Required Actions. (a) Subject to the terms hereof, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the Transactions as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions. (b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement. (c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality. (d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity. (e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law. (f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto. (g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition. (h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Ares Management LLC), Merger Agreement (Cincinnati Bell Inc), Merger Agreement (Cincinnati Bell Inc)
Required Actions. (a) Subject to the terms hereof, Purchaser and Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under any applicable Laws to consummate and make effective in the most expeditious manner possible the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Sale and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including (i) the preparation and filing of all forms, registrations and notices required to be filed to consummate the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Closing and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) taking all actions necessary to obtain (and cooperating with each other in obtaining) any consent, clearance, expiration or termination of a waiting period, authorization, Order or approval of, or any exemption by, any Governmental Entity (which actions shall include furnishing all information required under any Competition and Foreign Investment Laws or with respect to any other Required Approval) required to be obtained or made by Purchaser or Parent or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Sale and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and (iii) the execution and delivery of any additional instruments necessary to consummate the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Closing and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to assist fully carry out the purposes of this Agreement. Additionally, each of Parent and cooperate with the other party in doingPurchaser shall take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under any applicable Laws to consummate fulfill all conditions precedent to this Agreement and shall not take any action after the date of this Agreement that would reasonably be expected to delay the obtaining of, or result in not obtaining, any consent, clearance, expiration or termination of a waiting period, authorization, Order or approval of, or any exemption by, any Governmental Entity necessary to be obtained at or prior to the consummation of the Pre-Closing Restructuring or the Closing.
(b) Prior to the Closing, to the extent not prohibited by applicable Law, Purchaser shall keep Parent apprised of the status of matters relating to the completion of the Sale and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and work cooperatively with Parent in connection with obtaining all required consents, clearances, expirations or terminations of waiting periods, authorizations, Orders or approvals of, or any exemptions by, any Governmental Entity. To the extent not prohibited by applicable Law, Purchaser shall promptly inform Parent, and if in writing, furnish Parent with copies of (or, in the case of oral communications, advise Parent of) any communication from any Governmental Entity regarding the Sale or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and permit Parent to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the views of Parent in connection with, any proposed written or oral communication or submission with or to any such Governmental Entity. If Purchaser or any of its Affiliates or any of its or their Representatives receives a request for additional information or documentary material from any Governmental Entity with respect to the Sale or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, then Purchaser will make, or cause to be made, promptly and after consultation with Parent, an appropriate response in compliance with such request. Purchaser shall not participate in any meeting with any Governmental Entity in connection with this Agreement, the Sale or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or with any other Person in connection with any proceeding or Action by a private party relating to any Competition and Foreign Investment Laws or Required Approvals in connection with this Agreement, the Sale or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or make effective oral submissions at meetings or in telephone or other conversations, unless it consults with Parent in advance and, to the Transactions extent not prohibited by such Governmental Entity, gives Parent the opportunity to attend and participate thereat.
(c) To the extent not prohibited by applicable Law, each party shall furnish the other party with copies of all correspondence, filings, submissions and communications (and memoranda setting forth the substance thereof) between it and any Governmental Entity or other such Person with respect to this Agreement, the Sale or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and furnish the other party with such necessary information and reasonable assistance as promptly the other party may reasonably request in connection with its preparation of necessary filings or submissions of information to any such Governmental Entity or other such Person. Purchaser and Parent may, as practicableeach deems advisable and necessary, reasonably designate any competitively sensitive material provided to the other party under this Agreement as “outside counsel/corporate in-house antitrust counsel only.” Such designated materials and any materials provided by Purchaser to Parent or by Parent to Purchaser pursuant to this Section 5.3, and the information contained therein, shall be given only to the outside legal counsel and corporate in-house antitrust counsel of the recipient and shall not be disclosed by such outside counsel and corporate in-house antitrust counsel to employees (other than corporate in-house antitrust counsel), officers or directors of the recipient unless express permission is obtained in advance from the source of the materials (Purchaser or Parent, as the case may be) or its legal counsel; it being understood that materials provided pursuant to this Agreement may be redacted (i) to remove references concerning the valuation of the Business, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents required necessary to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates in connection comply with the authorization, execution contractual arrangements and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all address reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionsprivilege concerns.
(bd) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board Purchaser and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate file or cause to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the otherfiled, as promptly as practicable file all applications required and within fifteen (15) Business Days from the date of the Agreement (unless the parties otherwise agree, and which fifteen (15) Business Day period shall be automatically extended five (5) Business Days if the parties are working in good faith to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required make such filing but such filing has not been made by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with end of such fifteen (15) Business Day period) any filings and/or notifications under applicable Competition and Foreign Investment Laws. In the FCC Consents) (event that the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable parties receive a request for additional information or documentary materials after an initial notification pursuant to any requests of Competition and Foreign Investment Laws, the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating parties shall use their respective best efforts to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing comply with a Localitysuch requests, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicablepossible and produce documents, responses to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletionsinterrogatories, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these mattersother information on a rolling basis, and and, to the extent permitted not prohibited by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify Law, counsel for both parties will closely cooperate during the other party entirety of and enable the other party to participate in each any such communication, meeting, investigatory or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entityreview process.
(e) In connection with Purchaser and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filingsresolve such objections, if any, necessary for Closingas may be asserted by any Governmental Entity with respect to the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Sale and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state Laws that are designed or foreign Law designed intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for having the purpose or effect of monopolization, monopolization or lessening of competition through merger or acquisition or restraint of trade or regulation of and all non-U.S. applicable Laws with respect to foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Competition and Foreign Investment Laws”). In connection therewith, to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting if any Action is instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Sale or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement as violative of any LawCompetition and Foreign Investment Laws, Purchaser and Parent shall jointly (to the extent practicable) use their best efforts to initiate and/or participate in any proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, in order to (i) oppose or defend against any Action by any Governmental Entity to prevent or enjoin the consummation of the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Closing or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and/or (ii) attempting take such action as necessary to have repealedoverturn any regulatory Action by any Governmental Entity to block consummation of the Pre-Closing Restructuring, rescinded the Closing or made inapplicable the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including by defending any applicable Lawsuch Action brought by any Governmental Entity in order to avoid the entry of, and or to have vacated, liftedoverturned or terminated, reversed or overturned including by appeal if necessary, any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, Order that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions makes illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay prohibits the consummation of the Pre-Closing Restructuring, the Closing or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement resulting from any such Action.
(f) In furtherance of the Transactionsundertakings in Section 5.3(a), (iiib), (c), (d) and (e), Purchaser and Parent shall take all actions necessary to avoid or eliminate each and every impediment under any Competition and Foreign Investment Laws so as to enable the Pre-Closing Restructuring and the Closing to occur as promptly as practicable (and in any event no later than the Outside Date), including (i) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate orderOrder, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of any businesses, product lines, lines or assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company SubsidiaryTransferred Entities, (iv) conducting its Purchaser, and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company their respective Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (vii) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time Closing would limit Parent Purchaser’s, the Transferred Entities or any their respective Subsidiaries’ freedom of action with respect to, or its Affiliates’ or their ability to retain one or more of the retain, any businesses, product lineslines or assets of the Transferred Entities, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company SubsidiaryPurchaser, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”)their respective Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions provided that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of (i) no party will be required to take or enter into any other arrangements agree or commit to take any other Remedy Action with respect action that is not conditioned upon the Closing, and (ii) Parent shall not be obligated to their businesses, product lines, assets take or operations agree or commit to take any action that relates to the Retained Business or Carrier Assets. No actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 5.3(f) shall be considered for purposes of determining whether a Business Material Adverse Effect has occurred or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Conditionmay occur.
(hg) All Governmental Filing Fees Between the date of this Agreement and the Closing, the Seller and Parent shall cooperate fully with the Purchaser and its advisors in respect of, the process of notifying, negotiating and seeking agreement on funding with the trustees of each of the Chubb Pension Plan and Chubb Security Pension Fund, and no agreement with the trustees of either such schemes shall be borne equally between made without the prior written agreement of the Purchaser (such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld). The Seller and Parent shall provide to the Purchaser all relevant information and documentation reasonably requested for the Purchaser to perform any related calculations in connection with the matters set forth in this Section 5.3(g). The Seller and Parent shall procure that the Purchaser and its advisors are kept informed of, and consulted with in respect of, discussions with the trustees of either of the Chubb Pension Plan and Chubb Security Pension Fund and that the Purchaser and its advisors are given access to those trustees as soon as reasonably practicable in relation to the matters contemplated under this Agreement. The Purchaser will procure that Parent and its advisors are kept informed of, and consulted with in respect of, discussions with the Companytrustees of either of the Chubb Pension Plan and the Chubb Security Pension Fund in circumstances where Parent or its representatives are not in attendance.
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Sources: Stock Purchase Agreement (CARRIER GLOBAL Corp), Stock Purchase Agreement (APi Group Corp)
Required Actions. (a) Subject to Each of the terms hereof, Parent and the Company parties shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use its reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable necessary to consummate and make effective effective, as soon as reasonably possible, the Transactions as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any Merger and the other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made transactions contemplated by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates this Agreement in connection accordance with the authorizationterms hereof; provided, execution and delivery of however, that nothing in this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend Section 6.3 shall prohibit either party from taking any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered action expressly contemplated by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the TransactionsSection 5.5.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a6.3(a), subject to the Company terms and conditions of this Agreement, each party will use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, to file, or cause to be filed, all documents and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including preparing and filing as promptly as practicable all documentation to effect all necessary filings, consents, waivers, approvals, authorizations, permits or orders from all third parties and Governmental Entities, including those required to satisfy the conditions set forth in Section 7.1(d) and Section 7.1(f), so as to enable the Closing to occur as soon as reasonably practicable. To the extent necessary in order to accomplish the foregoing, Alleghany and Transatlantic shall jointly propose, negotiate, commit to and effect, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise, the holding separate, sale, divestiture or any other disposition of, or prohibition or limitation on, (A) the ownership or operation by Alleghany, Transatlantic or any of their respective Subsidiaries of any portion of the business, properties or assets of Alleghany, Transatlantic or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (B) the ability of Alleghany to acquire or hold, or exercise full right of ownership of, any shares of the capital stock of the Alleghany Subsidiaries or Transatlantic or the Transatlantic Subsidiaries, including the right to vote, or (C) Alleghany or any of its Subsidiaries effectively controlling the business or operations of Alleghany and the Company Board and Parent Alleghany Subsidiaries or Transatlantic and the Parent Board Transatlantic Subsidiaries; provided, however, that neither Transatlantic nor Alleghany shall be required pursuant to this Section 6.3(b) to propose, negotiate, commit to or effect any action that is not conditioned upon the consummation of the Merger. If the actions taken by Transatlantic and Alleghany pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence do not result in the conditions set forth in Section 7.1(d) and Section 7.1(f) being satisfied, then each of Transatlantic and Alleghany shall jointly (to the extent practicable) initiate and/or participate in any proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, in order to (i) take all oppose or defend against any action reasonably appropriate or proceeding by any Governmental Entity or other Person to ensure that no Takeover Law challenge, prevent or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement enjoin the consummation of the Merger or any of the Transactions other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) if take such action as is necessary to overturn any Takeover Law regulatory action or similar statute proceeding by any Governmental Entity or regulation becomes applicable other Person to this Agreement challenge or block, in whole or in part, consummation of the Merger or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including by defending any suit, action or other legal proceeding brought by any Governmental Entity or other Person in order to avoid the entry of, or to have vacated, overturned or terminated, including by appeal if necessary, any Injunction or other prohibition resulting from any suit, action or other legal proceeding that would cause any condition set forth in Section 7.1(d) or Section 7.1(f) not to be satisfied, provided that Transatlantic and Alleghany shall cooperate with one another in connection with, and shall jointly control, all proceedings related to the foregoing.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a)the generality of the foregoing, upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate Transatlantic and use their respective reasonable best efforts to Alleghany shall:
(i) obtain any FCC Consentsmake or cause to be made, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, other and as promptly as practicable file after the date of this Agreement (but in any event, with respect to clause (A) below, within fifteen (15) Business Days following the date of this Agreement), (A) an appropriate filing of a Notification and Report Form pursuant to the HSR Act relating to the Merger and (B) all applications other registrations, declarations, notices and filings relating to the Merger with any other Governmental Entities required or advisable under any other Antitrust Laws, including in those jurisdictions set forth in Section 7.1(d) of the Alleghany Disclosure Schedule and Section 7.1(d) of the Transatlantic Disclosure Schedule under the heading “Antitrust Approvals”;
(ii) use its reasonable best efforts to be filed furnish to the other all assistance, cooperation and information required for any such registration, declaration, notice or filing and in order to achieve the effects set forth in Section 6.3(b);
(iii) keep the other apprised of the status of its filings, registrations and submissions with any Governmental Entity and give the FCC other reasonable prior notice of any such filing, registration, notice or submission, and of any communication with any Governmental Entity regarding the Merger (including with respect to any submissions required by of the Team Telecom Agencies actions referred to in Section 6.3(b)), and permit the other to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the views of, and secure the participation of, the other in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”)with, any State Regulators such filing, registration, notice, submission or communication;
(the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iiiiv) respond as promptly as practicable under the circumstances to any requests inquiries received from any Governmental Entity or any other authority enforcing applicable Antitrust Laws for additional information or documentation;
(v) without limiting the generality of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom AgenciesSection 6.3(c)(iv), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates toA) use their its reasonable best efforts to consult achieve Substantial Compliance as promptly as practicable with any request for additional information or documentary material issued by a Governmental Entity under 15 U.S.C. § 18a(e) in conjunction with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (a “Second Request”), (B) certify Substantial Compliance with any Second Request as promptly as practicable after the date of such Second Request, (C) take all actions necessary to assert, defend and support its certification of Substantial Compliance with such Second Request and (D) not extend any waiting period under the HSR Act or enter into any agreement with such Governmental Entities or other before communicating authorities to delay, or otherwise not to consummate as soon as practicable, any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement except with the prior written consent of the other parties hereto, which consent may be withheld in the sole discretion of the non-requesting party; and
(vi) unless prohibited by applicable Law or by the applicable Governmental Entity, (A) to the extent reasonably practicable, not participate in or attend any meeting, or engage in any substantive conversation with any Governmental Entity in respect of the Merger (including with respect to any of the actions referred to in Section 6.3(c)) without the other, (B) to the extent reasonably practicable, give the other reasonable prior notice of any such meeting or conversation, (C) in the event one party is prohibited by applicable Law or by the applicable Governmental Entity from participating or attending any such meeting or engaging in any such conversation, keep such party reasonably apprised with a Governmental Entity relating respect thereto, (D) cooperate in the filing of any substantive memoranda, white papers, filings, correspondence or other written communications explaining or defending this Agreement and the Merger, articulating any regulatory or competitive argument, and/or responding to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, requests or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested objections made by any Governmental Entity, and (ivE) curefurnish the other party with copies of all correspondence, not later than filings and communications (and memoranda setting forth the Effective Timesubstance thereof) between it and its Affiliates and their respective Representatives on the one hand, and any material violations Governmental Entity or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules members of any State Regulator or LocalityGovernmental Entity’s staff, on the other hand, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject Transatlantic shall give prompt notice to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agreeAlleghany, and Alleghany shall cause each give prompt notice to Transatlantic, of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, any representation or warranty made by it contained in this Agreement that is qualified as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with materiality becoming untrue or inaccurate in any respect to the Transactions, or any such representation or warranty that is not so qualified becoming untrue or inaccurate in any material respect or (ii) filingthe failure by it to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any covenant, as promptly as practicable after responding condition or agreement to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (be complied with or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms satisfied by it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of under this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that no such notification shall affect the effectiveness representations, warranties, covenants or agreements of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closingparties or the conditions to the obligations of the parties under this Agreement; provided, provided further, that nothing a failure to comply with this Section 6.3(d) will not constitute the failure of any condition set forth in this Agreement shall permit Article VII to be satisfied, unless the Company underlying inaccuracy or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or breach would independently result in the aggregate, would failure of a condition set forth in Article VII to be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Conditionsatisfied.
(he) All Governmental Filing Fees Immediately following the execution and delivery of this Agreement by each of the parties hereto, Alleghany, as sole member of Merger Sub, will adopt this Agreement.
(f) Each of Transatlantic and Alleghany shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the shares of Alleghany Common Stock which constitute Merger Consideration to be borne equally between Parent and listed on the CompanyNYSE as of the Effective Time.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Transatlantic Holdings Inc), Merger Agreement (Alleghany Corp /De)
Required Actions. (a) Subject Seller and Purchaser will, and will cause their respective Affiliates to, cooperate with each other and use reasonable best efforts to (i) negotiate, prepare and file as promptly as practicable all necessary applications, notices, petitions, and filings and execute all agreements and documents, to the terms hereofextent required by Law or Order in connection with the execution, Parent delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (including the Required Regulatory Approvals) and (ii) obtain the consents, approvals, and authorizations of all Governmental Entities to the extent required by Law or Order in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Required Regulatory Approvals). Each Party will, and will cause its Affiliates to, consult and cooperate with the other Party as to the appropriate time of all such filings and notifications, furnish to the other Party such necessary information and reasonable assistance in connection with the preparation of such filings, and respond promptly to any requests for additional information made in connection therewith by any Governmental Entity. To the extent permitted under applicable Law, each of Seller and Purchaser will have the right to review in advance all characterizations of the information relating to it or to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement which appear in any filing made by the other Party or any of its Affiliates in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) Purchaser and Seller, acting reasonably and in good faith, will coordinate, and Seller shall cause the Company to coordinate, the preparation and making of any applications and filings (including the content, terms and conditions of such applications and filings) with any Governmental Entity, the resolution of any investigation or other inquiry of any Governmental Entity, the process for obtaining any consents, registrations, approvals, permits and authorizations of any Governmental Entity (including the Required Regulatory Approvals), and the making or discussing of any and all proposals relating to any regulatory commitments of Purchaser, Seller, their respective Affiliates or business, or with any Governmental Entity, its staff, intervenors or customers, in each case, in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. Purchaser and Seller, acting reasonably and in good faith, will coordinate, and Seller will cause the Company to coordinate, with respect to the scheduling and conduct of all meetings with Governmental Entities in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Required Regulatory Approvals); provided, however, to the fullest extent practicable and permitted by Law, in connection with any communications, meetings, or other contacts, oral or written, with any Governmental Entity in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, each of Seller and Purchaser shall (and will cause its Affiliates to): (i) inform the other Party in advance of any such communication, meeting, or other contact which such Party or any of its Affiliates proposes or intends to make, including the subject matter, contents, intended agenda, and other aspects of any of the foregoing; (ii) consult and cooperate with the other Party, and to take into account the comments of the other Party in connection with any of the matters covered by Section 5.5(a); (iii) permit representatives of the other Party to participate to the maximum extent possible in any such communications, meetings, or other contacts; (iv) notify the other Party of any oral communications with any Governmental Entity relating to any of the foregoing; and (v) provide the other Party with copies of all written communications with any Governmental Entity relating to any of the foregoing. Nothing in this Section 5.5(b) will apply to or restrict communications or other actions by a Party with or with respect to any Governmental Entity in connection with its business in the ordinary course of business.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, Purchaser and Seller shall not, and shall cause their respective Affiliates not to, take any action, including (i) acquiring any asset, property, business or Person (by way of merger, consolidation, share exchange, investment, or other business combination, asset, stock or equity purchase, or otherwise) from any Person (other than, in the case of Purchaser, from Seller or its Affiliates), (ii) making any filing or (iii) any other action, that, in each case, could reasonably be expected to adversely affect obtaining or making, or the timing of obtaining or making, any consent or approval contemplated by this Section 5.5. In furtherance of and without limiting any of Purchaser’s or Seller’s covenants and agreements under this Section 5.5, each of Purchaser and Seller shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, any and all appropriate actions, steps and doto make, or cause to be donemade, any and all undertakings necessary to assist avoid or eliminate each and cooperate every impediment asserted by any Governmental Entity in connection with obtaining the other party Required Regulatory Approvals, in doingeach case, all things necessary, proper or advisable so as to consummate and make effective enable the Transactions Closing to occur as promptly as practicable, including (iiA) as promptly as practicableagreeing to conditions imposed by, obtain from or taking any action required by, any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the TransactionsEntity, (iiiB) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or defending through litigation on the consummation of the Transactionsmerits, including seeking to have appeals, any stay or temporary restraining order entered Action asserted by any court or other proceeding by any Person, including any Governmental Entity Entity, that would seeks to or could prevent or materially prohibit or impede, interfere with, hinder with or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversedClosing, (ivC) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filingsavoiding or eliminating any Purchaser Burdensome Condition or Seller Burdensome Condition, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and proposing alternative conditions upon which the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to Required Regulatory Approvals would be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactionsprovided, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iiiD) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture divestiture, licensing or disposition of businesses(1) with respect to Purchaser, product lines, any assets or business of Purchaser or its Affiliates or of the Company, and (2) with respect to Seller, any Unregulated Non-Retail Business, in each case, including entering into customary ancillary agreements relating to any such sale, divestiture, licensing or disposition, and (E) agreeing to take any other action as may be required by a Governmental Entity in order to effect each of the following: (1) obtaining all Required Regulatory Approvals as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event before the Outside Date, (2) avoiding the entry of, or having vacated, lifted, dissolved, reversed or overturned, any Order, whether temporary, preliminary or permanent, that is in effect that prohibits, prevents or restricts consummation of, or impedes, interferes with or delays, the Closing and (3) effecting the expiration or termination of any waiting period, which would otherwise have the effect of preventing, prohibiting or restricting consummation of the Closing or impeding, interfering with or delaying the Closing. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the entry into any settlement with a Governmental Entity or intervenor, or the filing with any Governmental Entity or the publication of any document containing any commitments regarding a Required Regulatory Approval of any Party or their Affiliates, must be mutually agreed between Seller and Purchaser, provided that nothing in this sentence shall modify or diminish any of Seller’s or Purchaser’s obligations under this Section 5.5.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, neither Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates shall be required to, and neither Seller nor the Company nor any of their respective Affiliates shall, in connection with obtaining the Required Regulatory Approvals or setting such filings for hearing, settlement or other investigation, consent to, or take any action, in each case, that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or financial condition of Parent Purchaser and its Affiliates (including the Company), taken as a whole, after giving effect to the Sale; provided, that Purchaser and its Affiliates (including the Company) shall be deemed to be the same size as the Company for purposes of this Section 5.5(d) (any such action or requirement, a “Purchaser Burdensome Condition”); and provided further, any regulatory mitigation action taken by Purchaser in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Plants EIPA or any mitigation ordered relating directly to the transactions contemplated by the Plants EIPA shall not be taken into account in the determination of whether there has been a Purchaser Burdensome Condition. For the avoidance of doubt, none of the exclusions set forth in the definition of “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall be deemed to apply to any reference to “material adverse effect” in this Section 5.5(d).
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates shall be required to, and neither Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates shall, in connection with obtaining the Required Regulatory Approvals or setting such filings for hearing, settlement or other investigation, consent to, or take any action, in each case, that, (i) would require Seller or any of its Affiliates (other than the Company) to commit to or effect, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture, licensing or disposition of any assets or business, other than any assets or business of the Company Unregulated Non-Retail Business, (ii) individually or any Company Subsidiaryin the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or financial condition of Seller’s remaining electric businesses, other than the Unregulated Non-Retail Business, taken as a whole, after giving effect to the Sale; provided, that for the purposes of this clause (ii) such remaining electric businesses shall be deemed to be the same size as the Company; (iii) individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or financial condition of the Unregulated Non-Retail Business, taken as a whole; provided, that for the purposes of this clause (iii) the Unregulated Non-Retail Business shall be deemed to be the same size as the Company, or (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses individually or in the Company’s and aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses manner in a specified manner, which the remaining transmission or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any generation assets of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it Seller or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any actionare operated, including a change in control over such operations (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections action or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described requirement in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), (iv) and (v), the a “Remedy ActionsSeller Burdensome Condition”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; and provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit none of the Company obligations of Seller or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent any of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take set forth in or refrain from takingcontemplated by the Ancillary Agreements (in, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For for the avoidance of doubt (Adoubt, the forms attached to this Agreement), the matters set forth in Section 5.20 or the matters set forth in Section 5.20(a)(ii) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 of the Seller Disclosure Letter shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting taken into account in the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty determination of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute whether there has been a Seller Burdensome Condition.
(hf) All Governmental Filing Fees Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, neither Seller nor Purchaser shall be borne equally between Parent required to, and neither Seller nor Purchaser shall, in connection with obtaining the CompanyRequired Regulatory Approvals, consent to the taking of any action or the imposition of any terms, conditions, limitations or standards of service the effectiveness or consummation of which is not conditional upon the occurrence of the Closing.
(g) In furtherance, and not in limitation, of Sections 5.5(a), 5.5(b) and 5.5(c), but subject to the limitations set forth in Section 5.5(d) (with respect to Purchaser and its Affiliates) and Section 5.5(e) (with respect to Seller and its Affiliates), Seller and Purchaser will, and will cause their respective Affiliates to, cooperate with each other and use reasonable best efforts to cause the FERC to accept for filing pursuant to Section 205 of the Federal Power Act, 18 U.S.C. s. 824d (“Section 205”) the Final Ancillary Documents.
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Required Actions. (a) Subject to the terms hereof, Parent including Section 6.03(c), Stanley and the Company Black & Decker shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the Transactions transactions contemplated hereby as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, authorizations or orders required to be obtained or made by Parent Stanley or the Company Black & Decker or any of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactionstransactions contemplated hereby, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actionslegal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactionstransactions contemplated hereby, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Lawslaws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent Stanley and the Company Black & Decker shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith accepting all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent Stanley and the Company Black & Decker shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionstransactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company Black & Decker and the Company Black & Decker Board and Parent Stanley and the Parent Stanley Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions transaction contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) if any Takeover Law state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactionstransaction contemplated by this Agreement, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon Upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent Stanley and the Company Black & Decker agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective AffiliatesSubsidiaries, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, Closing under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, collectively “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions transactions contemplated by this Agreement raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions Merger or any other transactions contemplated by this Agreement under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law . The parties hereto will consult and the instructions of any Governmental Entitycooperate with one another, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) consider in good faith cooperatethe views of one another, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation analyses, appearances, presentations, memoranda, briefs, responses, arguments, opinions and proposals made or other inquiry or Action submitted by or before, on behalf of any party hereto in connection with proceedings under or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to any Antitrust Law. Notwithstanding the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement, neither Stanley and Black & Decker shall not be required to agree to Divestitures of any assets of Stanley or Black & Decker; provided, however, that notwithstanding the Company nor any Company Subsidiary provisions of Section 5.01, Stanley and Black & Decker shall sellagree to Divestitures, divestto the extent necessary, dispose of assets that individually or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action in the aggregate would not be material in relation to the Black & Decker Power Tools and Accessories segment (or, with respect to their businessesany Stanley assets proposed to be subject to Divestiture, product lines, comparably sized assets or operations of Stanley). No actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x6.03(c) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Companyconsidered for purposes of determining whether a Black & Decker Material Adverse Effect or Stanley Material Adverse Effect has occurred.
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Required Actions. (a) Subject Seller and Purchaser will, and will cause their respective Affiliates to, cooperate with each other and use reasonable best efforts to (i) negotiate, prepare and file as promptly as practicable all necessary applications, notices, petitions, and filings, and execute all agreements and documents, to the terms hereofextent required by Law or Order in connection with the execution, Parent delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (including the Required Regulatory Approvals) and (ii) obtain the consents, approvals, and authorizations of all Governmental Entities to the extent required by Law or Order in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Required Regulatory Approvals). Each Party will, and will cause its Affiliates to, consult and cooperate with the other Party as to the appropriate time of all such filings and notifications, furnish to the other Party such necessary information and reasonable assistance in connection with the preparation of such filings, and respond promptly to any requests for additional information made in connection therewith by any Governmental Entity. To the extent permitted under applicable Law, each of Seller and Purchaser will have the right to review in advance all characterizations of the information relating to it or to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement which appear in any filing made by the other Party or any of its Affiliates in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each of Seller and Purchaser will make an appropriate filing of a Notification and Report Form pursuant to the HSR Act with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby with the United States Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice as promptly as practicable and in any event by June 4, 2018.
(b) Purchaser and Seller, acting reasonably and in good faith, will coordinate, and Seller shall cause the Company to coordinate, the preparation and making of any applications and filings (including the content, terms and conditions of such applications and filings) with any Governmental Entity, the resolution of any investigation or other inquiry of any Governmental Entity, the process for obtaining any consents, registrations, approvals, permits and authorizations of any Governmental Entity (including the Required Regulatory Approvals), and the making or discussing of any and all proposals relating to any regulatory commitments of Purchaser, Seller, their respective Affiliates or business, or with any Governmental Entity, its staff, intervenors or customers, in each case, in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. Purchaser and Seller, acting reasonably and in good faith, will coordinate, and Seller will cause the Company to coordinate, with respect to the scheduling and conduct of all meetings with Governmental Entities in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Required Regulatory Approvals); provided, however, to the fullest extent practicable and permitted by Law, in connection with any communications, meetings or other contacts, oral or written, with any Governmental Entity in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, each of Seller and Purchaser shall (and will cause its Affiliates to): (i) inform the other Party in advance of any such communication, meeting, or other contact which such Party or any of its Affiliates proposes or intends to make, including the subject matter, contents, intended agenda and other aspects of any of the foregoing; (ii) consult and cooperate with the other Party, and to take into account the comments of the other Party in connection with any of the matters covered by Section 5.5(a); (iii) permit representatives of the other Party to participate to the maximum extent possible in any such communications, meetings, or other contacts; (iv) notify the other Party of any oral communications with any Governmental Entity relating to any of the foregoing; and (v) provide the other Party with copies of all written communications with any Governmental Entity relating to any of the foregoing. Nothing in this Section 5.5(b) will apply to or restrict communications or other actions by a Party with or with respect to any Governmental Entity in connection with its business in the ordinary course of business.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, Purchaser and Seller shall not, and shall cause their respective Affiliates not to, take any action, including (i) acquiring any asset, property, business or Person (by way of merger, consolidation, share exchange, investment or other business combination, asset, stock or equity purchase, or otherwise) from any Person (other than, in the case of Purchaser, from Seller or its Affiliates), (ii) making any filing or (iii) any other action, that, in each case, could reasonably be expected to adversely affect obtaining or making, or the timing of obtaining or making, any consent or approval contemplated by this Section 5.5. In furtherance of and without limiting any of Purchaser’s or Seller’s covenants and agreements under this Section 5.5, each of Purchaser and Seller shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, any and all appropriate actions, steps and doto make, or cause to be donemade, any and all undertakings necessary to assist avoid or eliminate each and cooperate every impediment asserted by any Governmental Entity in connection with obtaining the other party in doingRequired Regulatory Approvals, all things necessaryincluding avoiding or eliminating any Purchaser Burdensome Condition, proper or advisable so as to consummate and make effective enable the Transactions Closing to occur as promptly as practicable, including
(iiA) as promptly as practicableagreeing to conditions imposed by, obtain from or taking any action required by, any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the TransactionsEntity, (iiiB) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or defending through litigation on the consummation of the Transactionsmerits, including seeking to have appeals, any stay or temporary restraining order entered Action asserted by any court or other proceeding by any Person, including any Governmental Entity Entity, that would seeks to or could prevent or materially prohibit or impede, interfere with, hinder with or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversedClosing, (ivC) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filingsavoiding or eliminating any Purchaser Burdensome Condition, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and proposing alternative conditions upon which the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to Required Regulatory Approvals would be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactionsprovided, (iiD) in consultation and cooperation with the othercase of Purchaser, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture divestiture, licensing or disposition of businesses, product lines, any assets or operations business of Parent Purchaser or its Affiliates or of the Company, including entering into customary ancillary agreements relating to any such sale, divestiture, licensing or disposition, and (E) agreeing to take any other action as may be required by a Governmental Entity in order to effect each of the following: (1) obtaining all Required Regulatory Approvals as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event before the Outside Date, (2) avoiding the entry of, or having vacated, lifted, dissolved, reversed or overturned any Order, whether temporary, preliminary or permanent, that is in effect that prohibits, prevents or restricts consummation of, or impedes, interferes with or delays, the Closing and (3) effecting the expiration or termination of any waiting period, which would otherwise have the effect of preventing, prohibiting or restricting consummation of the Closing or impeding, interfering with or delaying the Closing. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the entry into any settlement with any Governmental Entity or intervenor, or the filing with any Governmental Entity or the publication of any document containing any commitments regarding a Required Regulatory Approval of any Party or their Affiliates must be approved by Purchaser and, to the extent involving a concession or commitment made by Seller or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or excluding the Company’s and ), Seller.
(d) Notwithstanding the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses foregoing or anything else in a specified mannerthis Agreement to the contrary, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or neither Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates or shall be required to, and neither Seller nor the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or nor any of its Subsidiaries their respective Affiliates shall, in connection with obtaining the Required Regulatory Approvals or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”)setting such filings for hearing, (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution settlement or other payment investigation, consent to Parent or take any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, action in each case, that would reasonably be expected to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions thathave, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent the business, assets, results of operations or financial condition of Purchaser and its Affiliates (including the Company) taken as a whole) or , after giving effect to the Company Sale; provided, that Purchaser and its Subsidiaries Affiliates (taken including the Company) shall be deemed to be the same size as a wholethe Business for purposes of this Section 5.5(d) (any such action or requirement, a “Purchaser Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 doubt, none of the exclusions set forth in the definition of “Business Material Adverse Effect” shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant deemed to this Section 6.03 shall affect apply to any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 reference to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary “material adverse effect” in this Section 6.03 5.5(d).
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) neither Seller nor Purchaser shall be required to, and neither Seller nor Purchaser shall, in connection with obtaining the Required Regulatory Approvals, consent to the taking of any other provision action or the imposition of this Agreementany terms, neither conditions, limitations or standards of service the Company nor effectiveness or consummation of which is not conditional upon the occurrence of the Closing and (ii) Seller shall not be required to, and Purchaser shall not, in connection with obtaining the Required Regulatory Approvals, consent to the imposition of any Company Subsidiary shall sellterms, divest, dispose of conditions or enter into any other arrangements limitations on or take any other Remedy Action with respect to Seller, any of its Affiliates or any of their respective businesses, product linesother than terms, assets conditions or operations pursuant limitations on or with respect to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action the Company (x) is conditioned in all respects upon excluding the consummation Elizabethtown Gas and Elkton Gas operating divisions of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after Company) or the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome ConditionBusiness.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Required Actions. (a) Subject Upon the terms and subject to the terms hereofconditions set forth in this Agreement, Parent and each of the Company parties shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates each of its Subsidiaries to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable necessary to consummate and make effective the Transactions effective, as promptly as practicable, the Merger and the other Transactions in accordance with the terms hereof.
(b) Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), each of CGI and NDX shall (i) take all action necessary to ensure that no Takeover Statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any Transaction and (ii) if any Takeover Statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any Transaction, take all action necessary to ensure that the Merger and the other Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicablepracticable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), each of CGI and NDX shall, and, to the extent any of CGI’s Affiliates are required to under applicable Laws, CGI shall cause such Affiliates to, (i) provide all necessary notices, reports, registrations, submissions of information, applications and other filings, and obtain from as promptly as practicable all consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, clearances and authorizations orders of, or non-actions by (collectively, “Consents”), any Governmental Entity or and any other third party any Consents Person that are required to be effected or obtained by CGI, Merger Sub or made by Parent or the Company NDX, or any of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries (if any), in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, and take all necessary actions to obtain any such Consents from any Governmental Entity that are required to be so effected or obtained, (ii) prosecute all such filings and Consents with all appropriate diligence, (iii) furnish all information required to be furnished in connection with the Consents of or filings with any Governmental Entity, and promptly cooperate with and furnish information in connection with any such requirements imposed upon either of them or any of their respective Subsidiaries (if any) in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions, (iv) execute and deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the Transactions and to fully carry out the purposes of this Agreement, (v) facilitate obtaining any final order, writ, judgment or decree approving the Transactions consistent with this Agreement, (vi) defend any lawsuits or other Actionslegal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversedreversed and (vii) take, (iv) as promptly as practicableor cause to be taken, make all necessary filingsactions, and thereafter make any other required submissionsdo, with respect or cause to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Actbe done, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, assist and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with in doing, all things necessary to avoid or eliminate each and every legal impediment asserted by any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating so as to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party parties hereto to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; consummate and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submittingmake effective, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on Merger and the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the other Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection accordance with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these mattersterms hereof, to consider in good faith all reasonable additionsincluding, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law reasonably practicable, proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting any terms, conditions, obligations, commitments or liabilities or the entry into any other arrangements, as are necessary or reasonably practicable shall notify advisable in order to obtain the other party Consents, avoid the entry of, and the commencement of and enable litigation seeking the other party to participate in each such communication, meetingentry of, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor to effect the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other dissolution of, any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment Injunction (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents would otherwise have the effect of materially delaying or prohibits preventing the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust LawMerger and the other Transactions.
(fd) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent CGI and NDX shall each advise the Company shall other promptly, but in any event within two Business Days, of (and shall cause promptly furnish the other with copies of) any notice or other communication received by such party or any of its Affiliates from any Governmental Entity regarding any of the Transactions, and of any understandings, undertakings or agreements (oral or written) such party proposes to make or enter into with any Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions, and each party shall generally keep the other apprised of the status of matters relating to completion of the Transactions. Subject to applicable Law, neither CGI nor NDX shall, and each shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries or Representatives to, participate in any substantive or material meeting, telephone conversation or other communication with any Governmental Entity in respect of any filings, investigation or other inquiry or proceeding with respect to the Transactions unless it consults with the other party in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, gives the other party the opportunity to attend and participate in such meeting, conversation or other communication. Each of CGI and NDX shall (i) cooperate in the filing of any substantive memoranda, white papers, filings, correspondence or other written communications explaining or defending this Agreement or any of the Transactions, articulating any regulatory or competitive argument or responding to requests or objections made by any Governmental Entity and (ii) subject to applicable Law, furnish the other party with copies of all filings, submissions, correspondence and communications (and memoranda setting forth the substance thereof) between it and their respective Affiliates toSubsidiaries (if any) and Representatives, on the one hand, and any Governmental Entity or members of any Governmental Entity’s staff, on the other hand, with respect to this Agreement and the Transactions.
(e) NDX shall consult with CGI and use commercially reasonable efforts to keep CGI apprised of material developments regarding the defense or settlement of any shareholder litigation against NDX or its directors relating to the Merger and the other Transactions, and no such settlement shall be agreed to by NDX (other than a settlement effected only in good faith cooperate, consult cash with no implications for CGI post-Closing and consider that complies with the other’s views in order to jointly develop provisions of Section 5.03(g)) without the prior written consent of CGI (but subject to Parent’s final approval (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Required Actions. (a) Subject Upon the terms and subject to the terms hereofconditions set forth in this Agreement, Parent and each of the Company parties shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates each of its Subsidiaries to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable necessary to consummate and make effective the Transactions effective, as promptly as practicable, the Merger and the other Transactions in accordance with the terms hereof.
(b) Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), each of Bioblast and Enlivex shall (i) take all action necessary to ensure that no Takeover Statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any Transaction and (ii) if any Takeover Statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any Transaction, take all action necessary to ensure that the Merger and the other Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicablepracticable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), each of Bioblast and Enlivex shall, and, to the extent any of Bioblast’s Affiliates are required to under applicable Laws, Bioblast shall cause such Affiliates to, (i) provide all necessary notices, reports, registrations, submissions of information, applications and other filings, and obtain from as promptly as practicable all consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, clearances and authorizations orders of, or non-actions by (collectively, “Consents”), any Governmental Entity or and any other third party any Consents Person that are required to be effected or obtained by Bioblast, Merger Sub or made by Parent or the Company Enlivex, or any of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries (if any), in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, and take all necessary actions to obtain any such Consents from any Governmental Entity that are required to be so effected or obtained, (ii) prosecute all such filings and Consents with all appropriate diligence, (iii) furnish all information required to be furnished in connection with the Consents of or filings with any Governmental Entity, and promptly cooperate with and furnish information in connection with any such requirements imposed upon either of them or any of their respective Subsidiaries (if any) in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions, (iv) execute and deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the Transactions and to fully carry out the purposes of this Agreement, (v) facilitate obtaining any final order, writ, judgment or decree approving the Transactions consistent with this Agreement, (vi) reasonably defend any lawsuits or other Actionslegal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversedreversed and (vii) take, (iv) as promptly as practicableor cause to be taken, make all necessary filingsactions, and thereafter make any other required submissionsdo, with respect or cause to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Actbe done, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, assist and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with in doing, all things necessary to avoid or eliminate each and every legal impediment asserted by any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating so as to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party parties hereto to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; consummate and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submittingmake effective, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on Merger and the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the other Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection accordance with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these mattersterms hereof, to consider in good faith all reasonable additionsincluding, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law reasonably practicable, proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting any terms, conditions, obligations, commitments or liabilities or the entry into any other arrangements, as are necessary or reasonably practicable shall notify advisable in order to obtain the other party Consents, avoid the entry of, and the commencement of and enable litigation seeking the other party to participate in each such communication, meetingentry of, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor to effect the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other dissolution of, any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment Injunction (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents would otherwise have the effect of materially delaying or prohibits preventing the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust LawMerger and the other Transactions.
(fd) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent Bioblast and Enlivex shall each advise the Company shall other promptly, but in any event within two Business Days, of (and shall cause promptly furnish the other with copies of) any notice or other communication received by such party or any of its Affiliates from any Governmental Entity regarding any of the Transactions, and of any understandings, undertakings or agreements (oral or written) such party proposes to make or enter into with any Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions, and each party shall generally keep the other apprised of the status of matters relating to completion of the Transactions. Subject to applicable Law, neither Bioblast nor Enlivex shall, and each shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries or Representatives to, participate in any substantive or material meeting, telephone conversation or other communication with any Governmental Entity in respect of any filings, investigation or other inquiry or proceeding with respect to the Transactions (including regarding the Tax Ruling and the IIA Notice), unless, to the extent reasonably practicable under the circumstances, it consults with the other party in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, gives the other party the opportunity to attend and participate in such meeting, conversation or other communication. Each of Bioblast and Enlivex shall (i) cooperate in the filing of any substantive memoranda, white papers, filings, correspondence or other written communications explaining or defending this Agreement or any of the Transactions, articulating any regulatory or competitive argument or responding to requests or objections made by any Governmental Entity and (ii) subject to applicable Law, furnish the other party with copies of all filings, submissions, correspondence and communications (and memoranda setting forth the substance thereof) between it and their respective Affiliates toSubsidiaries (if any) and Representatives, on the one hand, and any Governmental Entity or members of any Governmental Entity’s staff, on the other hand, with respect to this Agreement and the Transactions.
(e) Enlivex shall consult with Bioblast and use commercially reasonable efforts to keep Bioblast apprised of material developments regarding the defense or settlement of any shareholder litigation against Enlivex or its directors relating to the Merger and the other Transactions, and no such settlement shall be agreed to by Enlivex (other than a settlement effected only in good faith cooperate, consult cash with no implications for Bioblast post-Closing and consider that complies with the other’s views in order to jointly develop provisions of Section 5.03(f)) without the prior written consent of Bioblast (but subject to Parent’s final approval (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Required Actions. (a) Subject Upon the terms and subject to the terms hereofconditions set forth in this Agreement, Parent and each of the Company parties shall (and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable necessary to consummate and make effective the Transactions effective, as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any the Merger and the other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates Transactions in connection accordance with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionsterms hereof.
(b) In connection with and without Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), the Company each of Heinz and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board Kraft shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate necessary to ensure that no Takeover Law Statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions Transaction and (ii) if any Takeover Law Statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the TransactionsTransaction, take all action reasonably appropriate necessary to ensure that the Merger and the other Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), upon the terms each of Heinz and subject Kraft shall, and, to the terms extent any of Heinz’s Affiliates are required to under applicable Laws, Heinz shall cause such Affiliates to, (i) provide all necessary notices, reports, registrations, submissions of information, applications and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agreeother filings, and shall cause each obtain as promptly as practicable all consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, clearances and authorizations orders of, or nonactions by (collectively, “Consents”), any Governmental Entity and any other Person that are required to be effected or obtained by Heinz, Merger Sub I, Merger Sub II or Kraft, or any of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if anySubsidiaries, in connection therewith necessary for with the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file take all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts necessary actions to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any such Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions that are required to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing so effected or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Lawobtained, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, prosecute all such filings and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action Consents with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.appropriate diligence,
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Required Actions. (a) Subject to the terms hereof, Parent Purchaser and the Company Sellers shall file or cause to be filed the Required Regulatory Filings set forth in Section 8.1(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter within the timeframes set forth in Section 8.1(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter. Purchaser and the Sellers shall cooperate in good faith to jointly determine as promptly as practicable whether any amendments to Section 8.1(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter are necessary or advisable in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Agreements or the consummation of the Transactions and, upon such joint determination, amend Section 8.1(b) of the Seller Disclosure Letter accordingly.
(b) Purchaser shall, and shall cause cause, and the Sellers shall, and shall cause, their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, take or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party in doing, all things reasonably necessary, proper or advisable under any applicable Laws to consummate and make effective the Transactions Transactions, as promptly as practicable, including: (i) the preparation and filing of all forms, notifications, applications, registrations and notices required to be filed or made to consummate the Transactions; (ii) as promptly as practicabletaking all actions reasonably necessary to obtain (and cooperating with each other in obtaining) any consent, obtain from clearance, expiration or termination of a waiting period, authorization, Order or approval of, or any exemption by, any Governmental Entity (which actions shall include furnishing all information required under the HSR Act, any other Competition Laws or any Communications Laws and obtaining or making required filings under the HSR Act and any other third party any Consents Required Regulatory Filings) required to be obtained or made by Parent Purchaser or the Company Sellers or any of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries in connection with the authorization, Transactions; and (iii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments reasonably necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, Transactions and to fully carry out the purposes of, of this Agreement. Parent Purchaser and the Company shall (Sellers shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with , request expedited treatment or early termination of any such proceedings and promptly make any appropriate or necessary subsequent or supplemental filings or document or information submissions. Additionally, each other in connection with of the making of all such filingsSellers and Purchaser shall take, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant taken, all actions, and do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary, proper or advisable under any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take Laws to fulfill all action reasonably appropriate conditions precedent to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In Prior to the Closing, Purchaser and the Sellers shall each keep the other apprised of the status of matters relating to the completion of the Transactions and work cooperatively in connection with obtaining all required consents, clearances, expirations or terminations of waiting periods, authorizations, Orders or approvals of, or any exemptions by, any Governmental Entity, including by working cooperatively in connection with any sales, divestitures or dispositions of assets or business if and without limiting to the extent undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.03(a5.5. In that regard, prior to the Closing, subject to the Confidentiality Agreement and Section 5.4 (Confidentiality) and except as otherwise prohibited by applicable Law, each of Purchaser and the Sellers shall promptly consult with the other to provide any necessary information with respect to (and, in the case of material correspondence, provide the other (or its counsel) copies of) all filings made by such Party with any Governmental Entity or any other information supplied by such Party to, or material correspondence with, a Governmental Entity in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions. Subject to the Confidentiality Agreement and Section 5.4 (Confidentiality), upon each of Purchaser and the terms Sellers shall promptly inform the other Party, and subject if in writing, furnish the other Party with copies of (or, in the case of oral communications, advise the other Party orally of) any material communication from any Governmental Entity regarding the Transactions, and permit the other Party to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the views of the other Party in connection with, any proposed material written or oral communication with any such Governmental Entity. If either Purchaser or the Sellers or any of their respective Representatives receives a request for additional information or documentary material from any Governmental Entity with respect to the Transactions, then such recipient Party will make, or cause to be made, promptly after consultation with the other Party, an appropriate response in compliance with such request. To the extent practicable under the circumstances, neither the Sellers nor Purchaser shall participate in any substantive meeting with any Governmental Entity in connection with this Agreement or the Transactions (or make oral submissions at meetings or in telephone or other conversations) unless it consults with the other Party in advance and, to the extent not prohibited by such Governmental Entity or applicable Law, gives the other Party the opportunity to attend and participate thereat. Subject to the Confidentiality Agreement and Section 5.4 (Confidentiality), to the extent permitted by Law, each of Purchaser and the Sellers shall furnish the other Party with copies of all material correspondence and communications between it and any such Governmental Entity with respect to the Required Regulatory Filings, and furnish the other Party with such reasonably necessary information and reasonable assistance as it may reasonably request in connection with its preparation of necessary filings or submissions of information to any such Governmental Entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, Purchaser shall have the principal responsibility, after reasonable and practicable consultation with the Sellers, for material communications, strategy and timing with respect to obtaining the Required Regulatory Filings.
(d) Purchaser and the Seller Group shall file, as promptly as reasonably practicable, but in any event no later than twenty-five (25) Business Days after the date of this Agreement (unless mutually extended by Purchaser and the Sellers), notifications under the HSR Act; provided that any failure to make such filings within twenty-five (25) Business Days after the date of this Agreement shall not constitute a material breach of this Agreement so long as such filings are made as promptly as reasonably practicable thereafter, and Purchaser and the Sellers shall file, as promptly as practicable, any other filings or notifications under applicable Competition Laws. In the event that the Parties receive a request for (i) additional information or documentary materials after an initial notification pursuant to the HSR Act or any other Competition Laws (including any “second request” for additional information and documentary material under the HSR Act) or (ii) information from any Governmental Entity, the Parties shall respond to such requests, as applicable, as promptly as reasonably practicable, and counsel for the Parties will reasonably cooperate during the entirety of any such investigatory or review process. Purchaser shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, reasonably consult with the Sellers in respect of (1) any decision by Purchaser to “pull-and-refile,” pursuant to 16 C.F.R. § 803.12, any filing made under the HSR Act or (2) offering, negotiating or entering into any commitment or agreement, including any timing agreement, with any Governmental Entity to delay the consummation of, or not to close before a certain date, any of the Transactions.
(e) Subject to the terms and conditions of this AgreementAgreement including the limitations set forth in Section 5.5(f) below, Parent Purchaser and the Company agree, and Sellers shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filingsresolve such objections, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to may be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required asserted by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, Sale under the HSR Act, Competition the Sherman Act, and as amended, the Clayton Act, as amended, the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended, or any other Federal, United States federal or state or foreign Law or supranational Laws that are designed or intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for having the purpose or effect of monopolization, monopolization or lessening of competition through merger or acquisition or restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Competition Laws”), or any other United States federal or state or foreign or supranational Laws relating to respond regulation of the Business (together with the Competition Laws, the “Regulatory Laws”). In connection therewith, if any Proceeding is instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging the Transactions as violative of any requests Regulatory Laws, Purchaser and the Sellers shall, prior to the Closing or the termination of this Agreement, jointly (to the extent practicable) use their respective best efforts to initiate or participate in any proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, in order to: (i) oppose or defend against any action by any Governmental Entity to prevent or enjoin, and avoid and eliminate each and every impediment to, the consummation of the Transactions; or (ii) take such action as necessary to overturn any regulatory action by any Governmental Entity to block consummation of the Transactions, including by defending any Proceeding brought by any Governmental Entity in order to avoid the entry of, or to have vacated, overturned or terminated, including by appeal if necessary, any Legal Restraint resulting from any Proceeding.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Purchaser shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, promptly take, in order to consummate the Transactions as soon as possible (and in any event prior to the Outside Date), all actions necessary to (i) obtain, prior to the Closing Date, all Consents of, or other permission or action by, and to give all notices to and make all filings with and applications and submissions to, Governmental Entities or other Persons as are necessary for information under any Antitrust Lawconsummation of the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Agreements, to (ii) secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting periodperiod from a Governmental Entity, to (iii) defend all Proceedings challenging, and avoid or eliminate each and every impediment to, any of the Transaction Agreements or the consummation of any of the Transactions and (iv) resolve any objections asserted with respect to any of the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial actionEntity, and to prevent the entry of any court order Order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporaryOrder, decree, judgment, permanent or preliminary injunction, restraining order or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation other order of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject type referred to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)Section 8.1(c), in each case, including: (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii1) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate orderOrder, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of any businesses, product lines, lines or assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, Companies (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or after giving effect to the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including Restructuring Transactions); (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v2) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time Closing Date would limit Parent the Companies’ freedom of action with respect to, or its or their ability to retain, any businesses, product lines or assets of any of its Affiliatesthe Companies (after giving effect to the Restructuring Transactions), and in that regard Purchaser shall and, if requested by Purchaser, the Sellers shall cause the Companies to, agree to divest, sell, dispose of, hold separate, or otherwise take or commit to take any action that limits the Companies’ freedom of action with respect to, or the ability of any of the Companies to retain one or more retain, any of the businesses, product lines, lines or assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, Companies (after giving effect to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (iRestructuring Transactions), (ii), (iii), (iv) ; and (v)3) terminating, amending, assigning or creating any relationship, contractual right or obligation, venture or other arrangement of any of the Companies (each, a “Remedy ActionsApproval Condition”); provided, howeverthat, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement Agreement, including this Section 5.5, shall permit the Company require, or the Company Subsidiaries be construed to require, (without the prior written consent i) Purchaser or any of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from takingtaking any action (including any divestiture, holding separate any business or assets or other similar action) or to agree to any restriction or condition with respect to any assets, operations, business or the conduct of business of Purchaser or any of its Affiliates (other than the Companies (after giving effect to the Restructuring Transactions)) or (ii) Purchaser, the Companies or any of their respective Affiliates to take or refrain from takingtaking any action (including any divestiture, holding separate any business or assets or other similar action) or to agree to any restriction or condition with respect to any assets, operations, business or the conduct of business of the Companies (after giving effect to the Restructuring Transactions) or the Business, if, in the case of this clause (ii), any Remedy Action such action, restriction or Remedy Actions thatcondition would result in or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material and adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates the assets, liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Business, taken as a whole; provided that, it is understood and agreed that any such actions, restrictions or conditions that would result, individually or in the aggregate, in a loss in fair market value to the Business of more than $235,000,000 constitutes such a material and adverse effect.
(g) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no No actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 5.5 in connection with obtaining consents or approvals under applicable Competition Laws or any Regulatory Laws shall affect be considered for purposes of determining whether the conditions to Closing set forth in Section 8.2(a) or Section 8.2(c) have been satisfied. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Sellers shall not be obligated to take or agree or commit to take any representation action: (1) that relates to any business, operations, assets, liabilities, product lines or warranty Subsidiary of Lumen not to be transferred pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement (except that the Sellers shall (A) take such reasonable and customary actions as required by any State PUC pursuant to Communications Laws with respect to the continued ownership or operation of the Company under Retained Business and (B) agree to accept any reasonable and customary conditions ancillary to any Approval Condition); (2) that would amend in any material respect the terms of this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 other Transaction Agreement or Section 7.03 to that would otherwise adversely affect the obligation economic benefits of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to transactions or the contrary in terms of this Section 6.03 Agreement or any other provision Transaction Agreement accruing to any of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of Sellers or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x3) that is not expressly conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome ConditionClosing.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees Purchaser shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, and shall not consent in its capacity as a member of Gigapower, LLC for Gigapower, LLC to, agree to or consummate any acquisition of, merger with or into, consolidation with, or purchase of all or a portion of the assets of, or all or a portion of the equity in, any entity owning or having any rights in any Fiber Business in the Territory or an area immediately adjacent to the Territory, in each case, which would reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, prevent or delay the consummation of the Transactions beyond the Extended Outside Date. For the avoidance of doubt, except as set forth in this Section 5.5(h), nothing in this Section 5.5(h) shall be borne equally between Parent deemed to restrict the activities of Gigapower, LLC or the investment by an Affiliate of Purchaser in Gigapower, LLC.
(i) If an Approval Condition requires the divestiture of the assets, operations or business of the Companies or the Business, the Seller Group shall (i) reasonably cooperate with Purchaser, at Purchaser’s sole expense, to facilitate such divestiture, including by making documents, information and personnel reasonably available to potential purchasers in such divestiture, and (ii) consent to the Company.provision of rights and services to potential purchasers in such divestiture on the same terms and conditions as set forth in the applica
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Required Actions. (a) Subject to the terms hereof, Parent including Section 6.03(c), Stanley and the Company Black & Decker shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the Transactions transactions contemplated hereby as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, authorizations or orders required to be obtained or made by Parent Stanley or the Company Black & Decker or any of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactionstransactions contemplated hereby, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actionslegal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactionstransactions contemplated hereby, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Lawslaws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent Stanley and the Company Black & Decker shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith accepting all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent Stanley and the Company Black & Decker shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionstransactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company Black & Decker and the Company Black & Decker Board and Parent Stanley and the Parent Stanley Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions transaction contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) if any Takeover Law state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactionstransaction contemplated by this Agreement, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (Stanley Works)
Required Actions. (a) Subject to Each of the terms hereof, Parent and the Company parties shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use its reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable necessary to consummate and make effective effective, as soon as reasonably possible, the Transactions as promptly as practicableMerger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof, including: (i) Diffusion soliciting and obtaining the Required Diffusion Consent and (ii) as promptly as practicableParent filing with the SEC and mailing to Parent’s stockholders an information statement containing the information required by Section 14(f) of the Exchange Act and Rule 14f-1 promulgated thereunder (the “Schedule 14f-1”); provided, obtain however, that nothing in this Section 6.3 shall prohibit either party from taking any Governmental Entity action expressly contemplated by Section 5.5. Diffusion and Parent have each provided the other party (or will each provide the other party within five (5) Business Days after the date of this Agreement or, with respect to any reasonable request of the other third party any Consents after the date of this Agreement, within three (3) Business Days of such request) with the information relating to it or its directors and officers required under Section 14(f) of the Exchange Act and Rule 14f-1, in the case of Diffusion, or deemed necessary or advisable for inclusion in the materials to be obtained or made by Parent or provided to the Company or any holders of their respective Affiliates Diffusion Units in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation solicitation of the TransactionsRequired Diffusion Consent (the “Diffusion Information Statement”), (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or in the consummation case of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filingsParent, and thereafter make any will take all such other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and actions as may reasonably be requested by the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other party in connection with the making preparation and filing of all such filingsthe Schedule 14f-1, including providing copies in the case of all such documents to Diffusion, or the non-filing party preparation and its advisors prior to filing andmailing of the Diffusion Information Statement, if requestedin the case of Parent, considering including, in good faith all reasonable additionseach case, deletions correcting any information provided that later becomes false or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionsmisleading.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a6.3(a), subject to the Company terms and conditions of this Agreement, each party will use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, to file, or cause to be filed, all documents and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the Company Board transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including preparing and filing as promptly as practicable all documentation to effect all necessary filings, consents, waivers, approvals, authorizations, permits or orders from all third parties and Governmental Entities, including those required to satisfy the conditions set forth in Section 7.1(c), so as to enable the Closing to occur as soon as reasonably practicable. If the actions taken by Diffusion and Parent pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence do not result in the conditions set forth in Section 7.1(c) being satisfied, then each of Diffusion and Parent shall jointly (to the Parent Board shall extent practicable) initiate and/or participate in any proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, in order to (i) take all oppose or defend against any action reasonably appropriate or proceeding by any Governmental Entity or other Person to ensure that no Takeover Law challenge, prevent or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement enjoin the consummation of the Merger or any of the Transactions other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) if take such action as is necessary to overturn any Takeover Law regulatory action or similar statute proceeding by any Governmental Entity or regulation becomes applicable other Person to this Agreement challenge or block, in whole or in part, consummation of the Merger or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including by defending any suit, action or other legal proceeding brought by any Governmental Entity or other Person in order to avoid the entry of, or to have vacated, overturned or terminated, including by appeal if necessary, any Injunction or other prohibition resulting from any suit, action or other legal proceeding that would cause any condition set forth in Section 7.1(c) not to be satisfied, provided that Diffusion and Parent shall cooperate with one another in connection with, and shall jointly control, all proceedings related to the foregoing. Nothing in this Section 6.3 shall require Parent, Merger Sub or Diffusion or any of Parent’s other Subsidiaries to sell, hold separate, license or otherwise dispose of any assets or conduct their business in a specified manner, or agree or proffer to sell, hold separate, license or otherwise dispose of any assets or conduct their business in a specified manner, or permit or agree to the sale, holding separate, licensing or other disposition of, any assets of Parent, Merger Sub, Diffusion or any of Parent’s other Subsidiaries, whether as a condition to obtaining any approval from, or to avoid potential litigation or administrative action by, a Governmental Entity.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to generality of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to foregoing:
(i) obtain any FCC ConsentsParent and Diffusion shall make or cause to be made, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, other party hereto and as promptly as practicable file all applications required after the date of this Agreement (but in any event, with respect to be filed with clause (A) below, within fifteen (15) Business Days following the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”date of this Agreement), (A) if applicable, an appropriate filing of a Notification and Report Form pursuant to the HSR Act relating to the Merger and (B) all other necessary registrations, declarations, notices and filings relating to the Merger with any State Regulators other Governmental Entities under any other antitrust, competition, trade regulation or similar Laws
(ii) each of Parent and Diffusion shall use its reasonable best efforts to furnish to the “PSC Applications”) other all assistance, cooperation and information required for any Localities such registration, declaration, notice or filing and in order to obtain achieve the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, effects set forth in Section 6.3(b);
(iii) each of Parent and Diffusion shall keep the other apprised of the status of its filings, registrations and submissions with any Governmental Entity and give the other reasonable prior notice of any such registration, declaration, notice or filing and, to the extent reasonably practicable, of any communication with any Governmental Entity regarding the Merger (including with respect to any of the actions referred to in Section 6.3(b)), and permit the other to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the views of, and secure the participation of, the other in connection with, any such registration, declaration, notice, filing or communication;
(iv) each of Parent and Diffusion shall respond as promptly as practicable under the circumstances to any requests inquiries received from any Governmental Entity or any other authority enforcing applicable antitrust, competition, trade regulation or similar Laws for additional information or documentation in connection with antitrust, competition, trade regulation or similar matters; and
(v) unless prohibited by applicable Law or by the applicable Governmental Entity, (A) to the extent reasonably practicable, neither Parent nor Diffusion shall participate in or attend any meeting, or engage in any substantive conversation with any Governmental Entity in respect of the FCC Merger (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating with respect to any FCC Applicationof the actions referred to in Section 6.3(c)) without the other, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality(B) to the extent reasonably practicable, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company Diffusion shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with give the other before communicating with reasonable prior notice of any such meeting or conversation, (C) in the event one party is prohibited by applicable Law or by the applicable Governmental Entity from participating or attending any such meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these mattersor engaging in any such conversation, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable attending party shall notify keep the other party reasonably apprised with respect thereto, (D) each of Parent and enable Diffusion shall cooperate in the filing of any substantive memoranda, white papers, filings, correspondence or other party written communications explaining or defending this Agreement and the Merger, articulating any regulatory or competitive argument, and/or responding to participate in each such communication, meeting, requests or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested objections made by any Governmental Entity, and (ivE) cureeach of Parent and Diffusion shall furnish the other party with copies of all correspondence, not later than filings and communications (and memoranda setting forth the Effective Timesubstance thereof) between it and its Affiliates and their respective Representatives on the one hand, and any material violations Governmental Entity or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules members of any State Regulator or LocalityGovernmental Entity’s staff, on the other hand, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject Diffusion shall give prompt notice to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agreeParent, and Parent shall cause each give prompt notice to Diffusion, of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, any representation or warranty made by it contained in this Agreement that is qualified as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with materiality becoming untrue or inaccurate in any respect to the Transactions, or any such representation or warranty that is not so qualified becoming untrue or inaccurate in any material respect or (ii) filingthe failure by it to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any covenant, as promptly as practicable after responding condition or agreement to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (be complied with or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms satisfied by it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of under this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that no such notification shall affect the effectiveness representations, warranties, covenants or agreements of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closingparties or the conditions to the obligations of the parties under this Agreement; provided, further, that nothing a failure to comply with this Section 6.3(d) will not constitute the failure of any condition set forth in this Agreement shall permit Article VII to be satisfied, unless the Company underlying inaccuracy or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or breach would independently result in the aggregate, would failure of a condition set forth in Article VII to be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Conditionsatisfied.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Sources: Merger Agreement (RestorGenex Corp)
Required Actions. (a) Subject Upon the terms and subject to the terms hereofconditions and limitations set forth in this Agreement (including those set forth in Section 7.08(c)), Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each Party agrees to use its reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and to do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party Party in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable Laws to consummate and make effective the Transactions effective, as promptly as practicable, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including (i) the obtaining of all necessary actions or non-actions, waivers, consents and approvals from Governmental Authorities and the making of all necessary registrations and filings and the taking of all steps as may be necessary to obtain an approval or waiver from, or to avoid an action or proceeding by, any Governmental Authority, (ii) as promptly as practicablethe obtaining of all necessary consents, obtain from approvals or waivers of any Governmental Entity Authority, (iii) obtain all necessary third party consents, including the release of all security interests in the Transferred Assets and applicable UCC-3 termination statements, (iv) seeking from the Port Authority, for delivery at or prior to the Initial Closing Date, each of those items set forth on Schedule 7.08(a)(iv), (v) seeking from the Port Authority the preferred form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement (or the preferred form of any other third party any Consents required agreement or instrument that may include terms and conditions that are closing conditions pursuant to be obtained Section 8.02(e)(ii)) as chosen by the Party that is assuming the applicable Port Authority Document or made by Parent or has the Company or any benefit of their respective Affiliates in connection with the authorizationapplicable closing condition, and (vi) the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in the foregoing or this Agreement shall permit require the Company Parties to (w) seek amendment or waiver of any financing or bank agreement, (x) bring any action against its agent, lenders or bond holders, (y) pay any fees to such agent, lenders or bond holders in connection herewith (other than any payments that may be required by the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent current terms of Parentany financing or bank agreement with respect to a sale of assets required by Section 7.08(c)) or require Parent (z) except as expressly set forth in Section 7.08(c) sell, lease, hold separate or its Affiliates to take otherwise dispose of any Slots, facilities or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty other assets of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or Parties. Notwithstanding any other provision of this AgreementAgreement to the contrary, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary Parties agree that (A) each Party shall sell, divest, dispose (1) file the Notification and Report Forms required under the HSR Act with the Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision Justice no later than two (2) Business Days after the execution of this Agreement, unless (2) with respect to any “second request” for information issued by the United States Department of Justice pursuant to the HSR Act, certify such Remedy Action Party’s substantial compliance with such request no later than sixty (x60) is conditioned days after the date of such request, (3) execute and file with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals a voluntary dismissal in all respects upon the consummation pending matter captioned, “Delta Air Lines, Inc. and US Airways, Inc. vs. FAA and US Department of Transportation, Case No. 1153 pending with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals no later than two (2) Business Days after the execution of this Agreement, and (4) file with the FAA no later than (2) Business Days after the date of this Agreement a waiver request seeking the issuance of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time FAA/DOT Order (as defined herein), and (yB) does not constitute the respective obligations of a Burdensome ConditionParty pursuant to this Agreement to take the actions set forth in the foregoing clauses (1) through (4) shall be deemed satisfied if such Party takes such actions within the respective time periods set forth in clauses (1) through (4).
(hb) All Each of Delta and US Airways shall cooperate regarding, and keep the other reasonably apprised of the status of, matters relating to the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby and work cooperatively in connection (i) with obtaining all required approvals or consents of any Governmental Filing Fees Authority and (ii) all other communications with any Governmental Authority (which for purposes of this Section 7.08 includes staff of any such Governmental Authority and any elected or appointed member of a Governmental Authority) with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In that regard, unless and to the extent prohibited by Law, each Party shall be borne equally between Parent without limitation: (A) promptly notify the other of, and, if in writing, furnish the other with copies of (or, in the case of substantive oral communications, advise the other orally of), any communications from or with any Governmental Authority with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as they relate to the Transferred Assets, (B) permit the other to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the Company.views of the other in connection with, any proposed written (or any proposed oral) substantive communication with any such Governmental Authority with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (C) not participate in any meeting or oral substantive communication with any such Governmental Authority, with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, unless it (1) consults with the other in advance and (2) if requested by the other Party, includes such other Party in the applicable meeting or oral substantive communication,
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Sources: Mutual Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement (Us Airways Inc)
Required Actions. (a) Subject Upon the terms and subject to the terms hereofconditions set forth in this Agreement, Parent and each of the Company parties shall (and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable necessary to consummate and make effective the Transactions effective, as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any the Merger and the other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates Transactions in connection accordance with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actions, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionsterms hereof.
(b) In connection with and without Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), the Company each of Heinz and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board Kraft shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate necessary to ensure that no Takeover Law Statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions Transaction and (ii) if any Takeover Law Statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the TransactionsTransaction, take all action reasonably appropriate necessary to ensure that the Merger and the other Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) In connection with and without Without limiting the generality of Section 6.03(a), upon the terms each of Heinz and subject Kraft shall, and, to the terms extent any of ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Affiliates are required to under applicable Laws, Heinz shall cause such Affiliates to, (i) provide all necessary notices, reports, registrations, submissions of information, applications and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agreeother filings, and shall cause each obtain as promptly as practicable all consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, clearances and authorizations orders of, or nonactions by (collectively, “Consents”), any Governmental Entity and any other Person that are required to be effected or obtained by Heinz, Merger Sub I, Merger Sub II or Kraft, or any of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if anySubsidiaries, in connection therewith necessary for with the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file take all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts necessary actions to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any such Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions that are required to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing so effected or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents of any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Lawobtained, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, prosecute all such filings and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action Consents with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Condition.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.appropriate diligence,
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Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger
Required Actions. (a) Subject to Each of the terms hereof, Parent and the Company parties hereto shall (and shall cause use their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party parties hereto in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable Law to consummate and make effective effective, as soon as reasonably possible, the Transactions Transactions, including using reasonable best efforts in (i) the obtaining of all required Consents at least four Business Days prior to the Effective Time, and the making of all necessary registrations and filings (and in any event, by filing within 10 Business Days after the date of this Agreement the notifications, filings and other information required to be filed under the HSR Act with respect to the Transactions) and the taking of all steps as promptly as practicablemay be necessary to obtain a Consent from, or to avoid an action or proceeding by, any Governmental Authority; (ii) as promptly as practicablethe obtaining of all consents, obtain from approvals and waivers required by the terms of any Governmental Entity material Contracts with third parties or any other third party any Consents required to be obtained or made by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates material Permits in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, ; (iii) defend the contesting and defending of any lawsuits or other Actionslegal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, Authority vacated or reversed, ; and (iv) as the execution and delivery of any additional instruments necessary to consummate the Transactions.
(b) The parties hereto shall cooperate with one another regarding the strategy for obtaining any required Consent. Each of the parties shall (i) promptly as notify the other party of any substantive communication, inquiry or investigation received by that party from, or given by it to, any Governmental Authority and, subject to applicable Law, permit the other party to review in advance any proposed written communication to any such Governmental Authority and incorporate the other party’s reasonable comments to any such communication to a Governmental Authority; (ii) not agree to participate in any substantive meeting or discussion with any such Governmental Authority in respect of any filing, investigation or inquiry concerning this Agreement or the Transactions unless, to the extent reasonably practicable, make it consults with the other party in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Authority, gives the other party the opportunity to attend and participate therein; and (iv) promptly furnish the other party with drafts of all necessary filingssubstantive correspondence, filings and written communications between it and its Representatives, on the one hand, and thereafter make any such Governmental Authority or its staff, on the other required submissionshand, with respect to this Agreement and the Merger Transactions, in order for such other party to meaningfully consult and participate in such correspondence, filing or written communication; provided that the materials furnished pursuant to this Section 6.3(b) may be redacted as necessary to address reasonable attorney-client or other privilege, to remove references concerning valuation, as necessary to comply with contractual arrangements or as otherwise required under (A) by applicable Law. Notwithstanding anything to the Securities Act contrary herein, Parent shall, after consulting in good faith with the Company and taking into account any reasonable input from the Exchange ActCompany, determine the strategy to be pursued for obtaining, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Lawslead the effort to obtain, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, all required Consents in connection with this Agreement. Parent Agreement and the Company shall (and take all reasonable actions to support Parent in connection therewith; provided that none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other be required to incur any non-de minimis fees, costs or expenses in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for obtaining any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company and the Company Board and Parent and the Parent Board shall (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions and (ii) if any Takeover Law or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this AgreementConsent.
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions obtaining of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC required Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, “Antitrust Laws”), to respond to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law and the instructions of any Governmental Entity, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) in good faith cooperate, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry or Action by or before, or any negotiations with, a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents consents, approvals, permits, wait period expirations or authorizations of any Governmental Entity Authority required to consummate the Transactions (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws)Merger) prior to the Outside Date, including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to to, effecting and effectingagreeing to, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the any undertaking, divestiture, sale, divestiture license or disposition hold separate or similar arrangement or conduct of businessesbusiness arrangement or to terminate or modify any relationships, product linesrights or obligations or to do any other act, assets regardless of whether such act would or operations would reasonably be expected to result in (i) a prohibition or limitation on the ownership, operation or freedom of action by the Company, Parent or any of its Affiliates their respective Subsidiaries of or with respect to any portion of the Company business, properties or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or assets of the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”)their respective Subsidiaries, (xii) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividendCompany, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliatestheir respective Subsidiaries being compelled to dispose of or hold separate any portion of the business, properties or assets of the Company, Parent or any of their respective Subsidiaries, in each case as a result of the Merger, (yiii) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution any prohibition or other payment to any equity holder limitation on the ability of Parent and (z) committing to acquire or hold, or exercise full right of ownership of, any shares of the Company Capital Stock or the capital stock of the Company Subsidiaries, including the right to vote or (iv) any prohibition or limitation on Parent effectively controlling the business or operations of the Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic marketsand the Company Subsidiaries ((i)-(iv), the “Regulatory Actions”) and (v) otherwise taking opposing, fully and vigorously, (A) any Action that is initiated or committing threatened to take actions that after be initiated challenging this Agreement or the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more consummation of the businessestransactions contemplated hereby and (B) any request for, product linesthe entry of, assets and seek to have vacated or operations terminated, any Order that could restrain, prevent or delay the consummation of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiarytransactions contemplated hereby, including, in each case, by defending through litigation any action asserted by any Person in any court or before any Governmental Authority, and vigorously pursuing all available avenues of administrative and judicial relief or appeal; provided that (x) Parent shall not be required to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, accept or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Regulatory Action or Remedy Actions thatthat would result in, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on either (1) Parent and its Affiliates (the Parent Subsidiaries, taken as a wholewhole (2) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a wholewhole or (3) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement or any condition under Section 7.01 or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is conditioned in all respects upon the consummation anticipated benefits of the Merger and will not be effective for any purpose until after the Effective Time to Parent and (y) does not constitute a Burdensome Conditionnothing in this Section 6.3 shall require Parent, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries to take or agree to take Regulatory Action unless the effectiveness of such agreement or action is conditioned upon the Closing.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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Required Actions. (a) Subject to the terms hereofof this Agreement, Parent including Section 6.03(c), R&M and the Company T-3 each shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) each use reasonable best efforts (unless, with respect to any action, another standard of performance is expressly provided for herein) to to: (i) take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate actions, and do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other party in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable reasonable to consummate and make effective the Transactions transactions contemplated hereby as promptly as practicable, (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entity or any other third party any Consents consents, licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, authorizations or orders required to be obtained or made by Parent R&M or the Company T-3 or any of their respective Affiliates Subsidiaries in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactionstransactions contemplated hereby, (iii) defend any lawsuits or other Actionslegal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactionstransactions contemplated hereby, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order entered by any court or other Governmental Entity that would prevent or materially impede, interfere with, hinder or delay the consummation of the Transactions, vacated or reversed, (iv) as promptly as practicable, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement Agreement, the Merger and the Second Merger (if required pursuant to Section 1.05) required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and any other applicable Federal or state securities Laws, and (B) any other applicable Law and (v) execute or deliver any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. Parent R&M and the Company T-3 shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) cooperate with each other in connection with the making of all such filings, including providing copies of all such documents to the non-filing party and its advisors prior to filing and, if requested, considering in good faith accepting all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in connection therewith. Parent R&M and the Company T-3 shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their respective reasonable best efforts to furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the Transactionstransactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), the Company T-3 and the Company T-3 Board and Parent R&M and the Parent R&M Board shall shall: (i) take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that no Takeover Law state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation is or becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactions transaction contemplated by this Agreement, and (ii) if any Takeover Law state takeover statute or similar statute or regulation becomes applicable to this Agreement or any of the Transactionstransaction contemplated by this Agreement, take all action reasonably appropriate to ensure that the Transactions Merger, the Second Merger (if required pursuant to Section 1.05) and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement.. 44
(c) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon Upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent R&M and the Company agreeT-3 shall, and shall cause each of their respective AffiliatesSubsidiaries to, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain any FCC Consents, PSC Consents, and Local Consents and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, in connection therewith necessary for the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) in consultation and cooperation with the other, as promptly as practicable file all applications required to be filed with the FCC (including any submissions required by the Team Telecom Agencies in connection with the FCC Consents) (the “FCC Applications”), any State Regulators (the “PSC Applications”) and any Localities to obtain the FCC Consents, PSC Consents and Local Consents, respectively, (iii) respond as promptly as practicable to any requests of the FCC (including requests from the Team Telecom Agencies), any State Regulator, or any Locality for information relating to any FCC Application, PSC Application and/or filing with a Locality, as applicable; provided, that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any Governmental Entity or attending any meeting with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity, and (iv) cure, not later than the Effective Time, any material violations or defaults under any FCC Rules or rules of any State Regulator or Locality.
(d) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to use their respective reasonable best efforts to cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain the CFIUS Approval, including by (i) submitting, as promptly as practicable, to CFIUS a draft CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions, (ii) filing, as promptly as practicable after responding to any comments from CFIUS staff on the draft CFIUS Notice (or as soon as possible after CFIUS staff confirms it has no comments on the draft CFIUS Notice), a CFIUS Notice with respect to the Transactions and (iii) supplying, as promptly as practicable, any additional information and documentary material that may be requested in connection with the CFIUS review process; provided that each of Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) use their reasonable best efforts to consult with the other before communicating with any applicable Governmental Entity or attending any meetings with a Governmental Entity relating to these matters, to consider in good faith all reasonable additions, deletions, or changes suggested in connection with any submissions to any Governmental Entity relating to these matters, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law and reasonably practicable shall notify the other party of and enable the other party to participate in each such communication, meeting, or submission; and provided further that neither Parent nor the Company shall have an obligation to share with the other any confidential business information, including to the extent such information is requested by any Governmental Entity.
(e) In connection with and without limiting Section 6.03(a), upon the terms and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Parent and the Company agree, and shall cause each of their respective Affiliates, to cooperate and to use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain any Consents of any Governmental Entity, and to make any registrations, declarations, notices or filings, if any, necessary for Closing, Closing under the HSR Act, Competition Act, and any other Federal, state or foreign Law designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions for the purpose or effect of monopolization, restraint of trade or regulation of foreign investment (collectively, collectively “Antitrust Laws”), to respond promptly to any requests of any Governmental Entity for information under any Antitrust Law, to secure the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period, to resolve any objections asserted with respect to the Transactions transactions contemplated by this Agreement raised by any Governmental Entity and to contest and resist any action, including any legislative, administrative or judicial action, and to prevent the entry of any court order and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that restricts, prevents or prohibits the consummation of the Transactions Merger or any other transactions contemplated by this Agreement under any Antitrust Law.
(f) Subject to applicable Law . The parties hereto will consult and the instructions of any Governmental Entitycooperate with one another, Parent and the Company shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) consider in good faith cooperatethe views of one another, consult and consider the other’s views in order to jointly develop (but subject to Parent’s final approval (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)), (x) the strategy for obtaining any Consents from any Governmental Entity (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval and Consents under applicable Antitrust Laws) in connection with the Transactions and (y) the positions to be taken and the regulatory actions to be requested in any filing or submission with a Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and in connection with any investigation analyses, appearances, presentations, memoranda, briefs, responses, arguments, opinions and proposals made or other inquiry or Action submitted by or beforeon behalf of any party hereto in connection with proceedings under or relating to any Antitrust Law. Such cooperation shall include, or any negotiations withbut not be limited to, the parties: (i) providing, in the case of oral communications with a Governmental Entity relating to the Transactions and of all other regulatory matters incidental thereto.
(g) For the purposes of this Section 6.03Entity, “reasonable best efforts” of Parent and Merger Sub shall include taking any and all actions necessary to obtain the Consents advance notice of any Governmental Entity such communication and, whether or not initiated by a party, an opportunity for the other party to participate; (ii) providing, in the case of written communications, an opportunity for the other party to comment on any such communication (including the FCC Consents, PSC Consents, Local Consents, CFIUS Approval incorporation of such reasonable comments) and Consents under applicable Antitrust Lawsprovide the other with a final copy of all such communications (except for documents or information that reveal any party’s negotiating objectives or strategies), including (i) contesting and resisting any Action instituted (or threatened to which shall, where applicable, be instituted) challenging any of the Transactions as violative of any Law, (ii) attempting to have repealed, rescinded or made inapplicable any applicable Law, and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any Judgment or temporary, preliminary or permanent injunction or other restraint or prohibition, that is enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by provided under a Governmental Entity that would make any of the Transactions illegal or would otherwise prohibit or impair or delay the consummation of any of the Transactions, (iii) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, (iv) conducting its and its Affiliates’ businesses or the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ businesses joint defense agreement. Nothing in a specified manner, or proposing and agreeing or permitting to conduct any of such businesses in a specified manner, including by agreeing to undertakings required by a Governmental Entity that it or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary will take, or refrain from taking, any action, including (w) insulating the Company or any Company Subsidiary from any liability for any Indebtedness incurred by Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or the Company or any Company Subsidiary (often referred to as “ring fencing”), (x) restricting the Company or any Company Subsidiary from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to Parent or any of its Affiliates, (y) restricting Parent from paying a dividend, distribution or other payment to any equity holder of Parent and (z) committing the Company or any Company Subsidiary to invest specific dollar amounts in specific geographic markets, and (v) otherwise taking or committing to take actions that after the Effective Time would limit Parent or any of its Affiliates’ ability to retain one or more of the businesses, product lines, assets or operations of Parent or any of its Affiliates or the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, to the extent necessary to obtain any such clearance, resolve any such objections or avoid or eliminate any such impediments (the actions described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), the “Remedy Actions”); provided, however, that the effectiveness of any such Remedy Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing; provided, further, that nothing in this Agreement shall permit the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (without the prior written consent of Parent) or require Parent or its Affiliates to take or refrain from taking, or agree to take or refrain from taking, any Remedy Action or Remedy Actions that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Parent and its Affiliates (taken as a whole) or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) (a “Burdensome Condition”). For the avoidance of doubt (A) Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Section 6.03 shall be absolute and unconditional and, without limiting the foregoing, no actions taken pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall affect any representation or warranty of the Company under this Agreement require R&M or any condition under Section 7.01 R&M Subsidiary to make a Divestiture, other than any Divestiture or Section 7.03 to the obligation of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger and (B) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary shall sell, divest, dispose of or enter into any other arrangements or take any other Remedy Action with respect to their businesses, product lines, assets or operations pursuant to this Section 6.03 or any other provision of this Agreement, unless such Remedy Action (x) is Divestitures that may be conditioned in all respects upon the consummation of the Merger and will not be effective involve assets of R&M, T-3 or any of their respective Subsidiaries that accounted, in the aggregate, for any purpose until after less than $5,000,000 of consolidated revenues (to R&M or T-3 as the Effective Time and (ycase may be) does not constitute a Burdensome Conditionduring the four most recently completed fiscal quarters of R&M or T-3, as applicable, preceding the date of this Agreement.
(h) All Governmental Filing Fees shall be borne equally between Parent and the Company.
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