Closing Date Balance Sheet (a) Within thirty (30) days after the Closing Date, Buyer shall prepare and deliver to Shareholders' Representative a draft Closing Date Balance Sheet, which shall be prepared (i) in accordance with GAAP applied in a manner consistent with the past practice of the Company, except as otherwise specifically required by the Net Worth Methodology and (ii) in a manner consistent with the December Balance Sheet.
(b) If Shareholders' Representative has no objections to the draft Closing Date Balance Sheet, such draft shall constitute the Closing Date Balance Sheet. If Shareholders' Representative has any objections to the draft Closing Date Balance Sheet, it will deliver a detailed statement describing its objections to Buyer within thirty (30) days after receiving the draft Closing Date Balance Sheet. Shareholders' Representative and Buyer will use their commercially reasonable efforts to resolve any such objections. If Shareholders' Representative duly gives Buyer such notice of objection, and if Buyer and Shareholders' Representative fail to resolve the issues outstanding with respect to the Closing Date Balance Sheet and the calculation of the Closing Date Net Worth within thirty (30) days of Buyer's receipt of Shareholders' Representative's objection notice, Buyer and Shareholders' Representative shall submit the issues remaining in dispute to PricewaterhouseCoopers, certified public accountants (the "Independent Accountants"). If issues remaining in dispute are submitted to the Independent Accountants for resolution, (i) Buyer and Shareholders' Representative shall promptly furnish or cause to be furnished to the Independent Accountants such work papers and other documents and information relating to the disputed issues as the Independent Accountants may request and are available to that party or its agents and shall be afforded the opportunity to present to the Independent Accountants any material relating to the disputed issues and to discuss the issues with the Independent Accountants; (ii) the determination by the Independent Accountants, as set forth in a notice to be delivered to both Buyer and Shareholders' Representative within thirty (30) days of the submission to the Independent Accountants of the issues remaining in dispute, shall be final, binding and conclusive on the parties and shall be used in the calculation of the Closing Date Net Worth; and
(iii) Buyer shall bear fifty percent (50%) of the fees and costs of the Independent Accountants for such determination and fifty percent (50%) of such fees and expenses shall be paid from the Escrow Fund.
(c) Buyer will make the work papers used in preparing the draft Closing Date Balance Sheet and the Closing Date Balance Sheet available to Shareholders' Representative at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice at any time during the preparation by Buyer of the draft Closing Date Balance Sheet and the resolution of any objections with respect thereto.
Closing Balance Sheet (a) As promptly as practicable, but no later than ninety (90) days, after the Closing Date, Buyer shall cause to be prepared and delivered to Seller a written statement (the “Final Closing Statement”) that shall include and set forth (i) a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and the Subsidiaries, which shall present the consolidated financial position of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the close of business on the day prior to the Closing Date in accordance with the Accounting Policies (the “Closing Balance Sheet”) and shall include line items consistent with those in the Company Balance Sheet and (ii) a calculation of the actual (A) Working Capital (the “Closing Working Capital”), (B) Cash (the “Closing Cash”), and (C) Transaction Expenses (the “Closing Transaction Expenses”) (with each of Closing Working Capital and Closing Cash determined as of the close of business on the day prior to the Closing Date and without giving effect to the transactions contemplated herein and Closing Transaction Expenses determined as of the Closing, giving effect to the transactions contemplated herein. All calculations of Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and Closing Transaction Expenses shall be accompanied by a certificate of a duly authorized officer of Buyer certifying that such estimates have been calculated in accordance with this Agreement and the Accounting Policies, to the extent applicable.
(b) The Final Closing Statement shall become final and binding on the thirtieth (30th) day following delivery thereof, unless prior to the end of such period, Seller delivers to the Buyer written notice of its disagreement (a “Notice of Disagreement”) specifying the nature and amount of any dispute as to the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and/or Closing Transaction Expenses, as set forth in the Final Closing Statement. Seller shall be deemed to have agreed with all items and amounts of Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and/or Closing Transaction Expenses not specifically referenced in the Notice of Disagreement, and such items and amounts shall not be subject to review in accordance with Section 2.04(c).
(c) During the fifteen (15) day period following delivery of a Notice of Disagreement by Seller to Buyer, the parties shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to reach agreement on the disputed items with respect to the computation of the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and/or Closing Transaction Expenses as specified therein. Any disputed items resolved in writing between Seller and Buyer within such fifteen (15) day period shall be final and binding with respect to such items, and if Seller and Buyer agree in writing on the resolution of each disputed item specified by Seller in the Notice of Disagreement and the amount of the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and Closing Transaction Expenses, the amounts so determined shall be final and binding on the parties for all purposes hereunder. If Seller and Buyer have not resolved all such differences by the end of such fifteen (15) day period, no later than ten (10) days following the end of such fifteen (15) day period, Seller and Buyer shall submit, in writing, to an independent public accounting firm (the “Independent Accounting Firm”), their briefs detailing their views as to the correct nature and amount of each item remaining in dispute and the amounts of the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and Closing Transaction Expenses, and the Independent Accounting Firm shall make a written determination as to each such disputed item and the amount of the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and Closing Transaction Expenses, which determination shall be final and binding on the parties for all purposes hereunder. In making such calculations, the Independent Accounting Firm shall consider only those items and amounts in Seller’s and Buyer’s respective calculations of the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash and Closing Transaction Expenses that are identified as being items and amounts to which Seller and Buyer have been unable to agree. In resolving any disputed item, the Independent Accounting Firm may not assign a value to any item greater than the greatest value for such item claimed by either party or less than the smallest value for such item claimed by either party. The Independent Accounting Firm shall be Ernst & Young LLP or, if such firm is unable or unwilling to act, such other independent public accounting firm as shall be agreed in writing between Seller and Buyer. Seller and Buyer shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Independent Accounting Firm to render a written decision resolving the matters submitted to it within thirty (30) days following the submission thereof. In acting under this Agreement, the Independent Accounting Firm will be entitled to the privileges and immunities of an arbitrator.
(d) The costs of any dispute resolution pursuant to Section 2.04(c), including the fees and expenses of the Independent Accounting Firm and of any enforcement of the determination thereof, shall be borne by Seller and Buyer in inverse proportion as they may prevail on the matters resolved by the Independent Accounting Firm, which proportionate allocation shall be calculated on an aggregate basis based on the relative dollar values of the amounts in dispute and shall be determined by the Independent Accounting Firm at the time the determination of such firm is rendered on the merits of the matters submitted. The fees and disbursements of the representatives of each party incurred in connection with the preparation or review of the Final Closing Statement and preparation or review of any Notice of Disagreement, as applicable, shall be borne by such party or parties.
(e) Buyer will cause the Company to afford Seller and its representatives (including Deloitte & Touche LLP), reasonable access, during normal business hours and upon reasonable prior notice, to the personnel, properties, books and records of the Company and the Subsidiaries and their representatives and to any other information reasonably requested for purposes of preparing and reviewing the calculations contemplated by this Section 2.04. Each party shall authorize its accountants to disclose work papers generated by such accountants in connection with preparing and reviewing the calculations of the Working Capital and Cash as specified in this Section 2.04; provided that such accountants shall not be obligated to make any work papers available except in accordance with such accountants’ disclosure procedures and then only after the non-client party has signed a customary agreement relating to access to such work papers in form and substance acceptable to such accountants.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the parties acknowledge and agree that each item required to be reflected in any of the Closing Working Capital, Closing Cash or Closing Transaction Expenses is intended to, and shall, be accounted for only once, without duplication, in determining the adjustments to be made to the Purchase Price in accordance with this Agreement, including pursuant to this Section 2.04, Section 2.05, Article 11 and Article 13.
Initial Closing Date 3.1 A meeting shall take place on the Initial Closing Date at the offices of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ or such offices as the parties may agree at which the Seller shall deliver to the Security Trustee or its representative the following documents:
(a) two originals of the power of attorney substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5, duly executed by the Seller;
(b) a certified copy of each of the Insurance Acknowledgements (as defined in the Mortgage Sale Agreement dated 26 July 2000);
(c) a duly executed assignment of the MIG Policies (as defined in the Mortgage Sale Agreement dated 26 July 2000) from the Seller and a certified copy of a notice (the original of which shall be served by courier or by special delivery) of such assignment from the Seller to Carfax or such other insurer under the MIG Policies in the form (mutatis mutandis) set out in Schedules 8 and 9 respectively of the Mortgage Sale Agreement dated 26 July 2000 and a certified copy of consent to assignment of the MIG Policies (or acknowledgement that the Mortgages Trustee will be an insured under the MIG Policies following the assignment) from Carfax or such other insurers in such form as the Mortgages Trustee reasonably requires;
(d) a certified copy of the board minutes of the Seller authorising its duly appointed representatives to agree the sale of the Portfolio and authorising execution and performance of this Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and all of the documentation to be entered into pursuant to this Agreement;
(e) a duly executed assignment of rights against third parties in the form of the Assignment of Third Party Rights;
(f) a certified copy of the notice from the Seller to Carfax as to the proposed assignment of the MIG Policies; and
(g) a solvency certificate from an authorised signatory of the Seller dated as at the Initial Closing Date.
3.2 The Seller undertakes that, from the Initial Closing Date until the completion of the assignment in accordance with Clause 6.1, the Seller shall hold the Title Deeds and Customer Files relating to the Portfolio that are in its possession or under its control or held to its order to the order of the Mortgages Trustee or as the Mortgages Trustee shall direct.
3.3 Subject to fulfilment of the conditions referred to in Clauses 2.2 and 3.1, the Seller shall be paid the Purchase Price by telegraphic transfer as follows:
(a) the Initial Consideration shall be paid by Funding for and on behalf of the Mortgages Trustee on the Initial Closing Date; and
(b) the Deferred Consideration (including any Postponed Deferred Consideration) shall be paid by Funding for and on behalf of the Mortgages Trustee quarterly on the Interest Payment Dates (provided there are available funds and after the making of any provisions in accordance with normal accounting practice) in accordance with the Funding Pre- Enforcement Revenue Priority of Payments or, as the case may be, the Funding Post- Enforcement Priority of Payments.
3.4 The Seller shall provide all reasonable co-operation to the Mortgages Trustee, Funding and the Security Trustee to enable them to carry out their respective duties and enforce their rights under the Transaction Documents. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Seller shall:
(a) upon reasonable prior notice and during normal office hours, permit the Mortgages Trustee, Funding, the Security Trustee and their authorised employees and agents and other persons nominated by the Security Trustee and approved by the Seller (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to review the Customer Files and the Title Deeds in relation to the Portfolio (subject to such person(s) agreeing to keep the same confidential but provided that disclosure shall be permitted to the professional advisors and auditors of the party making the disclosure and/or to the extent that such disclosure is required by law or for the purpose of any judicial or other proceedings); and/or
(b) give promptly all such information and explanations relating to the Loans and their Related Security as the Mortgages Trustee, Funding or the Security Trustee may reasonably request (including a list of the Loans and their Related Security in the Portfolio along with details of the location of the Title Deeds relating thereto), provided that, prior to completion in accordance with Clause 6, the Seller shall be under no obligation to provide any information or documentation to any person other than the Mortgages Trustee and/or the Security Trustee or their respective employees or allow such person access to the Customer Files or Title Deeds if to do so would result in a breach of the applicable Mortgage Terms or the Data Protection ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇.
Funding Date Each Lender’s obligations to make any Loan hereunder shall become effective upon the satisfaction or waiver (in accordance with Section 8.02) of the following conditions on or after the Effective Date:
(a) The Effective Date shall have occurred;
(b) The Acquisition shall have been (or, substantially contemporaneously with the borrowing of the Loans, shall be) consummated in each case in all material respects in accordance with the terms set forth in the Acquisition Agreement after giving effect to any modifications, amendments, supplements, consents, waivers or requests, other than those modifications, amendments, supplements, consents, waivers or requests (including the effects of any such requests) by the Borrower that are materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders (it being understood that any modification, amendment, supplement, consent, waiver or request by the Borrower to the definition of Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) shall be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and any consent or request made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.15 of the Acquisition Agreement and the Acquired Company’s compliance therewith shall not be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders), unless consented to in writing by the Arrangers (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed);
(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) audited consolidated balance sheets and related audited statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and the Acquired Company for each of the three fiscal years most recently ended at least 90 days prior to the Funding Date and (b) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related unaudited statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and the Acquired Company for each subsequent fiscal quarter ended at least 45 days prior to the Funding Date; provided that the filing of financial statements complying with the foregoing requirements on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q, as the case may be, by the Borrower or the Acquired Company will satisfy the applicable conditions set forth in this clause (c) of Section 4.
Closing Date Certificate Borrower shall have delivered to Administrative Agent an originally executed Closing Date Certificate, together with all attachments thereto.