Excluded Transactions The Company shall not be obligated to effect any registration of Registrable Securities under this Section 2.1 incidental to the registration of any of its Securities in connection with:
(i) the IPO;
(ii) a registration statement filed to cover issuances under employee benefits plans or dividend reinvestment plans; or
(iii) any registration statement relating solely to the acquisition or merger after the date hereof by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of or with any other businesses.
Related Transactions 10 4.9 Insurance.............................................................................10 4.10
Consolidation, Merger, Purchase or Sale of Assets, etc The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve any of their affairs or enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets (or, with respect to any such transaction involving all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower, enter into an agreement to do any of the foregoing at any future time without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent unless the effectiveness of such agreement is conditional upon the consent of the Administrative Agent), or enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, except that:
(a) Restricted Payments may be made to the extent permitted by Section 8.4;
(b) Investments may be made to the extent permitted by Section 8.7;
(c) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may lease (as lessor) real or personal property in the ordinary course of business other than to a Receivables Subsidiary;
(d) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make sales or transfers of inventory, Cash, Cash Equivalents and Foreign Cash Equivalents in the ordinary course of business other than to a Receivables Subsidiary;
(e) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, Accounts Receivable arising in the ordinary course of business (x) which are overdue, or (y) which the Borrower or such Subsidiary may reasonably determine are difficult to collect but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with customary industry practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing of receivables);
(f) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may license its patents, trade secrets, know-how and other intellectual property relating to the manufacture of chemical products and by-products (the “Technology”) provided that such license shall be assignable to the Administrative Agent or any assignee of the Administrative Agent without the consent of the licensee and no such license shall (i) transfer ownership of such Technology to any other Person or (ii) require the Borrower to pay any fees for any such use (such licenses permitted by this Section 8.3(f), hereafter “Permitted Technology Licenses”);
(g) any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Receivables Subsidiary) may be merged or consolidated (x) with or into the Borrower so long as the Borrower is the surviving entity, (y) with or into any one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary, Airstar Corporation, Huntsman Headquarters Corporation or IRIC); provided, however, that a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary or Subsidiaries shall be the surviving entity or (z) with or into any Person in connection with the consummation of an Acquisition; provided, however, that after giving effect to such merger or consolidation the surviving Subsidiary shall be a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary;
(h) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any asset in connection with any Sale and Leaseback Transaction involving Indebtedness, Capitalized Lease Obligations or an Operating Financing Lease otherwise permitted hereunder;
(i) in any Fiscal Year, the Borrower or any Subsidiary may dispose of any of its assets (including in connection with Sale and Leaseback Transactions not involving Indebtedness, Capitalized Lease Obligations or an Operating Financing Lease) if the aggregate net book value (at the time of disposition thereof) of all assets disposed of by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in such Fiscal Year pursuant to this clause (i) plus the aggregate net book value of all the assets then proposed to be disposed of does not exceed 12.5% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter for which the Borrower has delivered financial statements as required by Section 7.1; provided, however, that if (A) concurrently with any disposition of assets or within 360 days of receipt of proceeds in connection with such disposition, all or a portion of an amount equal to the net proceeds of such disposition are used by the Borrower or a Subsidiary to acquire other property used or to be used in the business referred to in Section 8.9 and (B) the Borrower or such Subsidiary has complied with the provisions of Section 7.11 with respect to such property, then such dispositions (or, to the extent that less than all of the net proceeds of any such disposition are used to acquire such other property, then dispositions in an amount equal to the net proceeds used to acquire such other property) shall be disregarded for purposes of calculations pursuant to this Section 8.3(i) (and shall otherwise be deemed to be permitted under this Section 8.3) from and after the date such proceeds are so used to acquire such property with respect to the acquisition of such other property;
(j) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower may sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of its assets to the Borrower or any other Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than (I) from the Borrower or a Domestic Subsidiary to a Foreign Subsidiary or (II) to a Receivables Subsidiary);
(k) any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Receivables Subsidiary) may voluntarily liquidate, wind-up or dissolve;
(l) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may, directly or indirectly, sell, contribute and make other transfers of Receivables Facility Assets to a Receivables Subsidiary and such Receivables Subsidiary may sell and make other transfers of Receivables Facility Assets to the Issuer, in each case pursuant to the Receivables Documents under a Permitted Accounts Receivables Securitization;
(m) Foreign Subsidiaries may enter into Foreign Factoring Transactions; and
(n) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may consummate the US Commodity Business Sale provided that not less than 75% of the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are used within 90 days to (i) repay Senior Secured Notes (2010); (ii) repay Senior Notes (2012); (iii) repay Receivables Facility Attributed Indebtedness and/or (iv) make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 4.3.
Acquisition Transactions The Company shall provide the holder of this Warrant with at least twenty (20) days’ written notice prior to closing thereof of the terms and conditions of any of the following transactions (to the extent the Company has notice thereof): (i) the sale, lease, exchange, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or business, or (ii) its merger into or consolidation with any other corporation (other than a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company), or any transaction (including a merger or other reorganization) or series of related transactions, in which more than 50% of the voting power of the Company is disposed of.
Alternative Transactions (a) Between the Original Signing Date and the Closing Date, except for the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable as of the Original Signing Date as set forth in Schedule 3.1(g) and the Securities being issued pursuant to this Agreement, the Company shall not (i) issue or agree to issue any additional shares of Common Stock or other securities which provide the holder thereof the right to convert such securities into shares of Common Stock or (ii) directly or indirectly, by act or omission, solicit, pursue, agree to, engage in or become subject to any recapitalization, reorganization or capital-raising transaction other than the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(b) If, prior to Closing, the Company takes any action that would, if the Warrant were outstanding at such time, result in an adjustment to the Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrant or the exercise price thereof, then, at the Purchaser’s option which may be exercised in the Purchaser’s sole discretion, the Company shall make appropriate adjustments with respect to the Securities to be issued to the Purchasers under this Agreement such that the Purchasers shall receive the benefit of such adjustments under the Warrant as if the provisions of the Warrant applied thereto mutatis mutandis and such Securities had been outstanding as of the date of such action in a manner that provides the Purchasers with substantially the same economic benefit from this Agreement as the Purchasers had prior to the applicable transaction.
(c) In the event this Agreement is terminated by the Purchaser pursuant to Sections 6.16(a)(iv), (vi) or (vii) and, within 12 months of the date of such termination the Company or any of its Subsidiaries engages in or becomes subject to, or enters into an agreement to engage in or become subject to, any alternate recapitalization, reorganization or capital-raising transaction, then the Purchasers shall have the right to participate in such transaction on terms no less favorable to the Purchasers than as provided for in this Agreement (and in any event no less favorable to the Purchasers than provided to any other participant in such alternate transaction), and the Company shall take all actions reasonably requested by the Purchasers in order to allow the Purchasers to fully exercise such right and participate in such transaction.
(d) Prior to Closing, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall not directly or indirectly effect, agree to effect or cause to be effected any transaction with a third party that would reasonably be expected to result in a Change in Control unless such third party shall have provided prior assurance in writing to the Purchasers (in a form that is reasonably satisfactory to the Purchasers) that the terms of this Agreement shall be fully performed (i) by the Company or (ii) by such third party if it is the successor of the Company or if the Company is its direct or indirect subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood and agreed that, in the event that a Change in Control occurs on or prior to the Closing, the Purchasers shall maintain the right under this Agreement to acquire, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Securities (or such shares of stock or other securities or property (including cash) into which the Securities may have become exchangeable as a result of such Change in Control), as if the Closing had occurred immediately prior to such Change in Control. As used herein, “Change in Control” shall be deemed to occur if (i) there occurs a change in control of the Company of the nature that would be required to be reported in response to item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A or Item 5.01 of Form 8-K promulgated under the 1934 Act (or if neither item remains in effect, any regulations issued pursuant to the 1934 Act which serve similar purposes); (ii) any “Person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇) is or becomes a beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of Company Securities representing 50% percent or more of the total voting power of the Company’s then outstanding shares of capital stock; (iii) the Company shall have merged into, consolidated with or effected an amalgamation with another company, or merged another company into the Company, on a basis whereby less than 50% of the total voting power of the surviving company is represented by shares held by former shareholders of the Company prior to such merger, consolidation or amalgamation; or (iv) the Company shall have sold, transferred, pledged or exchanged all, or substantially all, of its assets to another Person.
