and to negotiate all other definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and related fee letters, (ii) to satisfy all conditions to such definitive agreements and consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing, and (iii) to comply with its obligations under the Financing Letters. Acquiror shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Financing and provide to the Company copies of all definitive documents related to the Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall give the Company prompt notice: (i) of any breach or default by any party to any Financing Letters or definitive document related to the Financing of which Acquiror and Acquiror Sub become aware; (ii) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Financing source with respect to any: (A) breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Financing Letters or any definitive document related to the Financing or any provisions of the Financing Letters or any definitive document related to the Financing or (B) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to any Financing Letters or any definitive document related to the Financing; and (iii) if for any reason Acquiror or Acquiror Sub believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing on the terms, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by the Equity Commitment LettersFinancing Letters or the definitive documents related to the Financing; provided, that Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall be under no obligation to disclose any information that is subject to an attorney-client or similar privilege if Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall have used reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within 5 days of the net proceeds contemplated date the Company delivers Acquiror or Acquiror Sub a written request, Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Debt Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence. Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the lenders and any other Persons providing Financing Commitment Letter, will in to fund on the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and Closing Date the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts Financing required to be paid in connection with consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement if all conditions to closing contained in Article VI are satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing, including payment but subject to the fulfillment or waiver of those conditions). For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that all or any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, Debt Financing to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing be obtained through the issuance of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries Notes as contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub the Debt Commitment Letter has not been obtained on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with Closing, then Acquiror shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause, no later than the consummation Closing, the proceeds of the transactions Bridge Loans contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction Debt Commitment Letter to be used to replace such portion of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) Notes not issued at Closing. Acquiror and Section 7.02(b) on Acquiror Sub acknowledge and agree that the Closing Dateobtaining of the Financing is not a condition to Closing. Each For the avoidance of doubt, if the Debt Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parenthas not been obtained, Merger Acquiror and Acquiror Sub (shall continue to be obligated, subject to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction fulfillment or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VI, to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 7.01 5.11 or in any other provision of this Agreement, in no event shall Acquiror or Acquiror Sub be required (i) to amend or waive any of the terms or conditions hereof or (ii) to consummate the Closing any earlier than the final day of the Marketing Period.
(b) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide to Acquiror and Acquiror Sub, at Acquiror’s sole expense, all cooperation reasonably requested by Acquiror in connection with the arrangement of the Financing (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any issuance of the Senior Notes as defined in and contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter) or any permitted amended or modified financing (collectively with the Financing, the “Available Financing”) (provided that such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries), including (i) furnishing Acquiror and Acquiror Sub and their Financing sources as promptly as practicable with all financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to clause (vii) (Financial Statements) of Exhibit C of the Debt Commitment Letter, other than pro forma financial statements unless Acquiror or Acquiror Sub has provided the Company information relating to pro forma adjustments at least 30 days prior to the date pro forma financial statements are required to be delivered (without giving effect to any qualification therein with respect to receipt by Acquiror or Acquiror Sub); (ii) furnishing Acquiror and Acquiror Sub and their Financing sources as promptly as practicable with information relating to the Company and the Subsidiaries to the extent reasonably requested by Acquiror to prepare the confidential information memorandum and the lender presentation contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter (information required pursuant to clause (i) and this clause (ii) being referred to as the “Required Bank Information”), (iii) participating in a reasonable number of meetings (including customary one-on-one meetings with the parties acting as lead arrangers or agents for, and prospective lenders and purchasers of, the Available Financing and senior management, with appropriate seniority and expertise, of the Company), presentations, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions and sessions with rating agencies in connection with the Available Financing, (iv) using commercially reasonable efforts to obtain accountant’s comfort letters and legal opinions reasonably requested by Acquiror, (v) using commercially reasonable efforts to obtain surveys and title insurance reasonably requested by Acquiror, (vi) taking all corporate actions, subject to the occurrence of the Closing, reasonably requested by Acquiror to permit the consummation of the Available Financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available to the Surviving Entity at the Closing, (vii) executing and delivering any pledge and security documents, other definitive financing documents or other certificates, and documents as may be reasonably requested by Acquiror (including a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company with respect to solvency matters in the form of Exhibit H attached hereto and consents of accountants for use of their reports in any material relating to the Available Financing), (viii) providing authorization letters to the Financing sources authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders and containing a customary representation to the arranger of the Available Financing that the information contained in the confidential information memorandum contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and, in the case of the public-side version, containing a representation to the arranger of the Available Financing that such public-side version does not include material non-public information about the Company and the Subsidiaries, (ix) cooperating reasonably with Acquiror’s Financing sources’ due diligence to the extent reasonable and to the extent not unreasonably interfering with the business of the Company; (x) using its commercially reasonable efforts to permit any cash and marketable securities of the Company and the Subsidiaries that can, without violating Law or incurring material Taxes, reasonably be made available to pay a portion of the aggregate Total Consideration to be made available for that purpose at the Closing (it being understood that the Company has not made any representations about how much that cash and marketable securities will be), (xi) assisting in (A) the preparation of and entering into one or more credit agreements or purchase agreements or other agreements on the terms contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter or, if applicable, on the terms contemplated by the Available Financing, and currency or interest hedging agreements as reasonably requested by Acquiror or Acquiror Sub or (B) the amendment of any of the Company’s or the Subsidiaries’ currency or interest hedging agreements on terms reasonably requested by Acquiror or Acquiror Sub; provided that no obligation of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries under any such agreements or amendments shall be effective until the Closing, and (xii) assisting with the preparation of the confidential information memorandum, the lender presentation and one rating agency presentation for each of ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investor Services and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of the McGraw Hill Corporation; provided that (A) any confidential information memorandum and the lender presentation need not be issued by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (B) any confidential information memorandum and the lender presentation shall contain disclosure reflecting the Surviving Corporation and/or the Subsidiaries as the obligor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A) no obligation of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries under any certificate, document or instrument (other than the authorization letters referred to above) shall be effective until the Closing Date and (B) none of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries shall be required to bear any cost or expense or to pay any commitment or other similar fee in connection with the Available Financing prior to the Closing Date. The Company hereby consents to the use of its and the Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the Available Financing; provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries. All non-public or other confidential information provided by the Company or any of its Representatives pursuant to this Section 7.02 5.11(b) shall be kept confidential, except that Acquiror and Acquiror Sub shall be permitted to disclose such information to potential sources of capital and to rating agencies and prospective lenders and investors during syndication of the Available Financing subject to the potential sources of capital, prospective lenders and investors entering into customary confidentiality undertakings with respect to such information, with the Company being a beneficiary of such confidentiality undertakings. Acquiror shall promptly, upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries in connection with the cooperation of the Company and the Subsidiaries contemplated by this Section 5.11, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by any of them of any type in connection with the arrangement of any Available Financing and any information used in connection therewith.
(c) The Company shall furnish Acquiror and Acquiror Sub and their Financing sources as promptly as practicable with all financial and other pertinent information with respect to the Company and the Subsidiaries as may be reasonably requested by Acquiror in order to prepare the offering memorandum and private placement memorandum referred to in clause (x) in Exhibit C to the Debt Commitment Letter in order to consummate the offering of the Senior Notes contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter in accordance with the terms of the Debt Commitment Letter on the Closing Date, Parent including all financial statements and financial data (provided that in the case of pro forma financial statements all information related to pro forma adjustments shall have been provided by Acquiror or Acquiror Sub at least 30 days prior to when pro forma financial statements are required to be provided) that are customarily included in a preliminary offering memorandum for a high-yield debt securities offering (including all financial data that would be reasonably required to enable the independent registered public accountants of the Company and the Subsidiaries to render a customary “comfort letter” (including customary “negative assurances”)) (information required pursuant to this clause being referred to as the “Required Notes Information”; provided, that if the Company shall in good faith reasonably believe it has no reason delivered the Required Notes Information, it may deliver to believe Acquiror a written notice to that any event has occurred whicheffect (stating when it believes it completed such delivery), with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably in which case the Required Notes Information shall be expected deemed to constitute a default or breach have been delivered on the part date of Parent or Merger Sub orsuch notice unless Acquiror in good faith reasonably believes the Company has not completed delivery of the Required Notes Information and, within four (4) Business Days after the delivery of such notice by the Company, delivers a written notice to the Company to that effect (stating with specificity which Required Notes Information the Company has not been delivered.)
(d) Subject to applicable Law, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts, upon the reasonable request of Acquiror Sub, to take any action reasonably requested by Acquiror Sub in connection with its strategic planning; provided, however, that (i) the knowledge Company shall not be required to take any action in contravention of Parent, any organizational document or other parties thereto, under Contract relating to it or any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming Subsidiaries, (ii) any such actions or transactions shall be conditioned upon the satisfaction Closing occurring, (iii) any and all such actions shall not constitute a breach by the Company of any representation, warranty or covenant made by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, (iv) no such actions shall subject the Company, any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.S
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Cablevision Systems Corp /Ny)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedulesAcquisition Sub shall, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from shall cause its Subsidiaries to use reasonable best efforts to obtain the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with if applicable, draw on the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, Letter of Credit on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Debt Commitment Documents (including any “flex” provisions applicable to the Debt Financing), including using (and causing its Subsidiaries to use) their respective reasonable best efforts to: (i) comply with and maintain in full force and effect the Debt Commitment Documents in accordance with the terms and conditions expressly stated thereinthereof; (ii) to the extent applicable, debt financing enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the terms and conditions contained in the amounts set forth thereinDebt Commitment Documents (including any “flex” provisions applicable to the Debt Financing) on a timely basis, but in no event later than the Closing; provided (iii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain a waiver of) all conditions applicable to Parent, Acquisition Sub or their respective Subsidiaries in the Debt Commitment Letters (and the definitive agreements entered into with respect to the Debt Commitment Documents); (iv) enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letters in the event of a breach by any Debt Financing Source and, if applicable, the Shareholder Lender that fee amounts and pricing termsimpedes or delays (or could reasonably be expected to impede or delay) the Closing and, including terms if necessary, seek specific performance of the “market flex” Debt Financing Sources and, if applicable, the Shareholder Lender of their obligations thereunder; and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with (v) draw down upon and consummate the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to and, if applicable, draw on the extentLetter of Credit, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As at or prior to the Closing.
(b) Neither Parent nor its Affiliates shall agree to any amendment, supplement or other modification to, obtain any replacement of, or grant any waiver of, any condition or other provision under the Debt Financing or the Letter of Credit (other than pursuant to any “flex” provisions set forth in the Debt Commitment Documents) without the prior written consent of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no Company if such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to (i) would reduce the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate aggregate amount of Parent, to the knowledge net proceeds of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with or the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, Letter of Credit (including by changing the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amount of fees or other amounts required to be paid in connection (including original issue discount) with respect to the Debt Financing), (ii) would impose new or additional conditions or otherwise expand, amend or modify any of the conditions under the Debt Commitment Letters or (iii) would, or would reasonably be expected to, (x) prevent, delay or impair the ability of Parent to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebyby this Agreement or (y) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Acquisition Sub to enforce its rights against the other parties to the Debt Commitment Documents. Parent shall not permit, including payment release or consent to the withdrawal, termination, repudiation or rescission of the Aggregate Debt Commitment Letters or any definitive agreement with respect to the Debt Financing or the Letter of Credit and shall not permit, release or consent to the termination or assignment of any of the obligations of any Debt Financing Source and/or the Shareholder Lender under the Debt Financing and/or the Letter of Credit, in each case, without the prior written consent of the Company.
(c) In no event shall Parent or Acquisition Sub or any of their Affiliates (which for purposes of this Section 6.11(c) shall be deemed to include each direct or indirect investor in Parent or Acquisition Sub or other Representatives, or any of Parent’s, Acquisition Sub’s or such investor’s financing sources or potential financing sources or other Representatives) (i) award any agent, broker, investment banker, financial advisor or other firm or Person, except for Citigroup Global Markets Taiwan Securities Co. Limited, any financial advisory role on an exclusive basis in connection with the Merger Consideration, or the other transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) prohibit or seek to make prohibit any repayment, repurchase bank or refinancing investment bank or other potential provider of debt or equity financing, from providing or seeking to provide financing to any Person in connection with a transaction relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries or in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby.
(d) In the event that any portion of the Company Debt Financing or the Letter of Credit becomes or could reasonably be expected to become unavailable in the manner or from the sources contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letters (including pursuant to any “flex” provisions applicable thereto), (i) Parent shall promptly notify the Company, and its Subsidiaries (ii) Parent and Acquisition Sub shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to, use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain, and to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to, alternative debt financing from alternative financial institutions in an amount sufficient to consummate the transactions contemplated by this AgreementAgreement upon terms and conditions not less favorable, in any material respect, to pay Parent and Acquisition Sub or the Company than those in the Debt Commitment Letters, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event; provided that any other amounts required to be paid by Parent such replacement of any part of the Debt Financing and/or the Letter of Credit that amends the Debt Commitment Letters and/or substitution of all or Merger Sub any portion of the Debt Financing and/or the Letter of Credit shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, (A) reduce the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing and/or the Letter of Credit available on or prior to the Closing Date from that contemplated in connection with the Debt Commitment Letters, (B) impose new or additional conditions precedent or otherwise expand upon, amend or modify the conditions precedent to the Debt Financing and/or the Letter of Credit as set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters in any respect that would make such conditions less likely to be satisfied by the Closing Date or (C) prevent, impede, delay or adversely impact, or be reasonably expected to prevent, impede, delay or adversely impact the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (Agreement. The definitive agreements entered into pursuant to this Section 6.11(d) or Section 6.11(a)(ii) are referred to in this Agreement, collectively, as the “Required AmountFinancing Agreements.”), assuming
(e) Each of Parent and Acquisition Sub acknowledges and agrees that neither the satisfaction obtaining of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on Debt Financing, the Letter of Credit or any alternative financing is a condition to the Merger or the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with and reaffirms its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on other transactions contemplated by this Agreement irrespective and independently of the availability of the Debt Financing, the Letter of Credit or any alternative financing, subject to the applicable conditions set forth in Section 7.1 and Section 7.2.
(f) Parent agrees that any amount pre-funded by the L/C Issuer under the Letter of Credit, in accordance with the terms thereof, shall be (i) held separately and not comingled with other cash on hand and (ii) used solely to fund, in part, the amounts required to be provided by Parent for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(g) Parent and Acquisition Sub acknowledge and agree that none of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates or its and their and their Affiliates’ respective Representatives shall incur any liability to any Person under any financing that Parent and Acquisition Sub may raise in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any cooperation provided pursuant to this Section 6.11, Section 6.12 or Section 6.13 and that Parent and Acquisition Sub shall, on a joint and several basis, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective Affiliates and its and their and their Affiliates’ respective Representatives from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, costs and expenses suffered or incurred by any of them in connection with such financing (including any action taken in accordance with this Section 6.11 or Section 6.12) and any information utilized in connection therewith or in connection with any action taken pursuant to Section 6.13, unless such losses, damages, claims, costs and expenses are found in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been primarily caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates or its and their and their Affiliates’ respective Representatives.
(h) Any breach of the Debt Commitment Documents, the Financing Agreements or any alternative financing commitment or alternative financing agreement by Parent or Acquisition Sub shall be deemed a breach by Parent of this Section 6.11. Parent shall (i) furnish the Company with drafts and complete, correct and executed copies of each amendment, waiver or other modification of the Debt Commitment Documents and of the Financing Agreements and any alternative financing agreement promptly upon their execution, (ii) give the Company prompt notice of any breach or threatened breach by any party to the Debt Commitment Documents, any alternative financing commitment, the Financing Agreements, or any alternative financing agreement of which Parent or Acquisition Sub becomes aware and any termination or threatened termination thereof of which Parent or Acquisition Sub becomes aware and, in each case, any written notice or other communication with respect to any of the foregoing, (iii) give the Company prompt notice of each material dispute or disagreement between or among the parties to the Debt Commitment Documents or Financing Agreements, (iv) notify the Company if for any reason Parent no longer believes in good faith that it will be able to obtain all or any portion of the Debt Financing or the Letter of Credit contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters on the terms described therein and (v) otherwise keep the Company reasonably and promptly informed of the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing (or any alternative financing), including by providing the Company with drafts of the definitive agreements or offering memoranda relating to the Debt Financing a reasonable period of time prior to their execution or use.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Merger Agreement (Kemet Corp)
Financing. (a) Each of Parent has delivered and Merger Subsidiary shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions described in the Financing Commitment Letters, and shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Financing Commitment Letters if such amendment, modification or waiver (i) reduces (or could have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount unless (A) the Debt Financing or the Equity Financing is increased by a corresponding amount and (B) after giving effect to any of the transactions referred to in clause (A) above, the representation and warranty set forth in Section 5.08 shall be true) or (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extentor otherwise expands, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none amends or modifies any other provision of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnin a manner that would reasonably be expected to (A) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to the Financing) on the date of the Closing or (B) adversely impact the ability of Parent or Merger Subsidiary to enforce its rights against other parties to the Financing Commitment Letters (provided that, terminatedsubject to compliance with the other provisions of this Section 5.06(c), repudiatedParent and Merger Subsidiary may amend the Debt Commitment Letters to add additional lenders, rescindedarrangers, amended, amended bookrunners and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no agents). Parent shall promptly deliver to the Company copies of any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurredreplacement.
(b) Each of Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall use its reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in full force and effect the Financing Commitment Letters, and, (ii) to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the extent related Debt Commitment Letters on the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letters (or on terms no less favorable to any Person that is not an Affiliate of ParentParent or Merger Subsidiary than the terms and conditions in the Debt Commitment Letters), (iii) to satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to funding in the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any Debt Commitment Letters and such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment definitive agreements with respect thereto and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters Letter and to consummate the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on at or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aiv) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance comply with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, obligations under the Financing Commitment Letters are Letters. Parent shall keep the Company informed on a current basis and in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver reasonable detail of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and Section 7.02 on provide to the Closing DateCompany copies of the material definitive agreements for the Debt Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent has no reason and Merger Subsidiary shall give the Company prompt notice (A) of any breach or default by any party to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming Letters or definitive agreements related to the satisfaction Financing of which Parent or Merger Subsidiary becomes aware, (B) of the conditions set forth receipt of (x) any written notice or (y) other written communication, in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Dateeach case from any Financing source with respect to any (1) actual or potential breach, as default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing of any provisions of the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing or (2) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to any of the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing with respect to the obligation to fund the Financing or the amount of the Financing to be funded at Closing and (C) if at any time for any reason Parent or Merger Subsidiary believes in good faith that it will not be available able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Financing Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Financing. As promptly as practicable, but in any event within two Business Days of the date the Company delivers to Parent or Merger Sub on Subsidiary a written request therefor, Parent and Merger Subsidiary shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Closing Date. As Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinimmediately preceding sentence. Parent and Merger Sub Subsidiary acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay obtaining of the Aggregate Merger Consideration Financing, or any alternative financing, is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financinga condition to Closing.
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copiescopies of the executed commitment letters from Bank of America, N.A., ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Lynch, Pierce, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ Incorporated, Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., together with any related fee letter, engagement letter or other agreement, with only the fee amounts redacted (collectively, the “Debt Commitment Letters”), pursuant to which, and subject to the terms and conditions thereof, the lender parties thereto have committed to lend the amounts set forth therein to Parent and/or Acquisition Sub for the purpose of funding the Transactions (the “Debt Financing”), and (ii) the executed equity commitment letter, dated as of the date hereof, of this Agreement (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Debt Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment LettersCommitments”) from Sponsor pursuant to provide, on which the terms and subject only Sponsor has committed to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in invest the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of therein (the “market flexEquity Financing” and other commercially sensitive informationand, in the fee letter entered into in connection together with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required AmountFinancing”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each The Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as thereof.
(b) As of the date of this Agreement, all of the Financing Commitments are in full force and effect and have not been withdrawn or terminated or otherwise amended, supplemented or modified in any respect. Each of the Financing Commitments, in the form so delivered, is a legal, valid and binding obligation of Parent or Acquisition Sub and, to the knowledge of Parent, the other parties thereto. There are no side letters or other agreements, contracts or arrangements (except for customary fee letters and engagement letters) relating to the Financing Commitments. No event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Acquisition Sub under any term, or a failure of any condition, of the Financing Commitments or otherwise result in any portion of the Financing contemplated thereby to be unavailable. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions contained in Section 7.1 and the Offer Conditions, neither Parent nor Acquisition Sub has reason to believe that it would be unable to satisfy on a timely basis any term or condition of the Financing Commitments required to be satisfied by it. Parent and/or Acquisition Sub have fully paid any and all commitment fees or other fees required by the Financing Commitments to be paid on or before the date of this Agreement. Assuming (i) the satisfaction of the conditions contained in Section 7.1 and the Offer Conditions and (ii) the funding of the Financing in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth therein. in the Financing Commitments, the aggregate proceeds from the Financing, together with Company cash, shall, in the aggregate, be sufficient to fund all of the amounts required to be provided by Parent for the consummation of the Transactions, and Merger Sub acknowledge are sufficient for the satisfaction of all of Parent’s and agree that their obligation to consummate Acquisition Sub’s obligations under this Agreement, including the Merger payment of the Offer Price in respect of each share of Company Common Stock validly tendered and pay accepted for payment in the Offer, the Aggregate Merger Consideration and the payment of all associated costs and expenses of the Offer and the Merger (including any repayment or refinancing of indebtedness of Parent, Acquisition Sub or the Company required in connection therewith). There are no conditions precedent or other contingencies related to the funding or investing, as applicable, of the full amount of the Financing, other than as expressly set forth in or contemplated by the Financing Commitments.
(c) Neither Parent nor Acquisition Sub is not conditioned aware of any direct or indirect limitation or other restriction on the availability ability of the lender parties to the Debt FinancingFinancing to provide financing for other potential purchasers of the Company.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Steinway Musical Instruments Inc)
Financing. (a) The Company shall reasonably cooperate, and cause the Company Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives to reasonably cooperate with Parent has delivered and Representatives of Parent (including Sponsor and its Subsidiaries) in connection with the Financing, including by: (i) furnishing Parent and its financing sources as promptly as practicable with financial and other pertinent information regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries as may be reasonably requested in writing by Parent, including all financial statements and projections and other pertinent information reasonably requested in writing by Parent (other than information for which the Company is dependent on information to be provided by Parent to the Company true, correct in order to prepare such financial statements and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”projections) and (ii) a fully executing and delivering any pledge and security documents, currency or interest hedging arrangements, other definitive financing documents, or other certificates, legal opinions or documents as may be reasonably requested by Parent or otherwise reasonably facilitating the pledging of collateral (provided that such documents will not take effect until the Effective Time); provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, no obligations of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates or Representatives under any agreement, document or instrument executed commitment letter (together with all exhibitsor delivered by the Company, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates or Representatives pursuant to the conditions expressly stated thereinCompany’s obligations under this Section 6.12(a) shall be effective until the Effective Time; provided, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided further, that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted nothing herein shall require such assistance to the extentextent it would require the Company to pay (or to agree to pay) any fees, reimburse any expenses, incur any liability or give any indemnities prior to the Effective Time for which it is not reimbursed or indemnified.
(b) Neither Parent nor Merger Sub shall amend, modify, alter, waive, replace or agree to amend, modify, alter, waive or replace (in each caseany case whether by action or inaction), they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none any term of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no if such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment modification, waiver or replacement (x) reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing beyond the amount necessary for Parent and restatementMerger Sub to sufficiently pay the Aggregate Consideration, modification or waiver has occurred, and, all fees and expenses relating to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate consummation of Parentthe Offer, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated herebythereby or (y) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, including payment amends or modifies any of the Aggregate Merger Considerationconditions to the receipt of the Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (I) delay or prevent the Offer Closing or the Closing or (II) make the funding of the Financing less likely to occur, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to make any repaymenttake, repurchase or refinancing cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to arrange and obtain the proceeds of debt the Financing on the terms and conditions described in, or contemplated by, the Financing Commitment.
(c) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with Parent to obtain payoff letters with respect to all Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreementoutstanding as of the Closing and releases of all Encumbrances securing such Indebtedness, conditioned only on the payment of the amounts described in such payoff letters. At Closing, the Company shall deliver to Parent a certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior the effect that the Company is not a U.S. real property holding company. Notwithstanding anything to the Closing Date contrary herein, no breach or alleged breach by the Company of any provision set forth in connection with this Section 6.12 shall form the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement basis for (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of x) any failure or alleged failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Schedule I or (y) any termination of this Agreement by Parent pursuant to Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing8.1(f).
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and MergerSub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain the Company true, correct Debt Financing on the terms and complete copies, conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letters as of promptly as practicable after the date hereof, of including (but subject in all respects to Section 11.13) their reasonable best efforts to (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and Letters, (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, respect thereto on the terms and subject only conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letters (including the flex provisions) or on other terms no less favorable to Parent and MergerSub as to conditionality, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent and MergerSub in the Debt Commitment Letters that are within their control (including by consummating the Equity Financing pursuant to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” Equity Commitment Letter), (iv) consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing and other commercially sensitive information(v) enforce their rights under the Equity Commitment Letter to the extent set forth in Section 11.13 (but not the Debt Commitment Letters as more fully described in Section 11.13); it being understood that Parent and MergerSub may seek to obtain financing in a private placement of securities pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act in lieu of a portion of the Debt Financing (and references to the Debt Financing in this Section 8.03 shall be deemed to include such private placement); provided, however, that (1) Parent and MergerSub shall not release or waive the Debt Commitment Letters or the obligations of the arrangers and lenders thereunder and (2) Parent and MergerSub shall proceed with, and consummate, the financing contemplated in the fee letter entered into Debt Financing Letters in connection the event that such alternative private placement financing is not available. Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed with respect to all material activity concerning the status of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters and shall give the Company notice of any material adverse change with respect to such Financing as promptly as practicable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and MergerSub shall give the Company prompt notice (x) of any material breach or material default by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letters, or any definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing, may have been redacted in each case of which Parent or MergerSub becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication, in each case received from any Debt Financing source with respect to any (3) material breach of Parent’s or MergerSub’s obligations under the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the extentDebt Financing, or default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or (4) material dispute between or among any parties to any of the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or any provisions of any of the Debt Commitment Letters, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termswith respect to the obligation to fund the Debt Financing or the amount of the Debt Financing to be funded at Closing and (z) of the receipt of any notice or other communication (written or verbal) on the basis of which Parent expects that a party to the Debt Financing will fail to fund the Debt Financing or is reducing the amount of the Debt Financing; provided that in no event shall Parent or MergerSub be under any obligation to disclose any information pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) that would waive the protection of attorney-client or similar privilege if such party shall have used reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within five Business Days of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available delivers to Parent or Merger Sub on MergerSub a written request, Parent and MergerSub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Closing Date. As Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clauses (x), (y) or (z) of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingimmediately preceding sentence.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Ebix Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered and MergerSub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain the Company true, correct Debt Financing on the terms and complete copies, conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letters as of promptly as practicable after the date hereof, of including (but subject in all respects to Section 11.13) their reasonable best efforts to (i) each fully executed Equity maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and Letters, (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, respect thereto on the terms and subject only conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letters (including the flex provisions) or on other terms no less favorable to Parent and MergerSub as to conditionality, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions applicable to Parent and MergerSub in the Debt Commitment Letters that are within their control (including by consummating the Equity Financing pursuant to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” Equity Commitment Letter), (iv) consummate the Financing at or prior to the Closing and other commercially sensitive information(v) enforce their rights under the Equity Commitment Letter to the extent set forth in Section 11.13 (but not the Debt Commitment Letters as more fully described in Section 11.13); it being understood that Parent and MergerSub may seek to obtain financing in a private placement of securities pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act in lieu of a portion of the Debt Financing (and references to the Debt Financing in this Section 8.03 shall be deemed to include such private placement); provided, however, that (1) Parent and MergerSub shall not release or waive the Debt Commitment Letters or the obligations of the arrangers and lenders thereunder and (2) Parent and MergerSub shall proceed with, and consummate, the financing contemplated in the fee letter entered into Debt Financing Letters in connection the event that such alternative private placement financing is not available. Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed with respect to all material activity concerning the status of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters and shall give the Company notice of any material adverse change with respect to such Financing as promptly as practicable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent and MergerSub shall give the Company prompt notice (x) of any material breach or material default by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letters, or any definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing, may have been redacted in each case of which Parent or MergerSub becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication, in each case received from any Debt Financing source with respect to any (3) material breach of Parent’s or MergerSub’s obligations under the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the extentDebt Financing, or default, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or (4) material dispute between or among any parties to any of the Debt Commitment Letters or definitive agreements related to the Debt Financing or any provisions of any of the Debt Commitment Letters, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Termswith respect to the obligation to fund the Debt Financing or the amount of the Debt Financing to be funded at Closing and (z) of the receipt of any notice or other communication (written or verbal) on the basis of which Parent expects that a party to the Debt Financing will fail to fund the Debt Financing or is reducing the amount of the Debt Financing; provided that in no event shall Parent or MergerSub be under any obligation to disclose any information pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) that would waive the protection of attorney-client or similar privilege if such party shall have used reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event within five Business Days of the date hereofthe Company delivers to Parent or MergerSub a written request, none Parent and MergerSub shall provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clauses (x), (y) or (z) of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to immediately preceding sentence. In the extent related to event that any Person that is not an Affiliate portion of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with becomes unavailable on the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, terms and the net proceeds conditions contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment LetterLetters (including the flex provisions), will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of (A) Parent shall promptly notify the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by (B) Parent and MergerSub shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain any such portion from alternative sources, on terms, taken as whole, that are no more adverse to Parent and the Company (including after giving effect to the market flex provisions), as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event but in no event later than the last day of the Marketing Period. In furtherance of the provisions of this AgreementSection 8.03, to pay any other amounts required to one or more Debt Commitment Letters may be paid by amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified or superseded at the option of Parent or Merger Sub on or after the date of this Agreement but prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated Effective Time by this Agreement instruments (the “Required AmountNew or Amended Debt Commitment Letters”)) that either amend, assuming amend and restate, or replace the satisfaction existing Debt Commitment Letters or contemplate co-investment by or financing from one or more other or additional parties; provided that the terms of the New or Amended Debt Commitment Letters shall not (1) expand upon the conditions precedent to the Debt Financing as set forth in Section 7.02(athe existing Debt Commitment Letters, (2) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default materially delay or breach on hinder the part Closing or (3) reduce the aggregate amount of available Debt Financing. Parent or Merger Sub or, shall (x) to the knowledge extent reasonably practicable, notify the Company of Parent, its intention to make any other parties thereto, under any such amendment or obtain such alternative financing and keep the Company reasonably informed of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 terms thereof and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided (y) provide to the Company on final drafts of all New or Amended Debt Commitment Letters prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue their execution by Parent so as to provide, that permit the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth thereinreasonable period of time in which to confirm that such proposed New or Amended Debt Commitment Letters comply with the this Section 8.03(a). Parent shall deliver to the Company true and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.correct
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Financing. Parent has delivered (a) Unless, and to the Company trueextent, correct DigitalGlobe has sufficient cash from other sources available to satisfy its obligations under this Agreement and complete copiesfor the Refinancing, as from and after the execution of this Agreement, DigitalGlobe shall use its reasonable best efforts to arrange the date hereof, of (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing described in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Commitment Letter and pricing termsshall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any replacement of all or any portion of any facilities (or commitments thereof) described in, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, the Commitment Letter, if such amendment, modification, replacement or waiver (i) reduces the aggregate amount of the Financing (including terms by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount except by operation of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationprovisions) or (ii) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, in amends or modifies any of the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted conditions to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As receipt of the date hereof, none any portion of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person in a manner that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default (A) delay or breach on prevent the part of Parent Closing or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming Closing Date or (B) make the satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Financing materially less likely to occur or (C) adversely impact the ability of DigitalGlobe to enforce its rights against other parties to the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements, in any material respect, including any right to seek specific performance of the Commitment Letter or the Definitive Agreements. Subject to the limitations set forth out in the first sentence of this Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on 6.17(a), DigitalGlobe may amend, supplement, modify or replace the Closing DateCommitment Letter as in effect at the date hereof (x) to add or replace lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Commitment Letter as of the date hereofof this Agreement, Parent does not have any reason (y) to believe that increase the full amount of indebtedness and (z) to replace all or a portion of the facility committed under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As Letter as in effect as of the date hereof, the Equity hereof with one or more new facilities under such Commitment Letter contains all or under any new commitment letter or facility (any such new commitment or facility, a “Replacement Facility”) in a manner not materially less beneficial to DigitalGlobe (as determined in the reasonable judgment of the conditions precedent and other conditions DigitalGlobe), provided that any amendments, modifications or replacements of any Replacement Facility shall be subject to the obligations of same limitations that apply to the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than Commitment Letter as expressly set forth in the Equity first sentence of this Section 6.17(a). For purposes of this Agreement, (1) the term “Financing” shall be deemed to include the financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter provided as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced pursuant to this Section 6.17 (including any Replacement Facility, any Alternative Financing), and (2) the term “Commitment Letter” shall be deemed to include the Commitment Letter as may be permitted to be amended, modified or replaced pursuant to this Section 6.17, any Replacement Facility, and any commitment letters with respect to the Company Alternative Financing and any related fee letters (it being understood that any Replacement Facility or Alternative Financing shall be subject to the terms herein that apply to the Commitment Letter).
(b) Unless, and to the extent, DigitalGlobe has sufficient cash from other sources available to satisfy its obligations under this Agreement and for the Refinancing, DigitalGlobe shall use its reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Commitment Letter pursuant to its terms (except for amendments not prohibited by Section 6.17(a)) until the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Financing on the terms and conditions (including any applicable “market flex” provisions) contained in the Commitment Letter (“Definitive Agreements”) or on other terms not materially less favorable to DigitalGlobe than the terms and conditions (including any applicable “market flex” provisions) contained in the Commitment Letter, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain the waiver of) all conditions to funding in the Commitment Letter that are within its control and consummate the Financing at or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Closing in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Commitment Letter providesat or prior to the Closing, and will continue (iv) enforce its rights under the Commitment Letter in the event of a breach or other failure to provide, that fund the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation Financing required to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned Refinancing on the availability Closing Date by the lenders and other Persons providing Financing and (v) comply in all material respects with its covenants and other obligations under the Commitment Letter (or obtain the waiver thereof).
(c) Without limiting the generality of Debt the foregoing, DigitalGlobe shall give GeoEye reasonably prompt notice: (i) of any material breach or default by any party to the Commitment Letter or definitive document related to the Financing of which it becomes aware; (ii) of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Financing Source with respect to any breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to the Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing of any provisions of the Commitment Letter or any definitive document related to the Financing and (iii) if for any reason DigitalGlobe believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Financing required to consummate the Refinancing.
(d) Unless, and to the extent, DigitalGlobe has sufficient cash from other sources available to satisfy its obligations under this Agreement and for the Refinancing, in the event any portion of the Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated in the Commitment Letter, DigitalGlobe shall use its reasonable best efforts to, as promptly as practicable, arrange alternative debt financing from the same or alternative sources in an amount sufficient to consummate the Refinancing (the “Alternative Financing”) following the occurrence of such event; provided however, that DigitalGlobe shall not be required to obtain financing which includes terms and conditions materially less favorable (taking into account any “market flex” provision) to DigitalGlobe, in each case relative to those in the Financing being replaced. DigitalGlobe shall promptly notify GeoEye of the receipt of any written notice from any lender named in the Commitment Letter to withdraw, terminate or reduce the aggregate amount of Financing contemplated by, the Commitment Letter.
(e) On and prior to the Closing, GeoEye shall, and shall cause GeoEye Subsidiaries to, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their Representatives to reasonably cooperate with DigitalGlobe in connection with the arrangement of Financing, including (i) promptly providing the Financing Sources and their agents with all financial and other pertinent information regarding GeoEye and GeoEye Subsidiaries required to be delivered pursuant to the Commitment Letter or as may be reasonably requested by DigitalGlobe or the Financing Sources or their respective agents to prepare customary bank information memoranda and lender presentations in connection with such Financing; (ii) participating (including by making members of senior management with appropriate seniority and expertise available to participate) in a reasonable number of meetings, due diligence sessions, presentations, “road shows”, drafting sessions and sessions with the rating agencies in connection with the Financing; (iii) reasonably cooperating with the Financing Sources’ and its agents’ due diligence, to the extent not unreasonably interfering with the business of GeoEye; (iv) reasonably cooperating
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Financing. (a) Parent has delivered will use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to obtain the Debt Financing, including using reasonable best efforts to:
(i) maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter and not, without the prior written consent of the Company (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), permit any amendment or modification to be made to, consent to any waiver of any provision or remedy under, and replace the Debt Commitment Letter, if such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement (a “Restricted Commitment Modification”): (A) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount of the Debt Financing) to an amount less than the Required Amount (when taken together with the Equity Financing and cash, cash equivalents and other immediately available sources of cash funds held by or available to Parent, Acquisition Sub and the Company and its Subsidiaries ) or (B) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Company truereceipt of the Debt Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to materially (1) delay or prevent the Closing, correct (2) make the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Debt Financing) in an amount (when taken together with the Equity Financing and complete copiesother funding sources available) sufficient to fund the Merger Consideration at Closing less likely to occur or (3) adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto (provided that nothing in this Agreement shall require the Parent to pursue any enforcement action, including litigation, against any Financing Source) (provided, that (x) Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to (A) add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereofhereof or (B) increase the aggregate amount of the Financing; and (y) at the Company’s reasonable request, Parent will keep the Company reasonably apprised of the status and terms and conditions of any amendments, modifications, waivers or replacements, and will promptly furnish to the Company copies of any agreements or other documentation with respect to such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement);
(iii) each fully executed cause the Equity Financing to be consummated upon satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions contained in the Equity Commitment Letter that are within its control;
(iii) satisfy on a timely basis (or obtain a waiver of) all conditions to the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with and the Equity Commitment LettersFinancing that are within its control;
(iv) negotiate, execute and deliver the “definitive documentation for the Debt Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on that reflect the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, Debt Commitment Letter (including terms of the any “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationprovisions related thereto), subject to any amendments or modifications thereto that would not constitute a Restricted Commitment Modification; and
(v) in the fee letter entered into event that the conditions set forth in connection the Debt Commitment Letter and Section 6.1 have been satisfied or, by its terms upon funding would be satisfied, cause the Financing Sources to fund the full amount of the Debt Financing contemplated to be provided on the Closing Date at or prior to the Closing.
(b) Parent will promptly provide the Company with copies of all executed material amendments, modifications or replacements of any Debt Commitment Letter or executed material definitive agreements related to any of the Debt Financing at the reasonable request of the Company. Parent will give the Company prompt notice of the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to any actual or alleged breach or repudiation by any party to the Commitment Letters of which Parent or its Affiliates becomes aware. Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 5.10, if a Financing Failure Event occurs or at any time Parent in good faith believes that it will not be able to or it is not reasonably likely to be able to obtain all or any part of the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related such portion is necessary to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with fund the Merger Consideration at Closing and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (when taken together with the “Required Amount”Equity Financing and other funding sources available), assuming Parent will (i) promptly notify the satisfaction Company of such Financing Failure Event or circumstance and the conditions reasons therefor, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain (on terms not materially less favorable to Parent (as determined by Parent in good faith) as regarding conditionality and availability at Closing as those set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Debt Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to and the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Debt Fee Letter as of the date hereof) alternative financing from alternative debt financing sources (“Alternative Financing”), Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full in an amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereofsufficient, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of when taken together with the Equity Financing and other funding sources available, and the available to Parent on the terms therein. As portion of the date hereofDebt Financing, there are no side letters to pay the Merger Consideration at Closing and consummate the Transactions, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and when obtained, provide the Company with a copy of, any replacement debt financing commitment that provides for such Alternative Financing (with only the fee amounts, interest rates, original issue discount, economic and other “market flex” terms or other agreements, arrangements or understandings commercially sensitive information redacted (none of which redacted provisions would be reasonably expected to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability amount, conditionality, availability, timing or termination of the Equity Debt Financing on the Closing Date)); provided, other than further, that Parent shall not be required to, and in no event shall its reasonable best efforts be deemed or construed to require it to (x) obtain any Alternative Financing that includes terms and conditions that are, when taken together, materially less favorable to Parent or pay any fees or expenses that are in excess of those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and the Debt Fee Letter as expressly of the date hereof or agree to economic terms that are less favorable to Parent in any material respect, in each case, (including any “market flex” provisions set forth in the Equity Debt Fee Letter) than those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to as of the date hereof. Each hereof or (y) obtain equity commitments from another source than the Equity Financing, in each case, in order to obtain any Alternative Financing.
(c) Upon any such amendment, replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letters in accordance with this Section 5.10 (including the obtainment of Alternative Financing pursuant to Section 5.10(b)), all references herein to “Commitment Letter” or “Debt Commitment Letter”, as applicable, will include and mean such documents as so amended, replaced, supplemented or modified in accordance with this Section 5.10 and references to “Financing”, or “Debt Financing”, as applicable, will include and mean the financing contemplated by such Commitment Letter providesas so amended, and will continue to providereplaced, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingsupplemented or modified in accordance with this Section 5.10.
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Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, The Purchaser represents that as of the date hereofhereof it has, and on the Closing Date it will have, sufficient funds to deliver the Consideration to the Company. ARTICLE V COVENANTS Section 5.1 Conduct of Business by the Sellers Pending the Closing. Subject, after the date on which the Sellers file the Petitions, to any obligations as a debtor or debtor-in-possession under the Bankruptcy Code, or order of the Bankruptcy Court, the Sellers shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to conduct their businesses in the ordinary course consistent with past practice and taking into account the filing of the Petitions, including, without limitation meeting their post-Petition obligations as they become due, fulfilling their commitments to customers and not reducing their current pricing to customers. The Sellers shall also use all commercially reasonable efforts to preserve intact their business organizations and relationships with third parties and to keep available the services of their present officers and key employees, subject to the terms of this Agreement. Except as provided in the Seller Disclosure Letter or except as otherwise contemplated under this Agreement, from the date hereof until the Closing Date, without the prior written consent of the Purchaser: (a) Sellers shall not adopt or propose any change in their certificates of incorporation or bylaws, except a change that would not have any adverse affect on the Contemplated Transactions; (b) Sellers shall not declare, set aside, or pay any dividend or other distribution with respect to any shares of their capital stock, or split, combine, or reclassify any of their capital stock, or repurchase, redeem, or otherwise acquire any shares of their capital stock; (c) Sellers shall not merge or consolidate with any other person or (except in the ordinary course of business) acquire a material amount of assets of any other person; (d) Sellers shall not lease, license, or otherwise surrender, relinquish, encumber, or dispose of any Assets other than the disposition of obsolete or damaged Assets in the ordinary course of their business; (e) Sellers shall not change any method of accounting or accounting practice used by them, except for any change required by GAAP; (f) Sellers shall not establish or increase the benefits under, or promise to establish, modify or increase the benefits under, any bonus, insurance, severance, deferred compensation, pension, retirement, profit sharing, stock option (including without limitation, the granting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance awards, or restricted stock awards), stock purchase or other employee benefit plan or employment, consulting or severance agreement, or otherwise increase the compensation payable to any directors, officers or employees of the Sellers, except in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice, or establish, adopt or enter into any collective bargaining agreement; (g) Sellers shall not make or agree to make any capital expenditures or capital additions that exceed $25,000 per calendar month; (h) Sellers shall not in any material respect change their methods of collecting Trade Receivables, and shall not make or agree to make any settlement concerning a Trade Receivable in excess of $5,000 without consulting with Purchaser; (i) each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (Sellers shall not agree or commit to do any of the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) foregoing; and (iij) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent necessary to comply with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations, Sellers shall not (i) take, or agree or commit to take, any action that would make any representation or warranty of the Sellers hereunder inaccurate in any respect at, or as of any time prior to, the Closing Date, (ii) omit, or agree or commit to omit, to take any action necessary to prevent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded representation or warranty from being inaccurate in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub respect on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Date, or (the “Required Amount”)iii) take, assuming the satisfaction or agree or commit to take, any action that would result in, or is reasonably likely to result in, any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does Article VII not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingbeing satisfied.
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Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each fully executed of Parent and Purchaser shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Transaction Financing on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) described in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter at the Acceptance Time (taking into account the Marketing Period), and shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Debt Commitment Letter or the Equity Commitment Letter, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter (or satisfaction of the financing provided for therein being collectively referred conditions precedent to the Transaction Financing) on the Closing Date in any material respect or (y) extend or permit the extension of the Marketing Period or Minimum Notes Marketing Period (in each case as defined in the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and) (provided that, together with without the Equity consent of the Company, Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”Letter (A) to providefavorably modify pricing terms or add additional lenders, on the terms arrangers, bookrunners and subject only agents or (B) to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, including terms implement or exercise any of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions (including pricing terms) contained in the fee letter entered into executed in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted Commitment Letter). Parent shall promptly deliver to the extentCompany copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement. For purposes of this Section 8.11, references to “Transaction Financing” shall include the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 8.11(a) and references to “Debt Commitment Letter” and/or “Equity Commitment Letter” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 8.11(a). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Parent and Purchaser shall have the right to substitute other debt or equity financing for all or any portion of the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and/or the Equity Commitment Letter from the same and/or alternative Debt Financing Sources and/or Equity Financing Sources so long as such substitute financing would not materially and adversely impact the ability of Parent and Purchaser to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement on a timely basis.
(ii) Each of Parent and Purchaser shall use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter (except to the extent replaced in accordance with Section 8.11(a), (B) to enter into definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter consistent in all material respects with the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable (taken as a whole) to Parent and Purchaser than the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter), (C) to satisfy (or obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions precedent to funding in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto (taking into account the Marketing Period and other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of the Company’s failure to furnish information described in Section 8.11(b)) that are within Parent’s control so as to consummate the Transaction Financing at or prior to the Acceptance Time and (D) to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto. Parent shall keep the Company reasonably informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Transaction Financing and provide to the Company copies of the material definitive agreements for the Transaction Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Parent shall give the Company prompt notice (x) of any material breach or default by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letter or the Equity Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of which Parent becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of (I) any written notice or (II) other written communication, in each casecase from any Debt Financing Source or Equity Financing Source with respect to any actual or potential material breach, they are Permissible Redacted Termsdefault, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Debt Commitment Letter or the Equity Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of any provisions of the Debt Commitment Letter or the Equity Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing, and (z) if at any time for any reason Parent believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Transaction Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable after any notice by Parent to the Company of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence, but in any event within two Business Days of the date hereofthe Company delivers to Parent a written request, Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to provide any information reasonably requested by the Company relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (x), (y) or (z) of the immediately preceding sentence; provided that Parent need not provide any information the disclosure of which could result in the loss of attorney-client privilege or that is requested for purposes of litigation. If all or any portion of the Transaction Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, and such portion is reasonably required to pay the aggregate Offer Consideration and Merger Consideration, repay the Retired Debt and pay all fees, expenses and other amounts contemplated to be paid by Parent, Purchaser and the Surviving Corporation pursuant to this Agreement, Parent, Purchaser and the Surviving Corporation shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof alternative debt and/or equity Transaction Financing from alternative sources in an amount sufficient, when taken together with available cash of Parent and any then-available Transaction Financing pursuant to the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter, to consummate the Offer and the Merger, with such alternative Transaction Debt Financing or Transaction Equity Financing having terms and conditions not materially less favorable (taken as a whole) to Parent and Purchaser than the terms and conditions (taken as a whole) set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter, as promptly as reasonably practicable following the occurrence of such event. Parent shall deliver to the Company true and complete copies of all commitment letters and fee letters (as redacted in a customary manner to remove the fee amounts, pricing caps, the rates and amounts included in the “market flex” and certain other terms (none of which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawnconditionality, terminatedenforceability, repudiatedtermination or aggregate principal amount of the Transaction Financing)) pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Transaction Financing. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 8.11 or elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, rescinded, amended, amended in no event shall the “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and restated Purchaser be deemed or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedconstrued to require any such Person to, and no such withdrawalPerson shall be required to, terminationpay any financing fees in the aggregate in excess of those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter, repudiationor agree to conditionality or economic terms of the financing that are (other than as specified in the preceding sentence) materially less favorable than those contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letter and the Equity Commitment Letter or any related fee letter (including any “flex” provision therein).
(b) With respect to the Transaction Financing, rescissionprior to the Acceptance Time, amendmentthe Company shall, amendment and restatementshall cause its Subsidiaries to, modification and use reasonable best efforts to cause its and the Company’s Subsidiaries’ respective Representatives to provide to Parent such cooperation in connection with the Transaction Financing as may be reasonably requested by Parent, including:
(i) assisting in preparation for and participation, upon reasonable advance notice, in a reasonable number of meetings and calls (including customary one-on-one meetings with parties acting as lead arrangers, bookrunners or waiver has occurredagents for, andand prospective lenders of, the Transaction Financing), drafting sessions, rating agency presentations, road shows and due diligence sessions (including accounting due diligence sessions), in each case taking into account the affected personnel’s other professional obligations, and assisting Parent in obtaining ratings in respect of Parent and public ratings in respect of any debt issued as part of the Transaction Financing from Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc.;
(ii) assisting Parent and its potential financing sources in the preparation of (A) customary offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses and similar marketing documents for any of the Transaction Financing (including the provision of “backup” support), including the execution and delivery of customary representation or authorization letters in connection with bank information memoranda authorizing the distribution of information to prospective lenders and identifying any portion of such information that constitutes material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries or their respective securities (in each case in accordance with customary syndication practices) and containing a representation that the public-side version does not include material non-public information about the Company and its Subsidiaries or their securities and (B) customary materials for rating agency presentations for the Transaction Financing;
(iii) delivering to Parent the Required Financial Information;
(iv) delivering to Parent and their potential financing sources as promptly as reasonably practicable (x) such information as may be reasonably necessary for the Required Financial Information to remain Compliant and (y) such other pertinent financial and other customary information (including assistance with preparing projections, financial estimates, forecasts and other forward-looking information) to the extent related reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the preparation of the offering or information documents to any Person that is not an Affiliate be used for the Transaction Financing and identified in paragraphs 10 and 11 of Parent, Exhibit D to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, and assisting Parent in preparing pro forma (A) balance sheets and related notes as of the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Lettersmost recently completed interim period, and (B) income statements and related notes for the net proceeds contemplated by most recently completed fiscal year, for the most recently completed interim period and for the most recently completed twelve month period for the end of such most recently completed interim period, in each case prepared after giving effect to the transactions described in the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will Letter as if such transactions had occurred as of such date (in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub case of such balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of such statements of income) and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts any other pro forma financial information required to be paid by Regulation S-X in connection with the Merger Transaction Financing; provided that none of the Company, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or any of their Representatives shall be responsible in any manner for information relating to the proposed debt and equity capitalization that is required for such pro forma financial information;
(v) using commercially reasonable efforts to cause its independent registered public accounting firm for the Transaction Financing, to cooperate with Parent in connection with the Transaction Financing, including, but solely for the Transaction Financing, by (x) assisting with the due diligence activities of Parent and the other transactions contemplated hereby, Financing Sources and (y) providing customary “comfort letters” (including payment customary “negative assurances”) and to provide customary consents to the inclusion of audit reports in any relevant offering documents and marketing materials;
(vi) using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Transaction Financing benefits from the existing lending relationships of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationCompany and the Company’s Subsidiaries;
(vii) assisting to identify the steps for repayment on the Closing Date of the Credit Facility, Company Bonds and other Retired Debt of the Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries other than indebtedness which may be mutually agreed and cooperating with any back-stop, “roll-over” or termination of any existing letters of credit thereunder (and the release and discharge of all related Liens and security interests), by providing to make Parent at least three (3) Business Days prior to Closing customary pay-off letters (in substantially final form, taking into account any repaymentfinal interest calculations the lenders might need to conduct to finalize closer to the Closing);
(viii) subject to customary SunGard provisions with respect to limited conditionality and certain funds set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter, repurchase or refinancing of debt deliver possessory collateral contemplated thereby on the Closing Date;
(ix) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the expected Closing Date, provide all documentation and other information relating to the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries that the Financing Sources reasonably determine is required by applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations including the USA PATRIOT Act to the extent reasonably requested by Parent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the expected Closing Date; and
(x) reasonable participation by senior financial officers of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior in the negotiation of the definitive documentation for the Transaction Financing.
(c) The Company hereby consents to the Closing Date use of all of its and the Company’s Subsidiaries’ logos in connection with the consummation Transaction Financing; provided that such logos are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage the Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent Company or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment LettersCompany’s Subsidiary; and subject to the prior review by, and consent of, the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions Notwithstanding any other provision set forth herein or in Section 7.01 any other agreement between Parent and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent Company (or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereoftheir respective Affiliates), the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent Company agrees that Parent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided its Affiliates may share customary projections with respect to the Company on and its business, which are approved for distribution by the Company, with their potential financing sources and other prospective lenders in connection with any marketing efforts in connection with the Transaction Financing; provided that the recipients of such information agree to customary confidentiality arrangements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, none of the Company, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective directors or officers or other personnel shall be required by this Section 8.11 to take any action or provide any assistance that unreasonably interferes in any material respect with the ongoing operations of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries, or would cause a breach or violation of any Law, Contract or permit, or to execute or deliver any certificate, document, instrument or agreement that is effective prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.Closing
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Meredith Corp)
Financing. Parent has delivered to the Company true, correct and complete copies, as of the date hereof, of (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each fully executed Equity Commitment Letter (of Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Transaction Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with the Equity Commitment Letters, the “Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on the terms and subject only conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) described in the Commitment Letter at Closing (taking into account the Marketing Period), and shall not, without the prior written consent of Marigold (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), permit any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision under, the Commitment Letter, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (x) delay or prevent or make less likely the funding of the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter (or satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the conditions expressly stated thereinTransaction Financing) on the Closing Date in any material respect or (y) extend or permit the extension of the marketing period under the Commitment Letter (provided that, debt financing in without the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts consent of Marigold, Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 may amend the Commitment Letter (x) to favorably modify pricing termsterms or add additional lenders, including terms arrangers, bookrunners and agents or (y) to implement or exercise any of the “market flex” and other commercially sensitive information, provisions (including pricing terms) contained in the fee letter entered into executed in connection with the Debt Commitment Letter). Montage shall promptly deliver to Marigold copies of any such amendment, modification or replacement. For purposes of this Section 6.12, references to “Transaction Financing” shall include the Transaction Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter as permitted to be amended, may have been redacted modified or replaced by this Section 6.12(a) and references to “Commitment Letter” shall include such documents as permitted to be amended, modified or replaced by this Section 6.12(a).
(ii) Each of Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 shall use its reasonable best efforts (A) to maintain in effect the Commitment Letter, (B) to enter into definitive agreements with respect to the extentCommitment Letter consistent in all material respects with the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions and taking into account the Marketing Period) contained in the Commitment Letter (or on terms no less favorable (taken as a whole) to Montage, New Holdco or Merger Sub 2 than the terms and conditions (including flex provisions) in the Commitment Letter), and (C) to satisfy (or obtain the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions precedent to funding in the Commitment Letter and such definitive agreements thereto (taking into account the Marketing Period and other than any condition where the failure to be so satisfied is a direct result of Marigold’s failure to furnish information described in Section 6.12(b)) that are within Montage’s control and to consummate the Transaction Financing at the Closing.. Montage shall keep Marigold reasonably informed on a current basis and in reasonable detail of the status of its efforts to arrange the Transaction Financing and provide to Marigold copies of the material definitive agreements for the Transaction Financing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Montage shall give Marigold prompt notice (x) of any material breach or default by any party to any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of which Montage becomes aware, (y) of the receipt of (A) any written notice or (B) other written communication, in each casecase from any Financing Source with respect to any actual or potential material breach, they are Permissible Redacted Termsdefault, termination or repudiation by any party to any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing of any provisions of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing, and (z) if at any time for any reason Montage believes in good faith that it will not be able to obtain all or any portion of the Transaction Financing on the terms and conditions, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by any of the Commitment Letter or definitive agreements related to the Transaction Financing. As soon as reasonably practicable after any notice by Montage to Marigold of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence, but in any event within two Business Days of the date hereofMarigold delivers to Montage a written request, none Montage shall use reasonable best efforts to provide any information reasonably requested by Marigold relating to any circumstance referred to in clause (x), (y) or (z) of the immediately preceding sentence; provided, that they need not provide any information believed to be privileged or that is requested for purposes of litigation. If all or any portion of the Transaction Financing becomes unavailable for any reason, and such portion is reasonably required to pay the aggregate Cash Consideration, repay the Retired Debt and pay all fees, expenses and other amounts contemplated to be paid by Montage, New Holdco, Merger Sub 2 or the Montage Surviving Corporation pursuant to this Agreement, Montage, New Holdco and Merger Sub 2 shall use their reasonable best efforts to arrange and obtain in replacement thereof alternative debt Transaction Financing from alternative sources in an amount sufficient, when taken together with available cash of Montage and any then-available Transaction Financing pursuant to the Commitment Letters has been withdrawnLetter, terminatedto consummate the Mergers with terms and conditions not materially less favorable (taken as a whole) to Montage, repudiatedNew Holdco and Merger Sub 2 than the terms and conditions (taken as a whole) set forth in the Commitment Letter (“Available Transaction Financing”), rescindedas promptly as reasonably practicable following the occurrence of such event. Montage shall deliver to Marigold true and complete copies of all commitment letters and fee letters pursuant to which any such alternative source shall have committed to provide any portion of the Transaction Financing. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.12 or elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, amendedin no event shall the “reasonable best efforts” of Montage, amended and restated New Holdco or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedMerger Sub 2 be deemed or construed to require any such Person to, and no such withdrawalPerson shall be required to, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to pay any debt financing fees in the extent related to any Person that is not an Affiliate aggregate in excess of Parent, to those contemplated by the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, or agree to conditionality or economic terms of the debt financing that are (other than as applicable, specified in the net proceeds preceding sentence) materially less favorable than those contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) and, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth related fee letter (including any “flex” provision therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing).
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Media General Inc)
Financing. (a) Parent has delivered shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or advisable to arrange the Debt Financing, including using reasonable best efforts to:
(i) maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter and not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, not consent to any waiver of any provision or remedy under, and not replacing, the Debt Commitment Letter, if such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement: (A) reduces the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by changing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount of the Debt Financing) to an amount less than the amount necessary to consummate the Merger (unless the Equity Financing is increased by a corresponding amount) or (B) imposes new or additional conditions or otherwise expands, amends or modifies any of the conditions to the Company truereceipt of the Debt Financing in a manner that would reasonably be expected to (1) materially delay or prevent the Closing, correct and complete copies(2) make the funding of the Debt Financing (or satisfaction of the conditions to obtaining the Debt Financing) less likely to occur or (3) adversely impact the ability of Parent to enforce its rights against other parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the definitive agreements with respect thereto when required pursuant to this Agreement (provided, that (x) Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter to add lenders, lead arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or similar entities who had not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereof; (y) Parent may amend the Debt Commitment Letter in connection with an escrow arrangement to include conditions customary for escrow arrangements of this nature and (z) at the Company’s request, Parent shall keep the Company reasonably apprised of the status and terms and conditions of any amendments, modifications, waivers or replacements, and shall promptly furnish to the Company copies of any agreements or other documentation with respect to such amendment, modification, waiver or replacement);
(iii) each fully executed cause the Equity Financing to be consummated upon satisfaction of the conditions contained in the Equity Commitment Letter that are within its control;
(iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions to the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing Commitment Letter” and, together with and the Equity Commitment LettersFinancing that are within its control;
(iv) negotiate, the “execute and deliver Debt Financing Commitment Letters”) to provide, on Documents that reflect the terms and subject only to the conditions expressly stated therein, debt financing contained in the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts and pricing terms, Debt Commitment Letter (including terms of the any “market flex” and other commercially sensitive informationprovisions related thereto), in the fee letter entered into in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted to the extent, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As of the date hereof, none of the Financing Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waived, and no such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, and, to the extent related subject to any Person that is not an Affiliate of Parent, to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification amendments or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded in accordance with the Equity Commitment Letters and the Debt Financing is funded in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, as applicable, the net proceeds contemplated by the Equity Commitment Letters, and the net proceeds contemplated by the Debt Financing Commitment Letter, will in the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to pay the amounts required to be paid in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated modifications thereto permitted by this Agreement and any changes in terms that would not violate the standards set forth in Agreement;
(v) in the “Required Amount”), assuming the satisfaction of event that the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(a) Sections 6.1 and Section 7.02(b) on the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against Parent6.3 have been satisfied or, Merger Sub (to the extent Parent or Merger Sub is a party thereto) andupon funding would be satisfied, to the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, cause the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason Sources to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make fund the full amount of the Equity Debt Financing available at or prior to the Closing; and
(vi) enforce its rights under the Commitment Letters in the event of a Financing Failure Event.
(b) (i) Parent on shall consult with and keep the terms therein. As Company informed in reasonable detail of the date hereofstatus of its efforts to arrange the Financing and (ii) promptly provide the Company with copies of all executed material amendments, there are no side letters modifications or other agreementsreplacements of any Debt Commitment Letter or executed material definitive agreements related to any of the Financing at the reasonable request of the Company. Parent shall give the Company prompt notice of any breach or repudiation, arrangements or understandings any threatened breach or repudiation, by any party to the Commitment Letters of which Parent or any its affiliates becomes aware. Without limiting Parent’s other obligations under this Section 5.10, if a Financing Failure Event occurs, Parent shall (i) promptly notify the Company of such Financing Failure Event and the reasons therefor, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain (on terms not less favorable in the aggregate to Parent as those set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter) alternative financing from alternative debt financing sources, in an amount sufficient, when taken together with the Equity Investor is Financing, and the available portion of the Debt Financing, to pay the Merger Consideration and consummate the Transactions, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event, and (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and when obtained, provide the Company with a party copy of, a replacement debt financing commitment that provides for such alternative financing (with only the fee amounts, interest rates, original issue discount, and economic and other “market flex” terms redacted (none of which redacted provisions would be reasonably expected to adversely affect the amount or availability of the Equity Debt Financing on the Closing Date). Parent shall give the Company prompt notice (and in any event within 24 hours) of Parent’s receipt of a Notes Flex Notice.
(c) Upon any such amendment, other than replacement, supplement or modification of the Commitment Letters in accordance with this Section 5.10 all references herein to “Commitment Letter” or “Debt Commitment Letter”, as expressly set forth applicable, shall include and mean such documents as so amended, replaced, supplemented or modified in accordance with this Section 5.10 and references to “Financing”, or “Debt Financing”, as applicable, shall include and mean the Equity financing contemplated by such Commitment Letter provided to the Company on as so amended, replaced, supplemented or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to provide, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financingmodified in accordance with this Section 5.10.
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Financing. (a) Subject to Section 5.14(h), Parent and Merger Sub shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Debt Financing to be obtained on the terms and conditions (including the flex provisions) described in the Debt Commitment Letter, including using reasonable best efforts (i) to maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letter, (ii) to negotiate definitive agreements with respect to the Debt Financing (the “Definitive Documents”) on the terms and conditions (including any flex provisions) contained in the Debt Commitment Letter (or on terms, taken as a whole, no less favorable to Parent or Merger Sub than the terms and conditions (including any flex provisions) in the Debt Commitment Letter and that would not adversely affect (including with respect to timing, taking into account the expected timing of the Marketing Period) the ability of the Parent and Merger Sub to consummate the Transactions), (iii) to comply in all material respects with their respective obligations under the Debt Commitment Letter and the Definitive Documents, (iv) to satisfy (or, if reasonably required to obtain the Debt Financing, seek the waiver of) on a timely basis all conditions to funding in the Debt Commitment Letter and such Definitive Documents applicable to Parent that are with its control and (v) to enforce its rights under the Debt Commitment Letter, including through litigation pursued in good faith (provided that all of the conditions set forth in Section 6.1 and Section 6.2 (except those that, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the Closing, provided that such conditions would be so satisfied as of such date) have been satisfied or waived and the Marketing Period has delivered ended). Parent and Merger Sub shall furnish correct and complete copies of any such definitive documentation to the Company truepromptly upon execution thereof.
(b) Parent shall have the right from time to time to amend, correct replace, supplement or otherwise modify, or waive any of its rights under, the Debt Commitment Letter and complete copiesthe Definitive Documents with respect to the Debt Financing, including to add lenders, arrangers, bookrunners, agents, managers or similar entities that have not executed the Debt Commitment Letter as of the date hereofof this Agreement and amend titles, allocations and the fee arrangements with respect to the existing and additional lenders, arrangers, bookrunners, agents, managers or similar entities; provided that, subject to Section 5.14(h), no such amendment, replacement, supplement, modification or waiver shall (or would reasonably be expected to), without the prior written consent of the Company, (i) each fully executed Equity reduce (or have the effect of reducing) the aggregate amount of the Debt Financing (including by increasing the amount of fees to be paid or original issue discount in respect of the Debt Financing (except as set forth in any flex provisions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter (on the financing provided for therein being collectively referred to as the “Equity Financing”) and date hereof)), (ii) a fully executed commitment letter (together with all exhibits, schedules, and annexes thereto) and fee letter from add conditions to the financial institutions identified therein, the “Debt Financing or amend, replace, supplement or modify any conditions to the Debt Financing relative to the conditions in the Debt Commitment Letter” andLetter as in effect as of the date hereof in a manner that would reasonably be expected to prevent, together impede, impair or delay the availability of the Debt Financing or the consummation of the Transactions when required pursuant to Section 1.2, (iii) adversely affect the ability of Parent or Merger Sub to enforce or cause the enforcement of their respective rights under the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Documents with respect to the Equity Debt Financing relative to their respective ability to enforce or cause the enforcement of their rights under the Debt Commitment LettersLetter or the Definitive Documents as of the date hereof or (iv) prevent or materially impede, impair or delay the “availability of the Debt Financing or the consummation of the Transactions when required pursuant to Section 1.2.
(c) Parent shall give the Company prompt written notice if (i) Parent obtains Knowledge of any material breach or default (or any event or circumstance that, with or without notice or the lapse of time or both, would reasonably be expected to result in a material breach or default) by any party to the Debt Commitment Letters”Letter or the Definitive Documents, (ii) Parent or Merger Sub receives any written notice or other written communication (including email), in each case, from any Person providing the Debt Financing with respect to provideany (A) actual or threatened (or allegation of) breach, default, termination or repudiation of the Debt Commitment Letter or any Definitive Document, in each case, with respect to any material provision thereof, or (B) material dispute or disagreement between or among any parties to the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Documents, in each case, with respect to the Debt Financing and (iii) Parent or Merger Sub, for any reason, believes in good faith that all or any portion of the Debt Financing will not be available to the Company on the terms set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter or the Definitive Documents; provided that, notwithstanding any other provision hereof, in no event shall Parent be under any obligation to disclose any information that is subject to attorney-client privilege if Parent shall have used its reasonable best efforts to disclose such information in a way that would not waive such privilege. Subject to Section 5.14(h), if any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and subject only conditions (including the flex provisions) contemplated in the Debt Commitment Letter, Parent shall (x) promptly notify the Company of such unavailability and to the Knowledge of the Parent, the reason therefor and (y) use its reasonable best efforts to arrange and cause to be obtained, as promptly as practicable, in replacement thereof alternative financing from the same or alternative sources in an amount sufficient to fund the Required Amount (for the avoidance of doubt, after the payment of the Aggregate Consideration Amount in accordance with Article II and any Transaction Costs) and on terms and conditions expressly stated thereinnot materially less favorable (taken as a whole) to Parent (including with respect to conditionality and taking into account the flex provisions) than the terms and conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letter (including with respect to conditionality and taking into account the flex provisions) as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event and in any event no later than the last day of the Marketing Period. To the extent requested by the Company from time to time, Parent shall keep the Company informed on a reasonably current basis of the status of its efforts to arrange the Debt Financing and Parent shall provide to the Company copies of all material drafts and amendments of the Definitive Documents and all executed copies thereof. For purposes of this Agreement, references to “Debt Financing” shall include any alternate financing obtained in accordance with this Section 5.14, and “Debt Commitment Letter” and “Definitive Documents” shall include, respectively, such documents related to such alternative debt financing entered into in accordance with this Section 5.14.
(d) Prior to the amounts set forth therein; provided that fee amounts Closing, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to, and pricing termsshall cause each of its Subsidiaries to use their reasonable best efforts to, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their respective Representatives (including terms of the “market flex” legal and other commercially sensitive informationaccounting) to use their reasonable best efforts to, in the fee letter entered into each case at Parent’s sole expense, provide Parent and Merger Sub such cooperation reasonably requested by Parent in connection with the Debt Financing, may have been redacted including:
(i) assisting with the preparation of Offering Documents, including furnishing customary authorization letters in connection therewith (including with respect to the extentpresence or absence of material non-public information about the Company and its Subsidiaries and customary representations regarding the accuracy of the information provided by the Company contained therein);
(ii) preparing and furnishing to Parent and the Debt Financing Sources as promptly as practicable (A) the Required Information and (B) any other pertinent information and disclosures relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries that is reasonably requested by Parent and customarily provided to assist in preparation of the Offering Documents;
(iii) participating (and using reasonable best efforts to cause members of senior management of the Company to participate) in marketing efforts, including a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows, sessions with rating agencies, due diligence sessions and drafting sessions with the Debt Financing Sources and actual and prospective lenders and investors in the Debt Financing;
(iv) assisting in the preparation of, and executing and delivering, subject to the occurrence of the Effective Time, Definitive Documents, including guarantee and collateral documents and other certificates and documents as may be reasonably requested by Parent (including a certificate of the chief financial officer or other senior financial officer (reasonably acceptable to the Debt Financing Sources) of the Company with respect to solvency matters in the form set forth as an annex to the Debt Commitment Letter);
(v) using reasonable best efforts to assist the Debt Financing Sources in benefiting from the existing lending relationships of the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(vi) facilitating the pledging of collateral, subject to the occurrence of the Effective Time, (including reasonable cooperation in connection with the payoff of existing indebtedness and the release of related Liens and termination of related security interests and reasonable cooperation in connection with Parent’s efforts to obtain non-invasive Phase I environmental assessments and title insurance);
(vii) taking all corporate actions necessary, in each case, they are Permissible Redacted Terms. As subject to the occurrence of the date hereofEffective Time, none and reasonably requested by Parent to permit the consummation of the Debt Financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available on the Closing Date;
(viii) using reasonable best efforts to cause its independent accountants to provide assistance and cooperation to Parent, including participating in drafting sessions and accounting due diligence sessions, assisting in the preparation of any pro forma financial statements referred to in clause (xii) below and providing any necessary and customary “comfort letters”;
(ix) providing at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date all documentation and other information required by applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations including the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 to the extent requested at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date;
(x) using reasonable best efforts to satisfy the conditions precedent set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters has been withdrawn, terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, amended and restated or modified, no terms thereunder have been waivedLetter to the extent satisfaction thereof requires the cooperation, and no is within the control of the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Representatives;
(xi) periodically updating or supplementing any Required Information provided to Parent to the extent that any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver has occurred, andRequired Information, to the extent related to any Person that Knowledge of the Company, (i) is not an Affiliate Compliant and (ii) does not meet the applicable requirements set forth in the definition of Parent, “Required Information”;
(xii) using reasonable best efforts to the knowledge of Parent, there is no condition existing that would require any such withdrawal, termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, amendment and restatement, modification or waiver, except to the extent any such amendment is not prohibited under this Agreement. Assuming the Equity Financing is funded assist Parent in accordance connection with the Equity Commitment Letters preparation of pro forma financial information and financial statements to be included in any Offering Documents;
(xiii) cooperating with Parent to execute in advance of the Debt Financing is funded Closing Date (but, in each case, effective only at the Effective Time) confirmations and waivers in respect of Energy Marketing and Trading Transactions to permit and facilitate the Transactions and waive any default or termination event arising in connection with the Transactions (collectively, the “EMT Confirmations”); and
(xiv) using reasonable best efforts to cooperate with Parent and Parent’s efforts to obtain corporate and facilities ratings from rating agencies (in accordance with the Debt Financing Commitment Letter); provided, as applicablehowever, that (x) nothing herein shall require such cooperation to the net proceeds contemplated by extent it would interfere unreasonably with the Equity Commitment Lettersbusiness or operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries, and encumber any of the net proceeds contemplated by assets of the Debt Financing Commitment LetterCompany or any of its Subsidiaries prior to Closing, will in or require the aggregate, be sufficient for Parent, Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay the amounts required to be paid any commitment or other fee or make any other payment in connection with the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, to make any repayment, repurchase or refinancing of debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Agreement, to pay any other amounts required to be paid by Parent or Merger Sub on or Debt Financing prior to the Closing Date (unless promptly reimbursed by Parent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement), (y) no obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any agreement, certificate, document or instrument executed pursuant to the foregoing shall be effective until the Closing (provided, however, that the Company shall provide, prior to Closing to the extent reasonably requested by Parent, customary authorization letters with respect to any Offering Documents); and (z) none of the boards of directors (or equivalent bodies) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to enter into any resolutions or take similar action approving the Debt Financing prior to the Effective Time.
(e) In addition to the foregoing, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to use reasonable best efforts to, provide to Parent such cooperation reasonably requested by Parent that is necessary or advisable in connection with (i) the amendment of the Citi Credit Agreement to permit and facilitate the Transactions and waive any default arising in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement Transactions (the “Required AmountCiti Credit Agreement Amendment”) and (ii) such supplemental indentures, guarantees and any other documents as Parent may choose to pursue in order to avoid giving rise to any obligation of the Company to repay any of its outstanding unsecured debt securities set forth on Section 5.14(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule as a result of the Transactions (the “Enhancement Documents”); provided, assuming however, that (x) nothing herein shall require the satisfaction Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay any commitment or other fee or make any other payment in connection with the Citi Credit Agreement Amendment or the Enhancement Documents prior to the Closing Date (unless paid directly in full by Parent on behalf of the conditions set forth in Section 7.02(aCompany prior to the effectiveness thereof) and (y) no obligation of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under the Citi Credit Agreement Amendment or any Enhancement Document executed pursuant to this Section 7.02(b5.14(e) shall become effective until the Effective Time.
(f) Parent shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by any of them in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing (including any alternative financing), any Enhancement Document or the Citi Credit Agreement Amendment (including any action taken in accordance with Section 5.14(d) or Section 5.14(e) and any information utilized in connection therewith (other than any historical information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries provided in writing by or on behalf of the Closing Date. Each Financing Commitment Letter is enforceable against ParentCompany or its Subsidiaries)), Merger Sub (in each case other than to the extent any of the foregoing arises from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of, or material breach of this Agreement by, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective Representatives. Parent shall, promptly upon request by the Company, reimburse the Company for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs (including reasonable attorneys’ and accountants’ fees) incurred by the Company or Merger Sub is a party theretoits Subsidiaries in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing (including any alternative financing) and, to and the knowledge of Parent, such other Persons party thereto Citi Credit Agreement Amendment (including any action taken in accordance with its termsSection 5.14(d) or Section 5.14(e) and any information utilized in connection therewith; provided, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. As of the date hereof, the Financing Commitment Letters are in full force and effect and assuming the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, Parent has no reason to believe that any event has occurred which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would or would reasonably be expected to constitute a default or breach on the part of Parent or Merger Sub or, to the knowledge of Parent, any other parties thereto, under any of the Financing Commitment Letters. Assuming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 7.01 and Section 7.02 on the Closing Date, as of the date hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the full amount under the Financing Commitment Letters will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub on the Closing Date. As of the date hereof, the Equity Commitment Letter contains all of the conditions precedent and other conditions to the obligations of the parties thereunder to make the full amount of the Equity Financing available to Parent on the terms therein. As of the date hereof, there are no side letters or other agreements, arrangements or understandings to which Parent or any Equity Investor is a party that would adversely affect the availability of the Equity Financing on the Closing Date, other than as expressly set forth in the Equity Commitment Letter provided to the Company on or prior to the date hereof. Each Equity Commitment Letter provides, and will continue to providehowever, that the Company is a third party beneficiary thereof as set forth therein. Parent and Merger Sub acknowledge and agree that their obligation shall bear all such costs related to consummate the Merger and pay the Aggregate Merger Consideration is not conditioned on the availability of Debt Financing.its obligations with res
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