Retained Liabilities All Liabilities of the Company other than Assumed Liabilities (the "RETAINED LIABILITIES") shall be retained and paid, performed and discharged when due by the Company and Parent (PROVIDED, that the Company shall have the ability to contest, in good faith, any such claim of liability asserted in respect thereof by any Person other than Purchaser and its Affiliates, so long as such contest does not result in a Lien upon any of the Assets):
(i) except to the extent any such liability is reflected on the Closing Date Balance Sheet as a current liability of the Business, any loss or liability of the Company of any nature or description, whether liquidated or contingent, to the extent (a) resulting from events or conditions which occurred or existed prior to the Transfer Time, or (b) arising out of or relating to the Excluded Assets (including those items identified as Retained Liabilities in SECTION 1.08);
(ii) any loss or liability relating to current or former employees of the Business (and their eligible dependents and beneficiaries), including with respect to employment or Benefit Plans, which accrued on or prior to the Transfer Time, except to the extent that such liability is reflected on the Closing Balance Sheet as a current liability of the Business;
(iii) all Liabilities with respect to gaming chips and tokens issued by the Company (but not progressive meters), except as provided otherwise herein;
(iv) all Liabilities related to Benefit Plans, except to the extent that such liability is reflected on the Closing Balance Sheet as a current liability of the Business;
(v) all Indebtedness (other than current accounts payable or accrued expenses of the Company incurred or accrued in the ordinary course of business, but only to the extent that the accrual for such payables and expenses has been properly reflected on the Closing Balance Sheet, and other than to the extent arising following the Transfer Time under Contracts that constitute Assets);
(vi) any Liability, whether currently in existence or arising hereafter, owed by the Company to any of its Affiliates;
(vii) all Liabilities related to any fines or penalties imposed against the Company (or with respect to the Business or any Asset) by any Governmental or Regulatory Authority (including, without limitation, the Commission) prior to the Transfer Time; and
(viii) all other Liabilities of the Company other than the Assumed Liabilities.
Excluded Liabilities Other than as specifically listed in Section 2.03 above, Buyer shall not assume any Liability whatsoever of Sellers, whether or not arising from or related to the Business or the Purchased Assets (the “Excluded Liabilities”), and Sellers shall pay, perform and discharge, as and when due, each such Excluded Liability. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Excluded Liabilities shall include, and under no circumstances shall Buyer be deemed to assume any Liability arising out of or relating to:
(a) any actual or alleged tortious conduct, breach of Contract or violation of Applicable Law by any Seller or their employees or agents;
(b) any product sold or manufactured prior to the Closing Date;
(c) Taxes of any kind or character (other than property taxes attributable to the Purchased Assets, to the extent prorated hereunder);
(d) the ownership, operation, use or disposal of any Excluded Asset;
(e) any collective bargaining agreement, employee compensation or employee benefits including Liability for severance pay, overtime pay, bonus or incentive compensation, retirement plans (including any underfunding or withdrawal liability pursuant to the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendment Act of 1980, arising from contributions made by the Sellers to the plans in question, as calculated through, and as of, any such withdrawal caused by the purchase of the Purchased Assets described herein, or otherwise triggered within thirty (30) days after the Closing Date, regardless of whether or not the amount of such Liability is known as of the time of such withdrawal) unemployment compensation, vacation, sick leave, termination pay or relating to any Employee Benefit Plan of any Seller or of any of their Affiliates;
(f) any Environmental Liability relating to or arising out of any condition or obligation existing on or prior to the Closing Date;
(g) any Debt of Sellers or any of their Affiliates;
(h) any Proceedings relating to Sellers or to the conduct or ownership of the Business or the Purchased Assets on or prior to the Closing Date, whether or not listed in Section 4.07(a) of the Disclosure Letter;
(i) any Liability arising out of any present or former business activity of Sellers other than the Business;
(j) any claims, choses in action, causes of action, rights of recovery, rights of set-off of any kind by any third party (including any employee or former employee of any Seller) arising out of the conduct of the Business, or the ownership, operation or use of any Purchased Assets on or prior to the Closing Date; or
(k) any Liability of Sellers under or arising by reason of this Agreement, or incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including any Sellers’ legal and accounting fees and expenses.
Assumed Liabilities On the Closing Date, Buyer or the UniSource Designee acquiring the Assets shall deliver to Seller the Assignment and Assumption Agreement pursuant to which Buyer or such UniSource Designee shall assume and agree to discharge when due, without recourse to Seller, in accordance with the respective terms and subject to the respective conditions thereof, all of the Assumed Liabilities. All of the following liabilities and obligations of Seller or Buyer which relate to, or arise by virtue of Seller's or Buyer's ownership of the Assets or operation of the Business (other than Excluded Liabilities) are referred to collectively as the "Assumed Liabilities":
(a) all liabilities and obligations of Seller or Buyer arising on or after the Closing Date under the Assigned Agreements, the Real Property Leases, and the Transferable Permits in accordance with the terms thereof, including, without limitation, the Assigned Agreements entered into by Seller (i) prior to the date hereof and (ii) after the date hereof consistent with the terms of this Agreement, except in each case to the extent such liabilities and obligations, but for a breach or default by Seller, would have been paid, performed or otherwise discharged on or prior to the Closing Date and are not otherwise included among the items causing an adjustment to the Base Purchase Price contemplated in Section 3.3 or to the extent the same arise out of any such breach or default or out of any event which after the giving of notice or passage of time or both would constitute a default by Seller;
(b) all liabilities and obligations of Seller for accounts payable to the extent included among the items causing an adjustment to the Base Purchase Price contemplated in Section 3.3;
(c) all liabilities and obligations associated with the Assets or the Business in respect of Taxes for which Buyer is liable pursuant to Section 3.4 or 6.10(a) hereof;
(d) all liabilities and obligations of Seller or Buyer with respect to the Transferred Employees incurred on or after the Closing Date for which Buyer is responsible pursuant to Section 6.12;
(e) all liabilities, responsibilities and obligations of Seller or Buyer arising under Environmental Laws or relating to Environmental Conditions or Regulated Substances (including common law liabilities relating to Environmental Conditions and Regulated Substances), whether such liability, responsibility or obligation is known or unknown, contingent or accrued as of the Closing Date, including but not limited to: (i) costs of compliance (including capital, operating and other costs) relating to any violation or alleged violation of Environmental Laws occurring prior to, on or after the Closing Date, with respect to the ownership of the Assets or operation of the Business; (ii) property damage or natural resource damage (whether such damages were manifested before or after the Closing Date) arising from Environmental Conditions or Releases of Regulated Substances at, on, in, under, adjacent to, or migrating from any Assets prior to, on or after the Closing Date; (iii) any Remediation (whether or not such Remediation commenced before the Closing Date or commences after the Closing Date) of Environmental Conditions or Regulated Substances that are present or have been Released prior to, on or after the Closing Date, at, on, in, adjacent to or migrating from the Assets; (iv) any violations or alleged violations of Environmental Laws occurring on or after the Closing Date with respect to the ownership of any Assets or operation of the Business; (v) any bodily injury or loss of life arising from Environmental Conditions or Releases of Regulated Substances at, on, in, under, adjacent to or migrating from any Asset on or after the Closing Date; (vi) any bodily injury, loss of life, property damage, or natural resource damage arising from the storage, transportation, treatment, disposal, discharge, recycling or Release, at any Off-Site Location, or arising from the arrangement for such activities, on or after the Closing Date, of Regulated Substances generated in connection with the ownership of the Assets or the operation of the Business; and (vii) any Remediation of any Environmental Condition or Release of Regulated Substances arising from the storage, transportation, treatment, disposal, discharge, recycling or Release, at any Off-Site Location, or arising from the arrangement for such activities, on or after the Closing Date, of Regulated Substances generated in connection with the ownership or operation of the Assets; provided, that nothing set forth in this Section 2.3 shall require Buyer to assume any liabilities, responsibilities or obligations that are expressly excluded in Section 2.4;
(f) any Tax that may be imposed by any federal, state or local government on the ownership, sale (except as otherwise provided in Section 3.4 or 6.10(a)), operation of the Business or use of the Assets on or after the Closing Date, except for any Income Taxes attributable to the income of Seller;
(g) all liabilities and obligations of Seller or Buyer arising on and after the Closing Date under those Orders specifically relating to the Assets or the Business issued by or entered into with any Governmental Authority and listed in Schedule 2.3(g) or imposed on Buyer in any Required Regulatory Approval;
(h) customer advances, customer deposits and construction advances, unperformed service obligations, Easement relocation obligations, and engineering and construction required to complete scheduled construction, construction work in progress, and other capital expenditure projects, in each case directly related to the Business and outstanding on or arising after the Closing Date; and
(i) actions and proceedings based on conduct, actions, circumstances or conditions arising or occurring on or after the Closing Date, actions and proceedings described in Schedule 2.3(i), actions and proceedings arising from or directly related to any other Assumed Liability, and generic or industry-wide actions and proceedings outstanding on or arising on or after the Closing Date that are applicable to the Business.
ADJUSTMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTOR’S ALLOCABLE PORTION AND EACH SUCCESSOR DISTRIBUTOR’S ALLOCABLE PORTION The parties to the Distribution Agreement recognize that, if the terms of any distributor’s contract, any distribution plan, any prospectus, the FINRA Conduct Rules or any other applicable law change so as to disproportionately reduce, in a manner inconsistent with the intent of this Distribution Agreement, the amount of the Distributor’s Allocable Portion or any Successor Distributor’s Allocable Portion had no such change occurred, the definitions of the Distributor’s Allocable Portion and/or the Successor Distributor’s Allocable Portion in respect of the Class C shares relating to a Fund shall be adjusted by agreement among the relevant parties; provided, however, if the Distributor, the Successor Distributor and the Fund cannot agree within thirty (30) days after the date of any such change in applicable laws or in any distributor’s contract, distribution plan, prospectus or the FINRA Conduct Rules, they shall submit the question to arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association and the decision reached by the arbitrator shall be final and binding on each of them. The following relates solely to Class 529-C shares. The Distributor’s Allocable Portion of Distribution Fees and CDSCs in respect of Class 529-C shares shall be 100% until such time as the Distributor shall cease to serve as exclusive distributor of Class 529-C shares; thereafter, collections that constitute CDSCs and Distribution Fees relating to Class 529-C shares shall be allocated among the Distributor and any successor distributor (“Successor Distributor”) in accordance with this Schedule. At such time as the Distributor’s Allocable Portion of the Distribution Fees equals zero, the Successor Distributor shall become the Distributor for purposes of this Allocation Schedule. Defined terms used in this Schedule and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Principal Underwriting Agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”), of which this Schedule is a part. As used herein the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Excluded Assets and Liabilities (a) Notwithstanding Section 1.2 above, the Purchased Assets shall not include the following assets (collectively, the “Excluded Assets”):
(i) all unrestricted cash of Seller as of Closing;
(ii) all accounts receivable of Seller for completed work as of Closing;
(iii) Contracts, including Intellectual Property Agreements, that are not Assigned Contracts (the “Excluded Contracts”);
(iv) all employee benefit plans and assets and liabilities attributable thereto;
(v) the assets, properties and rights specifically excluded by Buyer as permitted by this Agreement; and
(vi) the rights which accrue or will accrue to Seller under this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents.
(b) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, Buyer shall not assume and shall not be responsible to pay, perform or discharge any Liabilities of Seller or any of its Affiliates of any kind or nature whatsoever (the “Excluded Liabilities”) except liabilities relating solely to the conduct of the Business by Buyer after the Closing under the Assigned Contracts (the “Assumed Liabilities”). Seller shall, and shall cause each of its Affiliates to, pay and satisfy in due course all Excluded Liabilities which they are obligated to pay and satisfy, including (without limitation) all Pre-Closing Tax Period Liabilities.
(c) After the Closing, Seller shall continue to discharge in a timely manner all of Seller’s Liabilities and obligations including, but not limited to, Liabilities and obligations disclosed in or pursuant to this Agreement.
