Regulatory Applications (a) Summit and GAFC and their respective Subsidiaries shall cooperate and use their respective reasonable best efforts to prepare all documentation, to effect all filings and to obtain all permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and Governmental Authorities necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each of Summit and GAFC shall have the right to review in advance, and to the extent practicable each will consult with the other, in each case subject to applicable laws relating to the exchange of information, with respect to, all material written information submitted to any third party or any Governmental Authority in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In exercising the foregoing right, each of the parties hereto agrees to act reasonably and as promptly as practicable. Each party hereto agrees that it will consult with the other party hereto with respect to the obtaining of all material permits, consents, approvals and authorizations of all third parties and Governmental Authorities necessary or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each party will keep the other party apprised of the status of material matters relating to completion of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) Each party agrees, upon request, to furnish the other party with all information concerning itself, its Subsidiaries, directors, officers and stockholders and such other matters as may be reasonably necessary or advisable in connection with any filing, notice or application made by or on behalf of such other party or any of its Subsidiaries to any third party or Governmental Authority.
Authority; Approval (i) The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority and has taken all corporate action necessary to execute and deliver this Agreement, perform its obligations hereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Offer and the Merger, subject, in the case of the Merger, to receipt of the Stockholder Approval (if required by the DGCL). This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by each of the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other Laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles. At a meeting duly called and held prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company Board unanimously adopted resolutions (A) determining that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Offer, the Top-Up Option and the Merger, are advisable, fair to and in the best interests of the Company and the Stockholders, (B) approving and declaring advisable this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the Offer, the Top-Up Option (including the issuance of the Top-Up Shares) and the Merger, on the terms and conditions set forth herein and therein and in accordance with the requirements of the DGCL, and such approval constitutes approval of this Agreement, the Support Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the Offer, the Top-Up Option and the Merger, for purposes of Section 203 of the DGCL, (C) directing that this Agreement be submitted to a vote at the Stockholders Meeting for adoption and approval (unless the Merger is consummated in accordance with Section 253 of the DGCL as contemplated by Section 2.3) and (D) subject to Section 5.2, recommending that the Stockholders accept the Offer, tender their Shares pursuant to the Offer and vote in favor of the adoption and approval of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger if required by applicable Law (such recommendation, the “Company Board Recommendation”), which recommendation constitutes a recommendation and approval of the Company Board for purposes of any Takeover Statutes, and as of the date hereof, none of the aforesaid resolutions have been subsequently rescinded, modified or withdrawn. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.2(f), the Company Board has taken all actions necessary so that Parent and Merger Sub will not be prohibited by any “fair price,” “moratorium,” “control share acquisition,” “business combination” or other similar takeover statute, including Section 203 of the DGCL (collectively, the “Takeover Statutes”), from consummating the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Offer, the Top-Up Option and the Merger, in the manner contemplated hereby and to ensure that no Takeover Statute will impose any additional procedural, voting, approval or other restrictions on the timely consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or restrict, impair or delay the ability of (x) Parent or Merger Sub to engage in any of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Offer, the Top-Up Option and the Merger, or the Support Agreement or (y) Parent or Merger Sub, following the Acceptance Time and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, to vote or otherwise exercise all rights as a stockholder of the Company.