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.
Recourse Obligations The Mortgage Loan documents for each Mortgage Loan (a) provide that such Mortgage Loan becomes full recourse to the Mortgagor and guarantor (which is a natural person or persons, or an entity or entities distinct from the Mortgagor (but may be affiliated with the Mortgagor) that collectively, as of the date of origination of the related Mortgage Loan, have assets other than equity in the related Mortgaged Property that are not de minimis) in any of the following events (or negotiated provisions of substantially similar effect): (i) if any petition for bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution or liquidation pursuant to federal bankruptcy law, or any similar federal or state law, shall be filed by, consented to, or acquiesced in by, the Mortgagor; (ii) the Mortgagor or guarantor shall have solicited or caused to be solicited petitioning creditors to cause an involuntary bankruptcy filing with respect to the Mortgagor or (iii) voluntary transfers of either the Mortgaged Property or controlling equity interests in the Mortgagor made in violation of the Mortgage Loan documents; and (b) contains provisions for recourse against the Mortgagor and guarantor (which is a natural person or persons, or an entity or entities distinct from the Mortgagor (but may be affiliated with the Mortgagor) that collectively, as of the date of origination of the related Mortgage Loan, have assets other than equity in the related Mortgaged Property that are not de minimis), for losses and damages resulting from the following (or negotiated provisions of substantially similar effect): (i) the Mortgagor’s misappropriation of rents after an event of default, security deposits, insurance proceeds, or condemnation awards; (ii) the Mortgagor’s fraud or intentional material misrepresentation; (iii) breaches of the environmental covenants in the Mortgage Loan documents; or (iv) the Mortgagor’s commission of intentional material physical waste at the Mortgaged Property (but, in some cases, only to the extent there is sufficient cash flow generated by the related Mortgaged Property to prevent such waste).