Deliveries by the Company (a) At the Closing, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Purchaser Sub: (i) a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, executed by the Company confirming the satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section 7.2(a) and Section 7.2(b); (ii) a certification of non-foreign status reasonably acceptable to Parent, for purposes of Section 897 and 1445 of the Code; (iii) duly executed counterparts by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to each of the Ancillary Agreements applicable to the Closing; and (iv) an Operational Duplicate IT System Certificate, executed by the Company, dated as of the Closing Date. (b) At each Subsequent Closing and at the Distribution Center Closing, as applicable, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Purchaser Sub: (i) the certificate described in Section 2.1(b)(i), dated as of each Subsequent Closing Date or Distribution Center Closing Date, as applicable, executed by the Company, each reference therein to “Closing Date” shall be deemed to be such Subsequent Closing Date or Distribution Center Closing Date, as applicable, solely with respect to the Acquired Stores or Distribution Centers (and Purchased Assets related thereto) to be transferred at such Subsequent Closing and the Distribution Center Closing (as applicable); (ii) a certificate dated as of each Subsequent Closing Date or Distribution Center Closing Date, as applicable, executed by the Company regarding the accuracy of the matters set forth in Section 7.2(b) and, solely with respect to the first Subsequent Closing, Section 7.2(d) and where, for purposes of this Section 2.3(b)(ii), each reference therein to “Closing Date” in Section 7.2(b) and, solely with respect to the first Subsequent Closing, Section 7.2(d), as applicable, shall be deemed to be such Subsequent Closing Date or Distribution Center Closing Date, as applicable, solely with respect to the Acquired Stores or Distribution Centers (and Purchased Assets therein) to be transferred at such Subsequent Closing and the Distribution Center Closing (as applicable); (iii) solely with respect to the first Subsequent Closing, the Operational Duplicate IT System Certificate, executed by the Company, dated as of the first Subsequent Closing Date; (iv) a certification of non-foreign status reasonably acceptable to Parent, for purposes of Section 897 and 1445 of the Code; and (v) duly executed counterparts by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to each of the Ancillary Agreements applicable to such Subsequent Closing and the Distribution Center Closing.
Conduct of Business by the Company (a) From and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the earlier of the Effective Time and the date, if any, on which this Agreement is earlier terminated pursuant to Section 7.1 (the “Termination Date”), except (i) as may be required by applicable Law, (ii) as may be agreed in writing by Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), (iii) as may be expressly contemplated, required or expressly permitted by this Agreement, or (iv) as set forth in Section 5.1(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedules, the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use its reasonable best efforts to (A) conduct its business in the Ordinary Course of Business and (B) preserve intact its present business organization and maintain existing relationships and goodwill with Governmental Entities, customers, suppliers, licensors, licensees, creditors, lessors, distributors, employees, contractors and business associates, in each case, with whom it and they have material business relations; provided, that no action by the Company or its Subsidiaries with respect to matters specifically addressed by any provision of Section 5.1(b) shall be deemed a breach of this sentence unless such action would constitute a breach of such other provision. (b) From and after the date of this Agreement and prior to the earlier of the Effective Time and the Termination Date, except (w) as may be required by applicable Law, (x) as may be agreed in writing by Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), (y) as set forth in Section 5.1(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedules or (z) as may be expressly contemplated, required or expressly permitted by this Agreement, the Company: (i) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries that is not wholly-owned to, authorize or pay any dividends on or make any distribution with respect to its outstanding shares of capital stock (other than dividends, distributions, payments or return of capital made to the Company or a wholly owned Subsidiary by any of its Subsidiaries) or other equity interests (whether in cash, assets, shares, property or other securities or any combination thereof); (ii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, split, combine, redeem or reclassify any of its capital stock or issue or authorize or propose the issuance of any other securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for shares of its capital stock, except for any such transaction by a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company that remains a wholly-owned Subsidiary after consummation of such transaction; (iii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to (A) except in the Ordinary Course of Business, (1) hire any employee or engage any independent contractor who is a natural person, in each case with annual base salary, base wages or base compensation in excess of $100,000 (except where such employment is terminable on no more than 30 days’ prior notice without material cost or penalty) or (2) terminate the employment of any employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries at the vice president-level (or its equivalent) or above, (B) (1) increase the compensation or other benefits, or accelerate the vesting or payment of any compensation or other benefits, payable or provided, to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ directors or officers or (2) increase the compensation or other benefits, or accelerate the vesting or payment of any compensation or other benefits, payable or provided, to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ employees, which increases do not exceed (I) 10% of the aggregate annualized compensation paid to an employee during calendar year 2021 (any such increases over 6% to be limited to non-union employees) and, (II) in the aggregate, 4.5% of total compensation for all employees (except as required pursuant to the terms of any new or amended union Contract), or (C) except as required pursuant to the terms of any Company Benefit Plan in effect as of the date of this Agreement, (1) grant any transaction or retention bonuses, (2) grant any Company Equity Awards or other equity or long-term incentive compensation awards, or (3) enter into any employment, change of control, severance or retention agreement with any employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iv) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, change financial accounting policies or procedures or any of its methods of reporting income, deductions or other material items for financial accounting purposes, except as required by applicable Law, GAAP or SEC rule or policy; (v) shall not adopt any amendments, modifications, waivers, rescissions or otherwise make changes to the Organizational Documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vi) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, issue, deliver, grant, sell, pledge, transfer, dispose, or otherwise encumber, or authorize or approve or agree to issue, grant, sell, pledge or otherwise encumber any shares of Company Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, or otherwise evidencing a right to acquire, shares of Company Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including but not limited to the issue or award of any Company Equity Awards or any rights, warrants or options to acquire any such shares, voting securities or equity interest or any “phantom” stock, “phantom” stock rights, stock appreciation rights or stock based performance units, except vesting in the Ordinary Course of Business pursuant to awards under Company Benefit Plans in effect as of the date hereof or as disclosed on Section 5.1(b)(vi) of the Company Disclosure Schedules; (vii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, redeem, terminate early, unwind, repurchase, prepay, defease, create, suffer to exist, incur, enter into, assume, endorse, guarantee, or otherwise become liable for or modify or amend (including seeking or obtaining a waiver) in any material respects the terms of, any indebtedness for borrowed money, or issue or sell any debt securities or calls, options, warrants or other rights to acquire any debt securities, any indebtedness or assume, guarantee, endorse or otherwise become liable or responsible for such obligations or the obligations of any other person, or make any loans or advances (directly, contingently or otherwise), except for (A) intercompany loans or advances in the Ordinary Course of Business among the Company and its direct or indirect 100% owned Subsidiaries and (B) incremental borrowings under the Company’s existing Credit Facility contemplated by the Company Budget which do not require any amendments or waivers to such Credit Facility; (viii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to make any loans, advances, guarantees or capital contributions to or investments in any Person, except for (A) loans solely between or among the Company or any of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any of the Company’s wholly-owned Subsidiaries, on the other hand, and (B) advances for reimbursable employee expenses in the Ordinary Course of Business; (ix) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease, license, transfer, exchange or swap, or subject to any Lien (other than Permitted Liens), or otherwise dispose of, any of its businesses, material properties or assets, whether voluntarily or by the failure to exercise a right or make a payment, except (A) dispositions of obsolete or worthless equipment, in the Ordinary Course of Business, (B) non-exclusive licenses or other non-exclusive grants of rights in, to or under Company Intellectual Property entered in the Ordinary Course of Business with customers of the Company or the Company Subsidiaries (C) sales of products or services in the Ordinary Course of Business that do not require the incurrence of indebtedness in breach of Section 5.1(b)(vii) or the extension of capital in breach Section 5.1(b)(xiii) and (D) for transactions solely among the Company and its wholly-owned Company Subsidiaries or solely among wholly-owned Company Subsidiaries; (x) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to (i) enter into any Contract that would have been a Company Material Contract under Section 3.21(a)(ii) or Section 3.21(a)(xi) had it been entered into prior to this Agreement, or amend or modify any Contract in a manner that would make it a Company Material Contract under Section 3.21(a)(ii) or Section 3.21(a)(xi), (ii) enter into any other Contract that would require aggregate expenditures by the Company or any Company Subsidiary in excess of the Company Budget, (iii) materially modify, materially amend, extend, accelerate, terminate, cancel, exercise or fail to exercise an expiring renewal option or terminate any Company Material Contract (in each case, in a manner adverse to the Company or its Subsidiaries and not including terminations or expirations due to the natural expiration or termination of such agreements) or (iv) waive, release or assign any material rights or claims thereunder (other than in the Ordinary Course of Business or as would not result in a breach of Section 5.1(b)(xii)); (xi) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, acquire (including by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock or assets or any other means) or authorize or announce an intention to so acquire, or enter into any agreements providing for any acquisitions of, directly or indirectly, any equity interests in or assets (including intangible assets) of any person or any business, division, securities, properties or interests thereof, or otherwise engage in any mergers, consolidations or business combinations (other than pursuant to any capital expenditures permitted by Section 5.1(b)(xiii)) from any other Person, other than (A) transactions solely between the Company and a wholly-owned Company Subsidiary or solely between wholly-owned Company Subsidiaries or acquisitions of supplies or equipment in the Ordinary Course of Business and (B) acquisitions of properties, assets, equipment or inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business and consistent with the Company Budget; (xii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, settle, pay, discharge or satisfy any Action, other than any Action that involves only the payment of monetary damages not in excess of $250,000 individually or $1,000,000 in the aggregate over the amount reflected or reserved against in the September 30, 2021 consolidated balance sheet of the Company for such specific Actions and would not result in (A) the imposition of any Order that would restrict the future activity or conduct of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, releases of claims, confidentiality and other de minimis obligations customarily included in monetary settlements) or (B) a finding or admission of a violation of Law; (xiii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to incur or commit to capital expenditures or development expenses or expenses relating to integration of its accounting or ERP systems, in each case, in excess of the amounts set forth in Section 5.1(b)(xiii) to the Company Disclosure Schedules (the “Company Budget”); (xiv) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, terminate or permit any material Company Permit to lapse, other than in accordance with the terms and regular expiration thereof, or fail to apply on a timely basis for any renewal of any renewable material Company Permit (excluding, in each case, any Company Permit that the Company, in its reasonable judgment, no longer believes to be material or necessary to the conduct of the business); (xv) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, adopt any plan of merger, consolidation, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution, adopt resolutions providing for a complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization, file a petition in bankruptcy under any provisions of federal or state bankruptcy applicable Law on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or consent to the filing of any bankruptcy petition against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under applicable Law; (xvi) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any new line of business that is not reasonably related to the existing business lines of the Company and its Subsidiaries, or abandon or discontinue any existing line of business of the Company or its Subsidiaries; (xvii) except as required by applicable Law, shall not (A) make (other than in the Ordinary Course of Business), change or revoke any material Tax election (B) change any material method of Tax accounting or Tax accounting period, (C) file any amended Tax Return with respect to any material Tax, (D) settle or compromise any material Tax proceeding, (E) surrender any right to claim a material Tax refund, or (F) agree to an extension or waiver of the statute of limitations with respect to the assessment of any material Tax; (xviii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to become a party to, establish, adopt, materially amend, commence participation in or terminate any collective bargaining agreement or other agreement with a labor union, works council or similar organization; (xix) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into any consent decree or similar agreement that, individually or in the aggregate, is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (xx) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to terminate or fail to exercise renewal rights with respect to any insurance policies of the Company and its Subsidiaries in a manner that would (after taking into account any replacement insurance policies) materially and adversely affect the insurance coverage of the Company or its Subsidiaries; (xxi) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease, license, mortgage, pledge, surrender, encumber, divest, or otherwise dispose of any material Company Intellectual Property (other than Permitted Liens), except for non-exclusive licenses of Company Intellectual Property granted in the Ordinary Course of Business; (xxii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to abandon or otherwise allow to lapse or expire any Registered Company Intellectual Property, other than lapses or expirations of any Registered Company Intellectual Property that is at the end of its maximum statutory term (with renewals); (xxiii) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to engage in any transaction with, or enter into any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, any Affiliate of the Company or other Person covered by Item 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC; (xxiv) shall not convene any special meeting (or any adjournment or postponement thereof) of the stockholders of the Company; (xxv) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to modify, amend or replace that certain lease Contract listed in Section 5.1(b)(xxv) of the Company Disclosure Schedules; and (xxvi) shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, agree, in writing or otherwise, to take any of the foregoing actions. (c) Nothing contained in this Agreement shall give Parent or Merger Sub, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ operations prior to the Closing Date. Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and subject to applicable Law, complete control and supervision over its and its Subsidiaries’ operations.
Actions by the Company Any action, election or determination by the Board or any committee thereof pursuant to or relating to this Agreement will be effective if, and only if, it is taken or made by (or with the prior approval of) a majority of the members of the Board who are not at the time employees of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries.
Reports by the Company (a) The Company will at all times comply with Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. The Company covenants and agrees to provide (which delivery may be via electronic mail) to the Trustee within 30 days, after the Company files the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, the Company shall not be required to deliver to the Trustee any correspondence filed with the Commission or any materials for which the Company has sought and received confidential treatment by the Commission; and provided further, that so long as such filings by the Company are available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (XXXXX), or any successor system, such filings shall be deemed to have been filed with the Trustee for purposes hereof without any further action required by the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, a failure by the Company to file annual reports, information and other reports with the Commission within the time period prescribed thereof by the Commission shall not be deemed a breach of this Section 5.03. (b) Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under Section 5.03 is for informational purposes only and the information and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein, or determinable from information contained therein including the Company’s compliance with any of their covenants thereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officer’s Certificate). The Trustee is under no duty to examine any such reports, information or documents delivered to the Trustee or filed with the Commission via XXXXX to ensure compliance with the provision of this Indenture or to ascertain the correctness or otherwise of the information or the statements contained therein. The Trustee shall have no responsibility or duty whatsoever to ascertain or determine whether the above referenced filings with the Commission on XXXXX (or any successor system) has occurred.
Payments by the Company The Company shall use its best efforts to obtain effectiveness of the Registration Statement as soon as practicable. If (i) the Registration Statement(s) covering the Registrable Securities required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof is not filed by the Filing Date or declared effective by the SEC on or prior to one hundred and twenty (120) days from the Filing Date, or (ii) after the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC, sales of all of the Registrable Securities cannot be made pursuant to the Registration Statement, or (iii) the Common Stock is not listed or included for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market ("NASDAQ"), the Nasdaq SmallCap Market ("NASDAQ SMALLCAP"), the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") or the American Stock Exchange (the "AMEX") after being so listed or included for quotation, or (iv) the Common Stock ceases to be traded on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (the "OTCBB") or any equivalent replacement exchange prior to being listed or included for quotation on one of the aforementioned markets, then the Company will make payments to the Investors in such amounts and at such times as shall be determined pursuant to this Section 2(c) as partial relief for the damages to the Investors by reason of any such delay in or reduction of their ability to sell the Registrable Securities (which remedy shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available at law or in equity). The Company shall pay to each holder of the Notes or Registrable Securities an amount equal to the then outstanding principal amount of the Notes (and, in the case of holders of Registrable Securities, the principal amount of Notes from which such Registrable Securities were converted) ("OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT"), multiplied by the Applicable Percentage (as defined below) times the sum of: (i) the number of months (prorated for partial months) after the Filing Date or the end of the aforementioned one hundred and twenty (120) day period and prior to the date the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC, provided, however, that there shall be excluded from such period any delays which are solely attributable to changes required by the Investors in the Registration Statement with respect to information relating to the Investors, including, without limitation, changes to the plan of distribution, or to the failure of the Investors to conduct their review of the Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3(h) below in a reasonably prompt manner; (ii) the number of months (prorated for partial months) that sales of all of the Registrable Securities cannot be made pursuant to the Registration Statement after the Registration Statement has been declared effective (including, without limitation, when sales cannot be made by reason of the Company's failure to properly supplement or amend the prospectus included therein in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, but excluding any days during an Allowed Delay (as defined in Section 3(f)); and (iii) the number of months (prorated for partial months) that the Common Stock is not listed or included for quotation on the OTCBB, Nasdaq, Nasdaq SmallCap, NYSE or AMEX or that trading thereon is halted after the Registration Statement has been declared effective. The term "APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE" means two hundredths (.02). (For example, if the Registration Statement becomes effective one (1) month after the end of such one hundred and twenty (120) day period, the Company would pay $5,000 for each $250,000 of Outstanding Principal Amount. If thereafter, sales could not be made pursuant to the Registration Statement for an additional period of one (1) month, the Company would pay an additional $5,000 for each $250,000 of Outstanding Principal Amount.) Such amounts shall be paid in cash or, at the Company's option, in shares of Common Stock priced at the Conversion Price (as defined in the Notes) on such payment date.