Internal Operations Sample Clauses

Internal Operations. The use of a Program by employees of Licensee or an Affiliate for the purpose of performing services on behalf of the Licensee or Affiliate, or in the performance of services for Third Parties who engage Licensee or an Affiliate for such services. As used herein, "employees" includes but is not limited to student interns and consultants of Licensee or its Affiliates performing work at the Licensee’s facilities. License.
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Internal Operations. Improve the effectiveness of the ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ experience, and marketing efforts. Conduct research and analysis, including focus groups and surveys. Perform other business activities as needed, or as described elsewhere in this policy. To prevent fraudulent usage, monitor against theft and otherwise protect our clients and our business. To assist law enforcement and respond to subpoenas. We maintain technical, administrative, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us.
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Internal Operations. Internal Operations” means the use of a Program by employees, consul- tants, student interns, and software administration contractors of Licensee or an Affiliate on behalf of the Licensee or Affiliate.
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Internal Operations. Working with the CEO to review discovery, development and commercial data and plans. • Acting as an external spokesperson for the Company, including participation in analyst calls, at investor conferences, at scientific and medical conferences, and other external work as agreed upon with the CEO and/or the accountable Xenon executive. IN CONSIDERATION OF the terms and conditions set out in the [DATE] letter from Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (hereinafter called “Xenon”) to me, [NAME], and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledge, I do hereby remise, release and forever discharge Xenon, its officers, directors, servants, employees and agents, and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, as the case may be (defined collectively as the “Releasees”), of and from any and all manner of actions, causes of action, suits, contracts, claims, damages, costs and expenses of any nature or kind whatsoever, whether in law or in equity, which as against Xenon or such persons as aforesaid or any of them, I have ever had, now have, or at any time hereafter I or my personal representatives can, shall or may have, by reason of or arising out of the termination of my employment with Xenon on or about [DATE], without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any and all claims for damages for termination of my employment, constructive termination of my employment, loss of position, loss of status, loss of future job opportunity, loss of opportunity to enhance my reputation, the timing of the termination and the manner in which it was effected, loss of bonuses, loss of shares and/or share options, loss of benefits, including life insurance and short and long-term disability benefit coverage, and any other type of damages arising from the above. IT IS UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED that this Release includes any and all claims arising under the Employment Standards Act, Human Rights Code, or other applicable legislation as it relates to the termination of my employment and that the consideration provided includes any amount that I may be entitled to under such legislation. IT IS FURTHER UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED THAT XENON will withhold and remit income tax and other statutory deductions from the aforesaid consideration and I agree to indemnify and hold harmless Xenon from any further assessments for income tax, repayment of any employment insurance benefits received by me, or other statutory deductions which may...
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  • Internal Audit (1) Within ninety (90) days, the Board shall adopt, implement, and thereafter ensure Bank adherence to an independent, internal audit program sufficient to: (a) detect irregularities in the Bank's operations; (b) determine the Bank's level of compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations; (c) evaluate the Bank's adherence to established policies and procedures, with particular emphasis directed to the Bank's adherence to its loan policies concerning underwriting standards and problem loan identification and classification; (d) ensure adequate audit coverage in all areas; and (e) establish an annual audit plan using a risk based approach sufficient to achieve these objectives. (2) As part of this audit program, the Board shall evaluate the audit reports of any party providing services to the Bank, and shall assess the impact on the Bank of any audit deficiencies cited in such reports. (3) The Board shall ensure that the Bank has processes, personnel, and control systems to ensure implementation of and adherence to the program developed pursuant to this Article. (4) The Board shall ensure that the audit function is supported by an adequately staffed department or outside firm, with respect to both the experience level and number of the individuals employed. (5) The Board shall ensure that the audit program is independent. The persons responsible for implementing the internal audit program described above shall report directly to the Board, that shall have the sole power to direct their activities. All reports prepared by the audit staff shall be filed directly with the Board and not through any intervening party. (6) All audit reports shall be in writing. The Board shall ensure that immediate actions are undertaken to remedy deficiencies cited in audit reports, and that auditors maintain a written record describing those actions. (7) The audit staff shall have access to any records necessary for the proper conduct of its activities. National bank examiners shall have access to all reports and work papers of the audit staff and any other parties working on its behalf. (8) Upon adoption, a copy of the internal audit program shall be promptly submitted to the Assistant Deputy Comptroller.

  • Interim Operations (a) The Company covenants and agrees as to itself and its Subsidiaries that, from and after the execution of this Agreement and prior to the Effective Time (unless Parent shall otherwise approve in writing, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, and except as (1) required by applicable Law, (2) expressly required by this Agreement or (3) otherwise expressly disclosed in Section 6.1(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter), the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to conduct its business and the business of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and each of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall, subject to compliance with the specific matters set forth below, use reasonable best efforts to preserve its business organization intact and maintain the existing relations and goodwill with Governmental Entities, customers, suppliers, distributors, licensors, creditors, lessors, employees and business associates and others having material business dealings with it and keep available the services of the Company and its Subsidiaries’ present employees and agents. Without limiting the generality of, and in furtherance of, the foregoing, the Company covenants and agrees as to itself and its Subsidiaries that, from and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the Effective Time, except (A) as required by applicable Law, (B) as Parent may approve in writing (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), (C) as expressly disclosed in Section 6.1(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter or (D) as expressly provided for in this Agreement, the Company shall not and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to: (i) (A) amend its articles of incorporation or code of regulations (or comparable governing documents) (other than immaterial amendments to the governing documents of any wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company that would not prevent, materially delay or materially impair the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement), (B) split, combine, subdivide or reclassify its outstanding shares of capital stock (except for any such transaction by a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company which remains a wholly owned Subsidiary after consummation of such transaction), (C) declare, set aside or pay any dividend or distribution payable in cash, stock or property (or any combination thereof) in respect of any shares of its capital stock (except for (1) any dividends or distributions paid by a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company to another direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company or to the Company or (2) other than normal quarterly cash dividends on the Company’s Shares as described in Section 6.1(a)(i)(C) of the Company Disclosure Letter), (D) enter into any agreement with respect to the voting of its capital stock or (E) purchase, repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock or any securities convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for any shares of its capital stock (other than (1) pursuant to the cashless exercise of Company Options or the forfeiture of, or withholding of Taxes with respect to, Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Units or Company Performance Stock Units in connection with any Taxable event related to such awards, in each case in accordance with past practice and with the terms of the applicable Company Stock Plan as in effect on the date of this Agreement (or as modified after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Agreement) or (2) purchases, repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of securities of any wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company by the Company or any other wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company); (ii) merge or consolidate with any other Person, or restructure, reorganize or completely or partially liquidate (other than mergers among, or the restructuring, reorganization or liquidation of any wholly owned Subsidiaries of the Company that would not (x) prevent, materially delay or materially impair the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (y) reasonably be expected to result in any significant Tax liability); (iii) except as expressly contemplated by the terms of this Agreement, as expressly disclosed in Section 6.1(a)(iii) of the Company Disclosure Letter or as required by applicable Law or by the terms of any Company Plan listed on Section 5.1(h)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter or any CBA, in either case as in effect on the date hereof (or as modified after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Agreement): (A) increase the compensation or benefits payable to any director or named executive officers as identified in the Company’s proxy statement for the 2017 annual meeting of stockholders (collectively, the “Senior Executives”) of the Company, increase the compensation or benefits payable to any employee or individual consultant of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or make any loans to, any director, officer, employee or individual consultant of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (B) grant any new equity-based awards, or amend or modify the terms or accelerate the vesting of any such outstanding awards (except for any acceleration of any Company Option, Company Performance Stock Unit and Company Restricted Stock Unit in connection with the cessation of any Person’s employment with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Senior Executive) to the extent that such acceleration is consistent with past practice), under any Company Plan; (C) amend any severance plan or agreement as in effect on the date hereof or waive or release any restrictive covenants thereunder; (D) make any change to any Company Pension Plan or any Company Plan that is an “employee welfare benefit plan” (within the meaning of Section 3(1) of ERISA) that would materially increase the costs to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of such Company Plan; (E) establish, adopt, or enter into any new arrangement that would be a Company Plan if in effect on the date hereof, other than individual separation and release agreements entered into in connection with ordinary-course terminations on terms consistent with the severance arrangements listed on Section 5.1(h)(i) of the Company Disclosure Schedule; (F) accelerate the payment of non-equity related compensation or benefits to any director, officer, employee, consultant or individual service provider, except as required (without discretion) pursuant to the terms of the Company Plans; (G) hire any new officer, employee, consultant or individual service provider (provided that the Company shall be permitted to (x) hire employees, consultants or other individual service providers with an aggregate annual base compensation and target incentive opportunity below $350,000 in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, or (y) engage individual or entity service providers with an aggregate annual base compensation and target incentive opportunity below $350,000 in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice to fill positions that are open as of the date hereof or that become open following the date hereof to the extent reasonably necessary as determined by the Company in its sole discretion to maintain the Company’s core business); or (H) terminate any employee or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at level B7 or higher other than for cause (as determined in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice); (iv) incur or guarantee any Indebtedness or issue any warrants or other rights to acquire any Indebtedness, except (A) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility as in effect as of the date hereof, (B) inter-company Indebtedness among the Company and its wholly owned Subsidiaries, (C) commercial paper issued in the ordinary course of business and (D) (i) to the extent not drawn upon and payments are not triggered thereby, letters of credit, bank guarantees, security or performance bonds or similar credit support instruments and (ii) overdraft facilities or cash management programs, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii), issued, made or entered into in the ordinary course of business; (v) make or commit to any capital expenditures other than (A) in connection with the repair or replacement of facilities, properties or assets destroyed or damaged due to casualty or accident or (B) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and which do not exceed during either the 2017 fiscal year or the 2018 fiscal year one hundred and five percent (105%) of the amounts reflected in the Company’s capital expenditure budget for 2017, a copy of which was previously provided to Parent; (vi) transfer, lease, license, sell, assign, let lapse, abandon, cancel, mortgage, pledge, place a Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) upon or otherwise dispose of any Intellectual Property; provided that this clause (vi) shall not restrict (A) any of the foregoing that occur in the ordinary course of business or, to the extent applicable, among the Company and its Subsidiaries, (B) the granting of any licenses of Intellectual Property in the ordinary course consistent with past practice or (C) transfers, leases, sales, assignments, lapses, abandonments, cancellations, mortgages, pledges, Liens, or other dispositions of Intellectual Property (other than licenses) with a fair market value less than $10,000,000 in the aggregate for all such actions; (vii) other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, transfer, lease, license, sell, assign, let lapse, abandon, cancel, mortgage, pledge, place a Lien upon or otherwise dispose of any properties or assets (including capital stock of any of its Subsidiaries but not including any Intellectual Property, which is governed by Section 6.1(a)(vi) with a fair market value in excess of $5,000,000 individually or $12,500,000 in the aggregate (other than transactions among the Company and its wholly owned Subsidiaries); (viii) issue, deliver, sell, grant, transfer, or encumber, or authorize the issuance, delivery, sale, grant, transfer or encumbrance of, any shares of its capital stock or any securities convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for, or any options, warrants or other rights to acquire, any such shares, except (A) for any Shares issued pursuant to Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Units and Company Performance Stock Units outstanding on the date of this Agreement in accordance with the existing terms of such awards and the Company Stock Plans, or (B) by wholly owned Subsidiaries to the Company or to any other wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company; (ix) spend or commit to spend in excess of $5,000,000 individually or $12,500,000 in the aggregate to acquire any business or businesses or to acquire assets or other property, whether by merger, consolidation, purchase of property or assets or otherwise (valuing any non-cash consideration at its fair market value as of the date of the agreement for such acquisition); provided that neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall make any acquisition that would, or would reasonably be likely to, prevent, delay or impair the Company’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, further that nothing in this Section 6.1(a)(ix) shall restrict the ability of the Company to invest additional funds in any existing asset of the Company to offset any dilution in the Company’s existing interest in such asset; (x) make any material change with respect to its financial accounting policies or procedures, except as required by changes in GAAP (or any interpretation thereof) or by applicable Law; (xi) except as required by applicable Law, (A) make, change or revoke any material Tax election or take any material position on any material Tax Return filed on or after the date of this Agreement, in each case that is inconsistent with elections made or positions taken in preparing or filing similar Tax Returns in prior periods, except in each case as a result of, or in response to, any change in U.S. federal Tax Laws or regulations or administrative guidance promulgated or issued thereunder, (B) change any Tax accounting period or any material method of Tax accounting, (C) amend any material Tax Return, (D) settle or resolve any material Tax liability or any Tax audit or controversy with respect to a material amount of Taxes, (E) surrender any right to claim a material refund of Taxes, (F) consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any material Tax claim or assessment relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than any extension pursuant to an extension of time to file any Tax Return or (G) enter into any closing agreement or similar agreement with any Tax authority in respect of Taxes; (xii) (A) enter into any new line of business other than any line of business that is reasonably ancillary to and a reasonably foreseeable extension of any line of business as of the date of this Agreement or (B) conduct a line of business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any geographic area where it has never previously conducted business prior to the date of this Agreement; (xiii) make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any Person (other than loans, advances or capital contributions to the Company or any direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company); (xiv) (A) amend or modify in any material respect or terminate (excluding terminations upon expiration of the term thereof in accordance with the terms thereof) any Material Contract or waive, release or assign any material rights, claims or benefits under any Material Contract, other than any amendment, modification, termination, waiver, release or assignment (x) as required by Law, (y) pursuant to “most favored nation” offers made prior to the date of this Agreement or (z) in the ordinary course of business; provided that in no event shall the Company or its Subsidiaries amend or modify a Contract in which the packaging or rate terms would materially impact meeting the Company’s business plan, (B) enter into any Contract that would have been a Material Contract had it been entered into prior to the date of this Agreement unless it is on terms substantially consistent with, or on terms more favorable to the Company and/or its Subsidiaries (and to Parent and its Subsidiaries following the Closing) than a contract it is replacing; provided that in no event shall the Company or its Subsidiaries enter into a Contract in which the packaging or rate terms would materially impact meeting the Company’s business plan or (C) without restricting any action that is permissible in accordance with clauses (A) or (B) hereof, make any concession, or offer to make any concession, under any Material Contract except for (x) annual “most favored nation” offers made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in connection with new issues arising after March 2017 or (y) mutual “clean slate” releases with distributors; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit or restrict the ability of the Company or its Subsidiaries to take any action described in this Section 6.1(a)(xiv) in the ordinary course of business with respect to Material Contracts between the Company and/or one or more of its wholly owned Subsidiaries; provided, further that for the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6.1(a)(xiv) shall not prohibit or restrict any Company Plans; (xv) settle any action, suit, case, litigation, claim, hearing, arbitration, investigation or other proceedings before or threatened to be brought before a Governmental Entity, or pay, discharge, settle or waive any material liability, other than settlements (A) if the amount of any such settlement is not in excess of $500,000 individually or $2,000,000 in the aggregate; provided that such settlements are solely for money damages (and confidentiality and other similar customary provisions that would not reasonably be expected to place any material restrictions on the

  • Internal Control Effective control and accountability must be maintained for all cash, real and personal property, and other assets. Grantee must adequately safeguard all such property and must provide assurance that it is used solely for authorized purposes. Grantee must also have systems in place that provide reasonable assurance that the information is accurate, allowable, and compliant with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 2 CFR 200.303.

  • INTERNAL MAIL The Association shall have access to the district mail service and school mail boxes, free of charge, for communication to bargaining unit members. Bulk material may have to be paid for by the Association.

  • System Operations Each party, at its own expense, shall provide and maintain the equipment, software, services and testing necessary to transmit Data Communications to, and receive Data Communications from the parties’ respective Receipt Computers.