Voting Trusts, etc To join with other holders of any securities or debt instruments in acting through a committee, depository, voting trustee or otherwise, and in that connection to deposit any security or debt instrument with, or transfer any security or debt instrument to, any such committee, depository or trustee, and to delegate to them such power and authority with relation to any security or debt instrument (whether or not so deposited or transferred) as the Trustees shall deem proper, and to agree to pay, and to pay, such portion of the expenses and compensation of such committee, depository or trustee as the Trustees shall deem proper;
Voting Trust The voting trust hereby created shall commence on the date hereof and continue through and including December 31, 2005. Throughout such period the Trustee shall have the exclusive right to vote upon such shares or to give written consents in lieu of voting thereon, subject to any limitation on the right to vote contained in the Articles of Incorporation or other certificate filed pursuant to law, in person or by proxy at all meetings of the shareholders of the Corporation, and in all proceedings wherein the vote or written consent of shareholders may be required or authorized by law.
Voting Trust Certificates The Trustee shall issue to each of the Shareholders a Voting Trust Certificate for the number of shares represented by the certificates of Common Stock by such Shareholder transferred to the Trustee. Each such Voting Trust Certificate shall state that it is issued under the Agreement, and shall set forth the nature and proportional amount of the beneficial interest thereunder of the person to whom it is issued, and shall be assignable, subject to the provisions of the Shareholders' Agreement, in the manner of certificates of stock on books to be kept by the Trustee. The Trustee shall keep a list of the shares of the Trust transferred to them, and shall also keep a record of all Voting Trust Certificates issued or transferred on its books, which records shall contain the names of the Voting Trust Certificate holders and the number of shares of Common Stock represented by each such certificate. Such list and record shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection upon the books of the Trustee by any Voting Trust Certificate holder. The Voting Trust Certificate shall be substantially in the following form: VOTING TRUST CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the undersigned Trustee has received a certificate or certificates issued in the name of _______________________, evidencing the ownership of _______ shares of Class A Common Stock of Eagle-Picher Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and that such shares are held subject to all the terms and conditions of the Voting Trust Agreement, dated as of November 16, 1998, by and between Granaria Industries B.V., as Trustee, and certain shareholders of the Company. During the term of the voting trust, the Trustee, or its successors, shall, as provided in said agreement, possess and be entitled to exercise the voting power and otherwise represent all of the said shares for all purposes, being agreed that no voting right shall pass to the holder hereof by virtue of the ownership of this certificate. Upon the termination of said voting trust, this certificate shall be surrendered to the Trustee by the holder hereof upon delivery to such holder of a stock certificate representing a like number of shares. The undersigned Trustee has executed this certificate as of the ___ day of __________________, ____. GRANARIA HOLDINGS, B.V., Trustee By: ________________________________
No Voting Trusts Shareholder agrees that Shareholder will not, nor will Shareholder permit any entity under Shareholder's control to, deposit any Shares in a voting trust or subject the Shares to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to the voting of the Shares inconsistent with this Agreement.
Voting of Trust Shares With respect to any matter put to vote by the holders of Trust shares ("Voting Shares"), the Company will provide "pass-through" voting privileges to owners of Contracts registered with the SEC as long as the 1940 Act requires such privileges in such cases. In cases in which "pass-through" privileges apply, the Company will (i) solicit voting instructions from Contract Owners of SEC-registered Contracts; (ii) vote Voting Shares attributable to Contract Owners in accordance with instructions or proxies timely received from such Contract Owners; and (iii) vote Voting Shares held by it that are not attributable to reserves for SEC-registered Contracts or for which it has not received timely voting instructions in the same proportion as instructions received in a timely fashion from Owners of SEC-registered Contracts. The Company shall be responsible for ensuring that it calculates "pass-through" votes for the Account in a manner consistent with the provisions set forth above and with other Participating Insurance Companies. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates will in any way recommend action in connection with, or oppose or interfere with, the solicitation of proxies for the Trust shares held for such Contract Owners, except with respect to matters as to which the Company has the right under Rule 6e-2 or 6e-3(T) under the 1940 Act, to vote Voting Shares without regard to voting instructions from Contract Owners.
VOTING, ETC WHILE NO EVENT OF DEFAULT. For greater certainty, unless and until an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Pledgor shall be entitled to (i) exercise any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Stock and to give all consents, waivers or ratifications in respect thereof and (ii) exercise any and all voting, consent, administration, management and other rights and remedies under (x) any limited liability company agreement or operating agreement or otherwise with respect to the Pledged Limited Liability Company Interests of such Pledgor and (y) any partnership agreement or otherwise with respect to the Pledged Partnership Interests of such Pledgor, in each case together with all other rights assigned pursuant to Sections 3.1(a)(iv)(E) and 3.1(a)(v)(E) hereof; provided, that no vote shall be cast or any consent, waiver or ratification given or any other action taken which would violate or be inconsistent with any of the terms of this Agreement or any other Secured Debt Agreement (as defined in Section 7 hereof), or which would have the effect of impairing the rights, priorities or remedies of the Pledgee or any other Secured Creditor under this Agreement or any other Secured Debt Agreement. Except in the case of ULC Shares which remain registered in the name of the Pledgor, all such rights of such Pledgor to vote and to give consents, waivers and ratifications shall cease in case an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, and Section 7 hereof shall become applicable.
Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates (other than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates and its representations and warranties in Section 7.03) shall be taken as the statements of the Transferor and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other Basic Document or the Trust Certificates (other than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes or any offering document relating to either of them. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity or enforceability of any Basic Document to which the Owner Trustee is to be a party (except for enforceability against the Owner Trustee), or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by or under any Basic Document, or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Trust Certificateholders or to the Noteholders under the Indenture, or the validity of the transfer of the 20[__]-[__] SUBI Certificate to the Issuer, or for the compliance by the Transferor, the Administrator or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or for the accuracy of any such warranty or representation or for any action of the Administrator, the Servicer or the Indenture Trustee taken in the name of the Owner Trustee.
Ownership, Voting Rights, Duties This Agreement shall not affect in any way the ownership, voting rights or other rights or duties of Purchaser, except as specifically provided herein.
The Trust Agreement The Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
Investment Management Trust Agreement The Company has entered into the Trust Agreement with respect to certain proceeds of the Offering and the Private Placement substantially in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
