Common use of Exchange Procedures Clause in Contracts

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Farmers National Banc Corp /Oh/), Merger Agreement (Middlefield Banc Corp), Merger Agreement (Farmers National Banc Corp /Oh/)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As Subject to Section 3.1(c), promptly as practicable after following the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five two (52) business days Business Days following the Closing DateEffective Time), Purchaser Parent shall send or cause instruct the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock or Warrants (each, a the HolderCertificates”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company A) a letter of transmittal substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that ), which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry be in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in customary form reasonably satisfactory to Parent and the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the MergerEquityholders’ Representative, and (iiiB) instructions for use in effecting the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder surrender of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided Certificates in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, exchange for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable or Warrant Payment (as applicable) receivable in respect of such Certificates. Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent together with such Letter of Transmittal, properly completed and duly executed, and such other documents as may be required pursuant to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender instructions, the holder of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, receive in exchange therefor the portion of the Merger Consideration or Warrant Payment (ias applicable) which such holder has the amount right to receive in respect of dividends the shares of Company Capital Stock or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Warrants formerly represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares (and paid the right to receive payments from the General Escrow Account and the Equityholders’ Representative Escrow Account in accordance with the Escrow Agreement and Section 3.3), and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Following any receipt of an Excess Payment, the Exchange Agent will deliver to each holder of surrendered Certificates, such holder’s pro rata portion thereof; provided, that if the Exchange Agent receives an Excess Payment prior to receipt of surrendered Certificates, then payment of the portion thereof applicable to such surrender date, and/or (ii) unsurrendered Certificates shall be made at the appropriate same time as payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect balance of the applicable Merger Consideration or Warrant Payment (as applicable) upon surrender thereof. No interest will be paid or accrued on any Merger Consideration or Warrant Payment (as applicable) payable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) holders of Certificates. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate shares of Company Capital Stock or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Warrants that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the portion of the Merger Consideration or Warrant Payment (including cash as applicable) payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall such shares of Company Capital Stock or Warrants may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder shares of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent Capital Stock or Purchaser, as the case may be, Warrants is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall accompanied by any documents reasonably required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer Taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.1, each Certificate shall, subject to Section 3.2, be cancelled and exchanged for deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the portion of the Merger Consideration and any cash or Warrant Payment (as applicable) payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures such Certificate as set forth in this Article IISection 2.6. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Acquisition Agreement, Acquisition Agreement, Acquisition Agreement

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as practicable after following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Business Days thereafter, the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Entity shall send cause the Exchange Agent to mail or cause to be sent deliver to each holder of record of Company Common Shares person who was, immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachTime, a “Holder”) holder of record of CAC Common Stock a form of letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares which shall be in customary form and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Old Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent) containing instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Old Certificates in exchange for the consideration to which such person may be entitled pursuant to this Article III. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as Upon surrender to the Exchange Agent may impose to effect of an orderly exchange thereof Old Certificate for cancellation together with such letter of transmittal duly executed and completed in accordance with normal exchange practices and the instructions thereto, the holder of such Old Certificate shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4exchange therefor, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days after due surrender, a New Certificate. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate No interest will accrue or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right be paid with respect to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares or other property to be issued or paid in consideration therefor delivered upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder Old Certificates. Each of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer CEC and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) Surviving Entity shall be entitled to deduct and withhold withhold, or cause the Exchange Agent to deduct and withhold, from any amounts the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company CAC Common Shares Stock such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case it may be, is be required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code, Code or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the that amounts are so withheld by CEC, the Surviving Entity or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder holders of Company CAC Common Shares Stock in respect of whom such which the deduction and withholding was made by CEC, the Surviving Entity or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there and such amounts shall be no transfers on delivered by CEC, the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates Surviving Entity or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for as the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time case may be paid to Purchaser. In such eventbe, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawstaxing authority. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 4 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger, Agreement and Plan of Merger (CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT Corp), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Caesars Acquisition Co)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Certificates or Book Entry Shares whose shares were converted into the right to receive Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 2.6 (A) a letter of transmittal and instructions, the form and substance of which shall be substantially as reasonably agreed to by the Company Common Shares immediately and Parent and prepared prior to the Effective Time Closing (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that ), which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title with respect to Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) or Book-Entry Shares to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iiiB) instructions for effecting the method surrender of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of as applicable, in exchange for the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such . (b) Upon surrender of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representShare to the Exchange Agent together with such Letter of Transmittal, for all purposes, only duly executed and completed in accordance with the right to receive, without interestinstructions thereto, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender holder of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof Share shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) receive promptly in exchange therefor the amount Merger Consideration for each share of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Stock formerly represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after Share shall then be canceled. (c) No interest will be paid or will accrue for the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance benefit of holders of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate Certificates on the Merger Consideration payable upon the surrender of the Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. (e) . In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, payment of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser may be made with respect to such Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor Stock to such a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company shares of Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or Stock is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled accompanied by all documents required to evidence and exchanged for the Merger Consideration effect such transfer and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund evidence that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to all applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall stock transfer taxes have been lost, stolen paid or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIare not applicable.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Silicon Storage Technology Inc), Merger Agreement (Silicon Storage Technology Inc), Merger Agreement (Microchip Technology Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five Newco shall cause its transfer agent and registrar, American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as the exchange agent (5) business days following the Closing Date"Exchange Agent"), Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior mail to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) former shareholders of JWCFS appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and the risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence the certificates theretofore representing shares of Book-Entry Shares JWCFS Common Stock shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent) advising such holder of the effectiveness of the Share Exchange and the procedure for surrendering to the Exchange Agent (who may appoint forwarding agents with the approval of Newco) such certificates for exchange into certificates evidencing Newco Common Stock. Each holder of certificates theretofore evidencing shares of JWCFS Common Stock, upon proper surrender thereof to the Exchange Agent together and in accordance with such transmittal form, shall be entitled promptly to receive in exchange therefor certificates evidencing Newco Common Stock deliverable in respect of the shares of JWCFS Common Stock evidenced by the certificates so surrendered, together with all undelivered dividends and distributions in respect of such shares (without interest thereon) pursuant to Section 2.7(b). Newco shall not be obligated to deliver the consideration to which any former holder of JWCFS Common Stock is entitled as a result of the Share Exchange until such holder surrenders such holder's certificate or certificates representing the shares of JWCFS Common Stock for exchange as provided in this Section 2.7(a). The Exchange Agent certificate or certificates of JWCFS Common Stock so surrendered shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions be duly endorsed as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms require. Any other provision of this AgreementAgreement notwithstanding, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of neither Newco nor the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former a holder of Company JWCFS Common Shares Stock for any amount amounts paid or property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsproperty law. (hii) In Promptly after the event any Certificate Effective Time, Newco shall have been lostdeliver, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as cause the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against to promptly deliver to, each of the Genesis Members certificates evidencing Newco Common Stock (and cash in lieu of any claim that may be made against it with respect fractional share) deliverable to such Certificate Genesis Member pursuant to Section 2.4, if there has -- been delivered to Newco the certificates representing (provided, that or other instruments or evidence of ownership of) all Genesis Membership Interests of such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five Genesis Member (properly endorsed for transfer to (or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIotherwise legally sufficient to convey ownership thereof) to Newco.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Combination (J W Genesis Financial Corp), Agreement and Plan of Combination (Jw Charles Financial Services Inc/Fl), Agreement and Plan of Combination (Jw Charles Financial Services Inc/Fl)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following HQ Surviving Corporation will instruct the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) evidenced outstanding shares of VANTAS Common Stock (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company shares to be canceled pursuant to Section 1(g)(ii)) (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Sharesthe "Certificate"), (1) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary a form letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange AgentAgent and shall be in such form and have such other provisions as the HQ Surviving Corporation may reasonably specify) and (2) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Upon surrender of a Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as for cancellation to the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance be appointed by the HQ Surviving Corporation, together with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchasera letter of transmittal, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerduly executed, and such other customary documents as may be required pursuant to such instructions (iii) collectively, the method "Common Stock Transmittal Documents"), the holder of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable such Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion exchange therefor its proportionate share of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares payable pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu 1(g)(i) for each share of fractional Purchaser VANTAS Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withStock, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares formerly represented by such Certificate, without any interest thereon, less any required withholding of Taxes, and the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) so surrendered shall thereupon be canceled. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company shares of VANTAS Common Shares that Stock, which is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyVANTAS, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Sharespayable pursuant to Section 1(g)(i) shall may be issued or and paid in exchange therefor accordance with this Section 3 to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee of such shares if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing evidencing such Company shares of VANTAS Common Shares shall be Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent and is properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer. The signature on the Certificate or any related stock power must be properly guaranteed and the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall of the Merger Consideration must either pay any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, so surrendered or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser HQ Surviving Corporation that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall Merger Consideration will be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld delivered by the Exchange Agent or Purchaseras promptly as practicable following surrender of a Certificate and the related Common Stock Transmittal Documents. In no event will interest be payable on the Merger Consideration. Until surrendered in accordance with this Section 3, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts each Certificate shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to deemed at any time after the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior evidence only the right to the Effective Time. Ifreceive, after the Effective Timeupon such surrender, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and for each share of VANTAS Common Stock formerly represented by such Certificate. The Exchange Fund shall not be used for any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures purpose other than as set forth in this Article II. (g) Section 3. Any portion interest, dividends or other income earned on the investment of cash held in the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by shall be for the Holders as account of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the HQ Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsCorporation. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Vantas Inc), Merger Agreement (Reckson Services Industries Inc), Merger Agreement (Carramerica Realty Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as reasonably practicable after following the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five ten (510) business days Business Days following the Closing DateEffective Time), Purchaser Parent shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than represented outstanding shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company Stock (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter Certificates”, it being understood that any references herein to “Certificates” shall be deemed to include references to book-entry account statements relating to the ownership of Transmittal”shares of Company Common Stock) that and whose shares of Company Common Stock have been converted into the right to receive Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 4.1 (i) a letter of transmittal in customary form and with such other provisions as Parent may determine (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Paying Agent) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Paying Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance together with such reasonable terms letter of transmittal, properly completed and conditions duly executed, and such other documents as the Exchange Agent may impose be reasonably required pursuant to effect an orderly exchange thereof such instructions (or, if such shares are held in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaseror other uncertificated form, in upon the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity entry through a book-entry transfer agent of the Letters surrender of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with such shares on a book-entry account statement), the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery holder of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable such Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each Consideration which such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion receive in respect of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu shares of fractional Purchaser Company Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Stock formerly represented by such Certificate, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior accrued on any Merger Consideration payable to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount holders of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) Certificates. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such shares of Company Common Shares Stock is presented to the Paying Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer Taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 4.2, each Certificate shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay deemed at any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled right to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares receive upon such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for surrender the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares or the right to demand to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion “fair value” of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed shares represented thereby as contemplated by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsSection 4.3. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Comverge, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Solutia Inc), Merger Agreement (Southwall Technologies Inc /De/)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable and in any event within two (2) Business Days after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Paying Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a Certificate or Certificates that, immediately prior to the Effective Time Time, represented outstanding Shares subsequently converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, as set forth in Section 2.04 (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that (A) shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(sthe Certificates shall pass only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Paying Agent (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof, together with any bond or indemnity agreement, as contemplated by Section 3.06) and (B) shall be in such form and have such other provisions as the Surviving Corporation may specify, subject to the Company’s reasonable approval (to be sought prior to the Effective Time) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the applicable Merger Consideration. (b) Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with a Letter of Transmittal, duly completed and executed, and any other documents reasonably required by the Paying Agent or evidence the Surviving Corporation, (i) the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to Section 2.04 and (ii) the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. No interest will be paid or accrued on the cash payable upon surrender of the Certificates. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.02, each such Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the applicable Merger Consideration. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any holder of Book-Entry Shares shall passnot be required to deliver a Certificate or an executed Letter of Transmittal to the Paying Agent to receive the Merger Consideration that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to this Article III. In lieu thereof, only upon delivery each holder of Certificate(s) record of one or evidence of more Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry whose Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have were converted into the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in shall automatically upon the MergerEffective Time (or, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive at any later time at which such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right be so converted) be entitled to receive, without interestand Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to pay and deliver as promptly as practicable and in any event within three (3) Business Days after the Effective Time, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to, to this Article IIIII. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the appropriate amount of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be is presented to the Paying Agent properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate stock powers and otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes accompanied by all documents reasonably required by reason of the payment or issuance Paying Agent to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish evidence and effect such transfer and to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser evidence that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall Taxes have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIpaid.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (CF Corp), Merger Agreement (Fidelity & Guaranty Life)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable and in any event within two (2) Business Days after the First Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a Certificate or Certificates that, immediately prior to the First Effective Time Time, represented outstanding Shares subsequently converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, as set forth in Section 2.04 (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that (A) shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(sthe Certificates shall pass only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Exchange Agent (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof, together with any bond or indemnity agreement, as contemplated by Section 3.06) and (B) shall be in such form and have such other provisions as the Surviving Company may specify, subject to the Company’s reasonable approval (to be sought prior to the First Effective Time) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the applicable Merger Consideration. (b) Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with a Letter of Transmittal, duly completed and executed, and any other documents reasonably required by the Exchange Agent or evidence the Surviving Company, (i) the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to Section 2.04 and (ii) the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. No interest will be paid or accrued on the Merger Consideration payable upon surrender of the Certificates. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.02, each such Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the First Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the applicable Merger Consideration. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, any holder of Book-Entry Shares shall passnot be required to deliver a Certificate or an executed Letter of Transmittal to the Exchange Agent to receive the Merger Consideration that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to this Article III. In lieu thereof, only upon delivery each holder of Certificate(s) record of one or evidence of more Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry whose Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have were converted into the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in shall automatically upon the MergerFirst Effective Time (or, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive at any later time at which such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right be so converted) be entitled to receive, without interestand Parent shall cause the Exchange Agent to pay and deliver as promptly as practicable and in any event within three (3) Business Days after the First Effective Time, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to, to this Article IIIII. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the appropriate amount of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be is presented to the Exchange Agent properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate stock powers and otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes accompanied by all documents reasonably required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, to evidence and paid over effect such transfer and to evidence that any applicable Taxes have been paid. (e) Notwithstanding anything to the appropriate Governmental Entitycontrary contained in this Agreement, such withheld amounts no fractional shares of Parent Common Stock shall be treated issued in connection with the First Merger and no dividends or other distributions with respect to Parent Common Stock shall be payable on or with respect to any fractional share and no such fractional share will entitle the owner thereof to vote or to any rights of a shareholder of Parent. As promptly as practicable after the First Effective Time, the Exchange Agent, acting as agent for the holders of Shares who would otherwise have been entitled to a fraction of a share of Parent Common Stock, shall aggregate all purposes fractional shares of this Agreement as having been paid Parent Common Stock that would otherwise be issued pursuant to Section 2.04 and cause them to be sold on the New York Stock Exchange at then-prevailing prices and, in lieu of the issuance of any such fractional share, any holder of Company Shares who would otherwise have been entitled to a fraction of a share of Parent Common Shares Stock shall have the right to receive an amount equal such holder’s proportionate interest in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made the net proceeds from the sale by the Exchange Agent or Purchaserof shares of such Parent Common Stock, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior rounded to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each casenearest ▇▇▇▇▇, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsinterest. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Fidelity National Financial, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Fidelity National Financial, Inc.), Merger Agreement (FGL Holdings)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, Time (but in any event no event later than five the third (53rd) business days day following the Closing DateEffective Time), Purchaser shall send or cause Parent will instruct the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each record holder of record shares of Company Common Shares immediately Stock as of the Effective Time (A) a letter of transmittal (which will be in a form agreed to by Parent and the Company prior to the Effective Time (eachand which will specify that, a “Holder”) (other than in respect of certificated shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectivelyStock, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall will be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(sthe Certificates will pass, only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Paying Agent) (the “Letter of Transmittal”) and (B) instructions (in a form agreed to by Parent and the Company prior to the Effective Time) for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or evidence transfer of the Book-Entry Shares to the Paying Agent in exchange for the Per Share Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to receive. (ii) Promptly after the Effective Time, upon (x) surrender of Certificates, if any, for cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with such letters of transmittal, properly completed and duly executed, or (y) receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Paying Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Paying Agent may reasonably request) in the case of Book-Entry Shares shall passand, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence in each such case, such other documents (including in respect of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits Shares) as may be reasonably required by the Paying Agent, each holder who held shares of loss in lieu of such Certificates) Company Common Stock immediately prior to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, Effective Time will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) upon surrender of the amount Certificates or transfer of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment datetherefor, the amount Per Share Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to Section 2.1(a) (after taking into account all shares of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Company Common Shares represented Stock then held by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) holder). In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Per Share Merger Consideration (including cash payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser such shares of Company Common Shares) shall Stock may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name transferee, if the Certificate representing such shares of Company Common Stock or evidence of ownership of the Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if presented to the Certificate or Paying Agent, and in the case of both certificated and Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such of Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for Stock, accompanied by all documents reasonably required to evidence and effect such transfer and the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall exchange will pay to the Paying Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person delivery of the Per Share Merger Consideration, in any name other than that of the registered record holder of such shares of Company Common Stock, or will establish to the satisfaction of the Paying Agent that such Taxes have been paid or are not payable. Until such required documentation has been delivered and Certificates, if any, have been surrendered or “agent’s message” has been delivered to Paying Agent, as contemplated by this Section 2.4, each Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of Share will be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such delivery and (y) the expiration surrender or termination evidence of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as transfer in the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Per Share Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable payable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsStock. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Gulf Island Fabrication Inc), Merger Agreement (Gulf Island Fabrication Inc), Merger Agreement (IES Holdings, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of a Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time Certificate a form of letter of transmittal (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Company Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Company Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms ) and conditions as instructions for use in effecting the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity surrender of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of Company Certificates in exchange for certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company the shares of Parent Common Shares converted in the Merger, Stock and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares of Parent Common Shares where Stock, if any, into which the Holder shares of Company Common Stock represented by such Company Certificate or Company Certificates shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement. Upon proper surrender of a Company Certificate for exchange and cancellation to the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned Exchange Agent, together with a properly completed Letter letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by duly executed, the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will holder of such Company Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a certificate representing that number of shares of Parent Common Stock (if any) to which such Holder’s portion former holder of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Company Common Stock shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares have become entitled pursuant to Section 1.4 and any the provisions of this Article III, a check representing the amount of cash (if any) payable in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares of Parent Common Shares Stock which such former holder has the right to be issued or paid receive in consideration therefor upon surrender respect of such the Company Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withsurrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Article III, and any dividends or other distributions to which such holder is shall have become entitled pursuant toto Section 3.6(b), this Article IIand the Company Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued on the cash payable in lieu of fractional shares. (db) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock with a record date after the Effective Time shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Company Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the holder thereof shall surrender of such Company Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIIII. Subject to After the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such a Company Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IIIII, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of receive any such dividends or other distributions distributions, without any interest thereon, with a record date after the Effective Time and which theretofore had become payable with respect to the whole number shares of Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry SharesCompany Certificate. (ec) In If any certificate representing shares of Parent Common Stock is to be issued in the event name of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the Certificate surrendered in exchange therefor, it shall be a condition of the issuance thereof that the Company Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed (or Book-Entry Sharesaccompanied by an appropriate instrument of transfer) and otherwise in proper form for transfer, and that the person requesting such exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any applicable stock transfer or other Taxes or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the Tax has such Taxes have been paid or is are not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepayable. (fd) After At and after the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of the Company of the shares of Company Common Shares Stock that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Company Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares shares are presented for transfer to Parent, the Surviving Company or the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth as provided in this Article IIIII. (ge) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as shareholders of the one-year anniversary of Company for twelve months after the Effective Time may shall be paid paid, at the request of Parent, to PurchaserParent. In such event, any Holder Any shareholders of the Company who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II III shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to Parent for payment of the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, Consideration and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock deliverable in respect of each share of Company Common Share Stock held by such Holder shareholder at the Effective Time as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the foregoingcontrary contained herein, none of PurchaserParent, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person person shall be liable to any former holder of shares of Company Common Shares Stock for any amount properly delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (hf) In the event any Company Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Company Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by Parent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent Parent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Company Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance pursuant to this Agreement. (g) Parent or the Exchange Agent will be entitled to deduct and withhold from the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Stock such amounts as Parent or the Exchange Agent are required to deduct and withhold with respect to the terms making of such payment under the Code, or any applicable provision of any other U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. tax Law. To the extent that such amounts are properly withheld by Parent or the Exchange Agent, such withheld amounts will be treated for all purposes of this Agreement, including requirements Agreement as having been paid to the holder of this Article IICompany Common Stock in respect of whom such deduction and withholding were made by Parent or the Exchange Agent.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Agreement and Plan of Merger (Pixar \Ca\), Merger Agreement (Walt Disney Co/)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) Not more than 90 days nor fewer than 30 days prior to the Closing Date, the Exchange Agent will mail a form of election (the "Form of Election") to holders of record of shares of SCANA Common Stock and to the holders of record of shares of PSNC Common Stock (as of a record date as close as practicable to the date of mailing and mutually agreed to by PSNC and SCANA). In addition, the Exchange Agent will use its best efforts to make the Form of Election available to the persons (as defined in Section 2.3(f)) who become shareholders of SCANA or PSNC during the period between such record date and the Closing Date. Any election to receive SCANA Merger Consideration contemplated by Section 2.1(e) or PSNC Cash Consideration contemplated by Section 2.2(d) will have been properly made only if the Exchange Agent shall have received at its designated office or offices, by 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the fifth business day immediately preceding the Closing Date (the "Election Deadline"), a Form of Election properly completed and accompanied by a SCANA Certificate or a PSNC Certificate, as the case may be (together or as applicable, "Certificate(s)") for the shares to which such Form of Election relates, duly endorsed in blank or otherwise acceptable for transfer on the books of SCANA or PSNC, as the case may be (or an appropriate guarantee of delivery), as set forth in such Form of Election. An election may be revoked only by written notice received by the Exchange Agent prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Election Deadline. In addition, all elections shall automatically be revoked if the Exchange Agent is notified in writing by SCANA and PSNC that either of the Mergers has been abandoned. If an election is so revoked, the Certificate(s) (or guarantee of delivery, as appropriate) to which such election relates will be promptly returned to the person submitting the same to the Exchange Agent. SCANA shall have the discretion, which it may delegate in whole or in part to the Exchange Agent, to determine whether Forms of Election have been properly completed, signed and submitted or revoked pursuant to this Article II, and to disregard immaterial defects in Forms of Election. The decision of SCANA (or the Exchange Agent) in such matters shall be conclusive and binding (ii) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time of the First Merger, with respect to the First Merger, and after the Effective Time of the Second Merger, with respect to the Second Merger (together or as applicable, the "Effective Time"), but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent Exchange Agent will mail to each holder of record of Company a Certificate, whose shares of SCANA Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Stock or PSNC Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials Stock (collectively, the “Letter "Shares") were converted into the right to receive SCANA Merger Consideration or PSNC Merger Consideration (together, the "Merger Consideration") and who failed to return a properly completed Form of Transmittal”Election, (i) that shall a letter of transmittal (which will specify that delivery shall will be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall the Certificates will pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each and will be in such form and have such other provisions as SCANA and PSNC may specify consistent with this Agreement) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. (iii) At the Effective Time, with respect to properly made elections in accordance with Section 2.3(b)(i), and upon surrender in accordance with Section 2.3(b)(ii) of a Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as cancellation to the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance be appointed by SCANA and PSNC, together with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchasersuch letter of transmittal, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerduly executed, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry SharesExchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each Consideration that such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares receive pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu the provisions of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, and the record holder thereof shall Certificate so surrendered will forthwith be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) canceled. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is are not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanySCANA or PSNC, as the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall case may be, payment may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person person other than the Person person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be is properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay pays any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the such payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser SCANA and PSNC that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orUntil surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.3, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of each Certificate will be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of right to receive upon such surrender the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to Merger Consideration that the holder of Company Common Shares thereof has the right to receive in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior Certificate pursuant to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers provisions of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may . No interest will be paid or will accrue on any cash payable to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect holders of Certificates pursuant to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements provisions of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Public Service Co of North Carolina Inc), Merger Agreement (South Carolina Electric & Gas Co), Merger Agreement (Scana Corp)

Exchange Procedures. The Surviving Corporation shall cause the Paying Agent, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, to mail to each registered holder of Company Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (ai) As a letter of transmittal in customary form and containing such other provisions as Parent reasonably may require (a "Letter of Transmittal") and (ii) instructions for surrendering the stock certificate or certificates representing the holder's Company Shares (each a "Company Stock Certificate") in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable in respect of the holder's certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Company Shares which were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration. The Proxy Statement shall provide that, in lieu of delivery following the Effective Time as aforesaid, and commencing on the tenth (10th) calendar day prior to the date of the Stockholders Meeting, the Letter of Transmittal and instructions for use will be promptly delivered by the Paying Agent to each prior holder of Company Shares from whom the Paying Agent receives a written request therefor prior to the date of the Stockholders Meeting, and that each such prior holder of Company Shares shall be entitled thereafter to surrender its Company Stock Certificate in accordance with the procedures described herein, in the Letter of Transmittal and in the accompanying instructions, and Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to comply with the foregoing. Upon surrender of a Company Stock Certificate to the Paying Agent for cancellation, together with a Letter of Transmittal duly executed and completed in accordance with its instructions and such other documents as the Paying Agent reasonably may require, the Paying Agent shall pay to the holder of the surrendered certificate, as promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but the Merger Consideration payable in no event later than five (5) business days following respect of the Closing DateCompany Shares represented by the certificate, Purchaser and the Company Stock Certificate so surrendered shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “canceled. The Letter of Transmittal”) Transmittal shall provide that shall specify that delivery shall be effectedsuch payment shall, at the holder's election and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to wire transfer instructions, be by wire transfer at the Exchange AgentCompany's expense for payments exceeding $1,000,000. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by If any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry payable in respect of any Company Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares is to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of those shares, it shall be a condition to making such payment that the Company Stock Certificate representing those shares is surrendered properly endorsed or Book-Entry Shares, otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the Person requesting such payment shall (i) pay any transfer or other Taxes required as a result of payment to a Person other than the registered holder or (ii) establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Paying Agent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicablepayable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of At and after the Effective Time and until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.5(b), each Company Stock Certificate (y) the expiration other than Company Stock Certificates representing Dissenting Shares or termination shares of the Exchange Agent Agreement, PurchaserCompany Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock held in treasury to be canceled pursuant to Section 2.4(d) shall be entitled deemed to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated represent for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid only the right to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for receive the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIpayable upon such surrender. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Scherer Healthcare Inc), Merger Agreement (Stericycle Inc), Merger Agreement (Stericycle Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As Prior to the Closing, Acquiror shall appoint an exchange agent (the “Exchange Agent”) to act as the agent for the purpose of paying the Aggregate Merger Consideration to the Company Stockholders. At or before the Effective Time, Acquiror shall deposit with the Exchange Agent the number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock to be paid as Aggregate Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 3.1(c). (b) Reasonably promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or shall cause the Exchange Agent to be sent send, to each record holder of record shares of Company Common Shares Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachwhose shares of Company Common Stock were converted pursuant to Section 3.1(a) into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, a “Holder”) letter of transmittal and instructions (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that the delivery shall be effected, and the risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery proper transfer of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) each share to the Exchange Agent. The , and which letter of transmittal will be in customary form and have such other provisions as Acquiror may reasonably specify) for use in such exchange (each, a “Letter of Transmittal”). (c) Each holder of shares of Company Common Stock that have been converted into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 3.1(a) shall be entitled to receive such portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, upon receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Exchange Agent shall accept each (or such Certificate or evidence other evidence, if any, of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions transfer as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance reasonably request), together with normal exchange practices a duly completed and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters validly executed Letter of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be requested by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Exchange Agent. No interest shall be paid or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion accrued upon the transfer of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIshare. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect Promptly following the date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, Acquiror shall instruct the Exchange Agent to Purchaser Common Shares deliver to Acquiror all documents in its possession relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Exchange Agent’s duties shall terminate. Thereafter, any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration that remains unclaimed shall be paid returned to Acquiror, and any Person that was a holder of shares of Company Common Stock as of immediately prior to the holder Effective Time that has not exchanged such shares of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Company Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs Stock in accordance with this Article II. Subject Section 3.2 prior to the effect date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time may transfer such shares of Company Common Stock to Acquiror and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar Laws) receive in consideration therefor, and Acquiror shall promptly deliver, such applicable portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration without any interest thereupon. None of Acquiror, Merger Sub, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any Person in respect of any of the Aggregate Merger Consideration delivered to a public official pursuant to and in accordance with any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of . If any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shares shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid not have been transferred immediately prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from on which any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement Article III would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any holder of Company Common Shares Governmental Authority, any such amounts as shall, to the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax extent permitted by applicable Law, with respect to become the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company property of the Company Common Shares that were issued Surviving Corporation, free and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers clear of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates all claims or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu interest of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawspreviously entitled thereto. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Southport Acquisition Corp), Merger Agreement (Angel Studios, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Southport Acquisition Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares (i) a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares (eachthe "CERTIFICATES"), (ii) a “Holder”grant letter, option agreement, or other document representing a Converted Option (an "OPTION DOCUMENT"), and (iii) a certificate, agreement, or other document representing a Company Warrant (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectivelya "WARRANT CERTIFICATE"), the “Letter following: (A) a letter of Transmittal”) that transmittal which shall specify that delivery shall be effectedeffective, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates, Option Documents, and Warrant Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such the Certificates) , Option Documents, and Warrant Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and which letter shall be in customary form and have such other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify; and (B) instructions for effecting the surrender of such Certificates, Option Documents, and Warrant Certificates in exchange for the applicable Merger Consideration. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Upon surrender of a Certificate, Option Document, or Warrant Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as to the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof together with such letter of transmittal, duly executed and completed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerinstructions thereto, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Exchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate, Option Document, or Book-Entry Shares, will Warrant Certificate shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange therefor the applicable Merger ConsiderationConsideration and the Certificate, determined as provided in Section 1.4Option Document, or Warrant Certificate so surrendered shall be cancelled. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate No interest will be paid or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of will accrue on the Merger Consideration allocable payable to such Certificate holders of Certificates, Option Documents, or Book-Entry Shares Warrant Certificates pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu the provisions of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIIII. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership surrender of a Certificate representing Shares or Book-Entry Shares a Warrant Certificate representing Company Common Shares that is Warrants which are not registered in the stock transfer records of Companythe Company under the name of the person surrendering such Certificate or Warrant Certificate, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall payment may be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person person other than the Person person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Warrant Certificate so surrendered is registered if the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares Warrant Certificate shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, Warrant Certificate or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orUntil surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.4, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of each Certificate, Option Document, and Warrant Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of right to receive upon such surrender the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to Merger Consideration which the holder of Company Common Shares thereof has the right to receive in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent Certificate, Option Document, or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior Warrant Certificate pursuant to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements provisions of this Article IIIII.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Integrated Sensor Solutions Inc), Merger Agreement (Texas Instruments Inc), Merger Agreement (Texas Instruments Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser and in any event within five calendar days of the Merger Effective Date, an Exchange Agent designated by Niagara Bancorp shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior an outstanding share Certificate or Certificates a Letter of Transmittal containing instructions for the surrender of the Certificate or Certificates held by such holder for payment therefor. Upon surrender of the Certificate or Certificates to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, Exchange Agent in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Letter of Transmittal”) that , such holder shall specify that delivery shall be effectedpromptly receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agentwithout interest thereon. The Exchange Agent shall accept each send payments within three business days after the receipt of properly submitted documents. Approval of this Agreement by the stockholders of CNYF shall constitute authorization for Niagara Bancorp to designate and appoint such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as Exchange Agent. Neither Niagara Bancorp nor the Exchange Agent shall be obligated to deliver the Merger Consideration to a former stockholder of CNYF until such former stockholder surrenders his Certificate or Certificates or, in lieu thereof, any such appropriate affidavit of loss and indemnity agreement and bond as may impose be reasonably required by Niagara Bancorp. The Exchange Agent in its agreement shall be obligated to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry pay the Merger Consideration in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of If payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares is to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person person other than the Person person in whose name a Certificate surrendered in exchange therefore is registered, it shall be a condition of payment that the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed (or accompanied by an appropriate instrument of transfer) and otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Sharessurrendered, or required for any other reason, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent payable. (or, subsequent c) On or prior to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Merger Effective Time and (y) the expiration Date, Niagara Bancorp shall deposit or termination of cause to be deposited, in trust with the Exchange Agent AgreementAgent, Purchaser) an amount of cash equal to the aggregate Merger Consideration that the CNYF stockholders shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable receive on the Merger Effective Date pursuant to this Agreement Section 2.02 hereof. (d) The payment of the Merger Consideration upon the conversion of CNYF Common Stock in accordance with the above terms and conditions shall be deemed to any holder have been issued and paid in full satisfaction of Company all rights pertaining to such CNYF Common Shares such amounts as Stock. (e) Promptly following the date which is twelve months after the Merger Effective Date, the Exchange Agent or Purchasershall deliver to Niagara Bancorp all cash, as the case may be, is required to deduct certificates and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect other documents in its possession relating to the making transactions described in this Agreement, and the Exchange Agent's duties shall terminate. Thereafter, each holder of a Certificate formerly representing shares of CNYF Common Stock may surrender such payment. To Certificate to Niagara Bancorp and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar laws) receive in consideration therefore the extent the amounts are so withheld Merger Consideration multiplied by the Exchange Agent number of shares of CNYF Common Stock formerly represented by such Certificate, without any interest or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bedividends thereon. (f) After the close of business on the Merger Effective TimeDate, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of Company CNYF of the Company shares of CNYF Common Shares that were issued and Stock which are outstanding immediately prior to the Merger Effective Time other than Date, and the stock transfer books of CNYF shall be closed with respect to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Timesuch shares. If, after the Merger Effective TimeDate, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth as provided in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate certificate for CNYF Common Stock shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Exchange Agent shall deliver (except as otherwise provided in Section 2.02(iii)) in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, upon the making of an affidavit of that the fact by the Person claiming such Certificate holder thereof, the cash to be paid in the Merger as provided for herein; provided, however, that Niagara Bancorp may, in its sole discretion and as a condition precedent to the delivery thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of certificate to deliver a bond in such amount reasonable sum as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary Niagara Bancorp as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it CNYF, Niagara Bancorp or any other party with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate destroyed. (h) Niagara Bancorp is hereby authorized to adopt additional rules and regulations with respect to the Merger Consideration deliverable matters referred to in respect thereof in accordance this Section 2.03 not inconsistent with the terms provisions of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Cny Financial Corp), Merger Agreement (Cny Financial Corp), Merger Agreement (Cny Financial Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As At or promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following SHC shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a Frankfort First Certificate, other than holders of Dissenting Shares, which immediately prior to the Effective Time of Merger represented outstanding shares of Frankfort First Common Stock and which was not submitted to the Exchange Agent with a duly executed and completed Form of Election: (each, A) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “"Letter of Transmittal") that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Frankfort First Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Frankfort First Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Agent and which shall be in such form and have such other customary provisions as SHC may reasonably specify and which are reasonably acceptable to Frankfort First; and (B) instructions to effect the surrender of the Frankfort First Certificates in exchange for cash or shares of SHC Common Stock, or both, as described in this Agreement. (ii) Upon surrender of a Frankfort First Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent shall accept together with either a Form of Election or a Letter of Transmittal, in each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance case duly executed, and with such reasonable terms and conditions other documents as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and reasonably require, the holder of such Frankfort First Certificate shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, and SHC shall cause the portion Exchange Agent to promptly deliver in exchange therefor after the Effective Time: (A) a certificate representing that number of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu whole shares of fractional Purchaser SHC Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions Stock to which such holder is entitled to receive in respect of such Frankfort First Certificate pursuant toto Section 2.8 of this Agreement; and (B) a check representing the cash that such holder is entitled to receive in respect of such Frankfort First Certificate pursuant to Section 2.8 of this Agreement; and (C) a check for any Fraction Payment. The Frankfort First Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled; provided, this Article IIhowever, that fractional share interests of any one holder shall be aggregated to maximize the number of whole shares of SHC Common Stock to be issued and minimize the Fraction Payments. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (eiii) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company shares of Frankfort First Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyFrankfort First, a certificate representing the proper number of shares of SHC Common Stock, a check for the proper amount of cash that such holder is entitled to receive in respect of such Frankfort First Certificate pursuant to Section 2.8 of this Agreement and any Fraction Payment, shall be delivered to the transferee if the Frankfort First Certificate which represented such shares of Frankfort First Common Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. (iv) No interest will be paid or accrued on the cash and shares of SHC Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this Agreement, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered shares, if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may beany, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser shares of SHC Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant Stock, if any, payable to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsFrankfort First Shareholders. (hv) In the event If any Frankfort First Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Frankfort First Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by SHC in its reasonable discretion, the posting by such Person of a bond in such reasonable amount as the Exchange Agent SHC may determine is reasonably necessary direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Frankfort First Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue deliver in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate Frankfort First Certificate, a certificate representing the Merger Consideration deliverable proper number of shares of SHC Common Stock and a check for the cash, in respect thereof in accordance with each case that such Frankfort First Shareholder has the terms right to receive pursuant to Section 2.8 of this Agreement, including requirements and the Fraction Payment, if any, with respect to the shares of Frankfort First Common Stock formerly represented thereby, and unpaid dividends and distributions on the shares of SHC Common Stock, if any, as provided in this Article II of this Article IIAgreement. (vi) Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.9 of this Agreement, each Frankfort First Certificate, other than Dissenting Shares, shall be deemed at all times after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon surrender only the cash or shares of SHC Common Stock, or both, and any Fraction Payment. (vii) Dissenting Shares as to which appraisal rights have been properly perfected shall be treated in the manner provided in Section 2.12.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Kentucky First Federal Bancorp), Merger Agreement (Frankfort First Bancorp Inc), Merger Agreement (Frankfort First Bancorp Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but and in no any event not later than five the second (52nd) business days Business Day following the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser TCCC shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company shares of CCE Common Shares immediately prior Stock whose shares of CCE Common Stock were converted into the applicable Merger Consideration pursuant to the Effective Time Section 2.4(b), (each, x) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery of Certificates and/or Book-Entry Shares shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares thereto shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(sthereof) or Book-Entry SharesShares to the Exchange Agent and which shall be in such form and have such other provisions as agreed to by TCCC, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion CCE and Splitco) and (y) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration. (ii) Upon surrender of Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares to the Exchange Agent together with such letter of transmittal, determined duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrenderedmay customarily be required thereby or by the Exchange Agent, each the holder of such Certificate Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) receive in exchange therefor the amount applicable Merger Consideration in respect of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the shares of CCE Common Stock held prior to the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate its Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. (e) . No interest will be paid or accrued on any amount payable upon due surrender of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyCCE, the applicable Merger Consideration may be paid to the transferee thereof if the Certificate formerly representing such shares of CCE Common Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and to evidence that any applicable share transfer taxes have been paid or are not applicable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.5, each Certificate and Book-Entry Share shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.4, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time of the Merger to represent only the right to receive upon surrender the applicable Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shareswithout interest) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required as contemplated by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. this Article II. (iii) The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to under this Agreement to any holder of Company shares of CCE Common Shares Stock such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is are required to deduct and withhold be withheld or deducted under the Code, or any provision of state, United States state or local or foreign Tax Law, Law with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are Amounts so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, deducted and paid over to the appropriate applicable Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall Entity will be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company the shares of CCE Common Shares Stock in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bewere made. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Business Separation and Merger Agreement (Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.), Business Separation and Merger Agreement (Coca Cola Enterprises Inc), Business Separation and Merger Agreement (Coca Cola Co)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five three (53) business days following Business Days thereafter), Axcelis shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior a Veeco Certificate or Veeco Book-Entry Share, in each case which shares were converted into the right to receive the applicable Veeco Merger Consideration at the Effective Time pursuant to this Agreement: (eachi) a letter of transmittal, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Veeco Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(sthe Veeco Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and shall otherwise be in such form and have such other provisions as Axcelis, Veeco and the Exchange Agent may reasonably specify, and (ii) or evidence instructions for effecting the surrender of the Veeco Certificates and Veeco Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to exchange for the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing applicable Veeco Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash such holder’s Fractional Shares Cash Amount. Upon surrender of Veeco Certificates or Veeco Book-Entry Shares for cancellation to the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may be appointed by Veeco and Axcelis, and upon delivery of a letter of transmittal, duly executed and in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right proper form with all required enclosures and attachments, with respect to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) such Veeco Certificates or Veeco Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive the holder of such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate Veeco Certificates or Veeco Book-Entry Shares shall representbe entitled to receive the whole shares of Axcelis Common Stock that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to Section 2.1 and, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interestif applicable, the portion Fractional Shares Cash Amount for each share of the Merger Consideration allocable to Veeco Common Stock formerly represented by such Certificate Veeco Certificates or Veeco Book-Entry Share. Any Veeco Certificates or Veeco Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. If payment of fractional Purchaser Common Shares the applicable Veeco Merger Consideration is to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name any surrendered Veeco Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition precedent to payment that the Veeco Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay have paid any transfer or and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance delivery of the applicable Veeco Merger Consideration to a Person other than the registered holder of the Veeco Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish so surrendered and shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Axcelis that the Tax has such Taxes either have been paid or is are not applicablerequired to be paid. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent Notwithstanding anything to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent contrary contained in this Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any no holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Veeco Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for required to deliver a Veeco Certificate or, in the case of holders of Veeco Book-Entry Shares held through the Depository Trust Company, an executed letter of transmittal, to receive the applicable Veeco Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares that such holder is entitled to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined receive pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding Delivery of the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it Veeco Merger Consideration with respect to Veeco Book-Entry Shares shall only be made to the Person in whose name such shares are registered. Until surrendered as contemplated hereby, each Veeco Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may or Veeco Book-Entry Share shall be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from deemed at any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), time after the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate Effective Time to represent only the right to receive the applicable Veeco Merger Consideration deliverable provided in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Veeco Instruments Inc), Merger Agreement (Axcelis Technologies Inc), Merger Agreement (Veeco Instruments Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or cause to be sent deliver to each record holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to Stock at the Effective Time a letter of transmittal (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(sthe Certificates to Acquiror and shall be in such form and contain such other provisions as the Company and Acquiror shall agree) or evidence (the "Letter of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits Transmittal"). Upon surrender of loss in lieu of such Certificates) a Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance Acquiror, together with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by duly executed, the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a certificate representing that number of whole Acquiror Shares that such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only holder has the right to receivereceive pursuant to the provisions of this Article I, without interest, less the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable Escrow Shares attributable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to holder that will be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender and deposited with the Escrow Agent for the account of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withholder, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIcanceled. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, a certificate evidencing the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu proper number of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall Acquiror Shares may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such evidencing the Company Common Shares Stock shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for surrendered to the Acquiror, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay by evidence that any applicable stock transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has taxes have been paid or is not applicablepaid. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated Until surrendered for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor exchange in accordance with the procedures provisions of this Section 1.07(a), each Certificate theretofore representing Converted Shares (other than shares of Company Stock to be canceled pursuant to Section 1.06(c) of this Agreement) shall from and after the Effective Time represent for all purposes only the right to receive the Acquisition Consideration as set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion Agreement. If any holder of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Converted Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable unable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall surrender such holder's Certificates because such Certificates have been lost, stolen lost or destroyed, upon the making of such holder may deliver in lieu thereof an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a indemnity bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is form and substance and with surety reasonably necessary as indemnity against satisfactory to Acquiror. No interest shall be paid on any claim that may be made against it with respect Acquisition Consideration payable to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common former holders of Converted Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Core Laboratories N V), Merger Agreement (Core Laboratories N V), Merger Agreement (Owen H Dean Jr)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as practicable after following the Effective Time, and in any event within two Business Days following the Effective Time (but in no event later than five (5) business days following prior to the Closing DateEffective Time), Purchaser IAC shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent deliver to each holder of record Company Common Stock entitled to receive the Per Share Common Stock Consideration, and each holder of Company Common Preferred Stock entitled to receive the Per Share Preferred Stock Consideration, pursuant to Section 3.01 a letter of transmittal and instructions for use in exchanging such Company Stockholder’s Company Shares immediately prior for such Company Stockholder’s applicable portion of the Stock Consideration from the Exchange Fund, and that shall be in form and contain provisions which IAC may specify and which are reasonably acceptable to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”), which shall (i) that shall contain customary representations and warranties as to title, authorization, execution and delivery, (ii) contain a customary release of all claims against IAC and the Company arising out of or related to such holder’s ownership of Company Shares, (iii) specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry the Company Shares shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry any stock certificate representing the Company Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesa “Certificate”) to the Exchange Agent, and (iv) include instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates pursuant to the Letter of Transmittal. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as Promptly following the surrender to the Exchange Agent may impose of all Certificates held by such holder for cancellation (to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance the extent such Company Shares are or were certificated), together with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Sharesinstructions thereto and such other documents as may be required pursuant to such instructions, will the holder of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange therefore, and IAC shall instruct the Merger Exchange Agent to deliver the Per Share Common Stock Consideration or Per Share Preferred Stock Consideration, determined as provided applicable, in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.43.01, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. Until so surrenderedsurrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.02, each such Certificate entitled to receive the Per Share Common Stock Consideration or Book-Entry Shares Per Share Preferred Stock Consideration, as applicable, in accordance with Section 3.01 shall represent, for be deemed at all purposes, times after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, without interest, receive upon such surrender the portion of the Merger Per Share Common Stock Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which Per Share Preferred Stock Consideration that such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor receive in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIprovisions of Section 3.01. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Business Combination Agreement (Insight Acquisition Corp. /DE), Business Combination Agreement (Insight Acquisition Corp. /DE), Business Combination Agreement (Insight Acquisition Corp. /DE)

Exchange Procedures. An RPS Securityholder will have satisfied the “Delivery Requirements” if such RPS Securityholder (ai) As promptly executes and delivers a counterpart signature page to this Agreement, (ii) executes and delivers a Letter of Transmittal (as practicable defined below) and (iii) delivers original Certificates representing such RPS Securityholder’s Target Capital Stock and Target Warrants, if any, or an Affidavit of Loss to Parent. From and after the Effective Time, but Parent shall have and make available a sufficient amount of cash and a sufficient number of shares of Parent Common Stock and New Parent Warrants for exchange in no event later than five accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No RPS Securityholder shall be entitled to receive its share of the applicable Merger Consideration provided in Section 2.1 until it has satisfied the Delivery Requirements. Target shall use commercially reasonable efforts to mail or deliver (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder mailed or delivered) within fourteen (14) days after the date of record this Agreement a letter of Company Common Shares immediately prior to transmittal substantially in the Effective Time form attached hereto as Exhibit C (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity a copy of the Letters of Transmittal Information and compliance by Offering Memorandum to each RPS Securityholder that did not previously satisfy the Delivery Requirements. Target shall, upon receiving any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed original Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by Certificate, Affidavit of Loss or other communication or correspondence concerning the Holder’s Certificate(s) Letter of Transmittal or Book-Entry Sharesthe Merger, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion promptly inform Parent of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided same and deliver such original to Parent (it being understood that in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares all cases Parent shall represent, for all purposes, only receive and hold the right to receive, without interest, the portion original of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 Letter of Transmittal in escrow pending the Closing and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, the RPS Securityholders Committee shall receive and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with hold a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance copy of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event Letter of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer Transmittal). From and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing Parent shall within three (3) Business Days after an RPS Securityholder has satisfied the Delivery Requirements (x) pay such Company Common Shares are presented for RPS Securityholder in cash, by wire transfer of immediately available funds the amount of any cash to which such RPS Securityholder is entitled pursuant to Section 2.1 to the Exchange Agentaccount(s) specified in such RPS Securityholder’s Letter of Transmittal and (y) deliver to such RPS Securityholder the number of shares of Parent Common Stock and New Parent Warrants to which such RPS Securityholder is entitled pursuant to Section 2.1 (if any). Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.3, they each Certificate shall be cancelled deemed upon and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and at any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of time after the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look represent only the right to Purchaser with respect to receive the Merger Consideration, any cash appropriate amount of the consideration without interest as provided in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsSection 2.1. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Research Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Research Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Research Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) At or prior to the Effective Time, Sky shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with The Bank of New York (in such capacity, the "Exchange Agent"), for the benefit of the holders of certificates formerly representing Metropolitan Common Shares ("Old Certificates"), for exchange in accordance with this Article III, certificates representing the Sky Common Shares ("New Certificates") and an estimated amount of cash (such cash and New Certificates, together with any dividends or distributions with a record date occurring on or after the Effective Date with respect thereto (without any interest on any such cash, dividends or distributions), being hereinafter referred to as the "Exchange Fund") to be paid pursuant to this Article III in exchange for outstanding Metropolitan Common Shares. (b) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Sky shall send or cause the New Certificates into which shares of a shareholder's Metropolitan Common Shares are converted on the Effective Date and/or any check in respect of cash to be sent paid as part of the Merger Consideration and in respect of any fractional share interests or dividends or distributions which such person shall be entitled to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior receive to be delivered to such shareholder upon delivery to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Exchange Agent of Old Certificates representing such Metropolitan Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) an indemnity affidavit reasonably satisfactory to Sky and the Exchange Agent, if any of such certificates are lost, stolen or destroyed) owned by such shareholder. The Exchange Agent shall accept each No interest will be paid on any such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose cash to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash be paid in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder share interests or in respect of the applicable Certificate has no right dividends or distributions that any such person shall be entitled to receive whole Purchaser Common Sharespursuant to this Article III upon such delivery. (c) A Holder who has returned Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Exchange Agent, if any, nor any party hereto shall be liable to any former holder of Metropolitan Common Shares for any amount properly delivered to a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares public official pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued applicable abandoned property, escheat or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIsimilar laws. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Sky Common Shares with a record date occurring on or after the Effective Date shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser representing Metropolitan Common Shares represented thereby, converted in each case unless and the Merger into the right to receive such Sky Common Shares until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid receive New Certificates in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IISection 3.04. After becoming so entitled in accordance with this Section 3.04, the record holder thereof also shall be entitled to receive any such dividends or other distributions, without any interest thereon, which theretofor had become payable with respect to Sky Common Shares such holder had the right to receive upon surrender of the Old Certificates. (ge) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as shareholders of the one-year anniversary of Metropolitan for nine months after the Effective Time may shall be paid to PurchaserSky. In such event, any Holder Any shareholders of Metropolitan who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II III shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to Sky for payment of the Merger ConsiderationSky Common Shares, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, shares and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Sky Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Metropolitan Common Share held by Shares such Holder shareholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Metropolitan Financial Corp /Oh/), Merger Agreement (Sky Financial Group Inc), Merger Agreement (Sky Financial Group Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later more than five (5) business days following thereafter), the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior that were converted pursuant to Section 2.1(c) into the Effective Time right to receive the Merger Consideration, (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry such Shares shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) the certificates (or evidence of Book-Entry shares in book entry form) which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such the “Certificates) to the Exchange Paying Agent, and which shall be in such form and shall have such other customary provisions (including customary provisions with respect to delivery of an “agent’s message” with respect to Shares held in book-entry form) as Parent may reasonably specify) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for payment of the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Upon surrender of a Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance for cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with such reasonable terms letter of transmittal, duly completed and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof validly executed in accordance with normal exchange practices the instructions (and shall such other customary documents as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry SharesPaying Agent), will the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange therefor the Merger ConsiderationConsideration for each Share formerly represented by such Certificate, determined as provided in Section 1.4and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion If payment of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares is to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name the surrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares is registered, it shall be a condition of payment that (x) the Certificate so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect that transfer and (y) the Paying Agent shall be entitled to deduct any applicable Taxes from the Merger Consideration in accordance with Section 2.2(g), unless the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Surviving Corporation that the such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of Each Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled right to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to receive upon surrender in accordance with this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for Section 2.2 the Merger Consideration and into which the Shares have been converted pursuant to Section 2.1(c). No interest shall be paid or accrued on any cash in lieu payable to holders of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect Certificates pursuant to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements provisions of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Ulticom, Inc), Merger Agreement (Ulticom, Inc), Merger Agreement (Ulticom, Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As At or promptly as practicable after following the Company Merger Effective Time, but in no event later than five CCI shall cause DST Systems, Inc., or any successor transfer agent of CCI (5the “Transfer Agent”), to record on the stock records of CCI the issuance of shares of CCI Class A Common Stock (including any fractional shares thereof) business days following equal to the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent Company Merger Consideration that is issuable to each holder of record shares of CMOF Common Stock pursuant to Section 3.1(a). For the avoidance of doubt, delivery of the Company Common Shares immediately prior Merger Consideration shall only be made to the Person in whose name the relevant shares of CMOF Common Stock are registered in the stock transfer books of CMOF as of the Company Merger Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this AgreementTime. (b) PurchaserAt or promptly following the Partnership Merger Effective Time, CCI and the Surviving OP shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to issue CROP Common Units (including fractional units thereof) equal to the Partnership Merger Consideration that is issuable to each holder of CMOF OP Partnership Units pursuant to Section 3.1(b), subject to the receipt of customary representations from such holders. For the avoidance of doubt, delivery of the Partnership Merger Consideration shall only be made to the Person in whose name the relevant CMOF OP Partnership Units are registered in the exercise transfer books of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity CMOF OP as of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Partnership Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common SharesEffective Time. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares All securities issuable pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash this Agreement shall be in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Bookbook-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIentry form. (d) No dividends None of CCI, CMOF, the Surviving Company, the Surviving OP, the Transfer Agent or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares any employee, officer, director, agent or Affiliate of such entities, shall be paid liable to the holder any Person in respect of any unsurrendered Certificate Company Merger Consideration or Book-Entry Shares with respect Partnership Merger Consideration (or the appropriate portion thereof) that has been delivered to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject a public official pursuant to the effect of any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsLaw. Any amounts so delivered that remain unclaimed by holders of shares of CMOF Common Stock or CMOF OP Partnership Units immediately prior to the time at which such amounts would otherwise escheat to, following surrender or become property of, any Governmental Authority shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, become the property of CCI and CROP, as applicable, free and clear of any claims or interest of such Certificate holders or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IItheir successors, the record holder thereof shall be assigns or personal representatives previously entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharesthereto. (e) In No interest shall be paid or accrued on the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (or any amounts in respect thereof, including cash any dividends payable on shares of CCI Class A Common Stock) or the Partnership Merger Consideration (or any amounts in lieu of fractional Purchaser respect thereof, including any distributions payable on CROP Common SharesUnits) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than for the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason benefit of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may beholders thereof. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Cottonwood Multifamily Opportunity Fund, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Cottonwood Communities, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Cottonwood Communities, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable At and after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five each certificate representing shares of BDC Common Stock (5“Certificate Share”) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to and each holder of record of Company Common Shares book-entry share which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented the shares of BDC Common Stock (each, a Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Shares”) shall pass, represent only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent receive the Merger Consideration in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Collectively, governing the Certificate Shares and Book-Entry Shares are referred to as the “Old Shares.” (ib) At least thirty (30) days prior to the validity Effective Time, Merchants shall deliver to BDC the form letter of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder transmittal Merchants desires be delivered with the procedures set forth therein and hereinOld Shares, (ii) the issuance and as well as any instructions for delivery of shares of BDC Common Stock at the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, BDC shall collect from the shareholders of BDC the fully executed transmittal letters, any certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the MergerOld Shares, and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by Merchants (iiiincluding any bond or other indemnity satisfactory to Merchants if any of such certificates are lost, stolen or destroyed) (collectively, the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares“Transmittal Documents”). (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter At the Effective Time, BDC shall deliver to Merchants the Transmittal Documents, and each holder of Transmittal, accompanied by shares of BDC Common Stock that have been converted into the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will right to receive the Merger Consideration shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable in respect of the BDC Common Stock represented by the Transmittal Documents for such holder. No interest will be paid on any Merger Consideration that any such holder shall be entitled to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares receive pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares The stock transfer books of BDC shall be paid to closed immediately upon the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless Effective Time and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date from and after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books records of Company BDC of the Company any shares of BDC Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective TimeStock. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Old Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange AgentMerchants, they shall be cancelled canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash deliverable in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares respect thereof pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor this Agreement in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IISection 2.02. (ge) Any portion Merchants shall be entitled to rely upon BDC’s stock transfer books to establish the identity of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid those individuals, partnerships, corporations, trusts, joint ventures, organizations or other entities (each, a “Person”) entitled to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to receive the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person which books shall be liable conclusive with respect thereto. In the event of a dispute with respect to ownership of stock represented by any Old Share, Merchants shall be entitled to deposit any Merger Consideration represented thereby in escrow with an independent third party and thereafter be relieved from any and all liability with respect to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsclaims thereto. (hf) In the event If any Certificate Old Share shall have been lost, stolen stolen, or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate Old Share to be lost, stolen stolen, or destroyed and and, if required by Merchants, the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary or other indemnity satisfactory to Merchants as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (providedOld Share, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent Merchants will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen stolen, or destroyed Certificate Old Share the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof. (g) Notwithstanding anything in accordance with this Agreement to the terms contrary, at the Effective Time, all shares of this AgreementBDC Common Stock that are held as treasury stock of BDC or owned by Merchants (other than shares held in a fiduciary capacity or in satisfaction of a debt previously contracted) shall be cancelled and shall cease to exist and no Merger Consideration shall be exchanged therefor. (h) Notwithstanding the foregoing, including requirements no party hereto shall be liable to any former holder of this Article IIBDC Common Stock for any amount properly delivered to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar laws.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Merchants Bancorp), Merger Agreement (Merchants Bancorp), Merger Agreement (Merchants Bancorp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a Certificate or Certificates which, immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachTime, a “Holder”) (other than represented outstanding Company Common Shares owned directly by Company subsequently converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, as set forth in Section 2.4: (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC SharesA) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary a letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “a "Letter of Transmittal") that which (i) shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, pass only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates to the Exchange Agent (or affidavits an affidavit of loss in lieu of thereof, together with any bond or indemnity agreement, as contemplated by Section 3.7) and (ii) shall be in such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each form and have such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions other provisions as the Exchange Agent Surviving Corporation may impose to effect an orderly reasonably specify; and (B) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreementfor the applicable Merger Consideration. (b) PurchaserUpon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent together with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied duly executed, and any other documents reasonably required by the Holder’s Certificate(sExchange Agent or the Surviving Corporation, (A) or Book-Entry Shares, will the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a check and a certificate or certificates representing the applicable amount of cash and shares of Parent Common Stock which such Holder’s portion of holder has the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in right to receive pursuant to Section 1.42.4 and (B) the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate shall represent the right to receive the aggregate Merger Consideration relating thereto. (c) In the event of a transfer of ownership of Company Common Shares which is not registered in the transfer records of the Company, the appropriate amount of the Merger Consideration may be paid to a transferee if the Certificate representing such Company Common Shares is presented to the Exchange Agent properly endorsed or Book-Entry Shares accompanied by appropriate stock powers and otherwise in proper form for transfer and accompanied by all documents reasonably required by the Exchange Agent to evidence and effect such transfer and to evidence that any applicable Taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.2, each such Certificate shall represent, for all purposes, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, without interest, receive upon such surrender the portion appropriate amount of the applicable Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIConsideration. (d) No dividends or other distributions that are declared or made after the Effective Time with respect to Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock payable to holders of record thereof after the Effective Time shall be paid to a Company Stockholder entitled to receive certificates representing Parent Common Stock until such Company Stockholder has properly surrendered such Company Stockholder's Certificates. Upon such surrender, there shall be paid to the holder of Company Stockholder in whose name the certificates representing such Parent Common Stock shall be issued any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares dividends which shall have become payable with respect to such Parent Common Stock between the Purchaser Effective Time and the time of such surrender, without interest. After such surrender, there shall also be paid to the Company Stockholder in whose name the certificates representing such Parent Common Shares represented therebyStock shall be issued any dividend on such Parent Common Stock that shall have a record date subsequent to the Effective Time and prior to such surrender and a payment date after such surrender; provided, in each case unless and until however, that such dividend payments shall be made on such payment dates. In no event shall the Company Stockholder entitled to receive such dividends be entitled to receive interest on such dividends. (e) No certificate or scrip representing fractional shares of Parent Common Stock shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of Certificates, and such Certificate fractional share interests will not entitle the owner thereof to vote or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIto any rights as a stockholder of Parent. Subject All fractional shares of Parent Common Stock that a Company Stockholder would otherwise be entitled to receive as a result of the effect of applicable abandoned propertyMerger shall be aggregated and if a fractional share results from such aggregation, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interestin lieu thereof, an amount in cash determined by multiplying (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented Base Price by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount fraction of dividends or other distributions payable with respect a share of Parent Common Stock to which such holder would otherwise have been entitled. Parent shall timely make available to the whole number Exchange Agent any cash necessary to make payments in lieu of Purchaser Common Shares represented by fractional shares as aforesaid. No such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares of Parent Common Shares) Stock shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts Stockholder until Certificates are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled surrendered and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IISection 3.2. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Ivillage Inc), Merger Agreement (Ivillage Inc), Merger Agreement (Promotions Com Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As At or promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following SHC shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a Frankfort First Certificate, other than holders of Dissenting Shares, which immediately prior to the Effective Time of Merger represented outstanding shares of Frankfort First Common Stock and which was not submitted to the Exchange Agent with a duly executed and completed Form of Election: (each, A) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Frankfort First Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Frankfort First Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Agent and which shall be in such form and have such other customary provisions as SHC may reasonably specify and which are reasonably acceptable to Frankfort First; and (B) instructions to effect the surrender of the Frankfort First Certificates in exchange for cash or shares of SHC Common Stock, or both, as described in this Agreement. (ii) Upon surrender of a Frankfort First Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent shall accept together with either a Form of Election or a Letter of Transmittal, in each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance case duly executed, and with such reasonable terms and conditions other documents as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and reasonably require, the holder of such Frankfort First Certificate shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, and SHC shall cause the portion Exchange Agent to promptly deliver in exchange therefor after the Effective Time: (A) a certificate representing that number of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu whole shares of fractional Purchaser SHC Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions Stock to which such holder is entitled to receive in respect of such Frankfort First Certificate pursuant toto Section 2.8 of this Agreement; and (B) a check representing the cash that such holder is entitled to receive in respect of such Frankfort First Certificate pursuant to Section 2.8 of this Agreement; and (C) a check for any Fraction Payment. The Frankfort First Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled; provided, this Article IIhowever, that fractional share interests of any one holder shall be aggregated to maximize the number of whole shares of SHC Common Stock to be issued and minimize the Fraction Payments. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (eiii) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company shares of Frankfort First Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyFrankfort First, a certificate representing the proper number of shares of SHC Common Stock, a check for the proper amount of cash that such holder is entitled to receive in respect of such Frankfort First Certificate pursuant to Section 2.8 of this Agreement and any Fraction Payment, shall be delivered to the transferee if the Frankfort First Certificate which represented such shares of Frankfort First Common Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. (iv) No interest will be paid or accrued on the cash and shares of SHC Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this Agreement, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered shares, if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may beany, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser shares of SHC Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant Stock, if any, payable to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsFrankfort First Shareholders. (hv) In the event If any Frankfort First Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Frankfort First Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by SHC in its reasonable discretion, the posting by such Person of a bond in such reasonable amount as the Exchange Agent SHC may determine is reasonably necessary direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Frankfort First Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue deliver in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate Frankfort First Certificate, a certificate representing the Merger Consideration deliverable proper number of shares of SHC Common Stock and a check for the cash, in respect thereof in accordance with each case that such Frankfort First Shareholder has the terms right to receive pursuant to Section 2.8 of this Agreement, including requirements and the Fraction Payment, if any, with respect to the shares of Frankfort First Common Stock formerly represented thereby, and unpaid dividends and distributions on the shares of SHC Common Stock, if any, as provided in this Article II of this Article IIAgreement. (vi) Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.9 of this Agreement, each Frankfort First Certificate, other than Dissenting Shares, shall be deemed at all times after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon surrender only the cash or shares of SHC Common Stock, or both, and any Fraction Payment. (vii) Dissenting Shares as to which appraisal rights have been properly perfected shall be treated in the manner provided in Section 2.12.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Frankfort First Bancorp Inc), Agreement of Merger (Kentucky First Federal Bancorp), Merger Agreement (Frankfort First Bancorp Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall and the Surviving Corporation will cause the Exchange Agent to send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of the Company Common Shares immediately prior Certificates whose shares were converted pursuant to Section 2.6 into the Effective Time right to receive the Merger Consideration (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify (A) that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Company Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Company Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The , and (B) that ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ is irrevocably appointed to represent the interests of the Company Stockholders after the Closing as provided in this Agreement (the "Stockholders' Representative"), and shall be in such form and have such other provisions as the Purchaser and the Surviving Corporation and the Exchange Agent shall accept each such reasonably specify) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Company Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. Upon proper surrender of a Company Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance for cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such reasonable terms letter of transmittal, duly executed and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof completed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerinstructions thereto, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry SharesExchange Agent, will the holder of such Company Certificate shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange a check in the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right amount (after giving effect to receive, without interest, the portion any required tax withholding) of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such that the holder is entitled pursuant toto receive under Section 2.6, this Article II. (d) and the -5- Company Certificate so surrendered shall immediately be canceled. No dividends interest will be paid or other distributions accrued with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the Merger Consideration deliverable upon due surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIthe Company Certificates. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing the Company Common Shares Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall payment may be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than transferee if, and only if, the Person in whose name the Company Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or Stock is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.8, each Company Certificate (other than the Company Certificates representing Dissenting Shares) shall be cancelled and exchanged deemed at any time after the Effective Time for all purposes to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the Merger Consideration and any cash which the holder thereof has the right to receive in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser Common Shares such Company Certificate pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion . In the case of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of Company Certificates representing Dissenting Shares, each Company Certificate representing Dissenting Shares shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time may be paid for all purposes to Purchaser. In represent only the right to receive the fair value of such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect Dissenting Shares pursuant to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsDGCL. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Artistdirect Inc), Merger Agreement (Artistdirect Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As Prior to the Closing, Acquiror shall appoint an exchange agent (the “Exchange Agent”) to act as the agent for the purpose of paying the Aggregate Merger Consideration to the Company’s stockholders. At or prior to the Effective Time, Acquiror shall deposit with the Exchange Agent the number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock equal to the portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration to be paid in shares of Acquiror Common Stock. (b) Reasonably promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or shall cause the Exchange Agent to be sent send, to each record holder of record shares of Company Common Shares Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachafter giving effect to the Company Recapitalization), a “Holder”) (other than whose Company Common Shares owned directly by Stock was converted pursuant to Section 3.1(a) and 3.1(c) into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, instructions for use in such exchange. (c) Each holder of shares of Company (other than Trust Account Shares Common Stock that have been converted into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, pursuant to Section 3.1(a) and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively3.1(c), the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effectedentitled to receive such portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, and risk upon receipt of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares an “agent’s message” by the Exchange Agent (or affidavits such other evidence, if any, of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions transfer as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance reasonably request), together with normal exchange practices and shall such documents as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied may reasonably be requested by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Exchange Agent. No interest shall be paid or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion accrued upon the transfer of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIshare. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect Promptly following the date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, Acquiror may instruct the Exchange Agent to Purchaser Common Shares deliver to Acquiror all documents in its possession relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Exchange Agent’s duties shall terminate. Thereafter, any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration that remains unclaimed shall be paid returned to Acquiror, and any Person that was a holder of shares of Company Common Stock as of immediately prior to the holder Effective Time that has not exchanged such shares of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to Company Common Stock for an applicable portion of the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs Aggregate Merger Consideration in accordance with this Article II. Subject Section 3.2 prior to the effect date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, may transfer such shares of Company Common Stock to Acquiror and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar Laws) receive in consideration therefor, and Acquiror shall promptly deliver, such applicable portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration without any interest thereupon. None of Acquiror, Merger Sub, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any Person in respect of any of the Aggregate Merger Consideration delivered to a public official pursuant to and in accordance with any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of . If any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shares shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid not have not been transferred immediately prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from on which any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement Article III would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any holder of Company Common Shares Governmental Authority, any such amounts as shall, to the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax extent permitted by applicable Law, with respect to become the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company property of the Company Common Shares that were issued Surviving Corporation, free and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers clear of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates all claims or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu interest of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawspreviously entitled thereto. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Xos, Inc.), Merger Agreement (NextGen Acquisition Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after following the Parent Merger Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five two (52) business days following Business Days thereafter), MAA shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail (and to make available for collection by hand) to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time a Certificate or Book-Entry Share, or of a Preferred Certificate or Preferred Book-Entry Share, as applicable, (each, A) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall passShares, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of to the Preferred Certificates or Preferred Book-Entry Shares Shares, as applicable, shall pass only upon proper delivery of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, or the Preferred Certificates (or affidavits of such Certificatesloss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Shares, as applicable, to the Exchange Agent, which Letter of Transmittal shall be in such form and have such other customary provisions as MAA and Post may reasonably agree upon, and (B) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, or the Preferred Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Shares, as applicable, in exchange for the Merger Consideration or Preferred Merger Consideration, as applicable, into which the number of shares of Post Common Stock previously represented by such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, or, as applicable, the number of shares of Post Series A Preferred Stock previously represented by such Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement, together with any amounts payable in respect of the Fractional Share Consideration in accordance with Section 3.8 and dividends or other distributions on shares of MAA Common Stock or MAA Series I Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 3.5(d). (ii) Upon surrender of a Certificate (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, or a Preferred Certificate (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, as applicable, to the Exchange Agent, together with a Letter of Transmittal duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, or such Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, as applicable, shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration for each share of Post Common Stock formerly represented by such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, or, as applicable, the Preferred Merger Consideration for each share of Post Series A Preferred Stock formerly represented by such Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, in each case pursuant to the provisions of this Article III, plus any Fractional Share Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.8 and any amounts that such holder has the right to receive in respect of dividends or other distributions on shares of MAA Common Stock or MAA Series I Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 3.5(d) to be mailed or delivered by wire transfer, within two (2) Business Days following the later to occur of (A) the Parent Merger Effective Time or (B) the Exchange Agent’s receipt of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, or, as applicable, such Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, and the Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, or, applicable, the Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, so surrendered shall be forthwith cancelled. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate Certificates (or evidence affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares Shares, or, as applicable, such Preferred Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Shares, upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal customary exchange practices practices. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.5, each Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) and shall Book-Entry Share, or, as promptly as practicable issue nonapplicable, each Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) and Preferred Book-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretionEntry Share, shall have be deemed, at any time after the Parent Merger Effective Time, to represent only the right to make all determinationsreceive, consistent with upon such surrender, the terms Merger Consideration or the Preferred Merger Consideration, as applicable, as contemplated by this Article III. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity holders of the Letters Certificates (or affidavits of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash loss in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(sthereof) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion or the holders of the Preferred Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Shares, on the Merger Consideration, determined the Preferred Merger Consideration or the Fractional Share Consideration, as provided applicable, payable upon the surrender of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares shall representShares, for all purposesor, only the right to receive, without interestas applicable, the portion Preferred Certificates (or affidavits of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and Shares, and, in either case, any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIto Section 3.5(d) hereof. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (eiii) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate shares of Post Common Stock or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Post Series A Preferred Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyPost, the Merger Consideration it shall be a condition of payment that any Certificate (including cash or affidavit of loss in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Sharesthereof) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Share, or, as applicable, any Preferred Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares Share, surrendered in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3.5(c) shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay have paid any transfer or Taxes and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment of the Merger Consideration or issuance Preferred Merger Consideration, as applicable, to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry SharesShare, or, as applicable, the Preferred Certificate (or establish affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Preferred Book-Entry Share, surrendered or shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser MAA that the such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Mid America Apartment Communities Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later more than five (5) three business days following thereafter), the Closing Date, Purchaser Parent shall send or cause instruct the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time a Certificate or of Book Entry Shares, (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares a Certificate shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificate to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Paying Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserand, in the exercise case of its reasonable discretionBook Entry Shares, delivery shall have the right be effected and risk of loss and title shall pass only upon adherence to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein in the letter of transmittal, and herein, which letter of transmittal shall be in such form and have such other reasonable provisions as the Parent may specify) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the issuance surrender of Certificates and delivery Book Entry Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration. Surrender of certificates representing Merger Consideration any Book Entry Shares shall be effected in accordance with the Paying Agent’s customary procedures with respect to securities represented by book entry. Upon surrender of a Certificate or Book Entry Shares for Company Common Shares converted in cancellation to the MergerPaying Agent, together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and properly executed, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Paying Agent, the holder of such Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares, will Shares shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion in exchange therefor an amount of cash equal to the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each Consideration that such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares receive pursuant to Section 1.4 2.1(a)(iii), and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such the Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares so surrendered shall forthwith be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIcancelled. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall payment may be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person person other than the Person person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares so surrendered is or are registered if if, in the case of a Certificate, such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer, or, in the case of Book Entry Shares, the person in whose name such Book Entry Shares are registered shall have delivered to the Paying Agent instruments of transfer and in such form as the Person Paying Agent may require in accordance with its customary procedures for the transfer for securities represented by book entry, and, in each case, the person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares, Shares or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Parent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orUntil surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.2, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of each Certificate and all Book Entry Shares shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination right to receive upon such surrender the amount of the Exchange Agent Agreementcash, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaserwithout interest, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of into which the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates formerly represented by such Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer have been converted pursuant to the Exchange Agent, they Section 2.1(a)(iii). No interest shall be cancelled and exchanged for paid or shall accrue on the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu payable upon surrender of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent Certificate or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsBook Entry Shares. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Essilor International /Fi), Merger Agreement (Costa Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after TD Banknorth shall appoint an agent, which shall be reasonably acceptable to Interchange (the “Exchange Agent”), for the purpose of exchanging certificates that immediately prior to the Effective Time, but in no event Time evidenced shares of Interchange Common Stock (the “Certificates”) for the Merger Consideration. (b) No later than five (5) business days Business Days following the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser TD Banknorth shall send cause the Exchange Agent to mail or cause to be sent make available to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior a Certificate a notice and letter of transmittal reasonably satisfactory to Interchange disclosing the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares effectiveness of the Merger and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary the procedure for exchanging Certificates for the Merger Consideration. Such letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) Certificates to the Exchange Agent. (c) At or prior to the Effective Time, TD Banknorth shall deliver, or cause TD Banknorth, NA to deliver, by wire transfer in immediately available funds, to the Exchange Agent for the benefit of the holders of Certificates (other than the holders of Treasury Stock) an amount of cash equal to the aggregate Merger Consideration for payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration to such holders of Certificates. (d) Each holder of any outstanding Certificate (other than holders of Treasury Stock) who surrenders such Certificate to the Exchange Agent will, upon acceptance thereof by the Exchange Agent, be entitled to the prompt payment of the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Certificates upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserpractices. Each outstanding Certificate which is not surrendered to the Exchange Agent shall, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined except as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered3.1, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, evidence ownership of only the right to receive, receive the Merger Consideration without interest. (e) The Exchange Agent and TD Banknorth, as the case may be, shall not be obligated to deliver the Merger Consideration until the holder surrenders a Certificate as provided in this Section 3.2, or, in default thereof, an appropriate affidavit of loss and indemnity agreement and/or a bond in an amount as may be reasonably required in each case by the Exchange Agent or TD Banknorth. If any check is to be issued in a name other than that in which the Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition of the issuance thereof that the Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by an executed form of assignment separate from the Certificate and otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the person requesting such exchange pay to the Exchange Agent any transfer or other tax required by reason of the issuance of a check in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate surrendered or otherwise establish to the reasonable satisfaction of the Exchange Agent that such tax has been paid or is not payable. (f) Any portion of the Merger Consideration allocable cash delivered to such Certificate the Exchange Agent by TD Banknorth or Book-Entry Shares TD Banknorth, NA pursuant to Section 1.4 3.2(c) that remains unclaimed by the former shareholders of Interchange for six months after the Effective Time shall be delivered by the Exchange Agent to TD Banknorth or TD Banknorth, NA, as applicable. Any shareholders of Interchange who have not theretofore complied with Section 3.2(d) shall thereafter look only to TD Banknorth for the Merger Consideration. If outstanding Certificates are not surrendered or the payment for them is not claimed prior to the date on which such payment would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Entity, the unclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any cash other applicable law, become the property of TD Banknorth or TD Banknorth, NA, as applicable (and to the extent not in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares its possession shall be delivered to it), free and clear of all Liens of any Person previously entitled to such property. Neither the Exchange Agent nor any of the Parties hereto shall be liable to any holder of Interchange Common Stock represented by any Certificate for any consideration paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect a public official pursuant to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. TD Banknorth, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IITD Banknorth, NA and the record holder thereof Exchange Agent shall be entitled to receiverely upon the stock transfer books of Interchange to establish the identity of those persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable which books shall be conclusive with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharesthereto. (eg) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orAgent, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration TD Banknorth or termination of the Exchange Agent AgreementTD Banknorth, Purchaser) NA shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts the Merger Consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares Certificates such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, it is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such paymentpayment under the Code or any state, local or foreign tax law or regulation thereunder. To the extent the that amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent Agent, TD Banknorth or PurchaserTD Banknorth, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental EntityNA, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares the Certificates in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bemade. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Td Banknorth Inc.), Merger Agreement (Interchange Financial Services Corp /Nj/)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As Prior to the Effective Time, TCB shall appoint an exchange agent (the “Exchange Agent”) to act as the exchange agent hereunder. (b) At or promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but TCB shall deposit with or make available to the Exchange Agent for exchange in no event accordance with this Section 1.06, the certificates or, at TCB’s option, evidence of shares in book entry form, representing the Stock Consideration, Cash Consideration and any cash payable in lieu of fractional shares (collectively, the “Exchange Fund”). (c) No later than five ten (510) business days following Business Days after the Closing DateEffective Time and subject to TCB’s receipt of a list of HBI’s shareholders in a format that is acceptable to the TCB, Purchaser TCB shall, or shall send or cause to be sent the Exchange Agent to, mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time of certificates (other than with respect to Cancelled Shares and Dissenting Shares) representing shares of HBI Stock (each, a “Holder”Certificate,” it being understood that any reference herein to a “Certificate” shall be deemed to include reference to book-entry account statements relating to the ownership of shares of HBI Stock), (i) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectivelya letter of transmittal, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares each Certificate shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares such Certificate (or affidavits an affidavit of loss in lieu of such CertificatesCertificate and, if reasonably required by TCB or the Exchange Agent, the posting by such holder of HBI Stock of a bond in such amount as TCB may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate; provided, that the amount of such bond shall not exceed the amount of Merger Consideration to be received with respect to such Certificate) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent and shall accept each be substantially in such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with form and have such reasonable terms and conditions other provisions as shall be prescribed by the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices (the “Letter of Transmittal”), and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) instructions for use in surrendering each Certificate in exchange for the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the MergerConsideration, and (iii) the method of payment of any cash in lieu of a fractional Purchaser Common Shares where share of TCB Stock to be issued or paid in consideration therefor and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to this Section 1.06. The HBI shareholders will be entitled to receive the Holder Merger Consideration only after receipt by the Exchange Agent of a properly completed Letter of Transmittal and Accredited Investor Questionnaire. If a Letter of Transmittal contains an error, is incomplete or is not accompanied by all appropriate Certificates, then the Exchange Agent will notify that HBI shareholder promptly of the applicable Certificate has no right need for further information or documentation. No HBI shareholder shall be entitled to receive whole Purchaser Common Sharesany of the Merger Consideration until such shareholder properly completes an Accredited Investor Questionnaire that is true, correct and complete in all respects. Any shareholders that indicates that they that are a Non-Qualified Shareholder in an Accredited Investor Questionnaire, shall provide the Exchange Agent and/or TCB such additional information as reasonably requested in an order to enable TCB to make a determination as to whether such HBI shareholder is a Qualified Shareholder or Non-Qualified Shareholder. (cd) A Holder who has returned Within seven (7) Business Days after surrender to the Exchange Agent of its Certificate or Certificates, accompanied by a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied or within ten (10) Business Days after the Effective Time for any uncertificated shares of HBI Stock held of record in book-entry form (subject to receipt of any customary tax documentation that may be reasonably requested by the HolderExchange Agent), the Exchange Agent shall deliver to such holder of HBI Stock the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of a fractional share of TCB Stock to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in respect of the shares of HBI Stock represented by such holder’s Certificate(s) Certificate or Book-Entry SharesCertificates, and each Certificate surrendered will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion canceled. TCB may, at its option, deliver any shares of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided TCB Stock in Section 1.4book-entry form. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representrepresent after the Effective Time, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of a fractional Purchaser Common Shares share of TCB Stock to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withwith this Section 1.06, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant toto this Section 1.06. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, this Article IIno Certificate or Certificates shall be deemed surrendered to the Exchange Agent prior to the Effective Time. (de) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares TCB Stock shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares shares of TCB Stock represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IISection 1.06. However, upon surrender of such Certificate, the Merger Consideration, together with all such undelivered dividends or other distributions without interest, shall be delivered and paid with respect to each share represented by such Certificate. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IISection 1.06, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions distributions, if any, with a record date at or after the Effective Time theretofore that are payable with respect to the whole number shares of Purchaser Common Shares represented by TCB Stock issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and not paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number shares of Purchaser Common Shares represented by TCB Stock issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares TCB Stock issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry SharesCertificate. (ef) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares HBI Stock prior to the Effective Time that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyHBI, the Merger Consideration (including and any cash in lieu of a fractional Purchaser Common Shares) share of TCB Stock to be issued or paid in consideration therefor shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares HBI Stock shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser TCB and the Exchange Agent that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent . (or, subsequent to the earlier of (xg) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time TCB and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent AgreementAgent, Purchaser) as the case may be, shall be entitled to deduct and withhold withhold, if necessary, from any amounts consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares Person such amounts as TCB or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Lawtax law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the that amounts are so withheld by TCB or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be, and paid over remitted to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares such Person in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by TCB or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (gh) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as shareholders of HBI at the one-year anniversary expiration of six (6) months after the Effective Time may shall be paid to PurchaserTCB. In such event, any Holder former shareholders of HBI who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II Section 1.06 shall thereafter look only to Purchaser TCB with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, shares and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares TCB Stock deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held share represented by a Certificate such Holder shareholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing. (i) Any other provision of this Agreement notwithstanding, none of PurchaserTCB, the Surviving Company, Corporation or the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former a holder of Company Common Shares HBI Stock for any amount amounts paid or property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaw. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Third Coast Bancshares, Inc.), Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Third Coast Bancshares, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Inergy shall instruct the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each record holder of record Common Units as of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that in respect of certificated units, delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(sthe Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and shall be in customary form and agreed to by Inergy and Holdings prior to the Effective Time) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or evidence Book-Entry Units in exchange for the Holdings Unitholder Consideration payable in respect of the Common Units represented by such Certificates or Book-Entry Units. Promptly after the Effective Time, upon surrender of Certificates, if any, for cancellation to the Exchange Agent together with such letters of transmittal, properly completed and duly executed, and such other documents (including in respect of Book-Entry Shares Units) as may be required pursuant to such instructions, the holders of Common Units shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor (A) New LP Units or affidavits PIK Units, as applicable, representing, in the aggregate, the whole number of loss New LP Units or PIK Units, as applicable, that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to this Article III (after taking into account all Common Units then held by such holder) and (B) a check in the amount equal to the aggregate amount of cash that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to this Article III, including cash payable in lieu of such Certificatesany fractional New LP Units and PIK Units pursuant to Section 3.4(e) and distributions pursuant to the Exchange AgentSection 3.4(c). The Exchange Agent No interest shall accept each such Certificate be paid or evidence accrued on any Holdings Unitholder Consideration or on any unpaid distributions payable to holders of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Certificates or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4Units. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Units that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyHoldings, the Merger Holdings Unitholder Consideration (including cash payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser such Common Shares) shall Units may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name transferee, if the Certificate representing such Common Units or evidence of ownership of the Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if Units are presented to the Certificate or BookExchange Agent, and in the case of both certificated and book-Entry Shares formerly representing entry Common Units, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person delivery of the Holdings Unitholder Consideration in any name other than that of the registered record holder of such Common Units, or shall establish to the satisfaction of the Exchange Agent that such Taxes have been paid or are not payable. Until the required documentation has been delivered and Certificates, if any, have been surrendered, as contemplated by this Section 3.4, each Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of Unit shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of right to receive, upon such surrender, the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise Holdings Unitholder Consideration payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration Units and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares units pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (gSection 3.4(e) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by to which such Holder as determined holder is entitled pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsSection 3.3. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Inergy Holdings, L.P.), Merger Agreement (Inergy L P)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after No later than five Business Days following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send Exchange Agent to mail or cause to be sent make available to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to a Certificate a notice and letter of transmittal disclosing the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares effectiveness of the Merger and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary the procedure for exchanging Certificates for the Merger Consideration. Such letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) Certificates to the Exchange Agent. (b) At or prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall deliver, or cause Parent Bank to deliver, by wire transfer in immediately available funds, to the Exchange Agent for the benefit of the holders of Certificates (other than the holders of Dissenting Shares and Treasury Stock) an amount of cash equal to the aggregate Merger Consideration for payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration to such holders of Certificates. (c) Each holder of any outstanding Certificate (other than holders of Dissenting Shares and Treasury Stock) who surrenders such Certificate to the Exchange Agent will, upon acceptance thereof by the Exchange Agent, be entitled to the prompt payment of the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Certificates upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserpractices. Each outstanding Certificate which is not surrendered to the Exchange Agent shall, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined except as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered3.03, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, evidence ownership of only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of receive the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIwithout interest. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect The Exchange Agent shall not be obligated to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to deliver the Merger Consideration until the holder surrenders a Certificate as provided in this Section 3.04, or, in default thereof, an appropriate affidavit of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, loss and indemnity agreement and/or a bond as may be reasonably required in each case unless by the Exchange Agent or Parent. If any check is to be issued in a name other than that in which the Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition of the issuance thereof that the Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by an executed form of assignment separate from the Certificate and until otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the surrender of person requesting such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject exchange pay to the effect Exchange Agent any transfer or other tax required by reason of the issuance of a check in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate surrendered or otherwise establish to the reasonable satisfaction of the Exchange Agent that such tax has been paid or is not payable. (e) Any portion of the cash delivered to the Exchange Agent by Parent or Parent Bank pursuant to Section 3.04(b) that remains unclaimed by the former shareholders of the Company for six months after the Effective Time shall be delivered by the Exchange Agent to Parent or Parent Bank, as applicable. Any shareholders of the Company who have not theretofore complied with Section 3.04(c) shall thereafter look only to Parent for the Merger Consideration. If outstanding Certificates are not surrendered or the payment for them is not claimed prior to the date on which such payment would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Authority, the unclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any other applicable law, become the property of Parent or Parent Bank, as applicable (and to the extent not in its possession shall be delivered to it), free and clear of all Liens of any Person previously entitled to such property. Neither the Exchange Agent nor any of the parties hereto shall be liable to any holder of Company Common Stock represented by any Certificate for any consideration paid to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. Parent, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, Parent Bank and the record holder thereof Exchange Agent shall be entitled to receiverely upon the stock transfer books of the Company to establish the identity of those persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable which books shall be conclusive with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharesthereto. (ef) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orAgent, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration Parent or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) Parent Bank shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts the Merger Consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares Certificates such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, it is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such paymentpayment under the Code or any state, local or foreign tax law or regulation thereunder. To the extent the that amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent Agent, Parent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental EntityParent Bank, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares the Certificates in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bemade. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Bancorp Connecticut Inc), Merger Agreement (Banknorth Group Inc/Me)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after following the Effective Time, but and in no event later than five the fourth (54th) business days following day thereafter, Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate (an “Amedisys Certificate”) that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Amedisys Common Stock (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery of Amedisys Certificates shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Amedisys Certificates shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Amedisys Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) to the Exchange Paying Agent, and which shall be in the form and have such other provisions as are reasonably acceptable to Parent and Amedisys) and (ii) instructions (which instructions shall be in the form and have such other provisions as are reasonably acceptable to Parent and Amedisys) for use in effecting the surrender of the Amedisys Certificates in exchange for the Per Share Merger Consideration. Upon surrender of an Amedisys Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) for cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with a letter of transmittal duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as may be required pursuant to such instructions, the holder of such Amedisys Certificate shall be entitled to receive the Per Share Merger Consideration. No holder of record of a book-entry share (an “Amedisys Book-Entry Share”) that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Amedisys Common Stock shall be required to deliver an Amedisys Certificate or letter of transmittal or surrender such Amedisys Book-Entry Shares to the Paying Agent, and in lieu thereof, upon receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Paying Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Paying Agent may reasonably request), the holder of such Amedisys Book-Entry Share shall be entitled, upon or following the Effective Time, to receive in exchange therefor the Per Share Merger Consideration. Until surrendered, in the case of an Amedisys Certificate, or exchanged for, in the case of an Amedisys Book-Entry Share, in each case, as contemplated by this Section 3.2(c), each Amedisys Certificate or Amedisys Book-Entry Share shall be deemed, from and after the Effective Time, to represent only the right to receive the Merger Consideration as contemplated by this Section 3.2(c). The Exchange Paying Agent shall accept each such Certificate Amedisys Certificates (or evidence affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) and make such payments and deliveries with respect to Amedisys Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Paying Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices practices. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of the Amedisys Certificates or Amedisys Book-Entry Shares on the Merger Consideration or any cash payable hereunder. With respect to Amedisys Book-Entry Shares held, directly or indirectly, through DTC, Parent and Amedisys shall cooperate to establish procedures with the Paying Agent, DTC, DTC’s nominees and such other necessary or desirable third-party intermediaries to ensure that the Paying Agent will transmit to DTC or its nominees as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry after the Effective Time and in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserany event on the Closing Date, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Amedisys Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IIDTC’s customary surrender procedures and such other procedures as agreed by ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Amedisys, the record holder Paying Agent, DTC, DTC’s nominees and such other necessary or desirable third-party intermediaries, the Per Share Merger Consideration to which the beneficial owners thereof shall be are entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with receive as a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance result of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may beArticle III. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Amedisys Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five ten (510) business days following thereafter, Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares person who was, immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachTime, a “Holder”) (other than holder of record of one or more Old Certificates representing shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company Stock, a form of letter of transmittal (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Old Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Old Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms ) and conditions as instructions for use in effecting the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity surrender of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of Old Certificates in exchange for certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company the number of whole Parent Common Shares converted in the MergerShares, and (iii) the method of payment of any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where shares and the Holder cash portion of the applicable Merger Consideration which the shares of Company Common Stock represented by such Old Certificate has no or Old Certificates shall have been converted into the right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a pursuant to this Agreement as well as any dividends or distributions to be paid in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.3(b). From and after the Effective Time, upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or Old Certificates for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such properly completed Letter letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by duly executed, the Holder’s Certificate(s) holder of such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, will Old Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor, subject to Section 2.2, (i) a New Certificate representing that number of whole Parent Common Shares to which such Holder’s holder of Company Common Stock shall have become entitled pursuant to the provisions of Article I and (ii) a check representing the amount of (A) the cash portion of the Merger ConsiderationConsideration which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the Old Certificate or Old Certificates surrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Article II, determined (B) any cash in lieu of a fractional share which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the Old Certificate or Old Certificates surrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Article II, and (C) and dividends or distributions that the holder presenting such Old Certificates is entitled to, as provided in Section 1.4this Article II, and the Old Certificate or Old Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued with respect to any property to be delivered upon surrender of Old Certificates. Until so surrenderedsurrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.3, each such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, without interestupon surrender, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued shares or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender respect of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, as contemplated by this Article IISection 2.3. (db) No dividends or other distributions declared with respect to Purchaser Parent Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the holder thereof shall surrender of such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to After the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of receive any such dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time distributions, without any interest thereon, which theretofore had become payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Parent Common Shares which the shares of Company Common Stock represented by such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior have been converted into the right to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharesreceive. (ec) In If any New Certificate representing Parent Common Shares is to be issued in a name other than that in which the event of a transfer of ownership of a Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid Old Certificates surrendered in exchange therefor to is or are registered, it shall be a Person other than condition of the Person in whose name issuance thereof that the Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Old Certificates so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed (or accompanied by an appropriate instrument of transfer) and otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to of a Person New Certificate representing Parent Common Shares in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Old Certificate or Book-Entry SharesOld Certificates surrendered, or required for any other reason, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepayable. (fd) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of Company of the shares of Company Common Shares Stock that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Time. (e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no New Certificates or scrip representing fractional Parent Common Shares shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of Old Certificates, no dividend or distribution with respect to Parent Common Shares shall be payable on or with respect to any fractional share, and such fractional share interests shall not entitle the owner thereof to vote or to any other than rights of a shareholder of Parent. In lieu of the issuance of any such fractional share, Parent shall pay to settle transfers each former stockholder of Company who otherwise would be entitled to receive such fractional share an amount in cash (rounded to the nearest cent) determined by multiplying (i) the volume-weighted average trading price of one Parent Common Share for the ten (10) day period in which both the Canadian and U.S. Markets are open for trading ending on the last such day immediately preceding the Closing Date, calculated using both Canadian and U.S. trading prices and volumes during normal market hours and assuming in respect of such trading prices on the TSX, for each trading day, the Bank of Canada daily noon Canada/U.S. exchange rate for the Canadian calculations (the “Parent Share Closing Price”) by (ii) the fraction of a Parent Common Share (rounded to the nearest thousandth when expressed in decimal form) to which such holder would otherwise be entitled (after taking into account all shares of Company Common Shares that occurred Stock owned by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II). (gf) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-Company for one (1) year anniversary of after the Effective Time may shall be paid to Purchaserthe Surviving Corporation. In such event, any Holder Any former stockholders of Company who has have not theretofore complied with exchanged their Old Certificates pursuant to this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Surviving Corporation for payment of the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, shares and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Parent Common Shares deliverable in respect of each former share of Company Common Share held by Stock such Holder stockholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of PurchaserParent, Company, the Surviving CompanyCorporation, the Exchange Agent or any other Person person shall be liable to any former holder of shares of Company Common Shares Stock for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (g) Parent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold, or cause Holdco, Company or the Exchange Agent to deduct and withhold, from the cash portion of the aggregate Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of fractional Parent Common Shares, cash dividends or distributions payable pursuant to this Section 2.3 or any other cash amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Stock such amounts as it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax law. To the extent that amounts are so withheld by Parent, Holdco, Company or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate governmental authority, the withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Stock in respect of which the deduction and withholding was made by Parent, Holdco, Company or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be. (h) In the event any Old Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Old Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by Parent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent Parent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Old Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Old Certificate the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional shares and dividends or distributions deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce /Can/), Merger Agreement (Privatebancorp, Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five the Surviving Corporation shall cause its transfer agent (5or a depository or trust institution of recognized standing selected by BancTrust and reasonably satisfactory to Peoples) business days following (the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause “Exchange Agent”) to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior mail to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) former shareholders of Peoples appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence the certificates theretofore representing shares of Book-Entry Shares Peoples Common Stock shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent). The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall each holder of shares of Peoples Common Stock (other than shares to be no transfers on the share transfer books canceled pursuant to Section 3.3 of Company this Agreement or as to which dissenters’ rights of the Company Common Shares that were appraisal have been perfected as provided in Section 3.4 of this Agreement) issued and outstanding immediately prior to at the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to shall surrender the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates certificate or Book-Entry Shares certificates representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer shares to the Exchange AgentAgent (or shall furnish customary documentation and indemnity if any such certificates are lost, they stolen or destroyed) and shall be cancelled and exchanged for promptly thereafter receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration and any cash provided in lieu Section 3.1 of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued this Agreement, together with all undelivered dividends or paid distributions in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion respect of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed shares of BancTrust Common Stock received (without interest thereon) pursuant to Section 4.2 of this Agreement. To the extent required by the Holders as Section 3.5 of the one-year anniversary this Agreement, each holder of shares of Peoples Common Stock issued and outstanding at the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In also shall receive, upon surrender of the certificate or certificates representing such eventshares, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and share of BancTrust Common Stock to which such holder may be otherwise entitled (without interest). The Surviving Corporation shall not be obligated to deliver the Merger Consideration to which any unpaid dividends and distributions on former holder of Peoples Common Stock is entitled as a result of the Purchaser Merger until such holder surrenders his certificate or certificates representing the shares of Peoples Common Shares deliverable Stock for exchange as provided in respect this Section 4.1. The certificate or certificates of each Company Peoples Common Share held by such Holder Stock so surrendered shall be duly endorsed as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any may require. Any other Person provision of this Agreement notwithstanding, neither the Surviving Corporation nor the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any former a holder of Company Peoples Common Shares Stock for any amount amounts paid or property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsproperty Law. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Peoples Banctrust Co Inc), Merger Agreement (Peoples Banctrust Co Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after following the REIT Merger Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five two (52) business days following Business Days thereafter), the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Entity of the REIT Merger shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail (and to make available for collection by hand): (A) to each holder of record of one or more Certificates evidencing Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time Stock, (each, x) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that ), which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares such Certificates shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares such Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) to the Exchange Agent, and which Letter of Transmittal shall be in such form and have such other provisions as the Surviving Entity of the REIT Merger may reasonably specify, and (y) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of such Certificates in exchange for the REIT Common Merger Consideration into which the number of shares of Company Common Stock previously represented by such Certificates shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement, together with any amounts payable in respect of dividends or distributions on Parent Common Shares in accordance with Section 3.5(d) (which instructions shall provide that, at the election of the surrendering holder, (i) such Certificates may be surrendered by hand delivery or otherwise or (ii) the REIT Common Merger Consideration in exchange therefor, together with any amounts payable in respect of dividends or distributions on Parent Common Shares in accordance with Section 3.5(d), may be collected by hand by the surrendering holder or by check or wire transfer to the surrendering holder); (B) to each holder of record of one or more Certificates evidencing Company Preferred Stock, (x) a Letter of Transmittal, which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to such Certificates shall pass only upon proper delivery of such Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) to the Exchange Agent, and which Letter of Transmittal shall be in such form and have such other provisions as the Surviving Entity of the REIT Merger may reasonably specify, and (y) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of such Certificates in exchange for the applicable REIT Preferred Merger Consideration into which the number of shares of Company Series A Preferred Stock or Company Series C Preferred Stock, as applicable, previously represented by such Certificates shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement, together with any amounts payable in respect of dividends or distributions on Company Series A Preferred Stock or Company Series C Preferred Stock, as applicable, in accordance with Section 3.5(d) (which instructions shall provide that, at the election of the surrendering holder, (i) such Certificates may be surrendered by hand delivery or otherwise or (ii) the REIT Preferred Merger Consideration in exchange therefor, together with any amounts payable in respect of dividends or distributions on Parent Common Shares in accordance with Section 3.5(d), may be collected by hand by the surrendering holder or by check or wire transfer to the surrendering holder), and (C) to each holder of a share of Company Restricted Stock, a certificate or, at Parent’s option, evidence of book-entry Parent Common Shares representing the REIT Common Merger Consideration into which the number of shares of Company Common Stock previously represented by such award shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement. (ii) Upon surrender of a Certificate of Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) for cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with a Letter of Transmittal duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a certificate or, at Parent’s option, evidence of book-entry Parent Common Shares representing the REIT Common Merger Consideration for each share of Company Common Stock or a certificate representing the applicable REIT Preferred Merger Consideration for each share of Company Preferred Stock, as applicable, formerly represented by such Certificate pursuant to the provisions of this Article III, plus any amounts that such holder has the right to receive in respect of dividends or distributions on Parent Common Shares or Parent Preferred Shares, as applicable, in accordance with Section 3.5(d), to be mailed, made available for collection by hand or delivered by wire transfer, within two (2) Business Days following the later to occur of (A) the REIT Merger Effective Time or (B) the Exchange Agent’s receipt of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof), and the Certificate or Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) so surrendered shall be forthwith cancelled. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate Certificates (or evidence affidavits of Book-Entry Shares loss in lieu thereof) upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall practices. Until surrendered as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented contemplated by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) PurchaserSection 3.5, in the exercise each Certificate of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in Stock or Company Preferred Stock shall be deemed, at any time after the MergerREIT Merger Effective Time, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, represent only the right to receive, without interestupon such surrender, the portion of the REIT Common Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 the applicable REIT Preferred Merger Consideration, as applicable, as contemplated by this Article III, and any cash amounts payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser dividends or distributions on Parent Common Shares to in accordance with Section 3.5(d). No interest shall be issued paid or paid in consideration therefor accrued for the benefit of holders of such Certificates on the REIT Common Merger Consideration or the REIT Preferred Merger Consideration payable upon the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IICertificates. (diii) No dividends or other distributions with respect As promptly as practicable following the REIT Merger Effective Time (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days thereafter), the Surviving Entity shall cause the Exchange Agent (A) to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid issue to the each holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Company Common Stock or Common Preferred Stock, as applicable, that whole number of uncertificated Parent Common Shares represented therebyor Parent Preferred Shares, as applicable, that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to Section 3.1(b) in each case unless and until the surrender respect of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, and (B) to issue and deliver to each holder of Book-Entry Shares occurs a check or wire transfer for any amounts payable in respect of dividends or distributions on Parent Common Shares or Parent Preferred Shares in accordance with this Article II. Subject Section 3.5(d) in each case, without such holder being required to deliver a Certificate or an executed Letter of Transmittal to the effect of applicable abandoned propertyExchange Agent, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any and such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IIshall then be cancelled. In lieu of a Letter of Transmittal, the record each holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect shall deliver to the whole number Exchange Agent an “agent’s message” in customary form (or such other evidence of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate transfer or surrender as the Exchange Agent may reasonably request). No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of Book-Entry Shares with a record date after on the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance REIT Common Merger Consideration or REIT Preferred Merger Consideration, as applicable, payable in respect of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (eiv) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares Stock or Company Preferred Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) it shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the condition of payment that any Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares Stock or Company Preferred Stock surrendered in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3.5(c) shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, or any Book-Entry Share shall be properly transferred, and that the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay have paid any transfer or Transfer Taxes and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment of the REIT Common Merger Consideration or issuance the REIT Preferred Merger Consideration, as applicable, to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, Share surrendered or establish shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Parent that the such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Global Net Lease, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Necessity Retail REIT, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly Company shall cause each Securityholder to fully complete the investor questionnaire attached hereto as practicable after Exhibit D (the Effective Time"Investor Questionnaire"), but and the Company shall direct each Securityholder to accurately complete such Investor Questionnaire to be in no event all material respects true, correct and complete. No later than five (5) business days following Business Days prior to the Closing, Company and the Key Person shall use reasonable best efforts to cause each Securityholder to deliver to Parent a completed Investor Questionnaire. (b) To the extent that any Securityholder does not deliver an Investor Questionnaire by the fifth (5th) Business Day prior to Closing or a Securityholder, that is not an Accredited Investor nor a Sophisticated Investor (each as defined in the Investor Questionnaire), has failed to appoint a "purchaser representative" in accordance with Section 5.05(b) (each, an "Ineligible Securityholder"), then each such Securityholder will forfeit the right to receive Parent Common Shares and Parent may, rather than issuing Parent Common Shares to such Securityholders, in its sole discretion, choose to deliver to such Securityholder cash in the amount equal to such Securityholder's Pro Rata Share of the Closing Consideration as determined in accordance with the Payment Schedule and the valuation date and metrics originally used to determine the Closing Consideration ("Cash Consideration"), and the number of Parent Common Shares to be issued in accordance with the Closing Consideration will be reduced accordingly. To the extent Cash Consideration is paid in lieu of Parent Common Shares, all references to issuance of Parent Common Shares as Closing Consideration and all associated definitions, including the definitions of Closing Consideration and Allocated Consideration, shall be deemed amended to reflect the forgoing. (c) On the Closing Date, Purchaser Parent shall send or cause to be sent deliver to each holder Securityholder (i) a letter of record transmittal substantially in the form of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time Exhibit E attached hereto (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “"Letter of Transmittal”) that "), which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title effected upon adherence to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied and which shall be in a customary form and agreed to by Parent and the Holder’s Certificate(sCompany prior to the Closing, and (ii) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of instructions for use in effecting the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Company Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which for delivery of such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IISecurityholder's Allocated Consideration. (d) No dividends or other distributions Upon surrender to Parent of Company Shares, together with respect the Letter of Transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, such Securityholders shall be entitled to Purchaser receive in exchange therefor the Allocated Consideration pursuant to the provisions of this Article I (which in the case of Allocated Consideration consisting of Parent Common Shares shall be in uncertificated book-entry form). No interest shall be paid to or accrued for the holder benefit of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with Securityholders on the Allocated Consideration payable in respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IICompany Shares. Subject If delivery of the Allocated Consideration is to the effect of applicable abandoned propertybe made to a Person other than a Securityholder, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof it shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) a condition of delivery that Company Shares so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the amount of dividends or Person requesting such delivery shall have paid any transfer and other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented Taxes required by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance reason of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In delivery of the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Allocated Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing Securityholder of such Company Common Shares surrendered or shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and have established to the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason satisfaction of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Surviving Company that the Tax has such Taxes either have been paid or is are not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orUntil surrendered as contemplated by this Section 1.03(d), subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of each Company Share shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of right to receive upon such surrender the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Allocated Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each such Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsShares. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Nordhagen Arlen Dale), Merger Agreement (National Storage Affiliates Trust)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five ten (510) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Effective Time) Parent shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each registered holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Company Common Stock (each, a the HolderCertificates”) or of non-certificated shares of Company Common Stock represented by book-entry (“Book-Entry Shares”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company i) a letter of transmittal in customary form (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence the Certificates to the Paying Agent and which shall include customary provisions with respect to delivery of an “agent’s message” with respect to Book-Entry Shares Shares) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares in exchange for the Per Share Merger Price to which such holder is entitled. Upon surrender of such Certificates) to Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof), or in the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence case of Book-Entry Shares Shares, upon compliance adherence to the applicable procedures set forth in the letter of transmittal, for cancellation to the Paying Agent together with such reasonable terms letter of transmittal, properly completed and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof duly executed in accordance with normal the instructions thereto, and such other customary documents as may be reasonably required by the Paying Agent or pursuant to such instructions, the holders of such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall (A) be entitled to receive, and the Paying Agent shall (and Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to), in exchange practices therefor, transfer from the Exchange Fund to each such holder the Cash Portion of the Per Share Merger Price such holder has the right to receive pursuant to Section 5.1(c)(iii) hereof, and shall (B) be identified by Parent, or caused to be identified by Parent, in the register maintained by the CVR Rights Agent for the purpose of identifying the holders of CVRs pursuant to the terms of the CVR Agreement, as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry the holder of that number of CVRs such holder has the right to receive pursuant hereto, in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this CVR Agreement, governing (i) and the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied Stock formerly represented by the Holder’s Certificate(s) such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of and the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate Certificates or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to forthwith be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) canceled. No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall interest will be paid or accrued on the Per Share Merger Price payable to the holder holders of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. (e) . In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the applicable Per Share Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall Price may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such shares of Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed Stock is presented to the Paying Agent (or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason case of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish upon adherence to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the applicable procedures set forth in the letter of transmittal), accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer Taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the oneSection 5.2, each Certificate and each Book-year anniversary of Entry Share shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look represent only the right to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of receive for each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder share of Company Common Stock upon such surrender the Per Share Merger Price to which such share is entitled or the right to demand appraisal of Dissenting Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsthe DGCL. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Stock Purchase Agreement (Talon Therapeutics, Inc.), Stock Purchase Agreement (Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc)

Exchange Procedures. If (ai) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five at least three (53) business days following prior to the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send Date Parent has received the following from any Participating Holder: (x) a photocopy or cause to be sent to facsimile of each holder of record of Company Common Shares certificate or certificates that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Company Stock to be exchanged pursuant to Section 1.6 (each, a the HolderCertificates”) held by such Participating Holder, if any, (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company y) a photocopy or facsimile of a letter of transmittal in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected), duly completed and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof validly executed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerinstructions thereto, and (iiiz) a photocopy or facsimile of such other documents as may be reasonably required pursuant to the method of payment of cash instructions set forth in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied and (ii) in connection with the Closing, Parent receives an original Certificate or Certificates held by such Participating Holder, if any, a duly executed Letter of Transmittal, and such other documents as may be reasonably required pursuant to the Holderinstructions in the Letter of Transmittal, then on the Closing Date in accordance with such Letter of Transmittal, Parent shall deliver: (x) to any such Participating Holder for whom the payment of Merger Consideration is not subject to wage or payroll tax withholding in exchange therefor the applicable the Merger Consideration payable at Closing in accordance with the terms hereof; and (y) to the Surviving Corporation’s Certificate(s(or other Affiliate’s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled payroll agent an amount of cash equal to receive such Holder’s the portion of applicable Merger Consideration payable at the Closing to the Participating Holders for whom such payment is subject to wage or payroll tax withholding, and any Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. If Parent has received such materials from any such Participating Holder later than three (3) business days prior to the Closing Date, then Parent shall deliver to such Participating Holder in exchange therefor the applicable Merger Consideration no later than three (3) business days after such receipt or three (3) business days after the date on which such Merger Consideration is otherwise due hereunder in accordance with the terms hereof, whichever is later. No interest shall be paid or accrued on any Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. Ifshall, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented represent for transfer all purposes only the right to receive the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the applicable Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion respect of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed shares of Company Stock represented by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchasersuch Certificate. In such event, any Any Participating Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II Agreement shall thereafter be entitled to look only to Purchaser Parent (subject to abandoned property, escheat or other similar Laws) only as a general creditor thereof with respect to the applicable Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable Consideration payable in respect of each such shares of Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each caseStock, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding Parent shall provide the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed Stockholders’ Representative and the posting by such Person Payments Administrator upon reasonable request with (i) a list (updated prior to each post-closing payment) of a bond in such amount as all Participating Holders that have properly presented all of the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect above-required transmittal information and documents and are eligible to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the receive Merger Consideration deliverable and (ii) copies of all such transmittal documents (including payment information) and tax documents in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIParent’s possession.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Veeco Instruments Inc), Merger Agreement (Veeco Instruments Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) Prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall select an exchange agent, agreed to by JCB (the “Exchange Agent”). No later than two business days prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with the Exchange Agent, for the benefit of the holders of certificates formerly representing shares of JCB Common Stock (“Old Certificates”) and holders of non‑certificated shares of JCB Common Stock (“Book-Entry Shares”), for exchange in accordance with this Article III, sufficient funds for timely payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration to be paid pursuant to this Article III (the “Exchange Fund”). The Exchange Fund will be distributed in accordance with the Exchange Agent’s normal and customary procedures established in connection with merger transactions. (b) As promptly soon as practicable after the Effective Time, but and in no event later than five three (53) business days following thereafter, the Closing Date, Purchaser Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) one or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) more Old Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares a letter of transmittal (which shall passspecify that no Person shall have the right to receive the Merger Consideration until they deliver the Old Certificates, only upon delivery or a lost stock affidavit and indemnity in form reasonably satisfactory to the Exchange Agent, to the Exchange Agent) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Certificate(s) the Old Certificates or evidence Book-Entry Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration that the holders of the Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares are entitled to receive pursuant to Article III. Upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits delivery of loss in lieu of such Certificatesa lost stock affidavit and indemnity) for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance , together with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by duly executed, the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive holder of such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration which such holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares receive in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer surrendered pursuant to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu provisions of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIIII. (gc) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, Neither the Exchange Agent or nor any other Person party hereto shall be liable to any former holder of Company JCB Common Shares Stock for any amount properly delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (hd) In Any portion of the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of Exchange Fund that fact remains unclaimed by the Person claiming such Certificate shareholders of JCB on the business day after the one-year anniversary of the Effective Date shall be paid to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person Parent. Any shareholders of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it JCB who have not theretofore complied with respect this Article III shall thereafter look only to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange Parent for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate payment of the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of each share of JCB Common Stock such shareholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIwithout any interest thereon.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Skyline Bankshares, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Skyline Bankshares, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Lilis shall instruct the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent transmit to each holder record holder, as of record the Effective Time, of Company Common Shares an outstanding Certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Brushy Common Stock (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and shall be in customary form and agreed to by Lilis and Brushy prior to the Effective Time) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable in respect of the shares of Brushy Common Stock represented by such Certificates. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence Promptly after the Effective Time, upon surrender of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent together with such letters of transmittal, properly completed and duly executed, and such other documents as may impose be required pursuant to effect an orderly such instructions, the holders of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser therefor shares of Lilis Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) PurchaserStock representing, in the exercise aggregate, the whole number of its reasonable discretion, shall shares of Lilis Common Stock that such holders have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu 2.1 (after taking into account all shares of fractional Purchaser Brushy Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented Stock then held by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) holder). In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company shares of Brushy Common Shares Stock that is was not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyBrushy, the Merger Consideration (including cash payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser such shares of Brushy Common Shares) shall Stock may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company shares of Brushy Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person delivery of the Merger Consideration in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Sharessurrendered, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreementthat such Taxes have been paid or are not payable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.3, Purchaser) each Certificate, other than Certificates representing Dissenting Shares, shall be entitled deemed at any time after the Effective Time to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the Merger Consideration payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books shares of Company of the Company Brushy Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held Stock represented by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsCertificate. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Lilis Energy, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Brushy Resources, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five UPC and Magna shall cause the exchange agent selected by UPC (5the "Exchange Agent") business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior mail to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) former shareholders of Magna appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence the certificates theretofore representing shares of Book-Entry Shares Magna Common Stock shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent). The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance may establish reasonable and customary rules and procedures in connection with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4duties. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall each holder of shares of Magna Common Stock (other than shares to be no transfers on the share transfer books canceled pursuant to Section 3.3 of Company of the Company Common Shares that were this Agreement) issued and outstanding immediately prior to at the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to shall surrender the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates certificate or Book-Entry Shares certificates representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer shares to the Exchange AgentAgent and shall promptly upon surrender thereof receive in exchange therefor the consideration provided in Section 3.1 of this Agreement, they shall be cancelled together with all undelivered dividends or distributions in respect of such shares (without interest thereon) pursuant to Section 4.2 of this Agreement. To the extent required by Section 3.4 of this Agreement, each holder of shares of Magna Common Stock issued and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of outstanding at the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In also shall receive, upon surrender of the certificate or certificates representing such eventshares, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and share of UPC Common Stock to which such holder may be otherwise entitled (without interest). UPC shall not be obligated to deliver the consideration to which any unpaid dividends and distributions on former holder of Magna Common Stock is entitled as a result of the Purchaser Merger until such holder surrenders such holder's certificate or certificates representing the shares of Magna Common Shares deliverable Stock for exchange as provided in respect this Section 4.1. The certificate or certificates of each Company Magna Common Share held by such Holder Stock so surrendered shall be duly endorsed as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any may require. Any other Person provision of this Agreement notwithstanding, neither UPC nor the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any former a holder of Company Magna Common Shares Stock for any amount amounts paid or property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making property Law. Adoption of an affidavit of that fact this Agreement by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and shareholders of Magna shall constitute ratification of the posting by such Person appointment of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIAgent.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Union Planters Corp), Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Magna Bancorp Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Immediately prior to the Effective Time, but Parkvale shall deposit in no event trust with an exchange agent designated by Parkvale and reasonably acceptable to Advance (the "Exchange Agent") cash in an amount equal to the Aggregate Merger Consideration. No later than five (5) business days following the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser Parkvale shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented issued and outstanding shares of Advance Common Stock a notice and letter of transmittal (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence the certificates theretofore representing shares of Book-Entry Shares Advance Common Stock shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent) advising such holder of the effectiveness of the Merger and the procedure for surrendering to the Exchange Agent such certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented issued and outstanding shares of Advance Common Stock in exchange for the consideration set forth in Section 1.07 hereof deliverable in respect thereof pursuant to this Agreement. Within five business days following receipt of surrendered certificates and a properly completed letter of transmittal, the Exchange Agent shall deliver the Merger Consideration to which such former holder is entitled to each former Advance stockholder. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares certificates upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent reasonably may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreementpractices. (b) PurchaserEach outstanding certificate which prior to the Effective Time represented Advance Common Stock (other than Dissenting Shares) and which is not surrendered to the Exchange Agent in accordance with the procedures provided for herein shall, in except as otherwise herein provided, until duly surrendered to the exercise of its reasonable discretionExchange Agent, shall have be deemed to evidence the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers further transfer on the share transfer books records of Company Advance of the Company certificates representing shares of Advance Common Shares that were issued Stock and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing if such Company Common Shares certificates are presented to Advance for transfer to the Exchange Agenttransfer, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for against delivery of the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIas hereinabove provided. (gc) Parkvale shall not be obligated to deliver the Merger Consideration to which a holder of Advance Common Stock would otherwise be entitled as a result of the Merger until such holder surrenders the certificate or certificates representing the shares of Advance Common Stock for exchange as provided in this Section 1.08, or, in lieu thereof, an appropriate affidavit of loss and indemnity agreement and/or a bond as may be required in each case by Parkvale. If payment of the Merger Consideration is to be made in a name other than that in which the certificate evidencing Advance Common Stock surrendered in exchange therefor is registered, it shall be a condition of the issuance thereof that the certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by an executed form of assignment separate from the certificate and otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the person requesting such payment pay to the Exchange Agent in advance, any transfer or other tax required by reason of the payment in any name other than that of the registered holder of the certificate surrendered or otherwise establish to the satisfaction of the Exchange Agent that such tax has been paid or is not payable. (d) Any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration delivered to the Exchange Fund Agent by Parkvale pursuant to Section 1.07 that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-year anniversary of Advance for six months after the Effective Time may (as well as any proceeds from any investment thereof) shall be paid delivered by the Exchange Agent to PurchaserParkvale. In such event, any Holder Any stockholders of Advance who has have not theretofore complied exchanged their shares of Advance Common Stock for the Merger Consideration in accordance with this Article II Agreement shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to Parkvale for the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares consideration deliverable in respect of each Company share of Advance Common Share held by Stock such Holder stockholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, Agreement without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding If outstanding certificates for shares of Advance Common Stock are not surrendered or the foregoing, none payment for them is not claimed prior to the date on which payment of Purchaserthe Merger Consideration would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any governmental unit or agency, the Surviving Companyunclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any other applicable law, become the property of Parkvale (and to the extent not in its possession shall be delivered to it), free and clear of all claims or interest of any person previously entitled to such property. Neither the Exchange Agent or nor any other Person party to this Agreement shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares stock represented by any certificate for any amount delivered in good faith consideration paid to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) laws. Parkvale and the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to rely upon the stock transfer books of Advance to establish the identity of those persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration specified in this Agreement, which books shall be conclusive with respect thereto. In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as dispute with respect to ownership of stock represented by any certificate, Parkvale and the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against shall be entitled to deposit any claim that may consideration represented thereby in escrow with an independent third party and thereafter be made against it relieved with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIclaims thereto.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Parkvale Financial Corp), Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Advance Financial Bancorp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent shall instruct the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates (“Certificates”) that immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than represented outstanding shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company Stock which were converted into the right to receive shares of Parent Series B Preferred Stock and the Cash Portion of the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 1.6, (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Sharesi) or Purchaser) appropriate and a letter of transmittal in customary transmittal materials form (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(sthe Certificates to the Exchange Agent and which letter shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company), and (ii) or evidence instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates in exchange for certificates representing shares of Parent Series B Preferred Stock and the Cash Portion of the Merger Consideration. Upon surrender of Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, the holders of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor certificates representing the number of whole shares of Parent Series B Preferred Stock into which their shares of Company Common Stock were converted at the Effective Time (or affidavits of loss and any payment in lieu of fractional shares that such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall holders have the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive pursuant to Section 1.7(e) and any dividends or distributions payable pursuant to Section 1.7(d)) and the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion Cash Portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4and the Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representoutstanding Certificates will be deemed from and after the Effective Time, for all corporate purposes, to evidence only the ownership of the number of whole shares of Parent Series B Preferred Stock into which such shares of Company Common Stock shall have been so converted (and the right to receive, without interest, receive an amount in cash in lieu of the portion issuance of any fractional shares in accordance with Section 1.7(e) and any dividends or distributions payable pursuant to Section 1.7(d)) and the right to receive the Cash Portion of the Merger Consideration. No interest will be paid or accrued on any Cash Portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued shares of Parent Series B Preferred Stock or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and on any unpaid dividends or distributions payable to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder holders of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IICertificates. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, a certificate representing the proper number of shares of Parent Series B Preferred Stock and the appropriate amount of the Cash Portion of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall contemplated by Section 1.6 may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder shares of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, Stock is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled accompanied by all documents required to evidence and exchanged for the Merger Consideration effect such transfer and by evidence that any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall stock transfer taxes have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIpaid.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Matria Healthcare Inc), Merger Agreement (Inverness Medical Innovations Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as reasonably practicable after the Effective TimeTime (and in any event within three (3) Business Days thereafter), but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent deliver to each holder of record record, as of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time, of (A) an outstanding certificate or certificates that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Company Common Stock (eachthe “Certificates”) or (B) if required by the processes and procedures of the Paying Agent, shares of Company Common Stock represented by book-entry (“Book-Entry Shares”), a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence the Certificates to the Paying Agent or, in the case of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) Shares, upon adherence to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent procedures set forth in the Letter of Transmittal, if applicable, and which shall accept each such Certificate or evidence be in a customary form and agreed to by the parties prior to the Closing) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or, in the case of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with Shares, the surrender of such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchasershares, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity for payment of the Letters Merger Consideration. Each holder of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with Certificates or Book-Entry Shares may thereafter until the procedures set forth therein and herein, first (ii1st) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder anniversary of the applicable Certificate has no right Effective Time surrender such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed the Paying Agent, as agent for such holder, under cover of the Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by if applicable. (ii) Upon surrender to the Holder’s Certificate(s) Paying Agent of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, will together with the Letter of Transmittal, if applicable, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other customary documents as may be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion reasonably required by the Paying Agent, the holder of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right be entitled to receive, without interest, the portion of receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in for each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares share formerly represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after Share shall then be canceled. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance benefit of holders of the Purchaser Common Certificates or Book-Entry Shares issuable with on the Merger Consideration payable in respect to such Certificate of the Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event . If payment of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall is to be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares holder of record of such shares of Company Common Stock, it shall be a condition of payment that such shares of Company Common Stock so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise be in proper form for transfer and that the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay have paid any transfer or and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance of the Merger Consideration to a Person other than the registered holder of such shares surrendered or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Surviving Corporation that such Taxes either have been paid or are not applicable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.3(d)(ii), each Certificate or and each Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of Share shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled right to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares receive upon such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for surrender the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in as contemplated by this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Washington Gas Light Co)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than The Issuer will provide notice to Legence Parent at least seventy-five (575) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time anticipated date of each Quarterly Exchange Date. Legence Parent shall exercise its right to make an Exchange as set forth in Section 2.1(a) above by providing written notice of Exchange (eachwhich in the case of an Exchange that is not a Block Exchange, a “Holder”must be delivered at least sixty (60) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) days prior to the applicable Quarterly Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept Date) substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, duly executed by Legence Parent, in each such Certificate or evidence case delivered during normal business hours at the principal executive offices of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms the Issuer and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this AgreementLegence Holdings. (b) PurchaserIf the Issuer makes a valid Cash Election with respect to an Exchange, then in accordance with and subject to the terms set forth in the Legence Holdings LLC Agreement the Issuer shall deliver to Legence Holdings, and Legence Holdings shall deliver to Legence Parent, in each case, as directed by the exercise of its reasonable discretionrecipient Party by wire transfer or ACH, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with Cash Election Amount payable upon the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common SharesExchange. (c) A Holder who has returned If the Issuer does not make a properly completed Letter of Transmittalvalid Cash Election with respect to an Exchange, accompanied by then in accordance with and subject to the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Sharesterms set forth in the Legence Holdings LLC Agreement, will be entitled Issuer shall issue and contribute to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger ConsiderationLegence Holdings, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and Legence Holdings shall represent, for all purposes, only the right deliver to receive, without interestLegence Parent, the portion number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIExchange. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares terms set forth in accordance with this Article IIthe Legence Holdings LLC Agreement, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) Issuer may adopt reasonable procedures for the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance implementation of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures provisions set forth in this Article II, including, without limitation, procedures for the giving of notice of a Block Exchange and the surrender of Class B Units and shares of Class B Common Stock in the event that the Class B Units or shares of Class B Common Stock are uncertificated. Legence Parent may not revoke a notice of exchange relating to an Exchange that is not a Block Exchange delivered pursuant to Section 2.2(a) above without the consent of the Issuer, which consent may be provided or withheld, or made subject to such conditions, limitations or restrictions, as determined by the Issuer in its sole discretion. Such determinations need not be uniform and may be made selectively. (ge) Any portion Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in accordance with Section 3.6(b) of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Legence Holdings LLC Agreement, the Issuer may in each case, without its sole discretion elect to settle any interest thereon. Notwithstanding Exchange hereunder by delivering shares of Class A Common Stock or the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable applicable Cash Election Amount directly to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue Legence Parent in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate Legence Parent’s delivery to the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance Issuer of the corresponding Class B Units (together with the same number of shares of Class B Common Stock to the Issuer). Any such transaction shall otherwise be effected on the terms and in the manner provided herein and shall constitute an “Exchange” for all purposes of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Exchange Agreement (Legence Corp.), Exchange Agreement (Legence Corp.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent and the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Payment Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares as of immediately prior to the Effective Time Time: (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal in customary form (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(sa certificate or certificates (the “Certificates”) or evidence of Book-Entry that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares (excluding Owned Shares and Dissenting Shares) (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or transfer of such Certificatesnon-certificated Shares (excluding Owned Shares and Dissenting Shares) represented by book entry (“Uncertificated Shares”) to the Exchange Payment Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate ); and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or evidence transfer of Book-Entry the Uncertificated Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as in exchange for the Exchange Agent may impose Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common the provisions of Article I. Each holder of Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall that have been converted into the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion the Merger Consideration in respect of the Merger ConsiderationShares represented by a Certificate or Uncertificated Share, determined upon (x) surrender to the Payment Agent of a Certificate, together with a duly completed and validly executed letter of transmittal and such other documents as provided may reasonably be requested by the Payment Agent, or (y) receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Payment Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Payment Agent may reasonably request) in Section 1.4the case of a book-entry transfer of Uncertificated Shares. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate surrendered or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchasertransferred, as the case may be, is required to deduct from and withhold under after the Code, Effective Time each such Certificate or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts Uncertificated Share shall be treated represent for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid only the right to receive the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to the holder provisions of Company Common Article I. If Certificates or Uncertificated Shares are presented to the Surviving Corporation after the Effective Time for any reason, they shall be canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration as provided for, and in respect accordance with the procedures set forth in Article I. No interest shall be paid or accrued on the cash payable upon the surrender or transfer of whom such deduction Certificate or Uncertificated Share. From and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After after the Effective Time, there shall will be no further registration of transfers on the share transfer books of Company records of the Company Common Surviving Corporation of Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Time, other than transfers to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred reflect, in accordance with customary settlement procedures, trades effected prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc), Merger Agreement (Coherent Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after Prior to the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing DateCompany shall mail, Purchaser or shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent mail, to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachShareholder, Warrant Holder or Post-Closing Top-Up Right Holder, a “Holder”) letter of transmittal substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F with such reasonable changes as the Paying Agent may require (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that ), which shall specify that delivery shall be effectedthe instructions for effecting the surrender of such holder’s Shares, Warrants or Post-Closing Top-Up Rights as applicable, and risk the certificates, if any, representing the same (the “Certificates”) in exchange for the relevant portion of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof Merger Consideration in accordance with normal exchange practices the Consideration Spreadsheet. The Paying Agent shall provide to Parent and the Company, as promptly as reasonably practicable upon receipt thereof, copies of each Letter of Transmittal delivered to the Paying Agent prior to the Closing. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, after the Closing, all payments to which a Shareholder, Warrant Holder or Post-Closing Top-Up Right Holder may be entitled pursuant to this Section 3.7 or Section 3.13 shall only be made to such holder if such holder has delivered to the Paying Agent a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal and has surrendered to the Paying Agent the Certificates, if any, representing such holder’s Shares or Warrants, as applicable. (ii) Following the Closing, the Paying Agent shall as promptly as practicable issue non(and, if the applicable properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal has been delivered, and the applicable Certificates have been surrendered, to the Paying Agent prior to the Closing, in any event within two (2) Business Days of the Closing Date) pay each Shareholder, Warrant Holder or Post-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by bookClosing Top-entry Up Right Holder the consideration to which it is entitled in each case in accordance with this AgreementSections 3.1(c), 3.1(d) or 3.3(a), as the case may be, and as set forth in the Consideration Spreadsheet, once such Securityholder has delivered to the Paying Agent a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal and has surrendered to the Paying Agent the Certificates, if any, applicable thereto. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate any Shares, Warrants or BookPost-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Closing Top-Up Rights that is are not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, payment of the applicable portion of the Merger Consideration (including cash payable in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor respect thereof pursuant to this Article III to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate Shares, Warrants or BookPost-Entry Shares Closing Top-Up Rights so surrendered is are registered if shall be conditioned on (in addition to the conditions set forth in this Agreement more generally for payment of Merger Consideration) (A) subject to Section 3.7(j), the Paying Agent being presented with the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be (if any) applicable thereto, properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to Parent and the Paying Agent that the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay is entitled thereto, and (B) the Person requesting such payment paying to the Surviving Company any transfer Taxes or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance of such Merger Consideration to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry such Shares, Warrants or Post-Closing Top-Up Rights, as applicable, or such Person shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Parent that the Tax has such Taxes have been paid or is are not applicable. The Exchange Agent . (oriv) Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.7 (including delivery of the applicable properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal), subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of each Certificate, if any, shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination right to receive upon such surrender the relevant portion of the Exchange Agent AgreementMerger Consideration which the holder thereof has the right to receive in respect of the Shares or Warrants, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable as applicable, represented by such Certificate pursuant to this Agreement Section 3.7 or Section 3.13. No interest shall be paid or will accrue on any cash payable to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent Shareholders, Warrant Holders or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect Post-Closing Top-Up Right Holders pursuant to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms provisions of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Organon & Co.), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Roivant Sciences Ltd.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective TimeTime (and in any event within three Business Days), but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent and the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior Certificates and to each holder of record of Book-Entry Shares, in each case whose shares were converted into the Effective Time right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 4.2(a), (each, i) a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(sthe Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Paying Agent and which shall be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify and (ii) instructions for use in surrendering the Certificates or evidence Book-Entry Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable with respect thereto. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent of a Certificate for cancellation, together with a duly completed and validly executed letter of transmittal or receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Paying Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Paying Agent may reasonably request) in the case of Book-Entry Shares, the holder of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery receive in exchange therefor the amount of Certificate(s) cash which the shares of Company Common Stock theretofore represented by such Certificate or evidence book-entry entitle such holder to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Article 4 and the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent so surrendered shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will forthwith be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4canceled. Until so surrenderedsurrendered or transferred, as the case may be, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share shall represent, represent after the Effective Time for all purposes, purposes only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of receive the Merger Consideration allocable Consideration. No interest shall be paid or shall accrue on any cash payable to such Certificate holders of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu the provisions of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II4. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Stock that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall payment may be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is are registered if the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer or such Book-Entry Shares shall be properly transferred and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, Shares or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Parent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Salix Pharmaceuticals LTD)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five Parent or the Surviving Corporation shall cause the Paying Agent (5and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Paying Agent to do so by the fifth (5th) business days Business Day following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause date of the Effective Time) to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Seller Common Stock whose shares were converted pursuant to Section 3.1(c) into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Shares, as applicable, shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof pursuant to Section 3.2(h) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(shereof) or Book-Entry SharesShares to the Paying Agent and shall be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent and Seller may mutually agree or the Paying Agent may reasonably specify), will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion and (ii) instructions for effecting the surrender of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate Certificates or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to exchange for the holder Merger Consideration. Upon surrender of any unsurrendered a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect Share, as applicable, for cancellation to the Purchaser Common Shares represented therebyPaying Agent, together with such letter of transmittal duly completed and validly executed in each case unless accordance with the instructions thereto, and until such other documents as may reasonably be required pursuant to such instructions, the surrender holder of such Certificate or such Book-Entry Share shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor cash equal to the Merger Consideration payable in respect of the shares of Seller Common Stock previously represented by such Certificate or such Book-Entry Share, and the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIShare so surrendered shall immediately be cancelled. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Seller Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanySeller, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall payment may be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share so surrendered is registered registered, if such Certificate or such Book-Entry Share is presented to the Paying Agent, accompanied by all documents reasonably required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.2, each Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares Share, as applicable, shall be properly endorsed deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, upon such surrender the Merger Consideration. No interest shall be paid or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay accrue on any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason cash payable upon surrender of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the any Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may beShare. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (BladeLogic, Inc.), Merger Agreement (BMC Software Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) At the Effective Date, the Continuing Corporation shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with its transfer agent or depository or trust institution approved by UBSH or FMB (the “Exchange Agent”), for the benefit of the holders of the Old FMB Capital Stock Certificates, certificates representing Continuing Corporation Common Stock (“New Certificates”), together with any dividends or distributions with respect thereto and any cash to be paid hereunder in lieu of fractional shares of Continuing Corporation Common Stock, without any interest thereon (the “Exchange Fund”), to be paid pursuant to Article 1 and this Article 2 in exchange for outstanding shares of FMB Capital Stock. (b) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser the Continuing Corporation shall cause the Exchange Agent to send or cause to be sent to each holder former stockholder of record of Company Common Shares FMB immediately prior to before the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary Date transmittal materials (collectively, for use in exchanging such stockholder’s Old FMB Capital Stock Certificates for New Certificates based upon the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Capital Stock Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common SharesRatios. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter The Continuing Corporation shall cause the New Certificates for shares of Transmittal, accompanied by Continuing Corporation Common Stock into which shares of FMB Capital Stock are converted at the Holder’s Certificate(s) Effective Date or Book-Entry Shares, will dividends or distributions which such stockholder shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash to be paid in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor to such stockholder upon surrender delivery to the Exchange Agent of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Old FMB Capital Stock Certificates, together with the transmittal materials duly executed and completed in accordance with, and with the instructions thereto. No interest will accrue or be paid on any dividends or distributions such cash to which such holder is entitled be paid pursuant to, this Article IIto Section 2.5. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-year anniversary of FMB for six months after the Effective Time may Date shall be paid returned to Purchaserthe Continuing Corporation (together with any dividends or earnings in respect thereof). In such event, any Holder Any former stockholders of FMB who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II 2 shall thereafter be entitled to look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional sharesContinuing Corporation, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on only as a general creditor thereof, for payment of the Purchaser Common Shares consideration deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by share of FMB Capital Stock such Holder stockholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none . (e) None of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent Agent, any of the parties hereto or any other Person of their respective Subsidiaries shall be liable to any former holder stockholder of Company Common Shares FMB for any amount of property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Union Bankshares Corp), Merger Agreement (Union Bankshares Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five ten (510) business days following thereafter, Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares person who was, immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachTime, a “Holder”) (other than holder of record of one or more Old Certificates representing shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company Stock and who theretofore has not submitted such holder’s Old Certificates with an Election Form, a form of letter of transmittal (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Old Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Old Certificates to the Exchange Agent) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Old Certificates in exchange for the consideration for which such person may be entitled pursuant to Section 1.5 and this Article II. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such After completion of the allocation procedure set forth in Section 2.3 and upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance Old Certificates for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such reasonable terms and conditions properly completed letter of transmittal or Election Form, as the Exchange Agent case may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and be, duly executed, the holder of such Old Certificate or Old Certificates shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive in exchange therefor, as applicable, a New Certificate and/or a check representing the amount of cash to which such Holder’s portion holder is entitled pursuant to Section 1.5 and this Article II, and the Old Certificate or Old Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued with respect to any property to be delivered upon surrender of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4Old Certificates. Until so surrenderedsurrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.4, each such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, without interestupon surrender, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued shares or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender respect of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, as contemplated by this Article IISection 2.4. (db) No dividends or other distributions declared with respect to Purchaser Parent Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the holder thereof shall surrender of such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to After the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of receive any such dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time distributions, without any interest thereon, which theretofore had become payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Parent Common Shares which the shares of Company Common Stock represented by such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior have been converted into the right to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharesreceive. (ec) In If any New Certificate representing Parent Common Shares is to be issued in a name other than that in which the event of a transfer of ownership of a Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid Old Certificates surrendered in exchange therefor to is or are registered, it shall be a Person other than condition of the Person in whose name issuance thereof that the Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Old Certificates so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed (or accompanied by an appropriate instrument of transfer) and otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to of a Person New Certificate representing Parent Common Shares in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Old Certificate or Book-Entry SharesOld Certificates surrendered, or required for any other reason, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepayable. (fd) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of Company of the shares of Company Common Shares Stock that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Time. (e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no New Certificates or scrip representing fractional Parent Common Shares shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of Old Certificates, no dividend or distribution with respect to Parent Common Shares shall be payable on or with respect to any fractional share, and such fractional share interests shall not entitle the owner thereof to vote or to any other than rights of a shareholder of Parent. In lieu of the issuance of any such fractional share, Parent shall pay to settle transfers each former stockholder of Company who otherwise would be entitled to receive such fractional share an amount in cash (rounded to the nearest cent) determined by multiplying (i) the Closing Parent Share Value by (ii) the fraction of a Parent Common Share (rounded to the nearest thousandth when expressed in decimal form) which such holder would otherwise be entitled (after taking into account all shares of Company Common Shares that occurred Stock owned by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II). (gf) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-Company for one (1) year anniversary of after the Effective Time may shall be paid to Purchaserthe Surviving Corporation. In such event, any Holder Any former stockholders of Company who has have not theretofore complied with exchanged their Old Certificates pursuant to this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Surviving Corporation for payment of the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, shares and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Parent Common Shares deliverable in respect of each former share of Company Common Share held by Stock such Holder stockholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of PurchaserParent, Company, the Surviving CompanyCorporation, the Exchange Agent or any other Person person shall be liable to any former holder of shares of Company Common Shares Stock for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (g) Parent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold, or cause the Holdco or Exchange Agent to deduct and withhold, from the cash portion of the aggregate Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of fractional Parent Common Shares, cash dividends or distributions payable pursuant to this Section 2.4 or any other cash amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Stock or Company Equity Awards such amounts as it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax law. To the extent that amounts are so withheld by Parent, Holdco or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate governmental authority, the withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Stock in respect of which the deduction and withholding was made by Parent, Holdco or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be. (h) In the event any Old Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Old Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by Parent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent Parent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Old Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Old Certificate the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional shares and dividends or distributions deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Royal Bank of Canada), Merger Agreement (City National Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after On the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5i) business days following each SFC Stockholder shall execute and deliver to Parent either the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common certificates(s) evidencing such SFC Stockholder’s Shares immediately prior to (the Effective Time (each, a HolderCertificates”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter an affidavit of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserlost certificate, in the exercise form provided by Parent with respect thereto with full indemnity in favor of its reasonable discretionParent, and (ii) each SFC Optionholder shall have deliver to Parent either the right original, fully-executed stock option agreement(s) evidencing such SFC Equityholder’s Options (the “Option Agreements”) or an affidavit of lost stock option agreement, in the form provided by Parent with respect thereto with full indemnity in favor of Parent. Upon surrender to make all determinationsthe Parent of the Shares and Options for cancellation, consistent with the terms SFC Equityholder holding such Shares and/or Options shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor (A) at Closing upon the surrender of this Agreement, governing such Shares and/or Options (i) the validity aggregate Per Share Cash Closing Consideration and Per Option Cash Closing Consideration which such SFC Equityholder has the right to receive in respect of the Letters of Transmittal such Shares and/or Options, and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) a certificate representing that number of whole shares of aggregate Per Share Stock Closing Consideration and Per Option Stock Closing Consideration which such SFC Equityholder has the issuance right to receive in respect of such Shares and/or Options (after taking into account all Shares and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the MergerOptions then held by such SFC Equityholder), and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (iiB) at the appropriate payment datetimes stated in and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement, the amount Escrow Amount, Equityholder Representative Holdback Amount, Earn Out Amounts, Earn Out Shares and post-Closing adjustments under Section 2.08(c) due in respect of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to such Shares and/or Options, and the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) Certificates and/or Option Agreements so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate Shares or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares Options that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the applicable Merger Consideration and any cash dividends or other distributions to which the holder of such Shares or Options is entitled pursuant to Section 2.02(b) may be delivered and issued to a transferee if the Certificate representing such Shares (or affidavit of lost certificate) or original Option Agreement representing such Options (or affidavit of lost stock option agreement), as applicable, is presented to the Parent, accompanied by all documents reasonably deemed necessary by Parent required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable transfer taxes have been paid, and in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to such event Schedule A-3 hereto will be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed revised by the Holders parties to reflect such transfer. Until surrendered as of the one-year anniversary of contemplated by this Section 2.02, each Certificate and Option Agreement shall be deemed at all times after the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In represent only the right to receive upon such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to surrender the applicable Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, Consideration and any unpaid dividends and or other distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by to which such Holder as determined SFC Equityholder is entitled pursuant to this Agreement, in each caseSection 2.02(b), without any interest thereonthereon and subject to any required withholding Taxes. Notwithstanding In furtherance of the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person (i) Aggregate Cash Closing Consideration shall be liable paid at Closing to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered the SFC Equityholders in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. the amounts set forth opposite such person’s name on Schedule A-3 (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof finalized in accordance with Section 2.01(d)) by wire transfer to the terms of this Agreementaccounts set forth thereon, including requirements of this Article IIand (ii) the Aggregate Stock Closing Consideration shall be delivered at Closing to the SFC Equityholders in the amounts set forth opposite such person’s name on Schedule A-3 (as finalized in accordance with Section 2.01(d)).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Navarre Corp /Mn/), Merger Agreement (Navarre Corp /Mn/)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five three (53) business days following Business Days thereafter), Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record as of the Effective Time of one or more certificates (each, a “Certificate”) or uncertificated Company Common Shares (“Uncertificated Shares”) that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented issued and outstanding Company Shares that were converted into the right to receive Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 2.3: (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal in customary form (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Uncertificated Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) the Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry the Uncertificated Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent), that shall also be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent and the Company may reasonably specify, (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificate or the transfer of Uncertificated Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration and (iii) a certificate or declaration in customary form to be used to confirm the status of a Person as a Resident of Israel within the meaning of the Ordinance (a “Residence Certificate”). The Upon (x) surrender of Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent shall accept each or (y) receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Exchange Agent (or such Certificate or evidence other evidence, if any, of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions transfer as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof reasonably request) in the case of a book-entry transfer of Uncertificated Shares, together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with normal the instructions thereto, the holders of such Certificates or Uncertificated Shares shall be entitled to receive in exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchasertherefor the Merger Consideration, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares of Parent Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right Stock to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be which such holder is entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, 2.3(e) and any dividends or other distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant toto Section 2.4(d), this Article II. (d) No dividends and the Certificates so surrendered or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common the Uncertificated Shares so transferred shall forthwith be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate canceled. Until so surrendered or Book-Entry canceled, outstanding Certificates and Uncertificated Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless will be deemed from and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to evidence only the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares right to receive, upon surrender and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Companywithout interest, the Merger Consideration (including into which the Company Shares theretofore represented by such Certificates shall have been converted pursuant to Section 2.3, cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares of Parent Common SharesStock pursuant to Section 2.3(e) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer dividends or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable distributions pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may beSection 2.4(d). (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (S1 Corp /De/), Merger Agreement (Fundtech LTD)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly of the Effective Time, Cephalon shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with U.S. Bank National Association or, in the event U.S. Bank National Association is unwilling or unable to serve as practicable the exchange agent, such other commercial bank or trust company of recognized standing reasonably acceptable to CIMA and Cephalon (in such capacity, the "Exchange Agent"), for the benefit of the holders of the CIMA Certificates, for exchange, in accordance with this Article III, through the Exchange Agent, cash representing the Merger Consideration payable to the holders of CIMA Certificates pursuant to Section 3.01. Cash deposited with the Exchange Agent shall hereinafter be referred to as the "Exchange Fund." The Exchange Agent shall, pursuant to irrevocable instructions, deliver out of the Exchange Fund the Merger Consideration contemplated to be paid for shares of CIMA Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement. The Exchange Fund shall not be used for any other purpose. (b) Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Cephalon shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time a CIMA Certificate: (each, 1) a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the CIMA Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the CIMA Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and which letter shall be in customary form and have such other provisions as Cephalon may reasonably specify (such letter to be reasonably acceptable to CIMA prior to the Effective Time); and (2) instructions for effecting the surrender of the CIMA Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Upon surrender of a CIMA Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as to the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof together with such letter of transmittal, duly executed and completed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerinstructions thereto, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry SharesExchange Agent, will the holder of such CIMA Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a check in the amount equal to the cash that such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares receive pursuant to Section 1.4 and the provisions of this Article III. No interest will be paid or will accrue on any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares deliverable pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIIII. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company CIMA Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyCIMA, a check in the proper amount of cash representing the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall may be issued or paid in exchange therefor with respect to such CIMA Common Stock to such a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares CIMA Certificates formerly representing such Company shares of CIMA Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares Stock are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and to evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.03(b), each CIMA Certificate shall be cancelled and exchanged for deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the Merger Consideration and any cash payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser the shares of CIMA Common Shares Stock formerly represented by such CIMA Certificate or the right, if any, to be issued or paid in consideration therefor receive payment from the Surviving Corporation of the "fair value" of such shares of CIMA Common Stock as determined in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion Section 262 of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsDGCL. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Cephalon Inc), Merger Agreement (Cima Labs Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time a Certificate or Book Entry Share (each, i) a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify specifying that delivery of the Certificates or Book Entry Shares shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Book Entry Shares Shares, as applicable, shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates (or affidavits of loss reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) or Book Entry Shares to the Exchange Paying Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each , such Certificate or evidence letter of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with transmittal to be in customary form and have such reasonable terms other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify, and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) instructions for use in effecting the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder surrender of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Certificates or Book-Book Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of as applicable, in exchange for the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each Consideration (such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares instructions shall represent, include instructions for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion payment of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the surrendered Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares Share is registered on the transfer books of Company, subject to the receipt of appropriate documentation for such transfer). Upon surrender to the Paying Agent of a Certificate (or evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation of loss in lieu thereof) or Book Entry Shares, as applicable, for cancellation together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed, and such other documents as may reasonably be requested by the Paying Agent, the holder of such Certificate or Book Entry Share shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to this Article II, and the Certificate or Book Entry Share so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled; provided, that in no event will a holder of a Certificate or Book Entry Share be entitled to receive the Merger Consideration if Merger Consideration was already paid with respect to the Shares underlying such Certificate in connection with an affidavit of loss. No interest will be paid or accrued on any amount payable upon due surrender of the Certificates or Book Entry Shares. In the event of a transfer of ownership of Common Shares that is not registered in the transfer records of Company, payment may be issued to such a transferee if the Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares Share formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer is presented to the Paying Agent, accompanied by all documents reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation required to evidence and effect such transfer, and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay pays any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the such payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Book Entry Shares, Share or establish establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Parent and Company that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and All cash paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person surrender of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof Book Entry Share in accordance with the terms of this AgreementSection 2.2 shall be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to the Common Shares formerly represented by such Certificate or Book Entry Share. (ii) Promptly after the Effective Time, including requirements the Surviving Corporation shall cause the Paying Agent to mail to each holder of record of a Preferred Certificate (i) a letter of transmittal specifying that delivery of the Preferred Certificates shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to the Preferred Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of the Preferred Certificates (or affidavits of loss reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation in lieu thereof) to the Paying Agent, such letter of transmittal to be in customary form and have such other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify, and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Preferred Certificates in exchange for the Preferred Merger Consideration (such instructions shall include instructions for the payment of the Preferred Merger Consideration to a Person other than the Person in whose name the surrendered Preferred Certificate is registered on the transfer books of Company, subject to the receipt of appropriate documentation for such transfer). Upon surrender to the Paying Agent of a Preferred Certificate (or evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation of loss in lieu thereof) for cancellation together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed, and such other documents as may reasonably be requested by the Paying Agent, the holder of such Preferred Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Preferred Merger Consideration that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to this Article II, and the Preferred Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled; provided, that in no event will a holder of a Preferred Certificate be entitled to receive the Preferred Merger Consideration if Preferred Merger Consideration was already paid with respect to the Preferred Shares underlying such Preferred Certificate in connection with an affidavit of loss. No interest will be paid or accrued on any amount payable upon due surrender of the Preferred Certificates. In the event of a transfer of ownership of Preferred Shares that is not registered in the transfer records of Company, payment may be issued to such a transferee if the Preferred Certificate formerly representing such Preferred Shares is presented to the Paying Agent, accompanied by all documents reasonably satisfactory to the Surviving Corporation required to evidence and effect such transfer, and the Person requesting such issuance pays any transfer or other taxes required by reason of such payment to a Person other than the registered holder of such Preferred Certificate or establishes to the satisfaction of Parent and Company that such tax has been paid or is not applicable. All cash paid upon the surrender of a Preferred Certificate in accordance with the terms of this Section 2.2 shall be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to the Preferred Shares formerly represented by such Preferred Certificate. (iii) For the purposes of this Agreement, the term “Person” shall mean any individual, corporation (including not-for-profit corporations), general or limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization, Governmental Entity (as defined in Section 3.1(d)(i)) or other entity of any kind or nature.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Francisco Partners II LP), Merger Agreement (Quadramed Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following thereafter, Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of one or more Old Certificates representing shares of Company Common Shares Stock immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachthat have been converted at the Effective Time into the right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Article I, a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Old Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Old Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each ) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Old Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration which such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, holder shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be become entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Considerationin accordance with, determined as provided in and subject to, Section 1.4. Until so surrendered1.5(a), each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares which the shares of Company Common Shares Stock represented by such Old Certificate or Old Certificates shall have been converted into the right to receive pursuant to this Agreement as well as any dividends or distributions to be issued or paid in consideration therefor pursuant to Section 2.2(c). From and after the Effective Time, upon proper surrender of such an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Old Certificates for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such properly completed Letter of Transmittal duly executed, the holder of such Old Certificate or Old Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor, as applicable, (i) a New Certificate representing the Merger Consideration to which such holder of Company Common Stock shall have become entitled to receive in accordance with, and subject to, Section 1.5(a), and (ii) a check representing the amount of (1) any cash in lieu of fractional shares which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the surrendered Old Certificate or Old Certificates pursuant to Section 1.5(b) and (2) any dividends or distributions which the holder thereof has the right to which such holder is entitled receive pursuant toto Section 2.2(c), and the Old Certificate or Old Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued on any cash in lieu of fractional shares payable to holders of Old Certificates or any dividends payable under Section 2.2(c). Until surrendered as contemplated by this Article IISection 2.2, each Old Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, upon surrender, the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional shares or in respect of dividends or distributions as contemplated by this Section 2.2. (db) The Exchange Agent shall not be entitled to vote or exercise any rights of ownership with respect to the shares of Parent Common Stock held by it from time to time hereunder, except that it shall receive and hold all dividends or other distributions paid or distributed with respect to such shares for the account of the persons entitled thereto. If there is a transfer of ownership of any shares of Company Common Stock not registered in the transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration shall be issued to the transferee thereof if the Old Certificates representing such Company Common Stock are presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required, in the reasonable judgment of Parent and the Exchange Agent, to evidence and effect such transfer and to evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. (c) No dividends or other distributions declared or made after the Effective Time with respect to Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock issued pursuant to this Agreement shall be paid remitted to the holder any person entitled to receive shares of any unsurrendered Certificate Parent Common Stock hereunder until such person surrenders his or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs her Old Certificates in accordance with this Article IISection 2.2. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws, following upon the surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IIperson’s Old Certificates, the record holder thereof such person shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of receive any dividends or other distributions distributions, without interest thereon, which subsequent to the Effective Time had become payable but not paid with a record date respect to shares of Parent Common Stock represented by such person’s Old Certificates. (d) The stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed immediately upon the Effective Time and from and after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of Company records of the Company of any shares of Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Stock other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares Stock that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash deliverable in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares respect thereof pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor this Agreement in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IISection 2.2. (ge) Any portion of the Exchange Fund aggregate amount of cash to be paid pursuant to Section 1.5, any dividends or other distributions to be paid pursuant to this Section 2.2 or any proceeds from any investments thereof that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-year anniversary of Company for six (6) months after the Effective Time may shall be paid repaid by the Exchange Agent to PurchaserParent upon the written request of Parent. In After such eventrequest is made, any Holder stockholders of the Company who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II Section 2.2 shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to Parent for the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock deliverable in respect of each share of Company Common Share held by Stock such Holder stockholder holds, as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, case without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, neither the Exchange Agent nor any party to this Agreement (or any other Person affiliate thereof) shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares Stock for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (hf) Parent and the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to rely upon the Company’s stock transfer books to establish the identity of those persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration, which books shall be conclusive with respect thereto. In the event of a dispute with respect to ownership of stock represented by any Old Certificate, Parent and the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to deposit any Merger Consideration represented thereby in escrow with an independent third party and thereafter be relieved with respect to any claims thereto. (g) If any Old Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Old Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by the Exchange Agent or Parent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Old Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Old Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (WashingtonFirst Bankshares, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five ten (510) business days following thereafter, Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares person who was, immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachTime, a “Holder”) (other than holder of record of one or more Old Certificates representing shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Stock that have been converted at the Effective Time into the right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Article I, a letter of transmittal in customary form and reasonably acceptable to Parent and the Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Old Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) the Old Certificates (or evidence surrender of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such CertificatesShares) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms ) and conditions as instructions for use in effecting the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity surrender of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with Old Certificates in exchange for the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of consideration for certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company the number of whole Parent Common Shares converted in the MergerStock, and (iii) the method of payment of any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where shares and the Holder cash portion of the applicable Merger Consideration which shares of Company Common Stock represented by such Old Certificate has no or Old Certificates shall have been converted into the right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a pursuant to this Agreement, as well as any dividends or distributions to be paid pursuant to Section 2.2(b). From and after the Effective Time, upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or Old Certificates for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such properly completed Letter letter of Transmittaltransmittal duly executed, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) holder of such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, will Old Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor, as applicable, (i) a New Certificate representing that number of whole shares of Parent Common Stock to which such Holder’s holder of Company Common Stock shall have become entitled pursuant to the provisions of Article I and (ii) payment representing the amount of (A) the cash portion of the Merger ConsiderationConsideration which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the Old Certificate or Old Certificates surrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Article II, determined as provided (B) any cash in lieu of fractional shares which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the Old Certificate or Old Certificates surrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Article II and (C) any dividends or distributions which the holder thereof has the right to receive pursuant to this Section 1.42.2, and the Old Certificate or Old Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued with respect to any property to be delivered upon surrender of Old Certificates. Until so surrenderedsurrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.2, each such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, without interestupon surrender, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued shares or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender respect of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, as contemplated by this Article IISection 2.2. (db) No dividends or other distributions declared with respect to Purchaser shares of Parent Common Shares Stock shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the holder thereof shall surrender of such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to After the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of receive any such dividends or other distributions with a record date distributions, without any interest thereon, which theretofore had become payable after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to whole shares of Parent Common Stock which the whole number shares of Purchaser Company Common Shares Stock represented by such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior have been converted into the right to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharesreceive. (ec) In If any New Certificate representing shares of Parent Common Stock is to be issued in a name other than that in which the event of a transfer of ownership of a Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid Old Certificates surrendered in exchange therefor to is or are registered, it shall be a Person other than condition of the Person in whose name issuance thereof that the Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Old Certificates so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed (or accompanied by an appropriate instrument of transfer) and otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to of a Person New Certificate representing shares of Parent Common Stock in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Old Certificate or Book-Entry SharesOld Certificates surrendered, or required for any other reason, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepayable. (fd) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of the Company of the shares of Company Common Shares Stock that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Time. (e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no New Certificates or scrip representing fractional shares of Parent Common Stock shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of Old Certificates, no dividend or distribution with respect to shares of Parent Common Stock shall be payable on or with respect to any fractional share, and such fractional share interests shall not entitle the owner thereof to vote or to any other than rights of a stockholder of Parent. In lieu of the issuance of any such fractional share, Parent shall pay to settle transfers each former stockholder of the Company who otherwise would be entitled to receive such fractional share an amount in cash (rounded to the nearest cent) determined by multiplying (i) the Parent Stock Value by (ii) the fraction of a share of Parent Common Stock (rounded to the nearest thousandth when expressed in decimal form) to which such holder would otherwise be entitled (after taking into account all shares of Company Common Shares that occurred Stock owned by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II). (gf) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-Company for one (1) year anniversary of after the Effective Time may shall be paid to Purchaserthe Surviving Corporation. In such event, any Holder Any former stockholders of the Company who has have not theretofore complied with exchanged their Old Certificates pursuant to this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Surviving Corporation for payment of the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, shares and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser shares of Parent Common Shares Stock deliverable in respect of each former share of Company Common Share held by Stock such Holder stockholders hold as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of PurchaserParent, the Company, the Surviving CompanyCorporation, the Exchange Agent or any other Person person shall be liable to any former holder of shares of Company Common Shares Stock for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (g) Parent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold, or cause the Merger Sub or Exchange Agent to deduct and withhold, from the cash portion of the aggregate Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of a fractional share of Parent Common Stock, cash dividends or distributions payable pursuant to this Section 2.2 or any other cash amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Stock, such amounts as it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax law. To the extent that amounts are so withheld by Parent, Merger Sub or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate governmental authority, the withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Stock in respect of which the deduction and withholding was made by Parent, Merger Sub or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be. (h) In the event any Old Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit in customary form of that fact by the Person person claiming such Old Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by Parent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent Parent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Old Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Old Certificate the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional shares and dividends or distributions deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Yodlee Inc), Merger Agreement (Envestnet, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but and in no any event not later than five the fifth (55th) business days Business Day following the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser Orange shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company shares of White Common Shares immediately prior Stock whose shares of White Common Stock were converted into the applicable Merger Consideration pursuant to the Effective Time Section 2.4(b), (each, x) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery of Certificates and/or Book-Entry Shares shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares thereto shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as to the Exchange Agent may impose and which shall be in such form and have such other provisions as agreed to effect an orderly by White and Orange) and (y) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares in exchange thereof for the Merger Consideration. (ii) Subject to Section 2.4(c), upon surrender of Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares to the Exchange Agent together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerinstructions thereto, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may customarily be required thereby or by the Holder’s Certificate(s) Exchange Agent, the Exchange Agent shall deliver to the holder of such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares in exchange for such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion as applicable, the applicable Merger Consideration in respect of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right shares of White Common Stock held prior to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate holder’s Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. (e) . No interest will be paid or accrued on any amount payable upon due surrender of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyWhite, the applicable Merger Consideration may be paid to the transferee thereof if the Certificate formerly representing such shares of White Common Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and to evidence that any applicable share transfer taxes have been paid or are not applicable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.5, each Certificate and Book-Entry Share shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.4, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon surrender the applicable Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shareswithout interest) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required as contemplated by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. this Article II. (iii) The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to under this Agreement to any former holder of Company shares of White Common Shares Stock such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is are required to deduct and withhold be withheld or deducted under the Code, or any provision of state, United States state or local or foreign Applicable Law related to Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are Amounts so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, deducted and paid over to the appropriate applicable Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall Authority will be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company the shares of White Common Shares Stock in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bewere made. (fiv) After No dividends or other distributions with respect to Orange Stock constituting part of the Effective Time, there Merger Consideration shall be no transfers on the share transfer books paid to any holder of Company of the Company Common Certificates not surrendered or Book-Entry Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, not transferred until such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer delivered to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor Agent in accordance with Section 2.5(b)(ii). Following such delivery there shall be paid, without interest, to the procedures set forth Person in this Article II. (g) Any portion whose name shares of Orange Stock are registered, the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as amount of the one-year anniversary of all dividends and distributions with a record date after the Effective Time may be previously paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIsecurities.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event No later than five (5) business days following the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser Buyer shall send cause the Exchange Agent to mail or cause to be sent make available to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to any Certificate a notice and letter of transmittal disclosing the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares effectiveness of the Corporate Merger and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary the procedure for exchanging Certificates for the Merger Consideration. Such letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) Certificates to the Exchange Agent. (b) At the Effective Time, Buyer shall deliver to the Exchange Agent an amount of cash equal to the aggregate Merger Consideration. (c) Each holder of any outstanding Certificate (other than holders of Dissenting Shares) who surrenders such Certificate to the Exchange Agent will, upon acceptance thereof by the Exchange Agent, be entitled to the Merger Consideration for each share represented by such Certificate. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Certificates upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall practices. Each outstanding Certificate which is not surrendered to the Exchange Agent shall, except as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserotherwise herein provided, in the exercise evidence ownership of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of receive the Merger Consideration allocable to for each share represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IICertificate. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect The Exchange Agent shall not be obligated to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to deliver the Merger Consideration until the holder surrenders a Certificate as provided in this Section 2.6, or, in default thereof, an appropriate affidavit of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, loss and indemnity agreement and/or a bond as may be required in each case unless by the Exchange Agent. If any check is to be issued in a name other than that in which the Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition of the issuance thereof that the Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by an executed form of assignment separate from the Certificate and until otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the surrender of person requesting such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject exchange pay to the effect Exchange Agent any transfer or other tax required by reason of the issuance of a check in any name other than that of the registered holder of the certificate surrendered or otherwise establish to the satisfaction of the Exchange Agent that such tax has been paid or is not payable. (e) Any portion of the cash delivered to the Exchange Agent by Buyer pursuant to Section 2.6(b) that remains unclaimed by the shareholders of Seller for six months after the Closing Date shall be delivered by the Exchange Agent to Buyer. Any shareholders of Seller who have not theretofore complied with Section 2.6(c) shall thereafter look only to Buyer for the Merger Consideration. If outstanding Certificates are not surrendered or the payment for them is not claimed prior to the date on which such payment would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Entity, the unclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any other applicable law, become the property of Buyer (and to the extent not in its possession shall be delivered to it), free and clear of all claims or interest of any person previously entitled to such property. Neither the Exchange Agent nor any party to this Agreement shall be liable to any holder of Seller Common Stock represented by any Certificate for any consideration paid to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, laws. Buyer and the record holder thereof Exchange Agent shall be entitled to receiverely upon the stock transfer books of Seller to establish the identity of those persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable which books shall be conclusive with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) thereto. In the event of a transfer of dispute with respect to ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Seller Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyStock represented by any Certificate, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer Buyer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchasershall be entitled to deposit any Merger Consideration represented thereby in escrow with an independent third party and thereafter be relieved with respect to any claims thereto. (f) Buyer shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares Certificates, such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such paymenttax law. To the extent the that amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental EntityBuyer, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares the Certificates in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bemade. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Ohio State Financial Services Inc), Merger Agreement (Advance Financial Bancorp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent and the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record (as of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time) of (i) a certificate or certificates (the “Certificates”) which immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) evidenced outstanding shares of Company Common Stock (other than Cancelled Company Shares and Dissenting Company Shares), (ii) uncertificated shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company Stock (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter Uncertificated Shares”), and (iii) Company Restricted Stock Awards, in each case, who are entitled to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 3.1, (A) a letter of Transmittal”) that transmittal in customary form (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent), and (B) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates and Uncertificated Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Article III (including instructions for providing the Exchange Agent required Tax documentation, including, as applicable, a properly executed IRS Form W-9 or appropriate IRS Form W-8). Upon surrender of Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such letter of transmittal and Tax documentation, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, the holders of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Article III, and the Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Upon receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Exchange Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Exchange Agent may reasonably request) and Tax documentation, in the case of a book-entry transfer of Uncertificated Shares, the holders of such Uncertificated Shares shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Article III, and the transferred Uncertificated Shares so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Certificates and transferred Uncertificated Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal and reasonable exchange practices and practices. No interest shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in be paid or accrued for the exercise benefit of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity holders of the Letters of Transmittal Certificates and compliance by any Holder with Uncertificated Shares on the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common payable upon the surrender of such Certificates and Uncertificated Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right pursuant to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in this Section 1.43.2. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 Certificates and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Uncertificated Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented therebydeemed, in each case unless from and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to evidence only the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares right to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to receive the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shareswithout interest thereon, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable payable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, Article III. As soon as practicable (and in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding event within 15 Business Days) following the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving CompanyClosing Date, the Exchange Agent or shall provide Parent with a list of the names and addresses of all holders of CVRs pursuant to the provisions of this Article III. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the payment of any other Person Milestone Payment (as such term is defined in the CVR Agreement) and the payment procedures with respect thereto shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact governed by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this the CVR Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Elanco Animal Health Inc), Merger Agreement (Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable and in any event within two (2) Business Days after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Paying Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a Certificate or Certificates that, immediately prior to the Effective Time Time, represented outstanding Shares subsequently converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, as set forth in Section 2.04: (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that (A) shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(sthe Certificates shall pass only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Paying Agent (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof, together with any bond or indemnity agreement, as contemplated by Section 3.06) and (B) shall be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent may specify, subject to the Company’s reasonable approval (which shall be required to be obtained prior to the Closing) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable in accordance with this Article III. (b) Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with a Letter of Transmittal, duly completed and executed, and any other documents reasonably required by the Paying Agent or evidence the Surviving Corporation, (i) the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to Section 2.04 and (ii) the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. No interest shall be paid or accrued on the Merger Consideration, including in respect of Merger Consideration payable upon surrender of the Certificates. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.02, each such Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the applicable Merger Consideration. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, surrender of any Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof be effected in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares the Paying Agent’s customary procedures with respect to securities represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIbook entry. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the appropriate amount of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be is presented to the Paying Agent properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate stock powers and otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes accompanied by all documents reasonably required by reason of the payment or issuance Paying Agent to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish evidence and effect such transfer and to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser evidence that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall Taxes have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIfully paid.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Vericity, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Vericity, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) Prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall select an exchange agent, agreed to by JCB (the “Exchange Agent”). No later than two business days prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with the Exchange Agent, for the benefit of the holders of certificates formerly representing shares of JCB Common Stock (“Old Certificates”) and holders of non‑certificated shares of JCB Common Stock (“Book-Entry Shares”), for exchange in accordance with this Section 7, sufficient funds for timely payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration to be paid pursuant to this Agreement (the “Exchange Fund”). The Exchange Fund will be distributed in accordance with the Exchange Agent’s normal and customary procedures established in connection with merger transactions. (b) As promptly soon as practicable after the Effective Time, but and in no event later than five three (53) business days following thereafter, the Closing Date, Purchaser Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) one or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) more Old Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares a letter of transmittal (which shall passspecify that no Person shall have the right to receive the Merger Consideration until they deliver the Old Certificates, only upon delivery or a lost stock affidavit and indemnity in form reasonably satisfactory to the Exchange Agent, to the Exchange Agent) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of Certificate(s) the Old Certificates or evidence Book-Entry Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration that the holders of the Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares are entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 7. Upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits delivery of loss in lieu of such Certificatesa lost stock affidavit and indemnity) for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance , together with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by duly executed, the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive holder of such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration which such holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion receive in respect of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate Old Certificates or Book-Entry Shares surrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II7. (dc) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares Neither the Exchange Agent nor any party hereto shall be paid liable to the any former holder of JCB Common Stock for any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect amount properly delivered to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject a public official pursuant to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shareslaws. (ed) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason Any portion of the payment or issuance to a Person other than Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the registered holder shareholders of JCB on the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) business day after the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination Date shall be paid to Parent. Any shareholders of JCB who have not theretofore complied with this Section 7 shall thereafter look only to Parent for payment of the Exchange Agent Merger Consideration in respect of each share of JCB Common Stock such shareholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, Purchaserwithout any interest thereon. (e) shall Parent or the Exchange Agent, as the case may be, will be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement Plan of Merger to any holder of Company Common Shares Person such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaseramounts, if any, as the case may be, it is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such paymenttax law. To the extent the that amounts are so withheld and remitted to the appropriate governmental authority by or on behalf of Parent or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such amounts withheld amounts shall will be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares such Person in respect of whom which such deduction and withholding was made by Parent or the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Skyline Bankshares, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Skyline Bankshares, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Impax Merger Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Holdco shall send, or shall cause the Closing DateExchange Agent to send, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each record holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior an Impax Certificate or Impax Book-Entry Share, in each case which shares were converted into the right to receive Merger Consideration in respect thereof at the Impax Merger Effective Time pursuant to this Agreement: (eachi) a letter of transmittal, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Impax Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(sthe Impax Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and shall otherwise be in such form and have such other provisions as Impax, Amneal and the Exchange Agent may reasonably specify, and (ii) instructions for effecting the surrender of the Impax Certificates or evidence of Impax Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits in exchange for the aggregate Merger Consideration in respect thereof, as applicable. Upon surrender of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Impax Certificates and Impax Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as for cancellation to the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and upon delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted a letter of transmittal, duly executed and in the Mergerproper form with all required enclosures and attachments, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right with respect to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) such Impax Certificates or Impax Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive the holder of such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate Impax Certificates or Impax Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right be entitled to receive, without interest, the portion of receive the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu for each share of fractional Purchaser Impax Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Stock formerly represented by such Certificate Impax Certificates or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Impax Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or . Any Impax Certificates and Impax Book-Entry Shares so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. If payment of any Merger Consideration is registered if to be made to a person other than the person in whose name any surrendered Impax Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares is registered, it shall be a condition precedent to payment that the Impax Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay have paid any transfer or and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance delivery of the aggregate Merger Consideration in respect thereof, as applicable, to a Person person other than the registered holder of the Impax Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish so surrendered and shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Holdco that the Tax has such Taxes either have been paid or is are not applicablerequired to be paid. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary Delivery of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaseraggregate Merger Consideration, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Lawapplicable, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Impax Book-Entry Shares representing shall only be made to the person in whose name such Company Common Impax Book-Entry Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agentregistered. Until surrendered as contemplated hereby, they each Impax Certificate or Impax Book-Entry Share shall be cancelled and exchanged for deemed at any time after the Impax Merger Effective Time to represent only the right to receive the aggregate Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsthereof. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Business Combination Agreement (Atlas Holdings, Inc.), Business Combination Agreement (Impax Laboratories Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at or prior to the Effective Time ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic and GTE shall jointly appoint an exchange agent (the "Exchange Agent") to effect the exchange of Old Certificates for ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of this Article II. At the Effective Time, ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Exchange Agent certificates representing ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock for exchange for Old Certificates in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.2 hereof (such certificates, together with any dividends or distributions with respect thereto, being herein referred to as practicable the "Exchange Fund"). Commencing immediately after the Effective Time and until the appointment of the Exchange Agent shall be terminated, each holder of an Old Certificate may surrender the same to the Exchange Agent, and, after the appointment of the Exchange Agent shall be terminated, any such holder may surrender any such certificate to ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic. Such holder shall be entitled upon such surrender to receive in exchange therefor a certificate or certificates representing the number of whole shares of ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock such holder has a right to receive in accordance with Section 2.2 hereof, certain dividends or other distributions in accordance with Section 2.5(b) hereof, and a cash payment in lieu of fractional shares, if any, in accordance with Section 2.7 hereof, and such Old Certificate shall forthwith be cancelled. The whole shares of ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock to be delivered to such holder shall be delivered in book entry form, unless such holder shall timely elect in writing to receive the certificates representing such shares. Unless and until any such Old Certificate is so surrendered, and except as may be determined by ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic for a period not to exceed six months after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following dividend or other distribution, if any, payable to the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder holders of record of Company ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Shares immediately prior Stock as of any date subsequent to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of such certificate in respect thereof. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.6 hereof, upon the surrender of any unsurrendered Certificate such Old Certificate, however, the record holder of the certificate or Bookcertificates representing shares of ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock issued in exchange therefor shall receive from the Exchange Agent or from ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic, as the case may be, payment of the amount of dividends and other distributions, if any, which as of any date subsequent to the Effective Time and until such surrender shall have become payable and were not paid with respect to such number of shares of ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock ("Pre-Entry Shares Surrender Dividends"). No interest shall be payable with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until payment of Pre-Surrender Dividends upon the surrender of such Old Certificates. After the appointment of the Exchange Agent shall have been terminated, any holders of Old Certificates which have not received payment of Pre-Surrender Dividends shall look only to ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic for payment thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.5 (b), neither the Exchange Agent nor any Party shall be liable to a holder of an Old Certificate for any ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic Common Stock, any dividends or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject distributions thereon or any cash payment for fractional shares as contemplated by Section 2.7, delivered to the effect of a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate law or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect transferee pursuant to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry SharesSection 2.6 hereof. (eb) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish Notwithstanding anything herein to the reasonable satisfaction contrary, certificates surrendered for exchange by any "affiliate" of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is GTE shall not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate until ▇▇▇▇ Atlantic shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming received a signed agreement from such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond "affiliate" as provided in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IISection 7.14 hereof.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Gte Corp), Merger Agreement (Bell Atlantic Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent and the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Payment Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares as of immediately prior to the Effective Time whose shares were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 1.4(b)(i): (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal in customary form (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(sa certificate or certificates (the “Certificates”) or evidence of Book-Entry that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares (excluding Cancelled Shares and Dissenting Shares) (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof as provided in Section 2.2(d)) or transfer of such CertificatesUncertificated Shares (excluding Cancelled Shares and Dissenting Shares) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Payment Agent shall accept each (as evidenced by receipt by the Payment Agent of an “agent’s message” in customary form or such Certificate or other evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Payment Agent may impose reasonably request); and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or transfer of the Uncertificated Shares in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common the provisions of Article I. Each holder of Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall that have been converted into the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion the Merger Consideration in respect of the Merger ConsiderationShares represented by a Certificate or Uncertificated Share (x) in the case of Shares represented by a Certificate, determined upon surrender to the Payment Agent of such Certificate, together with a duly completed and validly executed letter of transmittal and such other documents as provided may reasonably be requested by the Payment Agent or (y) in Section 1.4the case of a book-entry transfer of Uncertificated Shares promptly following the Closing. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate surrendered or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchasertransferred, as the case may be, is required to deduct from and withhold under after the Code, Effective Time each such Certificate or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts Uncertificated Share shall be treated represent for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid only the right to receive the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to the holder provisions of Company Common Article I. If Certificates or Uncertificated Shares are presented to the Surviving Corporation after the Effective Time for any reason, they shall be canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration as provided for, and in respect accordance with the procedures set forth in Article I. No interest shall be paid or accrued on the cash payable upon the surrender or transfer of whom such deduction Certificate or Uncertificated Share. From and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After after the Effective Time, there shall will be no further registration of transfers on the share transfer books of Company records of the Company Common Surviving Corporation of Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Time, other than transfers to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred reflect, in accordance with customary settlement procedures, trades effected prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu Table of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.Contents

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Apigee Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As Prior to the Closing, Acquiror shall appoint an exchange agent (the “Exchange Agent”) to act as the agent for the purpose of paying the Aggregate Merger Consideration to the Company’s stockholders. At or before the Effective Time, Acquiror shall deposit with the Exchange Agent the number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock equal to the portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration to be paid in shares of Acquiror Common Stock. (b) Reasonably promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or shall cause the Exchange Agent to be sent send, to each record holder of record shares of Company Common Shares Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, whose Company Common Stock was converted pursuant to Section 3.1(a) into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, a letter of transmittal and instructions (which shall specify that the delivery shall be effected, and the risk of loss and title shall pass, only upon proper transfer of each share to the Exchange Agent, and which letter of transmittal will be in customary form and have such other provisions as Acquiror may reasonably specify) for use in such exchange (each, a “Letter of Transmittal”). (c) Each holder of shares of Company Common Stock that have been converted into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, pursuant to Section 3.1(a), shall be entitled to receive such portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, upon receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Exchange Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Exchange Agent may reasonably request), together with a duly completed and validly executed Letter of Transmittal and such other documents as may reasonably be requested by the Exchange Agent. No interest shall be paid or accrued upon the transfer of any share. (d) Promptly following the date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, Acquiror shall instruct the Exchange Agent to deliver to Acquiror all documents in its possession relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Exchange Agent’s duties shall terminate. Thereafter, any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration that remains unclaimed shall be returned to Acquiror, and any Person that was a holder of shares of Company Common Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than that has not exchanged such shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, Stock for an applicable portion of the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry Aggregate Merger Consideration in accordance with this Agreement. Section 3.2 prior to the date that is one (b1) Purchaseryear after the Effective Time, in the exercise may transfer such shares of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted Stock to Acquiror and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar Laws) receive in the Mergerconsideration therefor, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the Acquiror shall promptly deliver, such applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationConsideration without any interest thereupon. None of Acquiror, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interestMerger Sub, the portion Company, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any Person in respect of any of the Aggregate Merger Consideration allocable delivered to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares a public official pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of . If any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shares shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid not have not been transferred immediately prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from on which any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement Article III would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any holder of Company Common Shares Governmental Authority, any such amounts as shall, to the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax extent permitted by applicable Law, with respect to become the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company property of the Company Common Shares that were issued Surviving Corporation, free and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers clear of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates all claims or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu interest of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawspreviously entitled thereto. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Welsbach Technology Metals Acquisition Corp.), Merger Agreement (Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five Parent and the Surviving Corporation shall cause the Paying Agent to mail (5i) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record record, as of Company Common Shares the Effective Time, of a certificate or certificates, which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares (eachthe "Certificates"), which Shares were converted pursuant to Section 1.3(b) hereof into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, (x) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry the Shares shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) to the Exchange Paying Agent and shall be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify) and (y) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration and (ii) to each holder of a Company Option, a check in an amount due and payable to such holder pursuant to Section 1.5 hereof in respect of such Company Option. Upon surrender of a Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) for cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with a letter of transmittal, properly completed and duly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as may be reasonably required pursuant to such instructions, the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration for each Share formerly represented by such Certificate, to be mailed promptly following the Paying Agent's receipt of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof), and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of the Certificates on the Merger Consideration payable upon the surrender of the Certificates, or in respect of Company Options. If payment of the Merger Consideration is to be made to a Person (as defined in Section 8.7) other than the Person in whose name the surrendered Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition of payment that the Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise in proper form for transfer and that the Person requesting such payment shall have paid all transfer and other Taxes (as defined in Section 2.17) required by reason of the issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate surrendered or such Person shall have established to the satisfaction of the Surviving Corporation that such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 1.4, each Certificate shall be deemed at all times after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive the Merger Consideration for each Share in cash as contemplated by Section 1.3(b) hereof, without interest thereon. The Exchange Paying Agent shall accept each such Certificate Certificates (or evidence affidavits of Book-Entry Shares loss in lieu thereof) upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Paying Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreementpractices. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Amcomp Inc /Fl), Merger Agreement (Employers Holdings, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) At the Effective Date, the Continuing Corporation shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with its transfer agent or such other transfer agent or depository or trust institution approved by UBSH and FMB (the “Exchange Agent”), for the benefit of the holders of the Old FMB Capital Stock Certificates, certificates representing Continuing Corporation Common Stock (“New Certificates”), together with any dividends or distributions with respect thereto and any cash to be paid hereunder in lieu of fractional shares of Continuing Corporation Common Stock, without any interest thereon (the “Exchange Fund”), to be paid pursuant to this Article 2 in exchange for outstanding shares of FMB Capital Stock. (b) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser the Continuing Corporation shall cause the Exchange Agent to send or cause to be sent to each holder former stockholder of record of Company Common Shares FMB immediately prior to before the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary Date transmittal materials (collectively, for use in exchanging such stockholder’s Old FMB Capital Stock Certificates for New Certificates based upon the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Capital Stock Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common SharesRatios. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter The Continuing Corporation shall cause the New Certificates for shares of Transmittal, accompanied by Continuing Corporation Common Stock into which shares of FMB Capital Stock are converted at the Holder’s Certificate(s) Effective Date or Book-Entry Shares, will dividends or distributions which such stockholder shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash to be paid in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor to such stockholder upon surrender delivery to the Exchange Agent of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Old FMB Capital Stock Certificates, together with the transmittal materials duly executed and completed in accordance with, and with the instructions thereto. No interest will accrue or be paid on any dividends or distributions such cash to which such holder is entitled be paid pursuant to, this Article IIto Section 2.5. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-year anniversary of FMB for six months after the Effective Time may Date shall be paid returned to Purchaserthe Continuing Corporation (together with any dividends or earnings in respect thereof). In such event, any Holder Any former stockholders of FMB who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II 2 shall thereafter be entitled to look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional sharesContinuing Corporation, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on only as a general creditor thereof, for payment of the Purchaser Common Shares consideration deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by share of FMB Capital Stock such Holder stockholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none . (e) None of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent Agent, any of the parties hereto or any other Person of their respective Subsidiaries (as defined in the Agreement) shall be liable to any former holder stockholder of Company Common Shares FMB for any amount of property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Union Bankshares Corp), Merger Agreement (Union Bankshares Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after following the Company Merger Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five (5) business days following Business Days thereafter), NXDT shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time a Certificate or Book-Entry Share, of an NHT OP Certificate or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, as applicable, (each, A) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall which will specify that delivery shall will be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall passShares, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) to the NHT OP Certificates or evidence of NHT OP Book-Entry Shares Share, as applicable, will pass only upon proper delivery of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, the NHT OP Certificates (or affidavits of such Certificatesloss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Shares, as applicable, to the Exchange Agent. , which Letter of Transmittal will be in such form and have such other customary provisions as NXDT and Company may reasonably agree upon, and (B) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, the NHT OP Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Shares, as applicable, in exchange for the Merger Consideration or Operating Partnership Merger Consideration, as applicable. (ii) Upon surrender of a Certificate (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, an NHT OP Certificate (or an affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, as applicable, to the Exchange Agent, together with a Letter of Transmittal duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, such NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, as applicable, will be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration for each New NHT Share formerly represented by such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, the Operating Partnership Merger Consideration for each NHT OP Unit formerly represented by such NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, in each case pursuant to the provisions of this Article III, within five Business Days following the later to occur of (A) the Company Merger Effective Time or (B) the Exchange Agent’s receipt of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, such NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, and the Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, the NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share so surrendered will be forthwith cancelled. (iii) The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate Certificates (or evidence affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, such NHT OP Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal customary exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserpractices; provided, in the exercise that if a holder is providing an affidavit of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash loss in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withNHT OP Certificate, and any dividends or distributions to which as applicable, such holder is entitled pursuant toshall, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented therebyif required by NXDT, post a bond, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent NXDT may determine is reasonably necessary direct, as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate or NHT OP Certificate, as applicable. (iv) Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.7, each Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) and Book-Entry Share, each NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) and NHT OP Book-Entry Share, will be deemed, at any time after the Company Merger Effective Time, to represent only the right to receive, upon such surrender, the Merger Consideration deliverable or the Operating Partnership Merger Consideration, as applicable, as contemplated by this Article III. No interest will be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in respect thereof lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, the holders of the NHT OP Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Shares, on the Merger Consideration or the Operating Partnership Merger Consideration, as applicable, payable upon the surrender of the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Shares, the NHT OP Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Shares. (v) In the event of a transfer of ownership of New NHT Shares or NHT OP Units that is not registered in the transfer records of New NHT or NHT OP, it will be a condition of payment that any Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, any NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, surrendered in accordance with the terms procedures set forth in this Section 3.7(c) will be properly endorsed or will be otherwise in proper form for transfer, and that the Person requesting such payment will have paid any Transfer Taxes and other Taxes required by reason of this Agreementthe payment of the Merger Consideration or Operating Partnership Merger Consideration, including requirements as applicable, to a Person other than the registered holder of this Article IIthe Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or Book-Entry Share, the NHT OP Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) or NHT OP Book-Entry Share, surrendered or will have established to the reasonable satisfaction of NXDT that such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Nexpoint Diversified Real Estate Trust), Merger Agreement (Nexpoint Diversified Real Estate Trust)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business calendar days following thereafter, the Closing Date, Purchaser Company shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of one or more Old Certificates representing shares of the Company Common Shares Stock immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachthat have been converted at the Effective Time into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Old Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Old Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms ) and conditions as instructions for use in effecting the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity surrender of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of Old Certificates in exchange for certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company the number of whole shares of Parent Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 Stock and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares, as applicable, which the shares of the Company Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of Stock represented by such Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and Old Certificates shall have been converted into the right to receive pursuant to this Agreement as well as any dividends or distributions to be paid pursuant to Section 3.02(b)(ii). From and after the Effective Time, upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or Old Certificates for exchange and cancellation to the Exchange Agent, together with such properly completed letter of transmittal, duly executed, the holder of such Old Certificate or Old Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor, as applicable, (1) a New Book Entry Statement representing that number of whole shares of Parent Common Stock to which such holder is of the Company Common Stock shall have become entitled pursuant to, to the provisions of Section 3.01 and (2) a check representing the amount of (x) any cash in lieu of a fractional share which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the Old Certificate or Old Certificates surrendered pursuant to the provisions of this Article IIIII and (y) any dividends or distributions which the holder thereof has the right to receive pursuant to this Section 3.02(b), and the Old Certificate or Old Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued on the Parent Common Stock or any cash in lieu of fractional shares or dividends or distributions payable to holders of Old Certificates. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.02(b), each Old Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, upon surrender, the number of whole shares of Parent Common Stock which the shares of the Company Common Stock represented by such Old Certificate have been converted into the right to receive and any cash in lieu of fractional shares or in respect of dividends or distributions as contemplated by this Section 3.02(b). (dii) No dividends or other distributions declared with respect to Purchaser Parent Common Shares Stock shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares until the holder thereof shall surrender such Old Certificate in accordance with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until Section 3.02(b). After the surrender of such an Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IISection 3.02(b), the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of receive any such dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time distributions, without any interest thereon, which theretofore had become payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.whole

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (QNB Corp.), Merger Agreement (QNB Corp.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause New LP to be sent cause the Exchange Agent to mail to each holder record holder, as of record the Closing Date, of Company Common Shares an outstanding certificate or certificates that immediately prior to the Effective Time Closing Date represented Trading Partnership Common Units (eachthe "Certificates"), a “Holder”) form of letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the "Letter of Transmittal") that (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Exchange Agent and which shall be in such form and have such other provisions as New LP and the SF General Partner may reasonably specify) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu and payment therefor. Upon surrender to the Exchange Agent of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance , together with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will holder of a Certificate shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion a certificate or certificates representing the number of full Purchaser Common Units into which the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Certificates surrendered shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares have been converted pursuant to Section 1.4 this Agreement and the Fractional Unit Payment, if any, payable in redemption of any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon Unit otherwise issuable. The instructions for effecting the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares Certificates shall set forth procedures that must be paid to taken by the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate that has been lost, destroyed or Book-Entry Shares with respect stolen. It shall be a condition to the right of such holder to receive a certificate representing Purchaser Common Shares represented therebyUnits and the Fractional Unit Payment, in each case unless if any, that the Exchange Agent shall have received, along with the Letter of Transmittal, a duly executed lost certificate affidavit, including an agreement to indemnify Purchaser and until New LP, signed exactly as the surrender name or names of such Certificate the registered holder or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject holders appeared on the books of the Trading Partnership immediately prior to the effect of applicable abandoned propertyEffective Time, escheat together with a customary bond and such other documents as Purchaser or similar LawsNew LP may reasonably require in connection therewith. After the Closing Date, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof there shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) no further transfer on the amount records of dividends the Trading Partnership or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect its transfer agent of certificates representing Trading Partnership Common Units and if such certificates are presented to the whole number Trading Partnership for transfer, they shall be canceled against delivery of the certificate or certificates for Purchaser Common Shares represented by Units and Fractional Unit Payment as hereinabove provided. If any certificate for such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate Units is to be issued to a person or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after entity other than the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership registered holder of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Companysurrendered for exchange, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) it shall be issued or paid in a condition of such exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name that the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed endorsed, with signature guaranteed, or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to New LP or the Exchange Agent any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to of certificates for such Purchaser Common Units in a Person name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry SharesCertificate(s) surrendered, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser New LP or the Exchange Agent that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orUntil surrendered as contemplated by this Section 1.2(e), subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) each Certificate shall be entitled deemed at any time after the Closing Date to deduct represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the Liquidation Distribution and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or PurchaserFractional Unit Payment, if any, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such paymentcontemplated by Section 1.2. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may No interest will be paid to Purchaser. In such event, or will accrue on any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsFractional Unit Payment. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Purchase Agreement (Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L P), Purchase Agreement (Santa Fe Pacific Pipeline Partners Lp)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days Promptly following the Closing Date, Purchaser Buyer or the Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent to each holder mail a letter of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to transmittal in substantially the Effective Time form attached hereto as Exhibit C (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) to each Stockholder (including the holders of Company Warrants who exercised their Company Warrants prior to the Effective Time) at the address set forth opposite each such holder’s name on the Company Spreadsheet. After receipt of the Letter of Transmittal and any other documents that shall specify that delivery shall be effectedBuyer or the Exchange Agent may reasonably require in order to effect the exchange (the “Exchange Documents”), and risk the Stockholders will surrender their certificates representing their shares of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Company Capital Stock (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such the “Company Stock Certificates) to the Exchange Agent for cancellation together with duly completed and validly executed Exchange Documents. Upon surrender of a Company Stock Certificate for cancellation to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each , or such Certificate other agent or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance agents as may be appointed by Buyer, together with such reasonable terms Exchange Documents, duly completed and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof validly executed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserthe instructions thereto, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right subject to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this AgreementSection 2.8(d), governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will Stockholder shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s from the Exchange Agent in exchange therefor (A) the portion of the Merger ConsiderationExchange Fund, determined (B) the portion of the Adjusted Working Capital Surplus, if any, and (C) to the extent deposited with the Exchange Agent, the portion of the Representative Fund, to which such Stockholder is entitled pursuant to Sections 2.6(a) through and including 2.6(f) and Section 2.6(i), as provided in Section 1.4applicable, and the Company Stock Certificate so surrendered shall be cancelled. Until so surrendered, each such Company Stock Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent(other than those representing Dissenting Shares) outstanding after the Effective Time will be deemed, for all purposescorporate purposes thereafter, to evidence only the right to receivereceive the amounts payable, if any, in exchange for shares of Company Capital Stock (without interest) into which such shares of Company Capital Stock shall have been so converted. No portion of the Merger Consideration will be paid to a Stockholder of any unsurrendered Company Stock Certificate with respect to such shares of Company Capital Stock formerly represented thereby until the Stockholder of record of such Company Stock Certificate shall surrender such Company Stock Certificate or documentation satisfactory to Buyer and the Exchange Agent evidencing the loss of such Company Stock Certificate as contemplated by Section 2.13 and shall deliver validly executed Exchange Documents. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.8(b), neither the Buyer nor any of its Affiliates shall be required to deliver to the Exchange Agent any Company Stock Certificate with respect to any shares of Company Common Stock held by Buyer or any of its Affiliates prior to the Effective Time as a result of the exercise of any Company Warrants in order to receive the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable payable to Buyer or its Affiliates. (ii) At least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall mail or deliver to each holder of Company Vested Options who is an employee of the Company (each such Certificate option holder, an “Employee Option Holder”) notice of the proposed Merger and an Option Acknowledgement Form. Upon surrender to Buyer or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 the Company of an Option Acknowledgement Form, duly completed and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares validly exercised in accordance withwith the instructions thereto, Buyer shall cause the Surviving Corporation to pay to each Employee Option Holder such former holder’s Per Share Upfront Option Consideration, net of applicable Tax withholding amounts, if any. The Employee Option Holder shall also be entitled to receive from Buyer or the Surviving Corporation (A) the portion of the Adjusted Working Capital Surplus, if any, and any dividends (B) to the extent deposited with Buyer or distributions the Surviving Corporation, the portion of the Representative Fund, if any, in each case to which such holder is entitled to pursuant to, to Section 2.6(h) in accordance with and at the respective times set forth in this Article IIAgreement. Buyer shall make or cause to be made any payments of the applicable Company Vested Option Consideration to Employee Option Holders by depositing such funds with the Surviving Corporation for distribution through its normal payroll systems and shall cause such distribution to Employee Option Holders to be made. (diii) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid At least ten (10) Business Days prior to the holder Closing Date, the Company shall mail to each Non-Employee Option Holder a notice of the proposed Merger and an Option Acknowledgement Form with appropriate instructions and any unsurrendered Certificate other documents that Buyer or Book-Entry Shares with respect the Exchange Agent may reasonably require in order to effect the exchange of their Company Vested Options for the Company Vested Option Consideration. Upon return of such materials to the Purchaser Common Shares represented therebyExchange Agent, the Exchange Agent shall pay to each Non-Employee Option Holder such former holder’s Per Share Upfront Option Consideration, net of applicable Tax withholding amounts, if any. The Non-Employee Option Holder shall also be entitled to receive from the Exchange Agent (A) the portion of the Adjusted Working Capital Surplus, if any, and (B) to the extent deposited with the Exchange Agent, the portion of the Representative Fund, if any, in each case unless and until the surrender of to which such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs holder is entitled to pursuant to Section 2.6(h) in accordance with and at the respective times set forth in this Article II. Subject Agreement. (iv) At least ten (10) Business Days prior to the effect Closing Date, the Company shall mail or deliver to each holder of applicable abandoned propertya Company Warrant a notice of the proposed Merger and an agreement in the form approved by Buyer and the Company (a “Warrant Cash-Out Agreement”) providing that such Company Warrant, escheat if not exercised (conditionally upon the consummation of the Merger or similar Lawsany time prior thereto), following surrender be cancelled as of the consummation of the Merger, and that such holder (a) accepts the consideration set forth in Section 2.6(i) in lieu of any other consideration that might be claimed by any such Certificate holder, (b) unconditionally and irrevocably waives and releases all right or Book-Entry Shares claim that such holder might have or assert in accordance respect of such consideration, (c) acknowledges that such holder’s Company Warrants shall terminate upon and may not be exercised after the Closing Date, and (d) approving the appointment of the Stockholders’ Representative and agreeing to be bound by the indemnification obligations contained in this Agreement and the provisions set forth in Article X and the Escrow Agreement with this Article II, appropriate instructions and any other documents that Buyer or the record Exchange Agent may reasonably require in order to effect the exchange of their Company Warrants for the Company Warrant Consideration. Prior to and effective conditionally on consummation of the Merger such holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance receive from Buyer upon consummation of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with Merger, in respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder each share of Company Common Shares Stock subject to such amounts as Company Warrant, the Company Warrant Consideration. Upon return of such materials to the Exchange Agent or PurchaserAgent, as including the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of Warrant Cash-Out Agreement if a holder has not exercised such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of holder’s Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred Warrant prior to the Effective Time, the Exchange Agent shall pay to each such former holder of Company Warrants such former holder’s Per Share Upfront Warrant Consideration. IfSuch former holder shall also be entitled to receive from the Exchange Agent (A) the portion of the Adjusted Working Capital Surplus, after if any, and (B) to the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to extent deposited with the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash portion of the Representative Fund, if any, in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares each case to be issued or paid in consideration therefor which such holder is entitled to pursuant to Section 2.6(i) in accordance with and at the procedures respective times set forth in this Article IIAgreement. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Verisk Analytics, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five Within two (52) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Unified shall send mail or cause to be sent mailed to each holder holders of record of Company certificates representing shares of Seller Common Shares immediately prior Stock (the "Certificates"), as identified on the Seller Shareholder List, as provided pursuant to Section 1.11 hereof, letters advising them of the effectiveness of the Merger and instructing them to tender such Certificates to Unified, or in lieu thereof, such evidence of lost, stolen or mutilated Certificates and such surety bond or other security as Unified may reasonably require (the "Required Documentation"). (b) Subject to Section 1.11, after the Effective Time (eachTime, each previous holder of a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) Certificate that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each surrenders such Certificate or in lieu thereof, the Required Documentation, to Unified, with a properly completed and executed letter of transmittal with respect to such Certificate, will be entitled to a certificate or certificates representing the Merger Consideration. (c) Each outstanding Certificate, until duly surrendered to Unified, shall be deemed to evidence ownership of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares Merger Consideration into which the stock previously represented by book-entry in accordance with such Certificate shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, holders of Certificates shall cease to have rights with respect to the stock previously represented by such Certificates, and their sole rights shall be to exchange such Certificates for the Merger Consideration issuable in the Merger. After the closing of the transfer books as described in Section 1.11 hereof, there shall be no transfers further transfer on the share transfer books records of Company Seller of the Company Common Shares that were issued Certificates, and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, if such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented to Seller for transfer to the Exchange Agenttransfer, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for against delivery of the Merger Consideration. Neither Buyer nor the Surviving Corporation shall be obligated to deliver the Merger Consideration and to which any cash in lieu former holder of fractional Purchaser Seller Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion Stock is entitled as a result of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by Merger until such holder surrenders the Holders Certificates or furnishes the Required Documentation as of the one-year anniversary of provided herein. No dividends or distributions declared after the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Unified Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Stock will be remitted to any person until such person surrenders the Certificate representing the right to receive such Unified Common Share held Stock or furnishes the Required Documentation, at which time such dividends or declarations shall be remitted to such person, without interest and less any taxes that may have been imposed thereon. Certificates surrendered for exchange by an affiliate shall not be exchanged until Unified has received a written agreement from such Holder affiliate as determined required pursuant to Section 5.06 hereof. Neither Unified nor any party to this Agreement, in each case, without Agreement nor any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person affiliate thereof shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares stock represented by any Certificate for any amount delivered Merger Consideration issuable in good faith the Merger that is paid to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Unified Holdings Inc), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Unified Holdings Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, Time (but in no event later than five three (53) business days Business Days following the Closing DateEffective Time), Purchaser Parent shall send or cause instruct the Paying Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Company Common Stock (each, a the HolderCertificates”) (other than and whose shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company Stock have been converted into the right to receive Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 3.1 (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Sharesi) or Purchaser) appropriate and a letter of transmittal in customary transmittal materials form (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange AgentPaying Agent and shall be subject to the consent of the Company prior to the Effective Time, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. The Exchange Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to the Paying Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance together with such reasonable terms letter of transmittal, properly completed and conditions duly executed, and such other documents as the Exchange Agent may impose be reasonably required pursuant to effect an orderly exchange thereof such instructions (or, if such shares are held in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaseror other uncertificated form, in upon the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity entry through a book-entry transfer agent of the Letters surrender of Transmittal and compliance by such shares on a book-entry account statement (it being understood that any Holder with references herein to “Certificates” shall be deemed to include references to book-entry account statements relating to the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery ownership of certificates representing Merger Consideration for shares of Company Common Shares converted in Stock)), the Merger, and (iii) the method holder of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable such Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each Consideration which such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion receive in respect of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu shares of fractional Purchaser Company Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Stock formerly represented by such Certificate, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. No interest will be paid or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior accrued on any Merger Consideration payable to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount holders of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) Certificates. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares that Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such shares of Company Common Shares Stock is presented to the Paying Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer Taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.2, each Certificate shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay deemed at any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled right to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares receive upon such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for surrender the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares or the right to demand to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion “fair value” of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed shares represented thereby as contemplated by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsSection 3.3. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (Alliance Data Systems Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable At and after the Effective Time, but each certificate (each a "Certificate") previously representing shares of BYL Common Stock, other than Dissenting Shares, shall represent only the right to receive the aggregate Merger Consideration specified in no event later than five Section 2.6 hereof. (5b) business days following As of the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser PBOC shall send deposit, or shall cause to be sent deposited, with such bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to BYL as PBOC may select (the "Exchange Agent"), the aggregate Merger Consideration to be paid to the holders of shares of BYL Common Stock pursuant to Section 2.6 hereof in exchange for outstanding shares of BYL Common Stock. (c) Within five business days after the Effective Time, PBOC shall cause the Exchange Agent to mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to a Certificate or Certificates the Effective Time following: (each, i) a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify specifying that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent , which shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms be in a form and conditions contain any other provisions as the Exchange Agent PBOC and BYL may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices determine; and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) instructions for use in effecting the issuance and delivery surrender of certificates representing Certificates in exchange for the aggregate Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant toto Section 2.6 hereof. Upon the proper surrender of a Certificate to the Exchange Agent, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions together with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to a properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal, the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) receive in exchange therefor a check representing the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after aggregate Merger Consideration which such holder has the Effective Time theretofore payable with right to receive in respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect Certificate surrendered pursuant to such Section 2.6 hereof, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. No interest will be paid or Book-Entry Shares. (e) accrued on the Merger Consideration. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company any shares of BYL Common Shares that is Stock not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyBYL, a check for the aggregate Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall to which the holder thereof is entitled pursuant to Section 2.6 hereof may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered holder if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company BYL Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or Stock is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled accompanied by documents sufficient, in the reasonable discretion of PBOC and exchanged for the Merger Consideration Exchange Agent, (i) to evidence and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares effect such transfer and (ii) to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIevidence that all applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. (gd) Any portion of the Exchange Fund aggregate Merger Consideration or the proceeds of any investments thereof that remains unclaimed by the Holders as shareholders of the one-year anniversary of BYL for six months after the Effective Time may shall be paid repaid by the Exchange Agent to PurchaserPBOC. In such event, any Holder Any shareholders of BYL who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II Section 2.9 shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to PBOC for payment of the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares Consideration deliverable in respect of each Company share of BYL Common Share held by Stock such Holder shareholder holds as determined pursuant to Section 2.6 of this Agreement, in each case, Agreement without any interest thereon. If outstanding Certificates are not surrendered or the payments for them are not claimed prior to the date on which such payments would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Entity, the unclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any other applicable law, become the property of PBOC (and to the extent not in its possession shall be paid over to it), free and clear of all claims or interest of any person previously entitled to such claims. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of PurchaserPBOC, the Surviving CompanyCorporation, the Exchange Agent or any other Person person shall be liable to any former holder of Company BYL Common Shares Stock for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (he) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by PBOC or the Exchange Agent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the aggregate Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms pursuant to Section 2.3 of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Pboc Holdings Inc), Merger Agreement (Byl Bancorp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Within three business days after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five Yadkin shall cause the exchange agent selected by Yadkin, and reasonably acceptable to Vantage and Piedmont (5the “Exchange Agent”) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior mail to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company former holders of Vantage Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares Stock and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) Piedmont Common Stock appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the certificates theretofore representing the Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent. After the Effective Time, each holder of Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, issued and outstanding at the Effective Time shall surrender the certificate or certificates representing such shares to the Exchange Agent and shall promptly upon surrender thereof receive in exchange therefor the Vantage Common Stock Merger Consideration or the Piedmont Merger Consideration, as applicable, together with all undelivered dividends or distributions in respect of such shares (without interest thereon) pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Agreement. The Exchange Agent shall accept each not be obligated to deliver the consideration to which any former holder of Vantage Common Stock or Piedmont Common Stock is entitled as a result of the Vantage Merger or the Piedmont Merger until such Certificate holder surrenders his or evidence her certificate or certificates representing the Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, for exchange as provided in this Section 2.1. The certificate or certificates of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms Vantage Common Stock and conditions Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, so surrendered shall be duly endorsed as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms require. Any other provision of this AgreementAgreement notwithstanding, governing (i) neither the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of Surviving Corporation nor the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former a holder of Company the Vantage Common Shares Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, for any amount amounts paid or property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned propertyproperty law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, escheat no certificates representing fractional shares of Yadkin Common Stock shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of the Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, and such fractional Yadkin Common Stock interests will not entitle the owner thereof to vote or similar Laws. to any rights of a shareholder of the Surviving Corporation. Each holder of Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, who would otherwise be entitled to receive a fractional share of Yadkin Common Stock shall instead receive an amount of cash, without interest, equal to the product obtained by multiplying (ha) In the event any Certificate shall fractional share of Yadkin Common Stock to which such holder (after taking into account all Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, held at the Effective Time by such holder) would otherwise be entitled by (b) the closing price of Yadkin Common Stock on the date immediately prior to the Effective Time. A holder of Vantage Common Stock and Piedmont Common Stock, as applicable, whose certificate or certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed are otherwise missing shall be entitled to receive the Vantage Common Stock Merger Consideration or the Piedmont Merger Consideration, as applicable, and dividends or distributions, and cash in lieu of fractional shares to which such shareholder shall be entitled upon compliance with reasonable conditions imposed by the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as Surviving Corporation and the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary pursuant to applicable law and as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof required in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, Surviving Corporation’s standard policy (including requirements of this Article IIthe requirement that the shareholder furnish a surety bond or other customary indemnity).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Vantagesouth Bancshares, Inc.), Merger Agreement (YADKIN FINANCIAL Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Newco and the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Payment Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares as of immediately prior to the Effective Time Time: (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal in customary form (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(sa certificate or certificates (the “Certificates”) or evidence of Book-Entry that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares (excluding Owned Shares and Dissenting Shares) (or effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) or transfer of such Certificatesnon-certificated Shares (excluding Owned Shares and Dissenting Shares) represented by book entry (“Uncertificated Shares”) to the Exchange Payment Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate ); and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or evidence transfer of Book-Entry the Uncertificated Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as in exchange for the Exchange Agent may impose Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common the provisions of Article I. Each holder of Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall that have been converted into the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion the Merger Consideration in respect of the Merger ConsiderationShares represented by a Certificate or Uncertificated Share, determined upon (x) surrender to the Payment Agent of a Certificate, together with a duly completed and validly executed letter of transmittal and such other documents as provided may reasonably be requested by the Payment Agent, or (y) receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Payment Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Payment Agent may reasonably request) in Section 1.4the case of a book-entry transfer of Uncertificated Shares. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate surrendered or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchasertransferred, as the case may be, is required to deduct from and withhold under after the Code, Effective Time each such Certificate or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts Uncertificated Share shall be treated represent for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid only the right to receive the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to the holder provisions of Company Common Article I. If Certificates or Uncertificated Shares are presented to the Surviving Corporation after the Effective Time for any reason, they shall be canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration as provided for, and in respect accordance with the procedures set forth in Article I. No interest shall be paid or accrued on the cash payable upon the surrender or transfer of whom such deduction Certificate or Uncertificated Share. From and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After after the Effective Time, there shall will be no further registration of transfers on the share transfer books of Company records of the Company Common Surviving Corporation of Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time Time, other than transfers to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred reflect, in accordance with customary settlement procedures, trades effected prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Barracuda Networks Inc), Merger Agreement (Riverbed Technology, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Merger Effective Time, but and in no any event later than five within four (54) business days following Business Days after the Closing DateMerger Effective Time, Purchaser Holdco shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior a Bidder Certificate and to each holder of record of a Bidder Book Entry Share, which at the Merger Effective Time were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Clause 8.5.6(1), (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and that risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Bidder Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(sthe Bidder Certificates to the Exchange Agent or, in the case of Bidder Book Entry Shares, upon adherence to the procedures set forth in the letter of transmittal), and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Bidder Certificates and Bidder Book Entry Shares, as applicable, in exchange for payment and issuance of the Merger Consideration therefor. Upon surrender of Bidder Certificates or evidence of Book-Bidder Book Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesas applicable) for cancellation to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance , together with such reasonable terms letter of transmittal, duly completed and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof validly executed in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerinstructions thereto, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry SharesExchange Agent, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate such Bidder Certificates or Book-Bidder Book Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not as applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable receive in exchange therefor: (a) that number of Holdco Shares into which such holder’s Bidder Shares represented by such holder’s properly surrendered Bidder Certificates or Bidder Book Entry Shares (as applicable) were converted pursuant to this Agreement Clause 8.5.6(1), and the Bidder Certificates or Bidder Book Entry Shares (as applicable) so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled, and (b) a check in an amount of U.S. dollars (after giving effect to any required withholdings pursuant to sub-clause (h) below) equal to any cash dividends or other distributions that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to Clause 8.5.7(4) below and the amount of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, cash payable in accordance with respect to the making of such paymentClause 8.5.6. (1). To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts No interest shall be treated paid or shall accrue for all purposes the benefit of this Agreement as having been paid to holders of the holder of Company Common Bidder Certificates or Bidder Book Entry Shares on the Merger Consideration payable in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Bidder Certificates or Book-Bidder Book Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIShares. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Transaction Agreement, Transaction Agreement (Perrigo Co)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly Prior to the Effective Time, Holdco shall appoint Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (“Continental”), as practicable agent (the “Exchange Agent”), for the purpose of exchanging the merger consideration for (i) Quartet Certificates, (ii) Company Certificates and (iii) any uncertificated shares of Quartet or the Company (the “Uncertificated Shares”). Upon surrender of the Quartet Certificates and Company Certificates and any Uncertificated Shares and delivery of a duly executed letter of transmittal, in each case to the Exchange Agent, the holders of such Quartet Certificates and Company Certificates shall receive in exchange therefor certificates representing the Holdco Shares (“Holdco Certificates”) into which their shares of Quartet Common Stock, Quartet Rights, Company Common Shares and Company Preferred Shares shall be converted at the Effective Time and the Quartet Certificates, Company Certificates and any Uncertificated Shares so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Holdco shall make available to the Exchange Agent, as necessary, the Holdco Certificates to be paid in respect of the Quartet Certificates, Company Certificates and the Uncertificated Shares surrendered. Until so surrendered, outstanding Quartet Certificates, Company Certificates and Uncertificated Shares will be deemed, from and after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5to evidence only the right to receive the merger consideration to which the holder thereof is entitled pursuant to Sections 1.5(a) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement1.5(b). (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of If certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Holdco Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares are to be issued in a name other than that in which the Quartet Certificates or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid Certificates surrendered in exchange therefor to are registered, it will be a Person other than condition of the Person in whose name issuance thereof that the Certificate Quartet Certificates or Book-Entry Shares Company Certificates so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall will be properly endorsed or and otherwise be in proper form for transfer, accompanied by an instrument of transfer that is reasonably satisfactory to the Company and that the Person persons requesting such payment exchange will have paid to Holdco, or issuance shall pay any agent designated by it, any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person of certificates representing Holdco Shares in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate Quartet Certificates or Book-Entry SharesCompany Certificates surrendered, or establish established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Holdco or any agent designated by it that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepayable. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Quartet Merger Corp.), Agreement and Plan of Reorganization (Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) Prior to the Closing, for the benefit of the holders of Old Certificates, (i) Buyer shall cause to be delivered to the Exchange Agent, for exchange in accordance with this Article II, a statement or other evidence of shares in book entry form or, at Buyer’s option, stock certificates, representing shares of Buyer Common Stock to be issued pursuant to Section 2.01(d) (each such evidence of book entry ownership or stock certificate, a “New Certificate”) and (ii) Buyer shall deliver, or shall cause to be delivered, to the Exchange Agent cash equal to the estimated amount of cash to be paid in lieu of fractional shares of Buyer Common Stock (that cash and the Consideration, being referred to as the “Exchange Fund”). (b) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Timepracticable, but in any event no event later than five (5) business days Business Days following the Closing DateEffective Time, Purchaser shall send and provided that Company has delivered, or cause caused to be sent delivered, to the Exchange Agent prior to the Closing all information that is necessary for the Exchange Agent to perform its obligations, the Exchange Agent shall mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachan Old Certificate or Old Certificates who has not previously surrendered their Old Certificate or Old Certificates, a “Holder”) form of letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Old Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Old Certificates to the Exchange Agent) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Old Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration as provided for in this Agreement. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Upon proper surrender of an Old Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms for exchange and conditions as cancellation to the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance Agent, together with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by duly executed, the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will holder of the Old Certificate shall be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion in exchange, as applicable, (i) a New Certificate representing that number of shares of Buyer Common Stock to which the former holder of Company Common Stock shall have become entitled pursuant to this Agreement, and/or (ii) a check representing the amount of cash (if any) payable in lieu of a fractional share of Buyer Common Stock which the former holder has the right to receive in respect of the Merger ConsiderationOld Certificate surrendered pursuant to this Agreement, determined and the Old Certificate so surrendered shall be cancelled. Until surrendered as provided contemplated by this Section 2.05(b), each Old Certificate (other than Old Certificates representing shares described in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares 2.01(c)) shall represent, for all purposes, be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of receive upon surrender the Merger Consideration allocable as provided for in this Agreement and any unpaid dividends and distributions as provided in paragraph (c) of this Section 2.05 and any unpaid dividend with respect to such Certificate the Company Common Stock with a record date that is prior to the Effective Time. No interest shall be paid or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and accrued on any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares or on any unpaid dividends and distributions payable to holders of Old Certificates. For shares of Company Common Shares Stock held in book entry form, Buyer shall establish procedures for delivery which shall be reasonably acceptable to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IICompany. (dc) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore with respect to Buyer Common Stock shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Old Certificate until the holder shall surrender his or her Old Certificate in accordance with this Section 2.05. After the surrender of an Old Certificate in accordance with this Section 2.05, the record holder shall be entitled to receive any dividends or other distributions, without any interest, which had become payable with respect to the whole number shares of Purchaser Buyer Common Shares Stock represented by such Certificate the Old Certificate. None of Buyer, Company or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior the Exchange Agent shall be liable to such surrender date, and/or any Person in respect of any shares of Company Common Stock (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of or dividends or other distributions payable with respect to them) or cash from the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented Exchange Fund delivered, as required by such Certificate Law, to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat, or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Sharessimilar Law. (ed) In The Exchange Agent and Buyer, as the event of case may be, shall not be obligated to deliver cash and a transfer of ownership of a New Certificate or Book-Entry Shares New Certificates representing shares of Buyer Common Stock to which a holder of Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records Stock would otherwise be entitled as a result of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash until such holder surrenders the Old Certificate or Old Certificates representing the shares of Company Common Stock for exchange as provided in lieu this Section 2.05, or an appropriate affidavit of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) loss and indemnity agreement and a bond in such amount as shall be required in each case by ▇▇▇▇▇ (but not more than the amount required under ▇▇▇▇▇’s contract with its transfer agent). If any New Certificates evidencing shares of Buyer Common Stock are to be issued or paid in a name other than that in which the Old Certificate evidencing Company Common Stock surrendered in exchange therefor to is registered, it shall be a Person other than condition of the Person in whose name issuance that the Old Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by an executed form of assignment separate from the Old Certificate and otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall the exchange pay to the Exchange Agent any transfer or other similar Taxes recordation Tax required by reason of the payment or issuance to of a Person New Certificate for shares of Buyer Common Stock in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Old Certificate surrendered or Book-Entry Shares, or otherwise establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the any Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The payable. (e) Any portion of the Exchange Agent Fund that remains unclaimed by the shareholders of Company for twelve (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x12) the one-year anniversary of months after the Effective Time and (y) the expiration as well as any interest or termination proceeds from any investment of the Exchange Fund) shall be delivered by the Exchange Agent to Buyer. Any shareholder of Company who has not complied with Section 2.05(b) shall thereafter look only to the Surviving Entity for the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect of each share of Company Common Stock the shareholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, Purchaserin each case without any interest. If outstanding Old Certificates for shares of Company Common Stock are not surrendered or the payment for them is not claimed prior to the date on which such shares of Buyer Common Stock or cash would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any governmental unit or agency, the unclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any other applicable Law, become the property of Buyer (and to the extent not in its possession shall be delivered to it), free and clear of all claims or interest of any Person previously entitled to the property. Neither the Exchange Agent nor any party to this Agreement shall be liable to any holder of shares of Company Common Stock represented by any Old Certificate for any consideration paid to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat, or similar Laws. Buyer and the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to rely upon the stock transfer books of Company to establish the identity of those Persons entitled to receive the Merger Consideration specified in this Agreement, which books shall be deemed conclusive. In the event of a dispute with respect to ownership of any shares of Company Common Stock represented by any Old Certificate, Buyer and the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to tender to the custody of any court of competent jurisdiction any Merger Consideration represented by the Old Certificate and file legal proceedings interpleading all parties to such dispute, and will thereafter be relieved with respect to any claim with respect to such Merger Consideration. (f) Buyer (through the Exchange Agent, if applicable) and any other applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of shares of Company Common Shares such Stock any amounts as the Exchange Agent Buyer (or Purchaser, as the case may be, any other applicable withholding agent) is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax applicable Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the Any amounts are so deducted and withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of Stock for whom such the deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent Buyer (or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time any other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IIapplicable withholding agent). (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who If an Old Certificate has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Old Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by Buyer or the Exchange Agent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as Buyer or the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Old Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Old Certificate the Merger Consideration shares of Buyer Common Stock and any cash in lieu of fractional shares, and dividends or distributions, deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Eastern Bankshares, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Cambridge Bancorp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than Within five (5) business days following after the Closing Date------------------- Effective Time, Purchaser the Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Data Labs Common Stock or Data Labs Preferred Stock (eacheach a "Data Labs Certificate" and, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter "Data Labs Certificates") whose shares were converted pursuant to Section 2.3 into the right to receive shares of Transmittal”Yurie Common Stock (i) that a letter of transmittal (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Data Labs Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Data Labs Certificates to the Exchange Agent) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Data Labs Certificates in exchange for certificates representing shares of Yurie Common Stock. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Upon surrender of a Data Labs Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as for cancellation to the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may impose be appointed by Yurie, together with such letter of transmittal, duly executed, the holder of such Data Labs' Certificate shall be entitled to effect an orderly receive in exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser therefor a certificate representing that number of whole shares of Yurie Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have Stock which such holder has the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive pursuant to the terms provisions of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal Article II and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of any fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withshares, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares the Data Labs Certificate so surrendered shall immediately be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIcanceled. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate Data Labs Common Stock or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that Data Labs Preferred Stock which is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyData Labs, a certificate representing the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu proper number of fractional Purchaser shares of Yurie Common Shares) shall Stock may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Data Labs Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Data Labs Common Shares shall be properly endorsed Stock or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or Data Labs Preferred Stock is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they accompanied by all documents required in evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer taxes have been paid. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.6, each Data Labs Certificate shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and deemed at any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of time after the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In represent only the right to receive upon such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to surrender the Merger Consideration, any certificate representing shares of Yurie Common Stock and cash in lieu of any fractional sharesshares of Yurie Common Stock as contemplated by Section 2.5 above, and or the rights any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall may have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Dissenting Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Yurie Systems Inc), Merger Agreement (Yurie Systems Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As Prior to the Closing, Acquiror shall appoint an exchange agent (the “Exchange Agent”) to act as the agent for the purpose of paying the Aggregate Merger Consideration to the Company’s stockholders. At or before the Effective Time, Acquiror shall deposit with the Exchange Agent the number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock equal to the portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration to be paid in shares of Acquiror Common Stock. Pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Exchange Agent shall hold, for the account of the relevant Company stockholders, book-entry shares representing all of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock distributed in the Distribution. (b) Reasonably promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or shall cause the Exchange Agent to be sent send, to each record holder of record shares of Company Common Shares Capital Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, whose shares of Company Capital Stock were converted pursuant to Section 3.1(a) into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, a letter of transmittal and instructions (which shall specify that the delivery shall be effected, and the risk of loss and title shall pass, only upon proper transfer of each share to the Exchange Agent, and which letter of transmittal will be in customary form and have such other provisions as Acquiror may reasonably specify) for use in such exchange (each, a “Letter of Transmittal”). (c) Each holder of shares of Company Capital Stock that have been converted into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, pursuant to Section 3.1(a), shall be entitled to receive such portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, upon receipt by the Exchange Agent of an “agent’s message” (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Exchange Agent may reasonably request), or a duly completed and validly executed Letter of Transmittal, as applicable, and such other documents as may reasonably be requested by the Exchange Agent. No interest shall be paid or accrued upon the transfer of any share. (d) Promptly following the date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, Acquiror shall instruct the Exchange Agent to deliver to Acquiror all documents in its possession relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Exchange Agent’s duties shall terminate. Thereafter, any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration that remains unclaimed shall be returned to Acquiror, and any Person that was a holder of shares of Company Capital Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than that has not exchanged such shares of Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, Capital Stock for an applicable portion of the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry Aggregate Merger Consideration in accordance with this Agreement. Section 3.2 prior to the date that is one (b1) Purchaseryear after the Effective Time, may transfer such shares of Company Capital Stock to Acquiror and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar Laws) receive in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Mergerconsideration therefor, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the Acquiror shall promptly deliver, such applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Aggregate Merger ConsiderationConsideration without any interest thereupon. None of Acquiror, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrenderedMerger Sub, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interestInpixon, the portion Company, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any Person in respect of any of the Aggregate Merger Consideration allocable delivered to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares a public official pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of . If any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shares shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid not have not been transferred immediately prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from on which any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement Article III would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any holder of Company Common Shares Governmental Authority, any such amounts as shall, to the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax extent permitted by applicable Law, with respect to become the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company property of the Company Common Shares that were issued Surviving Corporation, free and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers clear of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates all claims or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu interest of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawspreviously entitled thereto. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (KINS Technology Group, Inc.), Merger Agreement (Inpixon)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Paying Agent to be sent mail to each Person who was a holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time, whose Shares were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 1.5, (i) a letter of transmittal in customary form for use in effecting the surrender of stock certificates that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented Shares (each, a “HolderCertificate”) or uncertificated Shares represented by book-entry (“Book-Entry Shares”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account which letter of transmittal shall include customary provisions with respect to the use of an “agent’s message” for Book-Entry Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall also specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence transfer of the Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Paying Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms ); and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) instructions for use in surrendering the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, in exchange for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Consideration. Upon surrender of a Certificate or a Book-Entry Shares pursuant Share for cancellation to Section 1.4 the Paying Agent, together with a completed and any cash duly executed letter of transmittal (or a valid “agent’s message” agreeing to the terms of such letter of transmittal, sent in lieu accordance with the applicable procedures of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to The Depositary Trust Company) and such other documents as may reasonably be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender required by the Paying Agent, the holder of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof Share shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) receive the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Merger Consideration for each Share formerly represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share, net of applicable Taxes withheld pursuant to Section 1.7(f), and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a so surrendered shall then be cancelled. If payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the any Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall is to be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name the surrendered Certificate(s) formerly representing Shares are registered in the transfer records of the Company, it shall be a condition of payment that such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Parent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent Payment of the applicable Merger Consideration with respect to Book-Entry Shares shall be made only to the earlier of (x) Person in whose name such Book-Entry Shares are registered. Until surrendered in accordance with this Section 1.7(b), subject to the oneDissenters’ Rights, each Certificate and Book-year anniversary of Entry Share shall be deemed at all times from and after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination right to receive upon such surrender the Merger Consideration that the holder thereof has the right to receive in respect of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable Shares previously represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Share pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such paymentArticle 1. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts No interest shall be treated for all purposes paid or shall accrue on any cash payable to holders of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer pursuant to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements provisions of this Article II1.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Insight Enterprises Inc), Merger Agreement (Datalink Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five Parent or the Surviving Entity shall cause the Exchange Agent to mail (5and to make available for collection by hand) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record or a Certificate (or affidavit of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”loss in lieu thereof) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company A) a letter of transmittal (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the a “Letter of Transmittal”) that ), in customary form as prepared by Parent and reasonably acceptable to Company, which shall specify specify, among other things, that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificatesthereof) to the Exchange Agent, and (B) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration into which the number of shares of Company Common Stock previously represented by such Certificate shall have been converted pursuant to this Agreement and the Merger, together with any amounts payable in respect of the Fractional Share Consideration in accordance with Section 3.6 and dividends or other distributions on Parent Common Shares in accordance with Section 3.2(e). (ii) Upon surrender of a Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) to the Exchange Agent, together with a properly completed and validly executed Letter of Transmittal, and such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration for each share of Company Common Stock formerly represented by such Certificate pursuant to the provisions of this Article 3 plus any Fractional Share Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.6 and any amounts that such holder has the right to receive in respect of dividends or other distributions on Parent Common Shares in accordance with Section 3.2(e), by mail or by wire transfer after the Exchange Agent’s receipt of such Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) and Letter of Transmittal, and the Certificate (or affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) so surrendered so transferred, as applicable, shall be forthwith cancelled. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate Certificates (or evidence affidavits of Book-Entry Shares loss in lieu thereof) upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal customary exchange practices practices. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of the Certificates on the Merger Consideration or the Fractional Share Consideration payable upon the surrender of the Certificates and any distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to Section 3.2(e). In the event of a transfer of ownership of shares of Company Common Stock that is not registered in the transfer records of Company, it shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry be a condition of payment that any Certificate surrendered or transferred in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein in this Section 3.2 shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise in proper form for transfer, and herein, (ii) that the issuance Person requesting such payment shall have paid any Transfer Taxes and delivery other Taxes required by reason of certificates representing the payment of the Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in to a Person other than the Mergerregistered holder of the Certificate surrendered, and or shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Parent that such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable. (iii) the method Any holder of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representnot be required to deliver an executed Letter of Transmittal to the Exchange Agent to receive the Merger Consideration or other amounts pursuant to the provisions of this Article 3 from Parent that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to this Article 3 with respect to such Book-Entry Shares. Subject to receipt of any documentation as may reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, each holder of one or more Book-Entry Shares shall automatically upon the Effective Time be entitled to receive, and Parent shall cause the Exchange Agent to pay and deliver as soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time (but in no event later than three (3) Business Days thereafter), the Merger Consideration for all purposes, only each such Book-Entry Share pursuant to the provisions of this Article 3 plus any Fractional Share Consideration that such holder has the right to receive, without interest, receive pursuant to the portion provisions of Section 3.6 and any amounts that such holder has the right to receive in respect of dividends or other distributions on Parent Common Shares in accordance with Section 3.2(e). Payment of the Merger Consideration allocable or the Fractional Share Consideration payable and any dividends and other distributions with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant shall only be made to Section 1.4 and any cash the person in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of whose name such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, are registered. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of Book-Entry Shares on the Merger Consideration or the Fractional Share Consideration payable and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIto Section 3.2(e). (div) No dividends or At the Effective Time, holders of Company Common Stock shall cease to be, and shall have no rights as, stockholders of Company other distributions with respect than the right to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid receive the Merger Consideration from Parent that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Article 3 plus any Fractional Share Consideration that such holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect has the right to receive pursuant to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, provisions of Section 3.6 and any amounts that such holder has the right to receive in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount respect of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser on Parent Common Shares represented by such Certificate in accordance with Section 3.2(e). The Merger Consideration paid upon the surrender for exchange of Certificates (or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) representing Company Common Stock (ii) at or automatic conversion in the appropriate payment date, the amount case of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements Article 3 shall be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of this Article IIall rights and privileges pertaining to the Company Common Stock theretofore evidenced by such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Kite Realty Group, L.P.), Merger Agreement (Retail Properties of America, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, Date (but in no event later than five (5) business days following after the Closing Effective Date), Purchaser the Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior an outstanding share Certificate or Certificates a Letter of Transmittal containing instructions for the surrender of the Certificate or Certificates held by such holder for payment therefor. Upon surrender of the Certificate or Certificates to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, Exchange Agent in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Letter of Transmittal”) that , such holder shall specify that delivery promptly receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration, without interest thereon. Approval of this Agreement by the stockholders of Heritage Bank shall constitute authorization for BCSB to designate and appoint such Exchange Agent, with the approval of WHG. Neither BCSB nor the Exchange Agent shall be effectedobligated to deliver the Merger Consideration to a former stockholder of WHG until such former stockholder surrenders his Certificate or Certificates or, and risk in lieu thereof, any such appropriate affidavit of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms indemnity agreement and conditions bond as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented be reasonably required by book-entry in accordance with this AgreementBCSB. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of If payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares is to be issued or paid made to a person other than the person in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of whose name a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid surrendered in exchange therefor to is registered, it shall be a Person other than the Person in whose name condition of payment that the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed (or accompanied by an appropriate instrument of transfer) and otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of for the payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Sharessurrendered, or required for any other reason, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent payable. (or, subsequent c) On or prior to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Merger Effective Time and (y) the expiration Date, BCSB shall deposit or termination of cause to be deposited, in trust with the Exchange Agent AgreementAgent, Purchaser) an amount of cash equal to the aggregate Merger Consideration that the WHG stockholders shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable receive on the Merger Effective Date pursuant to this Agreement Section 2.02 hereof. (d) The payment of the Merger Consideration, and cash in lieu of any fractional shares, upon the conversion of WHG Common Stock in accordance with the above terms and conditions shall be deemed to any holder have been issued and paid in full satisfaction of Company all rights pertaining to such WHG Common Shares such amounts as Stock. (e) Promptly following the date which is twelve months after the Merger Effective Date, the Exchange Agent or Purchasershall deliver to BCSB all cash, as the case may be, is required to deduct certificates and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect other documents in its possession relating to the making transactions described in this Agreement, and the Exchange Agent's duties shall terminate. Thereafter, each holder of a Certificate formerly representing shares of WHG Common Stock may surrender such payment. To Certificate to Baltimore County Bank and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar laws) receive in consideration therefor the extent the amounts are so withheld Merger Consideration multiplied by the Exchange Agent number of shares of WHG Common Stock formerly represented by such Certificate, without any interest or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bedividends thereon. (f) After the close of business on the Merger Effective TimeDate, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of Company WHG of the Company shares of WHG Common Shares Stock that were issued and are outstanding immediately prior to the Merger Effective Time other than Date, and the stock transfer books of WHG shall be closed with respect to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Timesuch shares. If, after the Merger Effective TimeDate, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled canceled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth as provided in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate certificate for WHG Common Stock shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Exchange Agent shall deliver (except as otherwise provided in Section 2.02(iii)) in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, upon the making of an affidavit of that the fact by the Person claiming such Certificate holder thereof, the cash to be paid in the Merger as provided for herein; provided, however, that BCSB may, in its sole discretion and as a condition precedent to the delivery thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of certificate to deliver a bond in such amount reasonable sum as the Exchange Agent BCSB may determine is reasonably necessary require as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it WHG, BCSB or any other party with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate destroyed. (h) BCSB is hereby authorized, after consulting with WHG, to adopt additional requirements with respect to the Merger Consideration deliverable matters referred to in respect thereof in accordance this Section 2.03 not inconsistent with the terms provisions of this Agreement, including requirements Agreement or unduly burdensome to the shareholders of this Article IIWHG.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (BCSB Bankcorp Inc), Merger Agreement (WHG Bancshares Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) At and after the Effective Time, each certificate (each a "Certificate") previously representing shares of Company Common Stock shall represent only the right to receive the Merger Consideration (without interest on the cash portion thereof). (b) As promptly of the Effective Time, (i) the Acquiror shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, L.L.C., a New Jersey limited liability company (the "Exchange Agent"), for the benefit of the holders of shares of Company Common Stock, for exchange in accordance with this Section 1.3, the amount constituting the cash portion of the Merger Consideration to be paid pursuant to Section 1.2, and (ii) the Company shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with the Exchange Agent, for the benefit of the holders of shares of Company Common Stock, one or more certificates representing (x) the Secondary Participation Interests to be distributed to holders of Company Common Stock in exchange for their Certificates pursuant to this Section 1.3 and (y) the Batched Secondary Participation Interests to be sold by the Exchange Agent on behalf of the Company in the Batched Sales pursuant to Sections 1.2 and 1.3(c). (c) As soon as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to a Certificate or Certificates the Effective Time following: (each, i) a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary letter of transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify specifying that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent, which shall be in a form and contain any other reasonable provisions as the Acquiror may determine; and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. In addition, as soon as practicable after the Effective Time, the Batched Secondary Participation Interests shall be sold on the open market at prevailing prices by means of the Batched Sales. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such be instructed by the Surviving Corporation to effect the Batched Sales on behalf of the Surviving Corporation, through the use of one or more broker-dealers, over a period of time following the Effective Time and in a manner designed not to adversely affect the market prices of the Secondary Participation Interests. Upon the proper surrender of a Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as to the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance Agent, together with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter and duly executed letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a check representing the cash portion of the Merger Consideration and a certificate representing such Holder’s number of Secondary Participation Interests which such holder has the right to receive in respect of the Certificate surrendered pursuant to the provisions hereof, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued on the cash portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing any shares of Company Common Shares that is Stock not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, a check for the cash portion of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu and a certificate representing the applicable number of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall Secondary Participation Interests may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be Stock is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by documents sufficient, in proper form for the reasonable discretion of the Acquiror and the Exchange Agent, (i) to evidence and effect such transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any (ii) to evidence that all applicable stock transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has taxes have been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepaid. (fd) After From and after the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share stock transfer books of Company records of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of any shares of Company Common Shares Stock that occurred were outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange AgentAcquiror or the Surviving Corporation, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash deliverable in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares respect thereof pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor this Plan in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article IISection 1.3. (ge) Any portion of the Exchange Fund aggregate Merger Consideration or the proceeds of any investments thereof that remains unclaimed by the Holders as stockholders of the one-Company for one year anniversary of after the Effective Time may shall be paid repaid or delivered, as applicable, by the Exchange Agent to Purchaserthe Acquiror. In such event, any Holder Any stockholders of the Company who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II Section 1.3 shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Acquiror for payment of their Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares Consideration deliverable in respect of each share of Company Common Share held by Stock such Holder stockholder holds as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, Plan without any interest thereonon the cash portion of the Merger Consideration. If outstanding Certificates are not surrendered or the payment for them not claimed prior to the date on which such payments would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any governmental unit or agency, the unclaimed items shall, to the extent permitted by abandoned property and any other applicable law, become the property of the Acquiror (and to the extent not in its possession shall be paid over to it), free and clear of all claims or interest of any person previously entitled to such claims. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaserthe Acquiror, the Surviving CompanyCorporation, the Exchange Agent or any other Person person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares Stock for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawslaws. (hf) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and and, if required by the Exchange Agent, the posting by such Person person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares)Certificate, the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of pursuant to this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIPlan.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (First Nationwide Holdings Inc), Agreement and Plan of Merger (First Nationwide Parent Holdings Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than At least five (5) business days following prior to the Closing DateClosing, Purchaser Acquiror shall send or shall cause the Exchange Agent to send, to each Holdco Equityholder at the physical address or email address on record with the Holdco, (A) a notice advising such Holdco Equityholder of the proposed effectiveness of the Holdco Merger, (B) the Letter of Transmittal, and (C) notice of the procedures for surrendering to the Acquiror such Holdco Equityholder’s duly executed Letter of Transmittal (with all other documentation required to be sent delivered pursuant to the Letter of Transmittal or the Exchange Agent in respect of uncertificated shares), and instructions for transferring such Holdco Equityholder’s shares of Holdco Equity, in exchange for the aggregate share of the Aggregate Merger Consideration payable to such Holdco Equityholder pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(iii). Upon delivery of a Letter of Transmittal by such Holdco Equityholder, duly executed and in proper form with all enclosures and attachments required thereby, such Holdco Equityholder shall be entitled to receive the aggregate share of the Aggregate Merger Consideration payable to such Holdco Equityholder in exchange for the shares of Holdco Equity so surrendered. Until surrendered as contemplated hereby, each holder share of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to Holdco Equity shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive the applicable Per Share Merger Consideration in respect thereof. (eachii) Following the Closing, within two (2) Business Days of receipt of all required documentation from a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly Holdco Equityholder required by Company (other than Trust Account Shares this Agreement and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose in respect of uncertificated shares, including the Letter of Transmittal and an IRS Form W-9, the Acquiror shall issue (or cause the Exchange Agent to effect an orderly exchange thereof issue) to such Holdco Equityholder, in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity aggregate share of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Aggregate Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable payable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash Holdco Equityholder in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of exchange for such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance withPerson’s Holdco Equity; provided, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant tohowever, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid that to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect extent that all such required documentation was provided to the Purchaser Common Shares represented therebyAcquiror at least two (2) Business Days before the Closing Date by a Holdco Equityholder, in each case unless and until then the surrender of Acquiror shall issue (or cause the Exchange Agent to issue) to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs Holdco Equityholder, in accordance with the terms of this Article IIAgreement, the aggregate share of the Aggregate Merger Consideration payable to such Holdco Equityholder in exchange for such Person’s Holdco Equity on the Closing Date. Subject Notwithstanding anything to the effect contrary in this Agreement or any knowledge possessed or acquired by or on behalf of applicable abandoned propertyAcquiror or any of its Affiliates, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article IIAcquiror, the record holder thereof Exchange Agent and their Affiliates shall be entitled to receiveconclusively and definitively rely on, without interestany obligation to investigate or verify the accuracy, (i) the amount of dividends inaccuracy or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares correctness thereof, and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment datewithout any liability, the amount of dividends documentation provided by each Holdco Equityholder (including wire instructions, account information or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by addresses), which shall be binding on and enforceable against such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry SharesHoldco Equityholder. (eiii) In the event If payment of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the any Per Share Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall is to be issued or paid in exchange therefor made to a Person other than the Person in whose name any surrendered share of Holdco Equity is registered, it shall be a condition precedent to payment that the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares share of Holdco Equity so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer transfer, and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay have paid any transfer or and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance delivery of the applicable Per Share Merger Consideration in respect thereof, as applicable, to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish share of Holdco Equity so surrendered and shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser Acquiror that the Tax has such Taxes either have been paid or is are not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepaid. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Sable Offshore Corp.), Merger Agreement (Flame Acquisition Corp.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as reasonably practicable after the Initial Holdco Merger Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing DateExchange Agent shall, Purchaser and Marriott shall send or cause to be sent the Exchange Agent to, mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate that immediately prior to the Starwood Merger Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Starwood Common Stock whose shares were converted into the right to receive the Starwood Merger Consideration (each, a “HolderCertificate), which, by virtue of the Initial Holdco Merger, was subsequently converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, (i) a letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent , and which shall accept each be in such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with form and have such reasonable terms other provisions as Marriott and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose reasonably specify) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. Upon surrender of a Certificate for cancellation to effect an orderly the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may be appointed by Marriott, together with such letter of transmittal, duly executed, and such other documents as may reasonably be required by Marriott or the Exchange Agent, the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in therefor the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to make all determinations, consistent with receive pursuant to the terms provisions of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the MergerArticle II, and (iii) the method Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Promptly after the Initial Holdco Merger Effective Time, Marriott shall cause the Exchange Agent to issue and send to each holder of payment uncertificated shares of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Starwood Common Shares where Stock represented by book entry that were converted into the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. the Starwood Merger Consideration (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares”), will be entitled which, by virtue of the Initial Holdco Merger were subsequently converted into the right to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrenderedthe Merger Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Article II, each without such holder being required to deliver a Certificate or an executed letter of transmittal to the Exchange Agent, and such Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the forthwith be cancelled. If any portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares is to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records name of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person person other than the Person person in whose name the applicable surrendered Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition to such registration or Book-Entry Shares so payment that the surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person person requesting such registration or payment or issuance of the Merger Consideration shall pay to the Exchange Agent any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of such registration in the name of or payment or issuance to a Person person other than the registered holder of the such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the such Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (orUntil surrendered or cancelled as contemplated by this Section 2.2, subsequent to each Certificate or Book-Entry Share shall be deemed at any time after the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Initial Holdco Merger Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration right to receive upon such surrender or termination of cancellation the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) Merger Consideration. No interest shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder paid or shall accrue for the benefit of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision holders of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for on the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, payable upon the making surrender or cancellation of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen Certificates or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Book-Entry Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Marriott International Inc /Md/), Merger Agreement (Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide, Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable after Promptly following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent shall instruct the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each holder of record of certificates or instruments evidencing the Company Common Shares Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock, and, in Parent’s discretion, Company Options, that were outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of TransmittalCertificates”) that and which were converted into the right to receive the applicable portion of the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 2.6, (i) a letter of transmittal (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent , and shall accept each be in such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with form and have such reasonable terms and conditions other provisions as Parent and/or the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices reasonably specify), and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) instructions for use in effecting the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration. Upon surrender of Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may be appointed by Parent, determined together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, and such other documents as provided may reasonably be required by Parent or the Exchange Agent (including any required IRS Form W-9 or Form W-8), the holders of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a check or wire transfer in the amount of U.S. dollars representing the applicable portion of the Merger Consideration that such holders have the right to receive pursuant to Section 1.42.6, and the Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representoutstanding Certificates will be deemed from and after the Effective Time, for all corporate purposes, to evidence only the right to receive, without interest, receive upon surrender thereof the applicable portion of the Merger Consideration allocable that the holders thereof have the right to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares receive pursuant to Section 1.4 and 2.6. No interest will be paid or accrued on any cash in lieu payable to holders of fractional Purchaser Common Shares Certificates pursuant to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article IIAgreement. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing shares of Company Common Shares Stock or Company Series A Preferred Stock or Company Options (if applicable) that is not registered in the stock transfer records of the Company, the applicable portion of the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or that the holder thereof has the right to receive pursuant to Section 2.6 may paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder shares of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock or Purchaser, as the case may be, Company Options (if applicable) is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled accompanied by all documents required to evidence and exchanged for the Merger Consideration effect such transfer and by evidence that any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall stock transfer Taxes have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article IIpaid.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Secure Computing Corp), Merger Agreement (McAfee, Inc.)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly Buyer shall designate an exchange agent, reasonably acceptable to Seller, to act as practicable after agent (the "Exchange Agent") for purposes of conducting the exchange procedure as described herein. No later than five business days following the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Buyer shall cause the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send Exchange Agent to mail or cause to be sent make available to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate or certificates which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented issued and outstanding shares of Seller Common Stock (each, the "Certificates") (i) a “Holder”) notice and letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, effected and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, pass only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) Certificates to the Exchange Agent) advising such holder of the effectiveness of the Corporate Merger and the procedure for surrendering to the Exchange Agent such Certificate or Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration. (b) At or prior to the Effective Time, Buyer shall deliver to the Exchange Agent an amount of cash equal to the aggregate Merger Consideration. (c) Each holder of an outstanding Certificate or Certificates (other than holders of Dissenting Shares) who surrenders such Certificate or Certificates to the Exchange Agent will, upon acceptance thereof by the Exchange Agent, be entitled to the Merger Consideration for each share represented by the Certificate(s). The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares Certificates upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry practices. Each outstanding Certificate which is not surrendered to the Exchange Agent in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and hereinprovided for herein shall, (ii) except as otherwise herein provided, until duly surrendered to the issuance and delivery Exchange Agent be deemed to evidence ownership of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of receive the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article IIfor each share represented by the Certificate. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect The Exchange Agent shall not be obligated to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to deliver the Merger Consideration until the holder of any unsurrendered surrenders the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented therebyCertificates as provided in this Section 2.6, or, in default thereof, an appropriate affidavit of loss and indemnity agreement and/or a bond as may be required in each case unless and until by the surrender of such Exchange Agent. If any check is to be issued in a name other than that in which the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned propertyis registered, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof it shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount a condition of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares thereof that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by an executed form of assignment separate from the Certificate and otherwise be in proper form for transfer and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance shall exchange pay to the Exchange Agent any transfer or other similar Taxes tax required by reason of the payment or issuance to of a Person check in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate certificate surrendered or Book-Entry Shares, or otherwise establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may bepayable. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (ge) Any portion of the cash delivered to the Exchange Fund Agent by Buyer pursuant to Section 2.6(b) that remains unclaimed by the Holders as shareholders of Seller for six months after the one-year anniversary Closing Date shall be delivered by the Exchange Agent to Buyer. Any shareholders of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder Seller who has have not theretofore complied with this Article II Section 2.6(c) shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to Buyer for the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu . If outstanding Certificates are not surrendered or the payment for them is not claimed prior to the date on which such payment would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.any

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Hudson River Bancorp Inc), Merger Agreement (SFS Bancorp Inc)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following Parent shall instruct the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause Exchange Agent to be sent mail to each record holder of record Certificates (i) a letter of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time transmittal (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares the Certificates shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) the Certificates to the Exchange Agent, and shall be in customary form and agreed to by Parent and ATN prior to the Effective Time) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable in respect of the ATN Common Units represented by such Certificates. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence Promptly after the Effective Time, upon surrender of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent together with such letters of transmittal, properly completed and duly executed, and such other documents as may impose be required pursuant to effect an orderly such instructions, the holders of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange thereof therefor (A) at Parent’s election either (i) certificate(s) evidencing shares of Parent Common Stock or (ii) evidence of shares in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaserform representing, in the exercise aggregate, the whole number of its reasonable discretion, shall have shares of Parent Common Stock that such holder has the right to make receive pursuant to this Article III (after taking into account all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing ATN Common Units then held by such holder) and (iB) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted a check in the Mergeramount equal the cash payable in lieu of any fractional shares of Parent Common Stock pursuant to Section 3.2(d). No interest shall be paid or accrued on any Merger Consideration, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) shares or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 on any unpaid dividends and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number holders of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) Certificates. In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company ATN Common Shares Units that is not registered in the stock transfer records of CompanyATN, the Merger Consideration (including cash payable in lieu respect of fractional Purchaser such ATN Common Shares) shall Units may be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered transferee if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company ATN Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for Units is presented to the Exchange Agent, accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent in advance any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person delivery of the Merger Consideration in any name other than that of the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Sharessurrendered, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreementthat such Taxes have been paid or are not payable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.2, Purchaser) each Certificate shall be entitled deemed at any time after the Effective Time to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the Merger Consideration without interest payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom the ATN Common Units represented by such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration Certificate and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares distributions to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In which such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined holder is entitled pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsSection 3.3. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Atlas Energy Resources, LLC), Merger Agreement (Atlas Resources Public #18-2008 Program)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser Surviving Corporation shall send or cause the Exchange Agent to be sent to each holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior mail to the Effective Time (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) former stockholders of PBF appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence the certificates theretofore representing shares of Book-Entry Shares PBF Common Stock shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) certificates to the Exchange Agent). The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate Upon surrender of a certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms certificates for exchange and conditions as cancellation to the Exchange Agent may impose (such shares to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance be free and clear of all liens, claims and encumbrances), together with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter executed letter of Transmittaltransmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) holder of such certificate or Book-Entry Shares, will certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefore: (a) a certificate representing that number of whole shares of ANB Common Stock which such Holder’s portion holder of PBF Common Stock became entitled to receive pursuant to the Merger Considerationprovisions of Article 3 hereof and (b) a check representing the aggregate cash consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representif any, for all purposes, only fractional shares and/or Additional Optional Cash Consideration Per Share which such holder has the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares receive pursuant to Section 1.4 the provisions of Article 3 hereof, and the certificate or certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. No interest will be paid or accrued on any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser shares, Additional Optional Cash Consideration Per Share, or unpaid dividends and distributions, if any, payable to holders of certificates for PBF Common Shares Stock. The Surviving Corporation shall not be obligated to be issued or paid in deliver the consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which any former holder of PBF Common Stock is entitled as a result of the Merger until such holder is entitled pursuant to, surrenders his certificate or certificates representing the shares of PBF Common Stock for exchange as provided in this Article II. (d) No dividends Section 4.1. The certificate or other distributions with respect to Purchaser certificates for PBF Common Shares Stock so surrendered shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly duly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any require. Any other provision of statethis Agreement notwithstanding, local or foreign Tax Lawneither the Surviving Corporation, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by ANB nor the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former a holder of Company PBF Common Shares Stock for any amount amounts paid or property delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawsproperty Law. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Alabama National Bancorporation), Merger Agreement (P B Financial Services Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly as practicable Promptly after the Effective TimeTime (and in any event within two (2) Business Days thereafter), but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent Paying Agent will mail to each holder of record of Company Common Shares a certificate (a “Certificate”) or a book-entry share (a “Book-Entry Share”), which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares, whose shares were converted pursuant to Section 3.1 into the right to receive the Merger Consideration (each, i) a “Holder”) letter of transmittal (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that which shall specify that delivery shall will be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) the Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall will pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Paying Agent shall accept each and will be in such Certificate form and have such other provisions acceptable to the Company and Parent); and (ii) instructions for effecting the surrender of the Certificates or evidence of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly in exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Upon surrender of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall representfor cancellation to the Paying Agent or to such other agent or agents as may be appointed by Parent, for all purposestogether with such letter of transmittal, only the right to receive, without interestduly executed and properly completed, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender holder of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall Share will be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) receive in exchange therefor the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares Merger Consideration for each Share formerly represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share, and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares Share so surrendered is registered if the shall forthwith be cancelled. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 3.4(b), each Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall Share will be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay deemed at any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of time after the Effective Time and (y) to represent only the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled right to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for receive the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has will not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without evidence any interest thereon. Notwithstanding in, or any right to exercise the foregoing, none rights of Purchasera shareholder or other equity holder of, the Company or the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar LawsCorporation. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Genzyme Corp), Agreement and Plan of Merger (Sanofi-Aventis)

Exchange Procedures. (a) As promptly soon as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later than five (5) business days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall send or cause to be sent to each holder of record an outstanding certificate or certificates which prior thereto represented shares of Company Chartwell Common Shares immediately prior Stock shall, upon surrender to the Effective Time Exchange Agent of such certificate or certificates and acceptance thereof by the Exchange Agent, be entitled to a certificate representing that number of whole shares of Trenwick Common Stock (each, a “Holder”) (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss cash in lieu of fractional shares of Trenwick Common Stock as contemplated by this Section 2.2) which the aggregate number of shares of Chartwell Common Stock previously represented by such Certificatescertificate or certificates surrendered shall have been converted into the right to receive pursuant to Section 2.1(b) to the Exchange Agentof this Agreement. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence of Book-Entry Shares certificates upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. (b) Purchaser, practices. If the consideration to be paid in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing Merger (ior any portion thereof) the validity of the Letters of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and herein, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares is to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and delivered to any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant to, this Article II. (d) No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person person other than the Person person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares certificate representing shares of Chartwell Common Stock surrendered in exchange therefore is registered, it shall be a condition to such exchange that the certificate so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and that the Person person requesting such payment or issuance exchange shall pay to the Exchange Agent any transfer or other similar Taxes taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance of such consideration to a Person person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Sharescertificate surrendered, or shall establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser the Exchange Agent that the Tax such tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (x) the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Company Common Shares in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers further transfer on the share records of Chartwell or its transfer books agent of Company certificates representing shares of the Company Chartwell Common Shares that were issued Stock and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing if such Company Common Shares certificates are presented to Chartwell for transfer to the Exchange Agenttransfer, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for canceled against delivery of the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu as hereinabove provided. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.2(c), each certificate representing shares of fractional Purchaser Chartwell Common Shares Stock (other than certificates representing shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor cancelled in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (gSection 2.1(a)) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In represent only the right to receive upon such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to surrender the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional shares, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon, as contemplated by Section 2.1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent No interest will be paid or will accrue on any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawscash payable as Merger Consideration. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement (Chartwell Re Holdings Corp), Merger Agreement (Chartwell Re Corp)

Exchange Procedures. (ai) As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, but in no event later No less than five (5) business days following Business Days prior to the Closing Date, Purchaser Exchange Agent shall send or cause to be sent deliver to each Company Stockholder, Non-Employee Cashed-Out Option Holder and holder of record of Company Common Shares immediately prior to the Effective Time (eachCashed-Out Warrants, a “Holder”) letter of transmittal in the form attached hereto as EXHIBIT F (other than Company Common Shares owned directly by Company (other than Trust Account Shares and DPC Shares) or Purchaser) appropriate and customary transmittal materials (collectively, the “Letter of Transmittal”) that shall specify that delivery shall be effectedat the address set forth opposite each such Company Holder’s name on the Closing Allocation Schedule. (ii) After receipt of such Letter of Transmittal, (A) the Company Stockholders will surrender the certificates representing their shares of Company Capital Stock (the “Company Stock Certificates”) and risk (B) holders of loss Cashed-Out Warrants will surrender each agreement representing any Cashed-Out Warrant (a “Cashed-Out Warrant Agreement”), in each case, to the Exchange Agent for cancellation, together with a duly completed and title to Certificate(s) or evidence validly executed Letter of Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon Transmittal. Upon delivery of Certificate(s) or evidence of Book-Entry Shares (or affidavits of loss in lieu of such Certificates) documents to the Exchange Agent. The Exchange Agent shall accept each such Certificate or evidence , subject to the terms of Book-Entry Shares upon compliance with such reasonable terms and conditions as Section 1.11(d) hereof, the Exchange Agent may impose to effect an orderly exchange thereof in accordance with normal exchange practices and shall as promptly as practicable issue non-certificated Purchaser Common Shares represented by book-entry in accordance with this Agreement. shall, no later than (b) Purchaser, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, shall have the right to make all determinations, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, governing (i1) the validity Closing Date (so long as such documents are delivered to the Exchange Agent at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date) or (2) following the Closing Date, but no more than three (3) Business Days after receipt of the Letters such documents, pay to such Company Stockholder, Non-Employee Cashed-Out Option Holders or holder of Transmittal and compliance by any Holder with the procedures set forth therein and hereinCashed-Out Warrants, (ii) the issuance and delivery of certificates representing Merger Consideration for Company Common Shares converted in the Merger, and (iii) the method of payment of cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares where the Holder of the applicable Certificate has no right to receive whole Purchaser Common Shares. (c) A Holder who has returned a properly completed Letter of Transmittal, accompanied by the Holder’s Certificate(s) or Book-Entry Shares, will be entitled to receive such Holder’s portion of the Merger Consideration, determined as provided in Section 1.4. Until so surrendered, each such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares shall represent, for all purposes, only the right to receive, without interest, the portion of the Initial Merger Consideration allocable to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares pursuant to Section 1.4 and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon surrender of such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with, and any dividends or distributions to which such holder is entitled pursuant toto Section 1.6 hereof and as set forth on the Closing Allocation Schedule, this Article IIand any Company Stock Certificate or Cashed-Out Warrant Agreement so surrendered shall be cancelled. (diii) Until so surrendered by Company Holders (other than Employee Cashed-Out Option Holders), each Company Stock Certificate, Cashed-Out Option Agreement or Cashed-Out Warrant Agreement will be deemed, for all corporate purposes thereafter, to evidence only the right to receive the applicable cash amounts payable to such Company Holder pursuant to Section 1.6 hereof, without interest thereon. No dividends or other distributions with respect to Purchaser Common Shares shall portion of the Total Merger Consideration will be paid to the holder of any unsurrendered (A) Company Stock Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with respect to the Purchaser Common Shares shares of Company Capital Stock formerly represented thereby, in each case unless and until the surrender of such Certificate or Book(B) Cashed-Entry Shares occurs in accordance with this Article II. Subject to the effect of applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, following surrender of any such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares in accordance with this Article II, the record holder thereof shall be entitled to receive, without interest, (i) the amount of dividends or other distributions with a record date after the Effective Time theretofore payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares and paid prior to such surrender date, and/or (ii) at the appropriate payment date, the amount of dividends or other distributions payable with respect to the whole number of Purchaser Common Shares represented by such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares with a record date after the Effective Time (but before such surrender date) and with a payment date subsequent to the issuance of the Purchaser Common Shares issuable with respect to such Certificate or Book-Entry Shares. (e) In the event of a transfer of ownership of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares representing Company Common Shares that is not registered in the stock transfer records of Company, the Merger Consideration (including cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares) shall be issued or paid in exchange therefor to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares so surrendered is registered if the Certificate or Book-Entry Shares formerly representing such Company Common Shares shall be properly endorsed or otherwise be in proper form for transfer and the Person requesting such payment or issuance shall pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment or issuance to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry SharesOut Option Agreement, or establish to the reasonable satisfaction of Purchaser that the Tax has been paid or is not applicable. The Exchange Agent (or, subsequent to the earlier of (xC) the oneCashed-year anniversary of the Effective Time and (y) the expiration or termination of the Exchange Agent Agreement, Purchaser) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Out Warrant Agreement to any holder of Company Common Shares such amounts as the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, is required to deduct and withhold under the Code, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law, with respect to the making of such payment. To the extent the amounts are so withheld by the Exchange Agent or Purchaser, as the case may be, and paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to until the holder of record of such Company Common Shares in respect of whom Stock Certificate, Cashed-Out Option Agreement or Cashed-Out Warrant Agreement shall surrender such deduction and withholding was made by the Exchange Agent Company Stock Certificate, Cashed-Out Option Agreement or PurchaserCashed-Out Warrant Agreement, as the case may be. (f) After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the share transfer books of Company of the Company Common Shares that were issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time other than to settle transfers of Company Common Shares that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares representing such Company Common Shares are presented for transfer to the Exchange Agent, they shall be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger Consideration and any cash in lieu of fractional Purchaser Common Shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article II. (g) Any portion of the Exchange Fund that remains unclaimed by the Holders as of the one-year anniversary of the Effective Time may be paid to Purchaser. In such event, any Holder who has not theretofore complied with this Article II shall thereafter look only to Purchaser with respect to the Merger Consideration, any cash in lieu of any fractional sharesapplicable, and any unpaid dividends and distributions on the Purchaser Common Shares deliverable in respect Letter of each Company Common Share held by such Holder as determined Transmittal pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of Purchaser, the Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other Person shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Shares for any amount delivered in good faith to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Lawshereto. (h) In the event any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and the posting by such Person of a bond in such amount as the Exchange Agent may determine is reasonably necessary as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it with respect to such Certificate (provided, that such bond requirement may be waived by Purchaser if substituted with an unqualified indemnity from any Company shareholder owning five or fewer Company Common Shares), the Exchange Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the Merger Consideration deliverable in respect thereof in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, including requirements of this Article II.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Merger Agreement (NetApp, Inc.)