Covenants Restrictions and Agreements Clause Samples
Covenants Restrictions and Agreements
Covenants and Restrictions Subject to the provisions o f Paragraph 10(e) hereof, Employee covenants that, except in carrying out his duties hereunder, during the term of his employment and for a period of five (5) years following the date of termination of employment hereunder (unless such longer period of time is specifically set forth herein): (a) Employee will not directly or indirectly, own any interest in, participate or engage in, assist, render any services (including advisory services) to, become associated with, work for, serve (in any capacity whatsoever, including, without limitation, as an employee, consultant, advisor, agent, independent contractor , officer or director) or otherwise become in any way or manner connected with the ownership, management, operation, or control of , any business, firm, corporation, partnership or other entity (collectively referred to herein as a "Person") that engages in, or assists others in engaging in or conducting any business, which deals, directly or indirectly, in products or services similar to or competitive with the Company's product line or services in the United States, Canada, or Western Europe; provided, however, the above shall not be deemed to exclude Employee from acting as director of a corporation for the benefit of the Company with the consent of the Company's Board of Directors; provided further, however, that the above shall not be deemed to prohibit Employee from owning or acquiring securities issued by any corporation which neither directly nor indirectly competes with the Company and whose securities are listed with a national securities exchange or are traded in the over-the-counter market, provided that Employee at no time owns, directly or indirectly, beneficially or otherwise, five (5%) percent or more of any class of any such corporation's outstanding capital stock. (b) Employee will not knowingly provide or solicit to provide to any Person or individual (i) any goods or services which are competitive with those provided by the Company or which would be competitive with the goods or services that the Company has planned to provide, or (ii) any goods or services to any customer of the Company. The term "customer" shall mean any Person or individual to whom the Company has provided goods or services within the twenty-four (24) month period prior to the termination of Employee's employment hereunder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no limitation shall be imposed on Employee hereunder with respect to any goods and services that the Company has planned to provide and which are not actually being provided at the time of the termination of Employee's employment hereunder or which are not actually provided within eighteen (18) months following the termination of Employee's employment hereunder.
Survival of Covenants and Agreements The covenants and agreements of the parties to be performed after the Effective Time contained in this Agreement shall survive the Effective Time.
Certain Covenants and Agreements The Company hereby covenants and agrees that: (a) without the prior written consent of the Trustee, it shall not vote or consent or take any other action to: (i) amend or terminate any partnership agreement, limited liability company agreement, certificate of incorporation, by-laws or other organizational documents of any Issuer in any way that changes the rights of the Company with respect to any Pledged Equity Interests or adversely affects the validity, perfection or priority of the Trustee's security interest therein, (ii) permit any issuer of any Pledged Equity Interest to issue to any Person other than the Company any additional stock, partnership interests, limited liability company interests or other equity interests of any nature or to issue securities convertible into or granting the right of purchase or exchange for any stock or other equity interest of any nature of such Issuer, (iii) other than as permitted under the Indenture or this Agreement, permit any Issuer to dispose of all or a material portion of its assets, (iv) waive any default under or breach of any terms, in each case which would adversely affect the validity, perfection or priority of the Trustee's security interest hereunder, of any organizational document relating to the issuer of any Pledged Equity Interest or (v) cause any Issuer of any Pledged Partnership Interests or Pledged LLC Interests which are not securities (for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code) on the date hereof to elect or otherwise take any action to cause such Pledged Partnership Interests or Pledged LLC Interests to be treated as securities for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code; (b) without the prior written consent of the Trustee, it shall not permit any Issuer to merge or consolidate unless all the outstanding capital stock or other equity interests of the surviving or resulting corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other entity is, upon such merger or consolidation, pledged hereunder and no cash, securities or other property is distributed in respect of the outstanding equity interests of any other constituent Person; (c) in the event that it acquires rights in any Pledged Equity Interests after the date hereof, it shall deliver to the Trustee a completed Pledge Supplement with respect to such Pledged Equity Interests; notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a transaction contemplated by Section 4(k) hereof, the security interest of the Trustee shall attach to all Pledged Equity Interests immediately upon the Company's acquisition of rights therein and shall not be affected by the failure of the Company to deliver any such supplement; (d) except as provided in the next sentence, in the event that the Company receives any dividends, interest or distributions on any Pledged Equity Interests, or any securities or other property upon the merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution of any Issuer, then (a) such dividends, interest or distributions and securities or other property shall be included in the definition of Collateral without, except in the case of a transaction contemplated by Section 4(k) hereof, further action and (b) the Company shall immediately take all steps, if any, necessary or advisable to ensure the validity, perfection, priority and, if applicable, control of the Trustee over the same, and pending any such action the Company shall be deemed to hold such dividends, interest, distributions, securities or other property in trust for the benefit of the Trustee and shall segregate the same from all other property of the Company; notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall have the right to retain and utilize in its business all ordinary cash dividends and distributions paid in the normal course of the business of the applicable Issuer; (e) it shall comply with all of its obligations under any partnership agreement or limited liability company agreement relating to Pledged Partnership Interests or Pledged LLC Interests and shall enforce all of its material rights with respect to any such Interests; (f) it will defend the Pledged Equity Interests against the claims and demands of all Persons, other than holders of Permitted Liens herein; (g) without the prior written consent of the Trustee, it shall not withdraw as a partner or member of any Issuer if such withdrawal would materially and adversely affect the value of the Collateral; (h) it shall cause each Issuer to consent to the grant by the Company to the Trustee of a security interest in the Pledged Equity Interests issued by such Issuer and, without limiting the foregoing, to consent to the transfer of any such Pledged Partnership Interest or Pledged LLC Interest to the Trustee or its nominee following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default and to the substitution of the Trustee or its nominee as a partner in any partnership or as a member in any limited liability company with all the rights and powers related thereto; (i) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing: (i) except as otherwise provided in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section 4 or Section 8.01(a) hereof, the Company shall be entitled to exercise or refrain from exercising any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Equity Interests or any part thereof for any purpose not violating the terms of this Agreement or the Indenture; provided that the Company shall exercise or refrain from exercising any such right if the Trustee (which may act in its reasonable judgment or at the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes) shall have notified the Company that such action would have a material adverse effect on the value of the Pledged Equity Interests or any part thereof; and provided further that the Company shall give the Trustee at least five (5) Business Days' prior written notice of the manner in which it intends to exercise, or the reasons for refraining from exercising, any such right; it being understood, however, that neither the voting by the Company of any Pledged Stock for, or the Company's consent to, the election of directors (or similar governing body) at a regularly scheduled annual or other meeting of stockholders or with respect to incidental matters at any such meeting, nor the Company's consent to or approval of any action otherwise permitted under this Agreement or the Indenture, shall be deemed to violate the terms of this Agreement within the meaning of this Section 4(i), and no notice of any such voting or consent need be given to the Trustee; and (ii) the Trustee shall promptly execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to the Company all proxies, and other instruments as the Company may from time to time reasonably request for the purpose of enabling the Company to exercise voting and other consensual rights when and to the extent to which it is entitled to exercise such rights pursuant to clause (i) above; (j) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default: (i) all rights of the Company to exercise or refrain from exercising the voting and other consensual rights which it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant hereto shall cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Trustee, which shall thereupon during any such period have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual rights; and (ii) in order to permit the Trustee to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which it may be entitled to exercise pursuant hereto, the Company shall promptly execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to the Trustee all proxies, orders and other instruments as the Trustee may from time to time reasonably request for any such purpose; and (k) if the Company shall acquire Pledged Equity Interests referred to in clause (ii) of the definition of the term "Issuers" contained in Section 1 hereof, it shall, if it does not own directly all of the issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Issuer of such Pledged Equity Interests, cause the Subsidiaries of the Company that own, directly or indirectly, such Voting Stock to become parties to this Agreement or a supplement hereto and to execute such other documents and instruments, and take such action, as shall be necessary to effect the pledge of and security interest in such Pledged Equity Interests provided for in this Agreement; and this Agreement, as so supplemented, may provide for changes hereto necessary if any such Pledged Equity Interests represent less than all of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Issuer.
Covenants and Restrictions on Conduct of Business (a) The Trust agrees to abide by the following restrictions: (i) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, the Trust shall not incur any indebtedness; (ii) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, the Trust shall not engage in any dissolution, liquidation, consolidation, merger or sale of assets; (iii) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, the Trust shall not engage in any business activity in which it is not currently engaged; and (iv) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, the Trust shall not form, or cause to be formed, any subsidiaries and shall not own or acquire any asset. (b) The Trust shall: (i) maintain books and records separate from any other person or entity; (ii) maintain its office and bank accounts separate from any other person or entity; (iii) not commingle its assets with those of any other person or entity; (iv) conduct its own business in its own name and use stationery or other business forms under its own name and not that of the Certificateholder or any Affiliate; (v) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, pay its own liabilities and expenses only out of its own funds; (vi) observe all formalities required under the Statutory Trust Statute; (vii) not guarantee or become obligated for the debts of any other person or entity; (viii) not hold out its credit as being available to satisfy the obligation of any other person or entity; (ix) not acquire the obligations or securities of the Certificateholder or its Affiliates; (x) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, not make loans to any other person or entity or buy or hold evidence of indebtedness issued by any other person or entity; (xi) other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents and related documentation, not pledge its assets for the benefit of any other person or entity; (xii) hold itself out as a separate entity from the Certificateholder and not conduct any business in the name of the Certificateholder; (xiii) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity; (xiv) not identify itself as a division (other than for tax reporting purposes) of any other person or entity; and (xv) except as required or specifically provided in the Trust Agreement, the Trust will conduct business with the Certificateholder or any Affiliate thereof on an arm’s length basis. (c) So long as the Notes or any other amounts owed under the Indenture remain outstanding, the Trust shall not amend this Section 4.6 unless the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied.
Covenants and Agreements as Independent Agreements Each of the covenants and agreements that is set forth in this Agreement shall be construed as a covenant and agreement independent of any other provision of this Agreement. The existence of any claim or cause of action of the Participant against the Company, whether predicated on this Agreement or otherwise, shall not constitute a defense to the enforcement by the Company of the covenants and agreements that are set forth in this Agreement.