Acquiring Party has the meaning given such term in Section 4.1.
Selling Firms has the meaning specified in section 5.1;
Acquiring Person shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.5.
Acquiring Company means a person who obtains Control of the Company;
sponsoring firm means the firm registered in a jurisdiction of Canada on whose behalf an individual acts as a dealer, an underwriter, an adviser, a chief compliance officer or an ultimate designated person;
Selling Firm has the meaning given to it in Section 2(1);
Consulting Firm has the meaning set forth in Section II.A.4.
Acquiring Bank means a financial institution that receives credit card transactions and then settles with the card-issuing banks.
Acquiring Entity means the surviving or acquiring corporation (or its parent company) in connection with a Corporate Transaction.
acquiring authority means the Minister responsible for lands or any other Minister whom the President may appoint as an acquiring authority for the purposes of this section;
Clearing Firm means an entity that meets the requirements of clearing membership at a Clearing House that clears Trades in any or all of the MarketAxess SEF Swaps and is authorized to submit Trades for clearing to the Clearing House.
Acquiring Corporation means (i) the continuing or surviving person of a consolidation or merger with Issuer (if other than Issuer), (ii) the acquiring person in a plan of exchange in which Issuer is acquired, (iii) the Issuer in a merger or plan of exchange in which Issuer is the continuing or surviving or acquiring person, and (iv) the transferee of all or a substantial part of Issuer's assets or deposits (or the assets or deposits of the Issuer Subsidiary).
Acquirer means a business organization, financial institution, or an agent of a business organization or financial institution that has authority from an organization that operates or licenses a credit card system to authorize merchants to accept, transmit, or process payment by credit card through the credit card system for money, goods or services, or anything else of value.
Lobbying firm means any business entity, including an individual contract lobbyist, which meets either of the following criteria:
Selected Firm means the firm who is selected by the City and to whom the City Council/City Manager awards a contract for the services or commodities requested in this solicitation.
Accounting Firm has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(c).
Independent Firm means a recognized law or accounting firm; provided, however, that such term shall not include any accounting firm that performs or has preformed audit services with respect to Distributing or Controlled.
Management Stockholder shall have the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.
Independent Shareholders means holders of Voting Shares, other than:
Initial Investors means (A) X.L. Insurance Company, Ltd.; (B) The Trident Partnership, L.P.; (C) Xxxxx & McLennan Risk Capital Holdings, Ltd.; or (D) any majority-owned subsidiary or parent (or equivalent in the case of a non-corporate entity) of the foregoing.
CPA Firm has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(c).
Principal Stockholder Transferee means any Person who acquires voting stock of the Corporation from the Principal Stockholder (other than in connection with a public offering) and who is designated in writing by the Principal Stockholder as a “Principal Stockholder Transferee.”
Audit Firm means a legal person or any other entity, regardless of its legal form, that is approved in accordance with this Directive by the competent authorities of a Member State to carry out statutory audits;
Acquisition Proposal has the meaning set forth in Section 5.03(a).
Independent Third Party means any Person who, immediately prior to a contemplated transaction, does not own in excess of 5% of the Company’s Common Units on a fully-diluted basis (a “5% Owner”), who is not controlling, controlled by or under common control with any such 5% Owner and who is not the spouse or descendant (by birth or adoption) of any such 5% Owner or a trust for the benefit of such 5% Owner and/or such other Persons.
Alternative Transaction Proposal means any offer, proposal or indication of interest (whether binding or non-binding), or any public announcement of an intention to make any offer, proposal or indication of interest, to the Company or Company Stockholders regarding an Alternative Transaction.