Regular Course of Business Except as otherwise specified in this Agreement, as from the date hereof and until Closing, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ agrees to conduct its operations in accordance with the regular course of its business and refrain from taking any acts that may materially affect Sinqia’s or its Subsidiaries’ businesses or operations. Moreover, as from the date hereof until Closing, Sinqia shall not perform nor approve that its Subsidiaries perform the acts below, except if authorized by Evertec BR, which authorization shall not be unreasonably withheld:
(i) call any shareholders’ meeting of Sinqia to resolve on any matter whatsoever, except for the Sinqia’s GSM;
(ii) approve any distribution of dividends, profits or juros sobre capital próprio, except for the payment of the JCP Sinqia 2023;
(iii) redeem, repurchase, issue or sell any shares, securities convertible into or exchangeable into shares, options, warrants, purchase rights or any other form of acquisition right relating to the shares issued by Sinqia or any of its Subsidiaries, except as a result of the Sinqia’s Stock Plans as provided in Section 2.4(iv), as the case may be;
(iv) approve or effect the acquisition (including by merger, merger of shares, acquisition of shares or assets, or in any other way) of any interest in assets or any business or Person;
(v) approve or effect the entry into partnerships or joint venture agreements, or any type of similar business relationship;
(vi) approve or effect the execution of new compensation and benefit plans (or amend existing plans), as well as pay bonuses, commissions, incentives or any type of compensation for shares outside the regular course of business and which are not provided for, in the present date, in the existing compensation and benefit plans, except if so determined by any Applicable Law or regarding Sinqia’s Stock Plans as provided for herein;
(vii) directly or indirectly get involved in any transaction, or enter into any agreement with any Related Party;
(viii) promote any change in its accounting policies and practices, except if required by Applicable Law;
(ix) except in relation to actions to be taken under existing agreements and in relation to new agreements with clients and service providers in the ordinary course of business, undertake any new obligation or responsibility or enter into new relevant agreements, involving Relevant Assets, including agreements for the purchase or sale of any Relevant Assets;
(x) Lien any tangible or intangible asset, or offer them as collateral, except if so required due to guarantees relating to labor or tax proceedings in which Sinqia and/or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, are defendants and that involve total amounts not exceeding five million Reais (R$ 5,000,000.00), individually or in a series of related transactions in a twelve (12) month period;
(xi) take out any loan, issue debt securities, enter into any type of financing agreement or change the terms of existing financing agreements or debt instruments, except for those entered into in the ordinary course of Sinqia's business and that in any case do not increase Sinqia’s consolidated indebtedness in more than five million Reais (R$ 5,000,000.00), individually or in a series of related transactions in a twelve (12) month period;
(xii) guarantee, endorse or otherwise become liable (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) for the obligations of any Person;
(xiii) enter into, amend, modify or in any way alter the terms of the existing contracts entered into by Sinqia and/or its Subsidiaries in order to accelerate payments due under those agreements, except (a) as set forth in Section 7.3(xvii) below and (b) after Sinqia’s GSM, anticipate the release of lock-up obligations of Sinqia’s shares owned by sellers of entities acquired by Sinqia as set forth in the agreements entered into before the date hereof;
(xiv) donate or freely assign any asset, right, or any form of property, to any Person;
(xv) enter into any collective bargaining agreement or promote any relevant changes to the terms and conditions of the current employment contracts to which they are a party, except the agreements to be entered into with labor union Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Processamento de Dados e Tecnologia da Informação do Estado de São Paulo - SINDPD;
(xvi) engage in new lines of business;
(xvii) anticipate the vesting periods of the options, or continuance of the plan, granted under the Sinqia’s Stock Plans, except for vesting acceleration set forth in Section 2.4(iv) of this Agreement;
(xviii) approve (a) the hiring of new employees of coordination, managerial or higher hierarchical level or administrators of any level, outside the normal course of business; (b) the dismissal of employees outside the normal course of business; or (c) the implementation of any voluntary termination or dismissal program for employees;
(xix) incur in costs that exceed the consolidated and global amount of sixty million Reais (R$ 60,000,000.00) for the hiring of advisors for the Transaction and preparation of financial statements mentioned in Section 3.7, provided that Sinqia is allowed to pay waiver fees required to obtain third parties’ consents in relation to the Transaction, in accordance with Section 7.4; or
(xx) agree, promise or undertake to perform any of the acts described above.
Accounts Receivable; Inventory (a) For each Account with respect to which Advances are requested, on the date each Advance is requested and made, such Account shall be an Eligible Account.
(b) All statements made and all unpaid balances appearing in all invoices, instruments and other documents evidencing the Eligible Accounts are and shall be true and correct and all such invoices, instruments and other documents, and all of Borrower’s Books are genuine and in all respects what they purport to be. All sales and other transactions underlying or giving rise to each Eligible Account shall comply in all material respects with all applicable laws and governmental rules and regulations. Borrower has no knowledge of any actual or imminent Insolvency Proceeding of any Account Debtor whose accounts are Eligible Accounts in any Transaction Report. To the best of Borrower’s knowledge, all signatures and endorsements on all documents, instruments, and agreements relating to all Eligible Accounts are genuine, and all such documents, instruments and agreements are legally enforceable in accordance with their terms.
(c) For any item of Inventory consisting of Eligible Inventory in any Transaction Report, such Inventory (i) consists of finished goods, in good, new, and salable condition, which is not perishable, returned (except to the extent of any refurbished Inventory in salable condition), consigned, obsolete, not sellable, damaged, or defective, and is not comprised of demonstrative or custom inventory, works in progress, packaging or shipping materials, or supplies; (ii) meets all applicable governmental standards; (iii) has been manufactured in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act; (iv) is not subject to any Liens, except the first priority Liens granted or in favor of Bank under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents and the Liens permitted under clause (j) of the definition of Permitted Liens; and (v) is located at the locations identified by Borrower in the Perfection Certificate where it maintains Inventory (or at any location permitted under Section 7.2).
Merchandise Programs, T-shirts, souvenirs, posters, novelty items, clothing apparel, and recorded media will be sold in the Centre only by BCEC Management or representatives nominated by it, unless BCEC Management agrees in writing to waive this condition. BCEC Management will retain 18% (including GST) of gross merchandise sales. All revenue derived from the sale of motion pictures, still photography, television or radio recordings, or other similar rights, is to be subject to a seperate agreement between Hirer and BCEC Management. In addition to its responsibilities under clause 7.1, ▇▇▇▇▇ must:
(a) ensure that all performances include an interval of not less than 20 minutes;
(b) ensure that all advertising, promotion and publicity for the Event or performances in the Event includes the following details:
(i) ticket prices, advertised as "$ (basic ticket price) plus normal fees";
(ii) the time of each performance in the Event;
(iii) details of any supporting acts for the main performance in the Event; and
(iv) ticket booking details including the name of any ticketing agent of BCEC Management and the box office telephone number of BCEC Management or its ticketing agent; and
(c) ensure that any tickets are sold only by outlets nominated by BCEC Management at the agreed ticket prices.
