Negative Pledge Sample Clauses

Negative Pledge. In this Clause 20.3, “

Negative Pledge. No Obligor shall (and the Company shall procure that no member of the Bank Group shall), without the prior written consent of an Instructing Group, create or permit to subsist any Encumbrance over all or any of its present or future revenues or assets other than an Encumbrance: (a) which is an Existing Encumbrance set out in: (i) Part 1A of Schedule 10 (Existing Encumbrances) provided that such Encumbrance is released within 10 Business Days of the Merger Closing Date; or (ii) Part 1B of Schedule 10 (Existing Encumbrances) provided that the principal amount secured thereby may not be increased unless any Encumbrance in respect of such increased amount would be permitted under another paragraph of this Clause 25.2; (b) which arises by operation of Law or by a contract having a similar effect or under an escrow arrangement required by a trading counterparty of any member of the Bank Group and in each case arising or entered into the ordinary course of business of the relevant member of the Bank Group; (c) which is created pursuant to any of the Finance Documents (including, for the purposes of securing any Alternative Baseball Financing) and any Bridge Finance Documents; (d) arising from any Finance Leases, sale and leaseback arrangements or Vendor Financing Arrangements permitted to be incurred pursuant to Clause 25.4 (Financial Indebtedness); (e) which arises in respect of any right of set-off, netting arrangement, title transfer or title retention arrangements which: (i) arises in the ordinary course of trading and/or by operation of Law; (ii) is entered into by any member of the Bank Group in the normal course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances on bank accounts of members of the Bank Group operated on a net balance basis; (iii) arises in respect of netting or set off arrangements contained in any Hedging Agreement or other contract permitted under Clause 25.12 (Limitations on Hedging); (iv) is entered into by any member of the Bank Group on terms which are generally no worse than the counterparty’s standard or usual terms and entered into in the ordinary course of business of the relevant member of the Bank Group; or (v) which is a retention of title arrangement with respect to customer premises equipment in favour of a supplier (or its Affiliate); provided that the title is only retained to individual items of customer premises equipment in respect of which the purchase price has not been paid in full; (f) w...

Negative Pledge. Neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor will directly or indirectly enter into any agreement (other than this Agreement) with any Person that prohibits or restricts or limits the ability of the Borrower or Guarantors to create, incur, pledge or suffer to exist any Lien in favor of Lenders granted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement upon any real property assets of the Borrower or any Guarantor; provided, however, that those agreements creating Liens permitted under clause (vi) of the definition of “Permitted Liens” (solely to the extent any Lien restrictions thereunder relate solely to limiting the aggregate amount of secured debt on a per lot basis in a market and customary manner, provided that if the Book Value of all Qualified Real Property Inventory covered by any such agreement exceeds the aggregate amount of secured debt permitted under such agreement on all such property, then for purposes of calculating the Borrowing Base, the Book Value shall be deemed to be reduced to such aggregate permitted secured debt amount) Sections 6.15(iii), (iv), (vii), (viii), (xix) and (xxii), agreements governing any Rate Management Transactions, and agreements respecting secured obligations for borrowed money may prohibit, restrict or limit other Liens on those assets encumbered by the Liens created by such agreements, and provided further that the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions (a) imposed by the Loan Documents, (b) imposed by the Indenture, or by the agreements governing any other unsecured obligations for borrowed money permitted under this Agreement, so long as such restrictions (including Lien restrictions) set forth therein are not materially more restrictive than the comparable provisions of this Agreement and the maturity date of such unsecured obligations is on or after the latest Facility Termination Date, (c) contained in agreements relating to any disposition permitted hereby pending such disposition, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the assets subject to such disposition, (d) contained in leases or other agreements that are customary and restrict the assignment (or subletting) thereof and relate only to the assets subject thereto, (e) set forth in any Refinancing Indebtedness (so long as such restrictions set forth therein are not materially more restrictive than the comparable provisions of the Indebtedness being refinanced), or (f) that are customary net worth provisions contained in real property le...

Negative Pledge. So long as any Note remains outstanding, the Guarantor will not create or permit any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on any of the Guarantor’s assets to secure (i) any of the Guarantor’s Indebtedness or (ii) the Indebtedness of any other person, unless the Guarantor contemporaneously creates or permits such Lien to secure equally and ratably the Guarantor’s obligations under this Guaranty or the Guarantor provides such other security for the Notes as is duly approved by the Trustee, at the direction of the Noteholders, in accordance with the Indenture. In addition, the Guarantor will not allow any of the Guarantor’s Material Subsidiaries to create or permit any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on any of the Guarantor’s assets to secure (i) any of the Guarantor’s Indebtedness, (ii) any of the Indebtedness of the Guarantor’s Material Subsidiaries or (iii) the Indebtedness of any other person, unless it contemporaneously creates or permits the Lien to secure equally and ratably the Guarantor’s obligations under this Guaranty or the Guarantor or such Material Subsidiary provides such other security for the Notes as is duly approved by the Trustee, at the direction of the Noteholders, in accordance with the Indenture.

Negative Pledge. (a) No Obligor shall (and each Obligor shall ensure that none of its Subsidi- (b) No Obligor shall (and each Obligors shall ensure that no of its Subsidiar- ies will): (i) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms whereby they are or may be leased to or re-acquired by an Obli­gor or any other member of the Group; (ii) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on re­course terms other than to the German Borrower and where such transaction is not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement; (iii) enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts; or (iv) enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar ef­fect, in circumstances where the arrangement or transaction is entered into primarily as a method of raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset. (c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) above do not apply to: (i) any Security listed in Schedule 7 (Existing Security) (including any Security which has been Refinanced provided that the assets subject to such Security have not materially changed in any way) except to the extent the principal amount secured by that Security exceeds the amount stated in that Schedule; (ii) any netting or set-off arrangement entered into by any member of the Group in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances; (iii) any Security entered into in the ordinary course of business under customary general business conditions; (iv) any lien arising by operation of law or regulatory requirement and in the ordinary course of business and not as a result of a default howsoever described; (v) any Security arising by operation of law in favour of any gov- ernment, state or local authority in respect of Taxes which are ei­ther (a) not yet due and unpaid or (b) being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made; (vi) any Security over or affecting any asset acquired by a member of the Group after the date of this Agreement if: (1) the Security was not created in contemplation of the ac­quisition of that asset by a member of the Group; and (2) the principal amount secured has not been increased in contemplation of, or since the acquisition of that asset by a member of the Group; (vii) any Security over or affecting any asset of any company which becomes a member ...

Negative Pledge. You undertake neither to create nor to have outstanding any security interest whatsoever over, nor to agree to assign or transfer, any of the cash margin transferred to us, except a lien routinely imposed on all securities in a clearing system in which such securities may be held.

Negative Pledge. The Company will not itself, and will not permit any Manufacturing Subsidiary to, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any notes, bonds, debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed (notes, bonds, debentures or other similar evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed being herein called “Debt”), secured by pledge of, or mortgage or lien on, any Principal Domestic Manufacturing Property of the Company or any Manufacturing Subsidiary, or any shares of stock of or Debt of any Manufacturing Subsidiary (such mortgages, pledges and liens being hereinafter called “Pledge” or “Pledges”), without effectively providing that the Obligations (together with, if the Company shall so determine, any other Debt of the Company or of such Manufacturing Subsidiary then existing or thereafter created ranking equally with the Obligations) shall be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) such secured Debt, so long as such secured Debt shall be so secured, unless, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of all such secured Debt so secured plus all Attributable Debt of the Company and its Manufacturing Subsidiaries in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions would not exceed 5% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Automotive Assets; provided, however, that this Section 7.5 shall not apply to Debt secured by: (a) Pledges of property of, or on any shares of stock of or Debt of, any corporation existing at the time such corporation becomes a Manufacturing Subsidiary; (b) Pledges in favor of the Company or any Manufacturing Subsidiary; (c) Pledges in favor of any governmental body to secure progress, advance or other payments pursuant to any contract or provision of any statute; (d) Pledges of property, shares of stock or Debt existing at the time of acquisition thereof (including acquisition through merger or consolidation) or to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price thereof or to secure any Debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 60 days after, the acquisition of such property or shares or Debt for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof; and (e) any extension, renewal or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals or replacements), as a whole or in part, of any Pledge referred to in the foregoing clauses (a) to (d), inclusive; provided, however, that such extension, renewal or replacement Pledge shall be limited to all or a part of the same property, shares ...

Negative Pledge. Neither the Company nor the Borrower will, and the Company will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except: (a) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement securing Debt outstanding on the date of this Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $265,000,000; (b) any Lien existing on any asset of any corporation at the time such corporation becomes a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event; (c) any Lien on any asset securing Debt incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring such asset, provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 180 days after the acquisition thereof. (d) any Lien on any asset of any corporation existing at the time such corporation is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event; (e) any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition; (f) any Lien on assets or capital stock of Minor Subsidiaries which secures Debt of Persons which are not Consolidated Subsidiaries in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has made investments ("Joint Ventures"), but for the payment of which Debt no other recourse may be had to the Company or any Subsidiaries ("Limited Recourse Debt"), or any Lien on equity interests in a Joint Venture securing Limited Recourse Debt of such Joint Venture; (g) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, replacement, extension, renewal or refunding of any Debt secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this Section, provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets; (h) Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which (i) do not secure Debt, (ii) do not secure any obligation in an amount exceeding $50,000,000 and (iii) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business; and (i) Liens not otherwise permitted by and in addition to the foregoing clauses of this Section securing Debt in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $750,000,000.

Negative Pledge. The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any other Loan Party or Subsidiary to, (a) create, assume, incur, permit or suffer to exist any Lien on any Borrowing Base Property or any direct or indirect ownership interest of the Borrower in any Person owning any Borrowing Base Property, now owned or hereafter acquired, except for Permitted Liens, or (b) permit any Borrowing Base Property or any direct or indirect ownership interest of the Borrower or in any Person owning a Borrowing Base Property, to be subject to a Negative Pledge, except (i) pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) customary restrictions contained in the organizational documents of any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor as of the Effective Date, (iii) customary restrictions in connection with any Permitted Lien or any document or instrument governing any Permitted Lien (provided that any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject to such Permitted Lien), (iv) customary restrictions in leases, subleases, licenses and sublicenses or asset sale agreement otherwise permitted by this Agreement so long as such restrictions relate only to the assets subject thereto, (v) any restrictions pursuant to the Senior Notes Indenture so long as any such Negative Pledge or similar contractual covenant does not prohibit the granting of Liens securing the Guaranteed Obligations and (vi) customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business. Without in any way limiting the foregoing, the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any other Loan Party or Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur, permit or suffer to exist any Lien on any Property to secure any Senior Notes Indebtedness or other obligations under any Senior Notes Indenture entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary.