Effective Date of This Agreement and Termination Thereof (a) This Agreement shall become effective at 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the first full business day following the day on which you and the Company receive notification that the Registration Statement became effective.
(b) This Agreement may be terminated by the Underwriter by notifying the Company at any time on or before the Closing Date, if any domestic or international event or act or occurrence has in your sole opinion, materially disrupted, or in your sole opinion will in the immediate future materially disrupt, securities markets; or if trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or in the over-the-counter market shall have been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed; or if a moratorium in foreign exchange trading by major international banks or persons has been declared; or if the Company shall have sustained a loss material or substantial to the Company taken as a whole by fire, flood, accident, hurricane, earthquake, theft, sabotage or other calamity or malicious act which, whether or not such loss shall have been insured, will, in your sole opinion, make it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Shares; or if there shall have been a material adverse change in the conditions of the securities market in general, as in your reasonable judgment would make it inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale and delivery of the Shares; or if there shall have been a material adverse change in the financial or Securities markets, particularly in the over-the-counter market having occurred since the date of this Agreement.
(c) If you elect to prevent this Agreement from becoming effective or to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Paragraph 10, the Company shall be notified promptly by you by telephone or facsimile, confirmed by letter.
(d) If this Agreement shall not become effective or if this Agreement shall not be carried out within the time specified herein by reason of any failure on the part of the Company to perform any undertaking, or to materially satisfy any condition of this Agreement by it to be performed or satisfied, the sole liability of the Company to the Underwriter, in addition to the obligations assumed by the Company pursuant to Paragraph 8 herein, will be to reimburse the Underwriter for such reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Underwriter in connection with this Agreement and the proposed offering of the Shares.
Effectiveness of Agreement and Termination This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto. This Agreement may be terminated at any time on or prior to the Closing Date by you by written notice to the Company if any of the following has occurred: (i) any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity or crisis or change in economic conditions or in the financial markets of the United States or elsewhere that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and, in your judgment, makes it impracticable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus, (ii) the suspension or material limitation of trading in securities or other instruments on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade or the Nasdaq National Market or limitation on prices for securities or other instruments on any such exchange or the Nasdaq National Market, (iii) the suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, (iv) the enactment, publication, decree or other promulgation of any federal or state statute, regulation, rule or order of any court or other governmental authority which in your opinion materially and adversely affects, or will materially and adversely affect, the business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (v) the declaration of a banking moratorium by either federal or New York State authorities or (vi) the taking of any action by any federal, state or local government or agency in respect of its monetary or fiscal affairs which in your opinion has a material adverse effect on the financial markets in the United States. If on the Closing Date or on an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which it has or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date and the aggregate number of Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the total number of Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, to be purchased on such date by all Underwriters, each non-defaulting Underwriter shall be obligated severally, in the proportion which the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite its name in Schedule I bears to the total number of Firm Shares which all the non-defaulting Underwriters have agreed to purchase, or in such other proportion as you may specify, to purchase the Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; PROVIDED that in no event shall the number of Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, which any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to Section 2 hereof be increased pursuant to this Section 9 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such number of Firm Shares or Additional Shares, as the case may be, without the written consent of such Underwriter. If on the Closing Date any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Firm Shares and the aggregate number of Firm Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Firm Shares to be purchased by all Underwriters and arrangements satisfactory to you and the Company for purchase of such Firm Shares are not made within 48 hours after such default, this Agreement will terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter and the Company. In any such case which does not result in termination of this Agreement, either you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or any other documents or arrangements may be effected. If, on an Option Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Additional Shares and the aggregate number of Additional Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Additional Shares to be purchased on such date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall have the option to (i) terminate their obligation hereunder to purchase such Additional Shares or (ii) purchase not less than the number of Additional Shares that such non-defaulting Underwriters would have been obligated to purchase on such date in the absence of such default. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of any such Underwriter under this Agreement.
Effective Date of this Agreement and Termination (a) This Agreement shall become effective at 8:00 a.m., Minnesota time, on the first full day following the Effective Date, after which the Underwriter shall commence selling the Units to the public, or such earlier time as the Underwriter shall release the Units for sale to the public. The Underwriter shall notify the Company immediately after the Underwriter has taken any action which causes this Agreement to become effective. Until this Agreement is effective, it may be terminated by the Company or by the Underwriter by giving notice as hereinafter provided, except that the provisions of Sections 4(q) and (s) and Sections 6, 7, 9, 12 and 13 shall at all times be effective. For purposes of this Agreement, the release of the initial public offering of the Firm Units for sale to the public shall be deemed to have been made when the Underwriter releases, by facsimile or otherwise, firm offers of the Firm Units to securities dealers or release for publication a newspaper advertisement relating to the Firm Units, whichever occurs first.
(b) Until the First Closing Date, this Agreement may be terminated by the Underwriter, at its option, by giving notice to the Company, if (i) the Company shall have sustained a loss by fire, flood, accident or other calamity which is material with respect to the business of the Company; the Company shall have become a party to material litigation, not 33 disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; or the business or financial condition of the Company shall have become the subject of any material litigation, not disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; or there shall have been, since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial position or consolidated net worth of the Company, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, which loss or change, in the reasonable judgment of the Underwriter, shall render it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Units, whether or not such loss shall have been insured; (ii) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq National Market, Nasdaq SmallCap Market or the over-the-counter market shall have been suspended or minimum prices shall have been established on such exchange by the SEC or by such exchanges or markets; (iii) a general banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal, New York or Minnesota authorities; (iv) there shall have been such a material adverse change in general economic, monetary, political or financial conditions, or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such that, in the judgment of the Underwriter, makes it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Units; (v) the enactment, publication, decree or other promulgation of any federal or state statute, regulation, rule or order of either of any court or other governmental authority which, in the judgment of the Underwriter, materially and adversely affects or will materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company; (vi) there shall be a material outbreak of hostilities or material escalation and deterioration in the political and military situation between the United States and any foreign power, or a formal declaration of war by the United States of America shall have occurred; (vii) the Company shall have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement on its part to be performed on or prior to such date or if any of the conditions, agreements, representations or warranties of the Company shall not have been fulfilled within the respective times provided for in this Agreement; (viii) the Company is no longer registered under the 1934 Act; or (ix) the Company's Common Stock is no longer listed on The Nasdaq National Market. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except as provided in Sections 6, 7, 9, 12 and 13 hereof; provided, however, that the Company shall remain obligated to pay costs and expenses to the extent provided in Sections 4(q) and (s) hereof.
(c) If the Underwriter elects to prevent this Agreement from becoming effective or to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 9, it shall notify the Company promptly by telegram or telephone, confirmed by letter sent to the address specified in Section 10 hereof. If the Company shall elect to prevent this Agreement from becoming effective, it shall notify the Underwriter promptly by telegram or telephone, confirmed by letter sent to the address specified in Section 10 hereof.
Effectiveness of this Agreement This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.
Effectiveness and Term of this Agreement 12.1 This Agreement shall come into effect upon the satisfaction of all of the following conditions:
(1) this Agreement has been duly executed by the Parties;
(2) the Equity Pledge under this Agreement has been duly registered on the register of shareholders of the Company. The Pledgors shall provide the Pledgee with the evidence of the registration of the Equity Pledge on the register of shareholders in form to the satisfaction of the Pledgee, and shall, after the registration of the Equity Pledge is completed and as required by the Pledgee, provide the Pledgee with the pledge certificate issued by the administration of industry and commerce in form to the satisfaction of the Pledgee.
12.2 The term of this Agreement shall end upon the full performance of the Contractual Obligations or the full discharge of the Secured Liabilities.