Common use of Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates Clause in Contracts

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Mr. Cooper Group Inc.), Indenture (Mr. Cooper Group Inc.), Indenture (Mr. Cooper Group Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 50.0 million and (y) 5.01.5% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodTangible Net Worth, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 105.0 million and (y) 10.02.75% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodTangible Net Worth, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B10.10(b)(11) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, transaction that has been approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, by a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of the IssuerIssuer or any Parent Entity, or where no such disinterested directors exist, by unanimous approval of the directors of such Board; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date[reserved]; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses[reserved]; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice or industry norm and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[reserved]; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[reserved]; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practicepractice or industry norm; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and; (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or industry norm (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto); (24) transactions undertaken in good faith for the purpose of improving the consolidated tax efficiency of the Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries and not for the purpose of circumventing any covenant set forth in this Indenture; and (25) any merger, consolidation or reorganization of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture) with an Affiliate of the Issuer and/or such Restricted Subsidiary solely for the purpose of (i) reorganizing Capital Stock of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent thereof, (ii) forming or collapsing a holding company structure or (iii) reorganizing the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary in a new jurisdiction, in each case, so long as any such merger, consolidation or reorganization has been approved by such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, in good faith.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.), Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.), Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall notNeither the Company nor the Parent shall, and neither the Company nor the Parent shall not permit any of its their respective Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of "), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1a) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company, the Parent or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company, the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary on an arm's length basis with an unrelated Person on Person, (b) the Company delivers to the Trustee (i) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $5.0 million, an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction, Transaction complies with clause (a) above and such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors and (ii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $10.0 million (other than an Affiliate Transaction involving the acquisition or disposition of a lodging facility by the Company, the Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or the Parent), an opinion as to the Issuer fairness to the Company, the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view issued, at the option of the Company, by an investment banking firm of national standing or a Qualified Appraiser and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2c) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee with respect to any in the case of an Affiliate Transaction involving the acquisition or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation disposition of a corporate event)lodging facility by the Company, and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, Parent or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer Company or any the Parent Entity; and (5x) transactions in which the Issuer or any involving aggregate payments of its Restricted Subsidiariesmore than $5.0 million and less than $25.0 million, as the case may be, delivers an appraisal by a Qualified Appraiser to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating effect that such the transaction is being undertaken at fair market value or (y) involving aggregate payments of $25.0 million or more, an opinion as to the Issuer fairness of the transaction to the Company, the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction issued by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination investment banking firm of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafternational standing; provided, however, that the existence offollowing shall not be deemed Affiliate Transactions: (A) any employment, deferred compensation, stock option, noncompetition, consulting or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after by the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to Company, the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its their respective Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to consistent with the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by past practice of the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged intoCompany, the Issuer Parent or a such Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into Subsidiary, (B) transactions between or among the Company, the Parent and/or their respective Restricted Subsidiaries, (C) the incurrence of fees in contemplation connection with the provision of such acquisition or merger; hotel management services, provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into fees are paid in the ordinary course of business or and are consistent with past practice and (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)D) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.7 hereof.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Meristar Hospitality Corp), Indenture (Meristar Hospitality Corp), Indenture (Meristar Hospitality Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, conduct any payment tobusiness or enter into, renew, amend or sellconduct any transaction or series of related transactions (including the purchase, leasesale, transfer lease or otherwise dispose exchange of any assets or the rendering of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, service) with or for the benefit of, of any Affiliate of the Issuer their respective Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsTransaction, taken as a whole, that is on terms which are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been obtained be available in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andan unaffiliated third party; (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any if such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving involves aggregate payments or other consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million 5.0 million, such Affiliate Transaction is in writing and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving Company shall have approved such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying determined that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause the foregoing provisions, or, in the event that there are no disinterested directors, the Trustee has received a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary involved in such Affiliate Transaction, as the case may be; and (13) aboveif such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involves aggregate payments or other consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of $15.0 million, such Affiliate Transaction is in writing and the Trustee has received a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary involved in such Affiliate Transaction, as the case may be. (b) The foregoing provisions Notwithstanding the foregoing, the restrictions set forth in this Section 4.13 shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between with or among the Issuer Company and a any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2) any Permitted Investment and any Restricted Payments Payment or other payment or Investment permitted by Section 10.10 (other than to be made pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Section 4.09; (3) (A) any issuance of Qualified Capital Stock of the payment Company, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, Qualified Capital Stock of managementthe Company or otherwise, consultingpursuant to employment arrangements or stock option plans for the benefit of employees, monitoringofficers, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event)directors, and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses consultants who are not otherwise Affiliates of the Investors, Company and made in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority the ordinary course of the members of the Board of the Issuerbusiness; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided advances to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or and consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement who are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment Affiliates of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case Company made in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair an amount not to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, exceed $1.0 million in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partyany calendar year; (105) the issuance or transfer payment of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer reasonable directors’ fees, indemnification and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formersimilar arrangements, current or future director, manager, officerconsulting fees, employee salaries, bonuses or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, compensation or employee benefit plans, stock option plans arrangements and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar incentive arrangements with any such employeesofficer, directors, officers, managers director or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board employee of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice(including reasonable benefits thereunder); (176) issuances and sales of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or the receipt of the proceeds of capital contributions in respect of Qualified Capital Stock (including from the proceeds of any Future ABRY Subordinated Indebtedness); (7) a provision or purchase of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar goods or services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesbusiness; and (23) payments 8) any transactions undertaken pursuant to any contractual obligations in existence on the Issue Date (or on the Closing Date and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in connection with the ordinary course of business Transactions), as the same may be amended, modified or consistent with past practice (includingreplaced from time to time so long as such amendment, without limitation, modification or replacement is no less favorable to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in any cash management activities related thereto)material respect.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Language Line Holdings, Inc.), Indenture (Language Line Costa Rica, LLC), Indenture (Atlantic Broadband Management, LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 35.0 million and (y) 5.01.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodTangible Net Worth, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 70.0 million and (y) 10.02.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodTangible Net Worth, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B10.10(b)(11) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, transaction that has been approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, by a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of the IssuerIssuer or any Parent Entity, or where no such disinterested directors exist, by unanimous approval of the directors of such Board; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date[reserved]; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses[reserved]; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[reserved]; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[reserved]; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.), Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.), Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Holdings will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transactiontransaction or series of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Holdings (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10.0 million, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Holdings or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could reasonably have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andunaffiliated party; (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $20.0 million, Holdings delivers to the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Trustee a resolution adopted by a the majority of the Board of the Issuer Directors of Holdings approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above.; and (biii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $50.0 million, Holdings must obtain and deliver to the Trustee a written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, accounting or appraisal firm stating that the transaction is fair to Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view. The foregoing provisions limitations do not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 4.7 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of Permitted Investments permitted under this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeIndenture; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements other benefits (including retirement, health, option, deferred compensation and employment other benefit plans) to members of the Board of Directors of Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary; (3) the payment of reasonable and severance arrangements provided customary compensation and other benefits (including retirement, health, option, deferred compensation and other benefit plans) and indemnities to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, officers and employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, of Holdings or any permitted transfereeRestricted Subsidiary; (4) of the Issuer, any transactions between or among Holdings and/or its Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntitySubsidiaries; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of on the Issue Date, or Date and any amendment or modification thereto (so long as any such amendment or modification is not more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Notes in any material respect in the good faith judgment respect; (6) any contribution of the Board of the Issuer capital to Holdings or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)any Restricted Subsidiary; (7) the existence oftransactions permitted by, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection and complying with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DateArticle V hereof; (8) any transaction with a joint venture, partnership, limited liability company or other entity in the Transactions and the payment ordinary course of all fees and expenses related to the Transactionsbusiness that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary owns an equity interest in such joint venture, including Transaction Expensespartnership, limited liability company or other entity; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the case, on terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at to Holdings or such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity determined in good faith; (21) sales faith by Holdings, than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted SubsidiariesHoldings; and (2310) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course effected as part of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)a Qualified Receivables Transaction.

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Sources: Indenture (Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.), Indenture (Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.), Indenture (Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate involving aggregate consideration in excess of $5.0 million on or after the Issuer Issue Date (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this Section 4.14 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer;Directors; and (4b) the payment with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid torelated Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, an opinion as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair fairness to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are issued by an Independent Financial Advisor. The following items shall not materially less favorablebe deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, when taken as a wholetherefore, will not be subject to the Issuer or provisions of the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis;prior paragraph: (61) any consulting, severance or employment agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance entered into by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries approved by a majority of its obligations under the terms ofdisinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (2) transactions (i) between or among the Issuer and/or the Guarantors, (ii) between or among Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors; and (iii) between or among the Issuer and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors, on the other hand, in the ordinary course of business; (3) payment of reasonable directors fees to directors of the Issuer and any stockholders Parent and the provision of customary indemnities to directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Issuer, and any Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary; (4) issuances and sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Issuer; (5) any tax sharing agreement or arrangement and payments pursuant thereto among the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger Issuer and its Subsidiaries and any similar agreements other Person with which it (the Issuer or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; providedits Subsidiaries is required or permitted to file a consolidated, however, that the existence of, combined or the performance by unitary tax return or with which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is or could be part of a consolidated, combined or unitary group for tax purposes in amounts not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture; (or such Parent Entity6) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be Restricted Payments that are permitted by this clause Section 4.11 or any Permitted Investment; (7) loans to the extent employees that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous approved in any material respect in the good faith judgment by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer in an amount not to exceed $5.0 million outstanding at any time and advances and expense reimbursements to employees in the ordinary course of business; (8) agreements (and payments relating thereto) existing on the Issue Date, as the same may be amended, modified or the senior management thereof replaced from time to time, so long as any amendment, modification or replacement is not materially less favorable to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries than the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) 9) transactions with a joint venture engaged in a Permitted Business; provided that all the Transactions outstanding ownership interests of such joint venture are owned only by the Issuer, its Restricted Subsidiaries and Persons who are not Affiliates of the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction ExpensesIssuer; (910) transactions between a Receivables Subsidiary and any Person in which the Receivables Subsidiary has an Investment; (11) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesgoods, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with business; and (12) transactions which have been approved by a majority of the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken Directors and with respect to which an Independent Financial Advisor has delivered an opinion as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of fairness to the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including Restricted Subsidiary of such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management transaction from a financial point of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)view.

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Sources: Indenture (Nortek Inc), Indenture (Nortek Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including the purchase, or sellsale, transfer, assignment, lease, transfer conveyance or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on termsare (A) not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower or (B) in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, taken as whole, fair and reasonable to the Trustee Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; (ii) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $3,000,000, a letter majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors or, if there is only one disinterested director, such disinterested director determines that such Affiliate Transaction complies with Section 8.06(a)(i) of this covenant as evidenced in the minutes or other evidence of Board action; and (iii) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $10,000,000, the Borrower obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer effect that the consideration to be paid or received in connection with such Restricted Subsidiary Affiliate Transaction is fair, from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a wholeview, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable. (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basismay make, engage in, enter into or suffer to exist the following: (i) any transaction or series of related transactions between or among (A) the Borrower and/or one or more Subsidiary Guarantors, (B) two or more Subsidiary Guarantors or (C) the Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor and/or one or more Foreign Subsidiaries pursuant to the reasonable requirement of, and in furtherance of, the Business Plan. (ii) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 8.03, any Permitted Investment or any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 8.04; (6iii) the payment of reasonable compensation (including awards or grants in cash, securities or other payments) for the personal services of officers, directors, consultants and employees of the Borrower or any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated Restricted Subsidiary in the good faith determination ordinary course of the Issuer as of the Issue Datebusiness; (iv) entering into, or any adoption or modification or amendment thereto (to, or transaction or other arrangements or payments or reimbursements pursuant to employment agreements, collective bargaining agreements, employee benefit plans or arrangements for employees, officers or directors, including vacation plans, health and life insurance plans, deferred compensation plans, directors’ and officers’ indemnification arrangements and retirement or savings plans, stock option, stock ownership and similar plans so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors or a committee thereof comprised of disinterested directors in good faith shall have approved the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)terms thereof; (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9v) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture Agreement, which are fair to the Issuer and its Borrower or the Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer Directors or the disinterested members of the Borrower’s senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesparty; and (23vi) payments transactions pursuant to any agreement as in effect on the Closing Date and fromdisclosed in Schedule 8.06(b) as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in any manner not materially less favorable (taken as whole) to the Borrower and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)its Restricted Subsidiaries.

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Sources: Second Lien Credit Agreement (HUGHES Telematics, Inc.), Credit Agreement (HUGHES Telematics, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 50.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 105.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B10.10(b)(11) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer[Reserved]; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s arm’s-length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with on the Merger Issue Date and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) ), of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses[Reserved]; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice or industry norm and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[Reserved]; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation cancellations of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practicepractice or industry norm; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation participations therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and; (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or industry norm (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto); (24) transactions undertaken in good faith for the purpose of improving the consolidated tax efficiency of the Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries and not for the purpose of circumventing any covenant set forth in this Indenture; and (25) any merger, consolidation or reorganization of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture) with an Affiliate of the Issuer and/or such Restricted Subsidiary solely for the purpose of (i) reorganizing Capital Stock of the Issuer or any direct or indirect parent thereof, (ii) forming or collapsing a holding company structure or (iii) reorganizing the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary in a new jurisdiction, in each case, so long as any such merger, consolidation or reorganization has been approved by such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, in good faith.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Mr. Cooper Group Inc.), Indenture (Mr. Cooper Group Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit permit, cause, or suffer any Restricted Subsidiary of its Restricted Subsidiaries the Company to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, license, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arms' length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson; and (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $500,000, if in the good faith judgment a resolution of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare Board of Directors set forth in an Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction, Transaction complies with clause (i) above and such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair approved by a majority of the disinterested members, if any, of the Board of Directors and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $20,000,000, an opinion as to the Issuer fairness to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted issued by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a nationally recognized independent financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafteradvisor; provided, however, that the existence foregoing limitations shall not apply to (i) any reasonable fees, advances and compensation (including incentive compensation) provided to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors and employees of NFC Castings, ACP Holding, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, (ii) transactions between or among the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, (iii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.12, (iv) payment of principal of, and interest on, the Notes or the Senior Subordinated Notes held by Affiliates, (v) payment of the Commitment Fee, (vi) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the performance funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by the Issuer Board of Directors; (vii) transactions pursuant to agreements entered into or any in effect on the date of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement this Indenture, including amendments thereto entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by date of this clause Indenture, provided that (7A) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect not, in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof aggregate, less favorable to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners Company or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with such Restricted Subsidiary than the terms of this Indenture which are fair such agreement prior to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity amendment and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred transactions contemplated by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and amendment are otherwise not prohibited permitted by this Indenture which are fair and (viii) Intercompany Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 4.11 hereof or (ix) non-exclusive licenses of intellectual property among the Issuer Company and its the Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by or among the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Neenah Foundry Co), Indenture (Neenah Foundry Co)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Corporation shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, conduct any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, business or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or exchange of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance Property or guarantee the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Corporation (each an "AFFILIATE TRANSACTION"), unless (i) the terms of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially (A) set forth in writing and (B) no less favorable to the Issuer Corporation or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been could be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the IssuerCorporation, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, (ii) if such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving involves aggregate payments or consideration value in excess of $10,000,000, the greater Board of Directors (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by including a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer approving Directors) approves such Affiliate Transaction and set forth and, in an Officer’s Certificate certifying its good faith judgment, believes that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) aboveof this paragraph as evidenced by a Board Resolution promptly delivered to the Trustee and (iii) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $20,000,000, the Corporation obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that such Affiliate Transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Corporation or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be. (b) The Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions shall not apply limitation, the Corporation or any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into or suffer to exist the following: (1i) (A) any transaction or series of transactions between the Corporation and one or among the Issuer and a more Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries or between two or among more Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent EntitySubsidiaries; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other more than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock 5% of the Issuer and total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a fully diluted basis) of any such merger, amalgamation or consolidation Restricted Subsidiary is otherwise consummated in compliance with owned by an Affiliate of the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 Corporation (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definitiona Restricted Subsidiary); (3ii) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.06; (Aiii) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the payment of managementfunding of, consultingemployment arrangements, monitoringpension or other benefit plans, transaction, advisory stock options and stock ownership plans and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to compensatory arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of by the Board of the IssuerDirectors; (4iv) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to directors of the Corporation or on behalf of, or for such Restricted Subsidiary who are not employees of the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, Corporation or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntitySubsidiary; (5v) transactions loans and advances to employees made in which the Issuer ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Corporation or any of its such Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating provided that such transaction is fair to loans and advances do not exceed $5,000,000 in the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis;aggregate at any one time outstanding; and (6vi) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in payments for the good faith determination purchase of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer steel products from NKK or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement Affiliates or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance provision of services by the Issuer NKK or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (Affiliates, including the construction by NKK or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment an Affiliate of the Board of new hot dip galvanizing facility at the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the TransactionsGreat Lakes Division; provided, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) whichthat, in each case, the terms of such payments are determined on an arm's length basis and are approved by the Board disinterested members of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer in good faith;Corporation; and (16vii) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an any Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions Transactions between the Issuer Corporation or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person one or more Affiliate Joint Ventures that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of (x) are on terms no less favorable to the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Corporation or such Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, on any matter including than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm's length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Corporation and (y) if such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Affiliate Transactions as approved by involve aggregate payments or value in excess of $10 million, the Board or the senior management of Directors (including a majority of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21disinterested members of the Board of Directors) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and fromapproves such Affiliate Transaction, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course its good faith judgment believes that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (x) of business or consistent with past practice this paragraph (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related theretovii).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Eleventh Supplemental Indenture (National Steel Corp), Tenth Supplemental Indenture (National Steel Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Issuers will not, and shall will not permit any of its their Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction") involving aggregate payments or consideration extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify in excess any material respect the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to the greater of Issue Date unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsbetween or among the Issuers, taken or an Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary of an Issuer; or (ii) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair and reasonable to an Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as a wholethe case may be, that and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable substantially similar to the terms which could reasonably be expected to be obtained by an Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of the greater of $3.0 million which is not permitted under clause (xi) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the above, an Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Directors of such Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. . In any Affiliate Transaction (bor any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) The foregoing provisions shall involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $5.0 million which is not apply permitted under clause (i) above, the Issuers must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and fairness, from a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orfinancial point of view, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariestransactions, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating Advisor. The foregoing provisions will not apply to (i) any Restricted Payment that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction prohibited by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; provisions described under Section 4.09 hereof, (6ii) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all reasonable fees and expenses related compensation paid to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are indemnity provided on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directorsbehalf of, officers, managers directors or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) employees of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Issuers or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, of an Issuer as determined in good faith by such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the 's Board of Directors or senior management, (iii) arrangements now or hereafter in effect between Insight and third parties which arrangements can be used for the Issuer or the senior management benefit of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and (iv) any forgiveness or distribution by Phoenix of the Excluded Assets. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the terms of the Operating Agreement and the indemnification provisions of the Close Corporation Agreement and the performance by any party thereto of its obligations thereunder shall not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute be considered an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Transaction.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Insight Communications of Central Ohio LLC), Indenture (Coaxial LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Each of the Issuer shall and Sweetheart Holdings will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted their Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is except on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Issuer, Sweetheart Holdings or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Issuer, Sweetheart Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary with a person who is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orAffiliate; provided, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuerhowever, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and that (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (Ai) transactions between or among the Issuer Issuer, Sweetheart Holdings and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries ortheir respective Subsidiaries, in any casewhich are not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (Bii) any mergeremployment agreement entered into by Sweetheart Holdings, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities or their respective Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (iii) Permitted Investments and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments transactions permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event)4.07 hereof, and (Biv) provision of administrative or management services by the payment Issuer or Sweetheart Holdings or any of indemnification their officers to any of their respective Subsidiaries and other similar amounts to any Unrestricted Subsidiaries in the Investors and reimbursement ordinary course of expenses of the Investorsbusiness, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of shall not be deemed Affiliate Transactions. Notwithstanding the members of foregoing and commencing the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into first fiscal year after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement Securities are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesissued, in each no case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of shall the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued pay Annual Compensation to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ in excess of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).$1.0

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Sweetheart Holdings Inc \De\), Indenture (Sweetheart Holdings Inc \De\)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Issuers will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted their Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingeach, an "AFFILIATE TRANSACTION") or extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of Transaction entered into prior to the greater of Issue Date unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that between or among the Issuers and their Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; or (ii) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer Issuers or such Sub- 50 sidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Issuers or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of $1 million which is not permitted under clause (i) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Issuers must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Issuers certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. . In any Affiliate Transaction (bor any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) The foregoing provisions shall involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $5 million which is not apply permitted under clause (i) above, the Issuers must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result fairness of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariestransactions, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating Advisor. The foregoing provisions will not apply to (i) any Restricted Payment that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction prohibited by the Issuer provisions of Section 4.03, or such Restricted (ii) reasonable fees, compensation and equity incentives in the form of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors or employees of the Issuers or any Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; of the Issuers as determined in good faith by the Company's Board of Directors or senior management or (6iii) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the holders in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); Date or (7iv) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection affiliation agreements with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)WB Television Network.

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Sources: Indenture (Acme Intermediate Holdings LLC), Indenture (Acme Television LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Parent shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, amend or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, services) with or for the benefit of, of any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess extend, renew, waive or otherwise amend or modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to the greater Issue Date unless the terms of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Parent or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been terms which could reasonably be obtained by Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andbetween unaffiliated parties. (2b) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of the greater $50,000,000, Parent must either (i) obtain a board resolution of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Directors of Parent certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause subsection (1a) aboveof this Section 4.14 or (ii) obtain a favorable written opinion as to the fairness of such transaction or transactions, as the case may be, from an Independent Financial Advisor. (bc) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions any Affiliate Transaction that is between or among the Issuer and a Parent and/or any one or more of its Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2) any Restricted Payments permitted Payment or Permitted Investment that is not prohibited by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)4.10; (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other reasonable fees, indemnities compensation, benefits and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum incentive arrangements paid or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event)provided to, and (B) the payment indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors or employees or consultants of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary as determined in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the good faith by Parent’s Board of the IssuerDirectors or senior management; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) or in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not materially more disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when Holders, taken as a whole as compared to whole, than the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment 5) transactions effected as part of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expensesa Qualified Receivables Transaction; (96) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners sales or purchasers or sellers issuances of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing Parent to Affiliates of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawParent; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (147) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising Parent solely because the Issuer Parent or any a Restricted Subsidiary owns any an Equity Interest in, in or controls, controls such Person; (15) 8) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair transaction undertaken pursuant to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (Constar Agreements, including any amendment thereto or replacement thereof so long as determined by any such amendment or replacement agreement is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired byHolders, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting taken as a director of whole, than the Issuer original Constar Agreement so amended or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesreplaced; and (239) payments the non-recourse accommodation pledge of equity of any Unrestricted Subsidiary to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in support the ordinary course Indebtedness of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)such Unrestricted Subsidiary to the extent such pledge is otherwise permitted under this Indenture.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Crown Holdings Inc), Indenture (Crown Holdings Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Parent Guarantor will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction or arrangement (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, service) with any Affiliate of the Issuer Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretySubsidiary; and (2ii) the Issuer Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (1) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of U.S.$15.0 million (or the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Dollar Equivalent thereof), a Board Resolution or an approval by the audit committee of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Parent Guarantor set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with this covenant and such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors, or by a majority of the members of the audit committee, as applicable; and (2) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of U.S.$30.0 million (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof), in addition to the Board Resolution required in clause (1) above. (bof this Section 4.1(e)(ii), an opinion as to the fairness to the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an internationally recognized accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm; provided that the Parent Guarantor will not be required to obtain the fairness opinion set forth in this Section 4.1(e)(ii)(2) while at least 25% of the equity securities of the Parent Guarantor at such time is registered with the SEC and listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on the NASDAQ, directly or in the form of American Depositary Receipts. The foregoing provisions shall limitation does not limit, and will not apply to the followingto: (1i) the payment of reasonable fees, compensation, benefits or indemnity to officers, employees and directors of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (Aii) transactions between or among the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer and a any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2iii) any Restricted Payments Payment permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition4.1(b); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9iv) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendorsdistributors, contractorsgenerators, joint venture partners transporters or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10v) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (Guarantor or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding U.S.$2.0 million at any time; and (17vi) the provision any issuance of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired bysecurities, or merged intoother payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the Issuer funding of, employment agreements and other compensation arrangements, options to purchase Capital Stock, restricted stock plans, long-term incentive plans, stock appreciation rights plans, participation plans or a Restricted Subsidiary similar employee benefits plans and/or indemnity provided on behalf of officers, directors and not entered into in contemplation employees of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as its subsidiaries approved by the Board of Directors in an aggregate amount not to exceed U.S.$1.5 million (or the senior management Dollar Equivalent thereof) during any fiscal year, calculated at the time of the Issuer such award or any Parent Entity grant and without giving effect to subsequent changes in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)value.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Camposol Holding PLC), Indenture (Camposol Holding PLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer its Affiliates (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or at such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person time on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeCompany; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of US$5 million, the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) terms of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, Affiliate Transaction will be approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the IssuerCompany (including a majority of the disinterested members thereof), the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions; and (3) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of US$25 million, the Company will, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the Company and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (if any) from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Trustee. (b) The provisions of Section 3.17(a) above will not apply to: (1) Affiliate Transactions with or among the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries; (42) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) agents of the Issuer, Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of the Issuer or any Parent EntityDirectors; (53) transactions Affiliate Transactions undertaken pursuant to any contractual obligations or rights in which existence on the Issuer Issue Date and any amendment, modification or any replacement of its Restricted Subsidiariessuch agreement (so long as such amendment, as the case may be, delivers modification or replacement is not materially more disadvantageous to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to Holders of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorableNotes, when taken as a whole, to than the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (74) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer any Restricted Payments made in compliance with Section 3.11 or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DatePermitted Investments; (8) 5) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Transactions Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for travel, entertainment, moving and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesother relocation expenses, in each case made in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained exceeding US$2.5 million outstanding at such time from an unaffiliated party;any one time; and (106) the any issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and Company to Affiliates of the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity Company or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsCompany, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect the granting and performance of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)registration rights.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Homex Development Corp.), Indenture (Homex Development Corp.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit permit, cause, or suffer any Restricted Subsidiary of its Restricted Subsidiaries the Company to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, license, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arms' length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson; and (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $500,000, if in the good faith judgment a resolution of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare Board of Directors set forth in an Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction, Transaction complies with clause (i) above and such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair approved by a majority of the disinterested members, if any, of the Board of Directors and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $20,000,000, an opinion as to the Issuer fairness to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted issued by a majority nationally recognized independent financial advisor; provided, however, that (i) any reasonable fees, advances and compensation provided to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors and employees of NFC Castings, ACP Holding, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause Company, (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (Aii) transactions between or among the Issuer Company and a its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orSubsidiaries, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2iii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 4.12 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(Biv) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event)principal of, and interest on, the Notes or the Senior Subordinated Notes held by Affiliates, (Bv) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the InvestorsCommitment Fee, in each case, approved byshall not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions, (vi) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to arrangements to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by, a majority of the members of by the Board of the Issuer; Directors; and (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5vii) transactions in which the Issuer pursuant to agreements entered into or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence ofdate of this Indenture, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement amendments thereto entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by date of this clause Indenture, provided that (7A) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect not, in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof aggregate, less favorable to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners Company or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with such Restricted Subsidiary than the terms of this Indenture which are fair such agreement prior to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity amendment and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred transactions contemplated by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited amendment are permitted by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Indenture.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Neenah Foundry Co), Indenture (Neenah Foundry Co)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a1) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer its Affiliates (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1a) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or at such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person time on an arm’s-length basis or, if from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company; (b) in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying event that such Affiliate Transaction complies involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orFair Market Value, in any caseexcess of U.S.$7.5 million, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted such Affiliate Transaction will be approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the IssuerCompany (including a majority of the disinterested members thereof), the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions; and (c) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value in excess of U.S.$10.0 million, the Company will, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction (other than (i) loans or extensions of credit or (ii) transactions involving listed securities or whose terms can otherwise be verified by reference to publicly available information) to the Company and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (if any) from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Trustee. (2) Paragraph (1) above will not apply to: (a) Affiliate Transactions with or among the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Receivables Entity) or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Receivables Entity); (4b) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) agents of the Issuer, Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of the Issuer Directors or any Parent Entityshareholders, as applicable; (5c) transactions Affiliate Transactions undertaken pursuant to any contractual obligations or rights in which existence on the Issuer Issue Date and any amendment, modification or any replacement of its Restricted Subsidiariessuch agreement (so long as such amendment, as the case may be, delivers modification or replacement is not materially more disadvantageous to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to Holders of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorableNotes, when taken as a whole, to than the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7d) any Restricted Payments and Permitted Investments made in compliance with Section 3.13; and (e) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are an aggregate principal amount not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained exceeding U.S.$2.0 million at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)time.

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Sources: Indenture (Raghsa S.A.), Indenture (Raghsa S.A.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Company and the Issuer shall will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make any payment loan, advance, guarantee or capital contribution to, or for the benefit of, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties property or assets toto or for the benefit of, or purchase or lease any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance agreement or guarantee understanding with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each Company or any Affiliate of any of the foregoingCompany’s Subsidiaries or any holder of 10% or more of the Common Equity of the Company (including any Affiliates of such holders), in a single transaction or series of related transactions (each, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer ), except for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such any Affiliate Transaction is on termsthe terms of which are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Company, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm’s-arm’s length basis orwith Persons who are not such a holder, if in the good faith judgment an Affiliate of such a holder or an Affiliate of the IssuerCompany or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries. (b) In addition, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactionthe Company and the Issuer will not, such and will not cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into an Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andunless: (2i) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction involving or series having a value of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of more than $1 million, the greater of Company shall have (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% obtained the approval of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction Company and set forth in (y) either obtained the approval of a majority of the Company’s disinterested directors or obtained an Officer’s Certificate certifying opinion of a qualified independent financial advisor to the effect that such Affiliate Transaction complies is fair to the Company, the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view, and (ii) with clause respect to any such Affiliate Transaction involving or having a value of more than $10 million, the Company shall have (1x) aboveobtained the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company and (y) delivered to the Trustee an opinion of a qualified independent financial advisor to the effect that such Affiliate Transaction is fair to the Company, the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view. (bc) The foregoing provisions shall Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Affiliate Transaction will not apply to the followinginclude: (1i) any contract, agreement or understanding with, or for the benefit of, or plan for the benefit of, employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries generally (Ain their capacities as such) transactions that has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company, (ii) Capital Stock issuances to directors, officers and employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries pursuant to plans approved by the stockholders of the Company, (iii) any Restricted Payment otherwise permitted under Section 4.07 hereof, (iv) any transaction between or among the Issuer Company and a one or more Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or(provided, in any casehowever, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of no such transaction and (B) shall involve any merger, amalgamation or consolidation other Affiliate of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 Company (other than pursuant an Unrestricted Subsidiary to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(Fthe extent the applicable amount constitutes a Restricted Payment permitted by the Indenture)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition);, (3v) (A) any transaction between one or more Restricted Subsidiaries and one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries where all of the payment of managementpayments to, consultingor other benefits conferred upon, monitoringsuch Unrestricted Subsidiaries are substantially contemporaneously dividended, transactionor otherwise distributed or transferred without charge, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, (plus any unpaid managementvi) issuances, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory sales or other transfers or dispositions of mortgages and other fees, indemnities collateralized mortgage obligations in the ordinary course of business between Restricted Subsidiaries and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the InvestorsCompany, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer;and (4vii) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the IssuerCompany, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Hovnanian Enterprises Inc), Indenture (Hovnanian Enterprises Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction (including, without limitations, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, service) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries, except upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the time of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess execution of the greater of (x) $25.0 million agreement providing therefore, in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not such an Affiliate. The foregoing limitation does not limit, and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unlessshall not apply to: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as transactions (A) approved by a whole, that are not materially less favorable majority of the independent members of the Board of Directors or (B) for which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary delivers to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in Trustee a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if written opinion of (i) in the good faith judgment case of a real estate transaction, an independent qualified real estate appraisal firm, or (ii) otherwise, a nationally recognized investment banking firm, stating that the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeview; (2) any transaction solely between the Company and any of its Wholly Owned Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) Subsidiaries or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)solely between Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) (A) any payments or other transactions pursuant to any tax-sharing agreement between the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory Company and Holdings or other fees, indemnities and expenses to Person with which the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum Company files a consolidated tax return or present value fee upon with which the consummation Company is part of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuerconsolidated group for tax purposes; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntityPayments not prohibited by Section 4.09; (5) transactions pursuant to agreements or arrangements in which effect on the Issuer Issue Date or any of its Restricted Subsidiariesamendment, modification, or supplement thereto or replacement thereof, as the case may belong as such agreement or arrangement, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer as so amended, modified, supplemented or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorablereplaced, when taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Issuer or Company and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any original agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) 6) director’s fees and any employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Transactions Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with officers, directors and employees of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries that are Affiliates of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries and the payment of all fees compensation to such officers, directors and expenses related employees (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, employee stock option or similar plans), or loans and advances to any officer, director or employee, so long as such agreement has been approved by the Transactions, including Transaction ExpensesBoard of Directors; (97) transactions with customerscommission, clientspayroll, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners travel and similar advances or purchasers loans (including payment or sellers cancellation thereof) to officers and employees of goods the Company or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course any of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer 8) sales of (A) Equity Interests Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights Company to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawAffiliates; (119) payments by any transaction with any Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the Issuer or any consummation of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith;such transaction; or (1210) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions transaction with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer joint venture, partnership, limited liability company or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person entity that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction transaction solely because the Company or a director Restricted Subsidiary owns an equity interest in such joint venture, partnership, limited liability company or other entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any transaction or series of such other Person is also a director related transactions covered by the first paragraph of this Section 4.13 and not covered by (2) through (10) of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person;immediately foregoing paragraph, (20a) Co-Investment Transactions as the aggregate amount of which exceeds $5 million in value must be approved by or determined to be fair in the Board manner provided for in clause (1)(A) or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21B) sales of accounts receivableabove, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23b) payments the aggregate amount of which exceeds $10 million in value, must be determined to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into be fair in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice manner provided for in clause (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)1)(B) above.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Tarantula Ventures LLC), Indenture (Dupont Fabros Technology, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit permit, cause, or suffer any Restricted Subsidiary of its Restricted Subsidiaries the Company to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, license, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arms' length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson; and (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $500,000, if in the good faith judgment a resolution of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare Board of Directors set forth in an Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction, Transaction complies with clause (i) above and such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair approved by a majority of the disinterested members, if any, of the Board of Directors and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $20,000,000, an opinion as to the Issuer fairness to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted issued by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a nationally recognized independent financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafteradvisor; provided, however, that the existence foregoing limitations shall not apply to (i) any reasonable fees, advances and compensation (including incentive compensation) provided to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors and employees of NFC Castings, ACP Holding, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, (ii) transactions between or among the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, (iii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.12 (iv) payment of principal of, and interest on, the Notes or the Senior Subordinated Notes held by Affiliates, (v) payment of the Commitment Fee, (vi) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the performance funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by the Issuer Board of Directors; (vii) transactions pursuant to agreements entered into or any in effect on the date of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement this Indenture, including amendments thereto entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by date of this clause Indenture, provided that (7A) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect not, in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof aggregate, less favorable to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners Company or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with such Restricted Subsidiary than the terms of this Indenture which are fair such agreement prior to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity amendment and (B) directors’ qualifying shares the transactions contemplated by such amendment are otherwise permitted by this Indenture, (viii) Intercompany Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 4.11 hereof or (ix) non-exclusive licenses of intellectual property among the Company and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of or among the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Neenah Foundry Co), Indenture (Neenah Foundry Co)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Abraxas will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, amend or permit or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any property, the guaranteeing of its properties any Indebtedness or assets to, or purchase the rendering of any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their respective Affiliates (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction"), other than (i) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (xAffiliate Transactions permitted under Section 4.11(b) $25.0 million and (yii) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, Transactions that are not materially on terms that are fair and reasonable to Abraxas or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary and are no less favorable to the Issuer Abraxas or the relevant applicable Restricted Subsidiary than those that would might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer at such time on an arm's-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of Abraxas or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Subsidiary. All Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view Transactions (and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or each series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments or consideration other property with a fair market value in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted 1,000,000 shall be approved by a majority of the Board of Directors of Abraxas, such approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Issuer approving Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the foregoing provisions. If Abraxas or any Restricted Subsidiary enters into an Affiliate Transaction and set forth in (or a series of related Affiliate Transactions related to a common plan) that involves an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply aggregate fair market value of more than $10,000,000, Abraxas shall, prior to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result fairness of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation series of related transactions to Abraxas or the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) relevant Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view, from an Independent Advisor and file the same with the Trustee. (b) The restrictions set forth in Section 4.11(a) shall not apply to (i) reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer consultants of Abraxas or the relevant any Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained as determined in a comparable transaction good faith by the Issuer Board of Directors or senior management of Abraxas or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; Subsidiary, as the case may be; (6ii) any agreement transactions exclusively between or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or among Abraxas and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement exclusively between or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or among such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; transactions are not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture; and (20iii) Co-Investment Transactions as approved Restricted Payments permitted by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)this Indenture.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Canadian Abraxas Petroleum LTD), Indenture (Canadian Abraxas Petroleum LTD)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction, including, without limitation, any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or the rendering of any service, with any Affiliate unless such transaction is (a) The Issuer shall nototherwise permitted under this Agreement, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”b) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially upon terms no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Parent Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that it would have been obtained obtain in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis;transaction with a Person which is not an Affiliate; provided that nothing contained in this subsection 8.11 shall be deemed to prohibit: (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7i) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Parent Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from entering into or performing any consulting, management or employment agreements or other compensation arrangements with a director, officer or employee of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that provides for annual aggregate base compensation not in excess of $1,000,000 for each such director, officer or employee; (ii) the Parent Borrower or such any of its Subsidiaries from entering into or performing an agreement with CD&R for the rendering of management consulting or financial advisory services for compensation not to exceed in the aggregate $2,000,000 per year plus reasonable out-of-pocket expenses; (iii) the payment of transaction expenses in connection with this Agreement; (iv) the Parent EntityBorrower or any of its Subsidiaries from entering into, making payments pursuant to and otherwise performing an indemnification and contribution agreement in favor of any Permitted Holder and each person who is or becomes a director, officer, agent or employee of the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in respect of liabilities (A) arising under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and any other applicable securities laws or otherwise, in connection with any offering of obligations under securities by Investors (provided that, if Investors shall own any future amendment to any such existing agreement material assets other than the Capital Stock of Holding, or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) other assets relating to the extent ownership interest of Investors in Holding, such liabilities shall be limited to the reasonable and proportional share, as determined by the Parent Borrower in its reasonable discretion, of such liabilities relating or allocable to the ownership interest of Investors in Holding and such other related assets) or Holding or any of its Subsidiaries, (B) incurred to third parties for any action or failure to act of the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, predecessors or successors, (C) arising out of the performance by CD&R of management consulting or financial advisory services provided to the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (D) arising out of the fact that any indemnitee was or is a director, officer, agent or employee of the terms Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or is or was serving at the request of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken corporation as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or enterprise or (E) to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware or other applicable state law, arising out of any breach or alleged breach by such indemnitee of his or her fiduciary duty as a director or officer of the Parent Borrower or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of its Subsidiaries; (v) the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from performing any agreements or commitments with or to any Parent Entity Affiliate existing on the Closing Date and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawdescribed on Schedule 8.11(v); (11vi) payments by any transaction permitted under subsection 8.3(k), 8.4(b), 8.4(d), 8.4(f), 8.5, 8.7, 8.9(e), 8.9(f) or 8.9(o), or any transaction with a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Issuer Parent Borrower; or (vii) the Parent Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of from performing its obligations under the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Tax Sharing Agreement.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Credit Agreement (VWR International, Inc.), Credit Agreement (VWR International, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Borrower ------------------------------------------ shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of "), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate --------------------- Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis ora non- Affiliated Person, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, (ii) such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to approved by a majority of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point disinterested members of view the Borrower's Board of Directors and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2iii) the Issuer Borrower delivers to the Trustee Administrative Agent (A) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period1,000,000, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause clauses (1i) above. and (bii) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction above and (B) with respect to any mergerAffiliate Transaction (or series of related transactions) with an aggregate value in excess of $5,000,000, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for an opinion from a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses nationally recognized investment bank to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon effect that the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts transaction is fair to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of Borrower or the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are view. (b) The provisions of paragraph (a) above shall not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction prohibit: (i) employment arrangements (including customary benefits thereunder) entered into by the Issuer Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practice of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSubsidiary; (6ii) transactions solely between or among the Borrower and its Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries or solely between or among Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries; (iii) transactions permitted under Section 8.6; ----------- (iv) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in on the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Initial Effective Date and listed on Schedule 8.9 or any amendment thereto or any transaction ------------ contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) and any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Lenders in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Initial Effective Date); (7v) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Borrower or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with on the Merger and any similar agreements which it Initial Effective Date; (or any Parent Entityvi) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment services provided to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Issue Date shall only be permitted Borrower for fees approved by this clause (7) to a majority of the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date;Borrower; and (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related vii) subject to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair Agreement, including but not limited to Sections 4.2(e), 8.2, 8.5 and 8.12, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiariesissuance, in the reasonable determination sale or other --------------- --- --- ---- disposition of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) any Equity Interests Interest (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary Borrower, including any equity-related agreements relating thereto such as registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) voting agreements so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders such agreements do not result in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)being Disqualified Stock.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Credit Agreement (Radio One Inc), Credit Agreement (Radio One Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer or of any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsterms that, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by at such time (or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person time of the execution of the agreement providing therefor) on an arm’s-length basis by the Issuer or that Restricted Subsidiary from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer or that Restricted Subsidiary; and (2) if applicable, the Issuer delivers to the Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving an aggregate amount in excess of $5.0 million, a Secretary’s Certificate which sets forth and authenticates a resolution that has been adopted by the disinterested members of the Board of Directors or, if in the good faith judgment there is only one disinterested member of the IssuerBoard of Directors with respect to such transaction, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactionmember, approving such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair (or, in case of this clause (a) only, the written opinion described in clause (b) of this paragraph (2) in lieu of such certificate); and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving an aggregate amount of $10.0 million or more, the certificate described in the preceding clause (a) and a written opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers issued by an Independent Financial Advisor to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) Issuer. The foregoing provisions restrictions shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions exclusively between or among (a) the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary one or between or among more Restricted Subsidiaries oror (b) Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, in any each case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation no Affiliate of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets (other than another Restricted Subsidiary) owns Equity Interests of any such Restricted Subsidiary; (2) reasonable director, officer and employee compensation (including bonuses) and other benefits (including retirement, health, stock option and other benefit plans and issuances of securities related thereto) and indemnification arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or otherwise consistent with past practices; (3) the issuance of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, Cash Equivalents securities or otherwise pursuant to or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans or similar employee benefit plans approved by the Capital Stock Board of Directors and loans to employees of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries which are approved by the Board of Directors; (4) any Permitted Investments or any Restricted Payments not prohibited by Section 4.12; (5) (x) any agreement in effect on the Issue Date and disclosed in or expressly contemplated by the Offering Memorandum, as in effect on the Issue Date or any date that it is disclosed in the Offering Memorandum that such mergeragreement shall become effective or as thereafter amended or replaced in any manner, amalgamation that, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Holders or consolidation is the Issuer taken as a whole in any material respect than such agreement as it was in effect on the Issue Date or (y) any transaction pursuant to any agreement referred to in the immediately preceding clause (x); (6) any transaction with a joint venture or similar entity which would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary owns an equity interest in or otherwise consummated controls such joint venture or similar entity; provided that no Affiliate of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries other than the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary shall have a beneficial interest in such joint venture or similar entity; (7) transactions with Affiliates that are customers, suppliers, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case which are in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event)Indenture, and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts which are fair to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, in the case may bereasonable determination of the Board of Directors, delivers to chief executive officer or chief financial officer of the Trustee Issuer or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, or are on terms that, taken as a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair whole, are materially not less favorable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a financial point written agreement, at the time of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorableexecution of the agreement providing therefor, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer or with such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not such an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisAffiliate; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) 8) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary of its Restricted Subsidiaries their obligation, if any, or obligations of its obligations the Issuer under the terms of, any subscription, registration rights or stockholders agreements, partnership agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights limited liability company agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (the Issuer or any Parent Entity) Restricted Subsidiary is a party as of the Issue Date and which is disclosed in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafterOffering Memorandum under the caption “Certain Related Party Transactions”; provided, however, that the existence of, entering into by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) Subsidiary of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on termsagreement, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable more disadvantageous to the Issuer or its Restricted Subsidiaries, or the holders of the Notes, as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partydetermined in good faith by the Board of Directors, chief executive officer or chief financial officer of the Issuer; (109) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of any other investment banking, banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of similar services involving the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary without limitation any payments in cash, Equity Interests or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved other consideration made by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsone hand and the Existing Stockholders and any of their Affiliates, on the other hand, which services (and (Bpayments and other transactions in connection therewith) payments are approved as fair to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any such Restricted Subsidiary by a majority of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than disinterested members of the Issuer and its Restricted SubsidiariesBoard of Directors or, in each caseif there is only one disinterested member of the Board of Directors with respect to such transaction, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loansmember; (1410) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate Persons in their capacity as holder of the Issuer arising solely because Indebtedness or Equity Interests of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any where such Persons are treated no more favorably than holders of such Indebtedness or Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person;Interests generally; and (1511) (a) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any transaction with an Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between where the only consideration paid by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivableQualified Equity Interests, or participation therein, (b) the issuance or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with sale of any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Qualified Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Interests.

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Sources: Indenture (Seitel Inc), Indenture (Matrix Geophysical, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer its Affiliates (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction, at the time such transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person was entered into, on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and; (2ii) in the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying event that such Affiliate Transaction complies involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orFair Market Value, in any caseexcess of $5 million, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted such Affiliate Transaction will be approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the IssuerIssuer (including a majority of the disinterested members thereof), the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions; and (iii) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of $10 million, the Issuer will, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the Issuer and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (if any) from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Trustee. (b) Section 3.14(a) above will not apply to: (i) Affiliate Transactions with or among the Issuer and any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries, excluding any Affiliate Transaction with a Restricted Subsidiary in which Vitro or any of its Affiliates directly or indirectly own any Capital Stock (other than by virtue of ownership by the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries or the issuance to Vitro or any of its Affiliates of any nominal shares of the Issuer or its Restricted Subsidiaries as required by applicable law); (4ii) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary agents of the Issuer or any Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary as determined in good faith by the Issuer’s Board of Directors (including contributions to employee stock option plans maintained by Vitro and its Subsidiaries); (5iii) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated Affiliate Transactions undertaken in the good faith determination ordinary course of the Issuer as of business pursuant to any contractual obligations or rights in existence on the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto Date (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)) or any amendments, extensions or renewals of such contractual obligations on comparable terms; (7iv) any Restricted Payments made in compliance with Section 3.8; (v) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary for travel, entertainment, moving and other relocation expenses, in each case made in the ordinary course of business and not exceeding $300,000 outstanding at any one time; (vi) Affiliate Transactions on an arm’s-length basis with Vitro or any Subsidiary of Vitro (other than the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries) that consist of (1) the existence ofpurchase or sales of goods and services (including accounting services) or the leasing of real estate or equipment in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (2) payments made to Vitro or its Subsidiaries relating to the use and development of intellectual property; and (3) purchases, leases or sales of assets (other than Collateral or land held by any Subsidiary (i) the Capital Stock of which is pledged or required to be pledged or (ii) the Real Property of which is mortgaged or required to be mortgaged as described under “Security”) up to an aggregate amount of $15 million in any fiscal year; (A) the assumption of the rights and obligations under a lease agreement relating to an airplane pursuant to which aggregate annual payments of approximately $7 million will be made, (B) the use of the airplane identified in the prior clause (A), or any replacement airplane, by customers, directors and officers of Vitro and its Affiliates, and (C) performance under outsourcing agreement entered into for hangar, maintenance, repair and operating services relating to the performance airplane identified in clause (A), or any replacement airplane, involving aggregate annual payments of up to $8 million; (viii) (A) loans, advances or other extensions of credits (including guarantees) by Vitro or its Affiliates made to the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries and any payments made in connection therewith, and (B) any hedging agreements or arrangements entered into between Vitro or its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, and any payments made in connection therewith, in each case so long as the terms thereof are no less favorable to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries than could have been obtained on an arm’s-length basis; (ix) any management, administrative, information technology or similar services performed by Vitro or its Affiliates for the benefit of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, and any payments made in connection therewith, so long as the aggregate amount of all payments made pursuant to this clause (ix) in any calendar year does not exceed 1.75% of the net sales of the Issuer (determined on a consolidated basis) for such year; and (x) services rendered by Vitro or its Affiliates for the benefit of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, and any payments in connection therewith not in excess of Vitro's or its Affiliates' cost of rendering such services, including, without limitation, payments made by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with (i) information technology services, (ii) the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any salaries of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment Vitro's Chairman of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity Chief Executive Officer and (Biii) directors’ qualifying shares Clinica Vitro, El M▇▇▇▇▇▇ and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Vitro Club.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Vitro Sa De Cv), Indenture (Vitro Sa De Cv)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, lease transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of (other than the Issuer Company, a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary or (in connection with a Qualified TIPS Transaction) a Qualified Finance Subsidiary) (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of "), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2ii) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period5 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer above and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members Disinterested Directors and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of the Board related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of the Issuer; $10 million, both an Officers' Certificate referred to in clause (4a) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, an opinion as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that fairness of such transaction is fair Affiliate Transaction to the Issuer Company or such the relevant Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view issued by an investment banking firm of national standing with total assets in excess of $1.0 billion; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this covenant shall not apply to (i) fees, compensation and employee benefits, including bonuses, retirement plans and stock options, paid to or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination established for directors and officers of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited approved by this Indenture which are fair to a majority of the Issuer Disinterested Directors and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined ii) the performance by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director its obligations under certain leases of real property outstanding on the date of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; providedIndenture from PDM, howeverInc. covering 10 supermarket sites and a storage facility in Omaha, that such director abstains from voting Nebraska as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, set forth on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Schedule B attached hereto.

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Sources: Indenture (Fleming Companies Inc /Ok/), Indenture (Fleming Companies Inc /Ok/)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit Neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries toshall, directly or indirectly, in one transaction or a series of transactions, make any payment loan, advance, guarantee or capital contribution to, or for the benefit of, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or for the benefit of, or purchase or lease any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance agreement or guarantee understanding with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Person (each or any Affiliate of such Person) holding 10% or more of the foregoingCommon Equity of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than transactions in the ordinary course between the Company and its Subsidiaries or among Subsidiaries of the Company (an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: : (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that Transactions are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer Company or such Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretybetween unaffiliated parties; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5,000,000, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of Company delivers an Officers' Certificate to the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Trustee certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer above and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity Secretary's Certificate which sets forth and authenticates a resolution that becomes has been adopted by a Restricted Subsidiary as a result vote of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors approving such Affiliate Transaction; and (iii) with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $25,000,000, the Issuer; Company delivers to the Trustee the certificates specified in clause (4ii) above and an opinion of an independent investment banking firm of national standing in the payment United States, stating that such Affiliate Transaction is fair from a financial point of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided view to the Company or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariessuch Subsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or foregoing clauses (ii) and (iii) shall not apply to transactions between the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer Company or any of its Subsidiaries and MedCenterDirect.com, Inc. or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued entity to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any Company transf▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ntially all of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) rights to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)HEALTHSOUTH Clinical Automation Program.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Healthsouth Corp), Indenture (Healthsouth Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer On or after the Issue Date, the Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted the Subsidiaries to, make any payment toin one transaction or a series of related transactions, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understandingarrangement or transaction or any amendment to any of the foregoing, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodother than Exempted Affiliate Transactions), unless: unless (1) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on termsare fair and reasonable to such Issuer or such Subsidiary, taken as a whole, that are not materially and no less favorable to the such Issuer or the relevant Restricted such Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained in an arm’s length transaction with a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’snon-length basis orAffiliate, and (2) if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate TransactionTransaction involves aggregate consideration to either party in excess of $1.0 million, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2Transaction(s) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted has been approved by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid toDirectors that are disinterested in such transaction, if there are any directors who are so disinterested, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided (3) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate consideration to or on behalf ofeither party in excess of $5.0 million, or $1.0 million if there are no disinterested directors for such transaction, in addition the benefit ofIssuers, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers prior to the Trustee consummation thereof, obtain a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that written favorable opinion as to the fairness of such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary Issuers from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with from an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated independent investment banking firm of national reputation in the good faith determination United States or, if pertaining to a matter for which such investment banking firms do not customarily render such opinions, an appraisal or valuation firm of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect national reputation in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into United States. Within 10 Business Days after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms consummation of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9Affiliate Transaction(s) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stockan Exempted Affiliate Transaction) involving consideration to either party of $1.0 million or more, the Issuer and Issuers shall deliver to the granting and performing of customary registration rights Trustee an Officers’ Certificate addressed to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant the Trustee certifying that such Affiliate Transaction (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoingTransactions) complied with clause (1), or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms2), and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary3), as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)applicable.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Douglas Dynamics, Inc), Indenture (Douglas Dynamics, Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any service) with any Holder (or any Affiliate of its properties such Holder) of 10% or assets to, more of any class of Capital Stock of the Parent or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingParent, an “Affiliate Transaction”) Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million 58,800,000 and (y) 5.00.3% of Consolidated EBITDA consolidated Adjusted Total Assets of the Issuer for Issuers and the Applicable Measurement PeriodRestricted Subsidiaries, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, except upon terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the time of the execution of the agreement providing therefor, in a comparable arm’s-length basis or, transaction with a Person that is not such a Holder or an Affiliate or if in the good faith judgment of the IssuerParent’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactiontransaction, such Affiliate Transaction transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveview. (b) The foregoing provisions limitation set forth in Section 5.12(a) does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) transactions (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf ofParent, or for the benefit ofwhere no such disinterested directors exist, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) by unanimous approval of the Issuer, directors of the Board of Directors of the Parent or (B) for which the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm stating that such the transaction is fair to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view; (2) any transaction solely between an Issuer and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or stating that solely between Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) the terms are not materially less favorablepayment of reasonable fees and compensation (including through the issuance of Capital Stock) to, when taken as a wholeand indemnification and similar arrangements on behalf of, to the Issuer current, former or the relevant future directors, officers, employees or consultants of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of Parent; (4) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Disqualified Stock) of an Issuer; (5) any Restricted Payments not prohibited by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 5.09 and Investments constituting Permitted Investments; (6) any agreement contracts, instruments or arrangement as other agreements or arrangements in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement each case as in effect on the Issue Date)date of this Indenture, and any transactions pursuant thereto or contemplated thereby, or any amendment, modification or supplement thereto or any replacement thereof entered into from time to time, as long as such agreement or arrangements as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuers and the Restricted Subsidiaries at the time executed than the original agreement or arrangements as in effect on the date of this Indenture; (7) the existence ofany employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or the performance customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary with current, former or future officers and employees of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement Parent or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the an Issuer or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions Subsidiary and the payment of all fees compensation to officers and expenses related employees of the Parent, an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary (including amounts paid pursuant to the Transactionsemployee benefit plans, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners employee stock option or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatessimilar plans), in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) 8) loans and advances to officers and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formerParent, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the an Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or guarantees in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees thereof (or cancellation of such loans, advances or guarantees) to future), current or former employeesfor bona fide business purposes, directorsincluding for reasonable moving and relocation, officersentertainment and travel expenses and similar expenses, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) made in the ordinary course of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithbusiness; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (149) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Parent or an Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary an Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns any Equity Interest inCapital Stock of, or controls, controls such Person; (1510) any lease entered transaction with a Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; or (11) the entering into between the Issuer or amending of any Restricted Subsidiarytax sharing, as lessee allocation or similar agreement and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)thereunder.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.), Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.01.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodTangible Net Worth, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.02.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodTangible Net Worth, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B10.10(b)(11) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, transaction that has been approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, by a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of the IssuerIssuer or any Parent Entity, or where no such disinterested directors exist, by unanimous approval of the directors of such Board; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date[reserved]; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses[reserved]; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[reserved]; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith[reserved]; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.), Indenture (PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall not nor will the Issuer permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or (i) sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties property or assets to, or (ii) purchase any property or assets from, (iii) make any Investment in, or (iv) enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance agreement or guarantee with, understanding with or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each or of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA any Subsidiary of the Issuer (an "Affiliate Transaction"), other than Affiliate Transactions that are reasonably necessary and desirable for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: Issuer or such Subsidiary in the conduct of its business and are on terms (1which terms are in writing) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially fair and reasonable to the Issuer or the Subsidiary and that are no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted such Subsidiary than those that would have been could be obtained in a comparable arm's length transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with from an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orunaffiliated party, if as determined reasonably and in the good faith judgment by the Board of Directors of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such provided that if the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer enters into an Affiliate TransactionTransaction or series of Affiliate Transactions involving or having an aggregate value of more than $2 million, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair shall, prior to the consummation thereof, have been approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Issuer, and provided, further that with respect to any such transaction or series of related transactions that involves an aggregate value of more than $5 million, the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary shall, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such transaction or series of related transactions to itself or its Subsidiary from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) file the Issuer delivers to same with the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveTrustee. (b) The foregoing provisions restrictions shall not apply to the following: (1i) (A) any transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Wholly Owned Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, or between the Issuer and any Restricted Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that if such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that not otherwise prohibited by the terms are not materially less favorableof the Indenture, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained Payment made in a comparable accordance with Section 3.6 and (iii) any transaction contemplated by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in Business Relations Agreement and the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement Personal Services Agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (American Biltrite Inc), Indenture (Congoleum Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit Neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries toshall, directly or indirectly, in one transaction or a series of transactions, make any payment loan, advance, guarantee or capital contribution to, or for the benefit of, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or for the benefit of, or purchase or lease any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance agreement or guarantee understanding with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Person (each or any Affiliate of such Person) holding 10% or more of the foregoingCommon Equity of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than transactions in the ordinary course between the Company and its Subsidiaries or among Subsidiaries of the Company (an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: : (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that Transactions are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer Company or such Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretybetween unaffiliated parties; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5,000,000, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of Company delivers an Officers’ Certificate to the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Trustee certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer above and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity Secretary’s Certificate which sets forth and authenticates a resolution that becomes has been adopted by a Restricted Subsidiary as a result vote of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors approving such Affiliate Transaction; and (iii) with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate payments in excess of $25,000,000, the Issuer; Company delivers to the Trustee the certificates specified in clause (4ii) above and an opinion of an independent investment banking firm of national standing in the payment United States, stating that such Affiliate Transaction is fair from a financial point of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided view to the Company or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariessuch Subsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or foregoing clauses (ii) and (iii) shall not apply to transactions between the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer Company or any of its Subsidiaries and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, Inc. or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued entity to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by which the Issuer Company transfers all or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any substantially all of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) rights to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)HEALTHSOUTH Clinical Automation Program.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Indenture (Healthsouth Corp), Indenture (Healthsouth Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any service) with any Holder (or any Affiliate of its properties such Holder) of 10% or assets to, more of any class of Capital Stock of the Parent or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingParent, an “Affiliate Transaction”) Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million 42,000,000 and (y) 5.00.3% of Consolidated EBITDA consolidated Adjusted Total Assets of the Issuer for Issuers and the Applicable Measurement PeriodRestricted Subsidiaries, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, except upon terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the time of the execution of the agreement providing therefor, in a comparable arm’s-length basis or, transaction with a Person that is not such a Holder or an Affiliate or if in the good faith judgment of the IssuerParent’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactiontransaction, such Affiliate Transaction transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveview. (b) The foregoing provisions limitation set forth in Section 5.12(a) does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) transactions (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf ofParent, or for the benefit ofwhere no such disinterested directors exist, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) by unanimous approval of the Issuer, directors of the Board of Directors of the Parent or (B) for which the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm stating that such the transaction is fair to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view; (2) any transaction solely between an Issuer and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or stating that solely between Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) the terms are not materially less favorablepayment of reasonable fees and compensation (including through the issuance of Capital Stock) to, when taken as a wholeand indemnification and similar arrangements on behalf of, to the Issuer current, former or the relevant future directors, officers, employees or consultants of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of Parent; (4) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Disqualified Stock) of an Issuer; (5) any Restricted Payments not prohibited by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 5.09 and Investments constituting Permitted Investments; (6) any agreement contracts, instruments or arrangement as other agreements or arrangements in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement each case as in effect on the Issue Date)date of this Indenture, and any transactions pursuant thereto or contemplated thereby, or any amendment, modification or supplement thereto or any replacement thereof entered into from time to time, as long as such agreement or arrangements as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuers and the Restricted Subsidiaries at the time executed than the original agreement or arrangements as in effect on the date of this Indenture; (7) the existence ofany employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or the performance customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary with current, former or future officers and employees of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement Parent or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the an Issuer or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions Subsidiary and the payment of all fees compensation to officers and expenses related employees of the Parent, an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary (including amounts paid pursuant to the Transactionsemployee benefit plans, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners employee stock option or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatessimilar plans), in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) 8) loans and advances to officers and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formerParent, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the an Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or guarantees in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees thereof (or cancellation of such loans, advances or guarantees) to future), current or former employeesfor bona fide business purposes, directorsincluding for reasonable moving and relocation, officersentertainment and travel expenses and similar expenses, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) made in the ordinary course of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithbusiness; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (149) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Parent or an Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary an Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns any Equity Interest inCapital Stock of, or controls, controls such Person; (1510) any lease entered transaction with a Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; or (11) the entering into between the Issuer or amending of any Restricted Subsidiarytax sharing, as lessee allocation or similar agreement and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)thereunder.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.), Supplemental Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, services) with or for the benefit of, of any Affiliate of the Issuer Company (each of other than the foregoingCompany or a Restricted Subsidiary) (each, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1a) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been obtained be available in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary in arm’s-length dealings with an unrelated Person on third party, (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate value in excess of $25.0 million, the Company delivers an arm’s-length basis or, if in Officers’ Certificate to the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, Trustee certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (a) above or such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors of the Board of Directors of the Company, or in the event there is otherwise only one Disinterested Director, by such Disinterested Director, and (c) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate value in excess of $50.0 million, either (i) such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors of the Board of Directors of the Company, or in the event there is only one Disinterested Director, by such Disinterested Director, or (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee a written opinion of an investment banking firm of national standing or other recognized independent expert with experience appraising the terms and conditions of the type of transaction or series of related transactions for which an opinion is required stating that the Affiliate Transaction or the consideration being paid is fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyview; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodprovided, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying however, that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions this provision shall not apply to (i) any employment agreement or any compensation and employee benefit arrangements (or amendments thereto) entered into by the following: Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, including the payment of indemnities provided for the benefit of officers, directors or employees and the payment of compensation to the officers, directors and employees of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (1) (Aii) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; ; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14iii) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising Company solely because the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interest Capital Stock in, or controls, such Person; ; (15iv) any lease entered into between transaction permitted pursuant to Section 1009; (v) issuances or sales of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate EchoPark Entity that is an Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such issuance or sale; (vi) the pledge of Capital Stock of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; (vii) loans or advances to officers of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into Company in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; not to exceed $5.0 million in any calendar year; (17viii) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates inventory sales in the ordinary course of business (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any sales of vehicles between the Company and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair any Restricted Subsidiary on the one hand and any EchoPark Entity on the other hand following any EchoPark Separation Transaction); (ix) any transactions undertaken pursuant to any contractual obligations in existence on the Issuer Issue Date, and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) any renewals, replacements or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate modifications of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, obligations (pursuant to new transactions or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or mergerotherwise); provided that any such acquisition or merger complied agreement together with this covenant; (19) transactions between all amendments thereto, taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director holders of the Issuer or Securities in any Parent Entitymaterial respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on and (x) any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets transactions undertaken in connection with or related to any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)EchoPark Separation Transaction.

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Sources: Indenture (Sonic Automotive Inc), Indenture (Sonic Automotive Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Borrower will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer its Affiliates (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction, at the time such transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person was entered into, on an arm’s-length basis or, if from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower; (ii) in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying event that such Affiliate Transaction complies involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orFair Market Value, in any caseexcess of $5 million, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted such Affiliate Transaction will be approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the IssuerBorrower (including a majority of the disinterested members thereof), the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions; and (iii) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of $10 million, the Borrower will, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the Borrower and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (if any) from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Administrative Agent. (b) Section 5.11(a) above will not apply to: (i) Affiliate Transactions with or among the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries, excluding any Affiliate Transaction with a Restricted Subsidiary in which Vitro or any of its Affiliates directly or indirectly own any Capital Stock (other than by virtue of ownership by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries or the issuance to Vitro or any of its Affiliates of any nominal shares of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries as required by applicable law); (4ii) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) agents of the Issuer, Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions as determined in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction good faith by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an armBorrower’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer Directors (including contributions to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Dateemployee stock option plans maintained by Vitro and its Subsidiaries); (7iii) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Affiliate Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case undertaken in the ordinary course of business pursuant to any contractual obligations or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise rights in existence on the Original Effective Date (as in effect on the Original Effective Date) or any amendments, extensions or renewals of such contractual obligations on comparable terms; (iv) any Restricted Payments made in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partySection 5.05; (10v) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest infor travel, or controlsentertainment, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiarymoving and other relocation expenses, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates each case made in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms exceeding $300,000 outstanding at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith)any one time; (18vi) Affiliate Transactions on an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied arm’s-length basis with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer Vitro or any Restricted Subsidiary and any of Vitro (other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of than the Issuer Borrower or any Parent Entity; provided, however, of its Subsidiaries) that such director abstains from voting as a director consist of (1) the Issuer purchase or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter sales of goods and services (including such other Person; (20accounting services) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management leasing of the Issuer real estate or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into equipment in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice practice; (2) payments made to Vitro or its Subsidiaries relating to the use and development of intellectual property; and (3) purchases, leases or sales of assets (other than Collateral or land held by any Subsidiary (i) the Capital Stock of which is pledged or required to be pledged or (ii) the Real Property of which is mortgaged or required to be mortgaged as described under “Security”) up to an aggregate amount of $15 million in any fiscal year; (A) the assumption of the rights and obligations under a lease agreement relating to an airplane pursuant to which aggregate annual payments of approximately $7 million will be made, (B) the use of the airplane identified in the prior clause (A), or any replacement airplane, by customers, directors and officers of Vitro and its Affiliates, and (C) performance under outsourcing agreement entered into for hangar, maintenance, repair and operating services relating to the airplane identified in clause (A), or any replacement airplane, involving aggregate annual payments of up to $8 million; (viii) (A) loans, advances or other extensions of credits (including guarantees) by Vitro or its Affiliates made to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any payments made in connection therewith, and (B) any hedging agreements or arrangements entered into between Vitro or its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, and any payments made in connection therewith, in each case so long as the terms thereof are no less favorable to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than could have been obtained on an arm’s-length basis; (ix) any management, administrative, information technology or similar services performed by Vitro or its Affiliates for the benefit of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and any payments made in connection therewith, so long as the aggregate amount of all payments made pursuant to this clause (ix) in any calendar year does not exceed 1.75% of the net sales of the Borrower (determined on a consolidated basis) for such year; and (x) services rendered by Vitro or its Affiliates for the benefit of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and any payments in connection therewith not in excess of Vitro’s or its Affiliates’ cost of rendering such services, including, without limitation, payments made by the Borrower or any cash management activities related thereto)of its Subsidiaries in connection with (A) information technology services, (B) the salaries of Vitro's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and (C) Clinica Vitro, El ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Vitro Club.

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Sources: Loan Agreement (Vitro Sa De Cv), Loan Agreement (Vitro Sa De Cv)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Co-Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of ), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Co-Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Co-Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2ii) the Co-Issuer delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.5 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer above and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer; Directors and (4b) the payment with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid torelated Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $10.0 million, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, an opinion as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair fairness to the Issuer or Holders of such Restricted Subsidiary Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or stating that investment banking firm of national standing. Notwithstanding the terms are foregoing, the following items shall not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions: (i) any employment arrangements with any executive officer of the Co-Issuer or the relevant a Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction is entered into by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Co-Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are and consistent with past practice and otherwise compensation arrangements of similarly situated executive officers at comparable companies engaged in compliance with Permitted Businesses, (ii) transactions between or among the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Co-Issuer and and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries, (iii) payment of outside directors’ fees in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereofan aggregate annual amount not to exceed $50,000 per Person, or are on terms, taken as a whole, (iv) Restricted Payments and Permitted Investments that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; permitted by Section 4.07 and (10v) the issuance or transfer sale of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Issuer.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Sba Communications Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction or arrangement including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, service with any Affiliate of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an a Affiliate Related Party Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million ), except upon fair and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, reasonable terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andlength (2b) the Issuer delivers Prior to the Trustee with respect to entering into any Affiliate Related Party Transaction or series of related Affiliate Related Party Transactions involving (i) with an aggregate payments or consideration value in excess of US$20.0 million (or the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodequivalent in other currencies), a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted such Related Party Transaction will be approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, and a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer who are disinterested directors with respect to such Related Party Transaction, the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Board of Directors of the Issuer has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions, and (ii) with an aggregate value in excess of US$35.0 million (or the equivalent in other currencies), the Issuer must obtain and deliver to the Trustee a favorable written opinion from a nationally recognized (in the relevant jurisdiction) Independent Financial Advisor as to the fairness of the transaction to the Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries from a financial point of view. (c) The foregoing clauses (a) and (b) do not apply to: (i) any transaction between or among the Issuer and any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries of the Issuer; (4ii) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity or insurance provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary agents of the Issuer or any Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary; (5iii) transactions any Restricted Payments of a type described in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Section 4.08 (a)(i) and (a)(ii) if permitted by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 4.08; (6iv) any agreement transactions or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment payments pursuant to any such existing agreement employee, consultant, officer or under any similar agreement director compensation or benefit plans or arrangements entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business business; (v) transactions pursuant to any contract or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise agreement in compliance with effect on the terms date of this Indenture which are fair Indenture, as amended, modified or replaced from time to time so long as the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiariesamended, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer modified or the senior management thereof, or are on termsnew agreements, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of to the Issuer and the granting and performing Restricted Subsidiaries than those in effect on the date of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law;this Indenture; or (11vi) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries loans and advances to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into employees in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)practices.

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Sources: Indenture (GeoPark LTD)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Issuers and Guarantors will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted their Subsidiaries to, make any payment toon or after the Issue Date, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance arrangement or guarantee withtransaction with any Affiliate (an "Affiliate Transaction"), or for any series of related Affiliate Transactions (other than Exempted Affiliate Transactions), (i) unless it is determined that the benefit ofterms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair and reasonable to the Issuer, Guarantor or Subsidiary, and no less favorable to the Issuer, Guarantor or Subsidiary than could have been obtained in an arm's-length transaction with a non-Affiliate. (b) The Issuers and Guarantors will not, and will not permit any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingtheir Subsidiaries to, enter into an Affiliate Transaction, or any series of related Affiliate Transactions, unless (i) with respect to such Transaction or Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess having a fair value of more than $250,000 the greater of Trust has (x) $25.0 million obtained the approval of majorities of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case may be, or the Trust in the case of Venture Canada, and the Fairness Committee of the Issuer, Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case may be, or the Trust in the case of Venture Canada, in the exercise of their fiduciary duties and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: either (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to obtained the Issuer or approval of majorities of the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment disinterested directors of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case may be, or the Trust in the case of Venture Canada, if any, and Independent members of the Fairness Committee or (2) obtained an opinion of a qualified independent financial advisor to compare the effect that such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise or Transactions are fair to the Issuer Issuer, Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate such Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess having a fair value of more than $3.0 million, the greater of Trust has (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% obtained the approval of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority majorities of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) Directors of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer Guarantor or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated Trust in the good faith determination case of the Issuer as of the Issue DateVenture Canada, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) Fairness Committee of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries Guarantor or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).Trust

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Venture Service Co)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into into, make, amend, renew or make or amend extend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10 million, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, fair and reasonable terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Company or such any Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretySubsidiary; and (2) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period25 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in Resolution attached to an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1) above.this covenant and that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members; and (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply with respect to the following: (1) (A) transactions between any Affiliate Transaction or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $150 million or between 3% of Consolidated Total Assets, an opinion issued by an independent accounting, appraisal or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result investment banking firm of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor national standing stating that such transaction Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions is fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are view. (b) The following items will be deemed not materially less favorableto be Affiliate Transactions and, when taken as a wholetherefore, will not be subject to the Issuer provisions of Section 4.05(a): (1) transactions between or among the relevant Company or its Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSubsidiaries; (62) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)Restricted Payments that are permitted under Section 4.04 and Permitted Investments; (73) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer sale of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer Company; (4) transactions pursuant to agreements or arrangements in effect on the Issue Date and described in the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoingOffering Memorandum, or any permitted transferee amendment, modification, or supplement thereto or renewal or replacement thereof) , as long as such agreement or arrangement, as so amended, modified, supplemented, renewed or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries than the agreement or arrangement in existence on the Issue Date as determined by the Disinterested Members of the Issuer or any Board of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required Directors of the Company evidenced by applicable lawa Board Resolution; (115) payments by the Issuer Company (and any direct or indirect parent thereof) and its Subsidiaries pursuant to tax sharing agreements among the Company (and any such parent) and its Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that in each case the amount of such payments in any fiscal year does not exceed the amount that the Company, its Restricted Subsidiaries and its Unrestricted Subsidiaries (to any the extent of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or amounts received from Unrestricted Subsidiaries) would be required to pay in respect of other investment banking activitiesforeign, includingfederal, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by state and local taxes for such fiscal year were the Board of Company and its Subsidiaries (to the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithextent described above) to pay such taxes separately from any such parent entity; (126) paymentspayment of reasonable and customary fees to, loansand reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements and similar payments on behalf of, advances directors of the Company or guarantees any Subsidiary thereof; and (7) any employment, consulting, service or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Memberstermination agreement, or reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Company or any permitted transferee thereof) Restricted Subsidiary with officers and employees of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries Company or any Parent Entity Subsidiary thereof and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, the payment of compensation to officers and employees of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, employee stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employeesplans), directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same such agreement or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans payment have been approved by a majority of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Disinterested Members.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter Enter into or make or amend any transaction, contractincluding, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit ofwithout limitation, any Affiliate purchase, sale, lease or exchange of Property, the Issuer (each rendering of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer any service or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer payment of any management, advisory or such Restricted Subsidiary similar fees, with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of (other than Parent, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodABL Administrative Borrower, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (Btransaction) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that unless such transaction is otherwise permitted under this Agreement and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Issuer or such ABL Administrative Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries than those that would have been be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of Affiliate. Notwithstanding the Issuer arising solely because foregoing, the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer ABL Administrative Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may (as determined a) [Reserved], (b) enter into and consummate the transactions listed on Schedule 6.10, (c) make Restricted Payments permitted pursuant to Section 6.6 and repayments and prepayments of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.9, (d)(i) make Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries permitted by Section 6.8 and (ii) make Investments permitted by Section 6.8(x), (e) [Reserved], (f) enter into employment and severance arrangements with officers, directors, managers and employees of the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged intoParent, the Issuer or a ABL Administrative Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries and, to the extent relating to services performed for Parent, the ABL Administrative Borrower and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries, pay director, officer and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice employee compensation (including, without limitation, bonuses) and other benefits (including, without limitation, retirement, health, stock option and other benefit plans) and indemnification and expense reimbursement arrangements; provided that any cash management activities related thereto).purchase of Capital Stock of Parent (or any direct or indirect holding company of Parent) in connection with the foregoing shall be subject to Section 6.6, (g) undertake the

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Abl Credit Agreement (GNC Holdings, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, amend or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify in excess any material respect the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to or on the greater Issue Date, if the terms of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% such Affiliate Transaction after giving effect to such extension, renewal, replacement, waiver or other modification, taken as a whole, are more disadvantageous to the Holders of Consolidated EBITDA of Notes in any material respect than the Issuer for original agreement as in effect on the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: Issue Date unless (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsbetween or among the Issuer, taken as a wholeone or more of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, and/or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries that are not materially less favorable also Guarantors; or (2) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair and reasonable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of $10.0 million which is not permitted under clause (1) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Issuer must obtain a resolution of the Issuer for majority of the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (2) above. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $40.0 million which is not permitted under clause (1) above. (b) , the Issuer must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the fairness, from a financial point of view, of such transaction or transactions, as the case may be, from an Independent Financial Advisor. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following:to (1) (A) transactions between or among any Restricted Payment that is not prohibited by the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, provisions described in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSection 4.08; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than any transaction pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) an agreement, arrangement or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) understanding existing on the Issue Date and described in the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Offering Memorandum and that was entered into or amended in compliance with or otherwise permitted to exist under the Existing Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture; (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future any officers, directors, managers, directors or employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntityAffiliate of the Issuer or of such officers, directors or employees as determined in good faith by the Issuer’s Board of Directors or senior management thereof; (4) any transaction between the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and their Affiliates involving ordinary course investment banking, commercial banking or related activities; (5) transactions any transaction with any Affiliate solely in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken capacity as a whole, to the Issuer holder of Indebtedness or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) Capital Stock of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries where such Affiliate is treated no more favorably than holders of such Indebtedness or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawsuch Capital Stock generally; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (146) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer between or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between among the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee on the one hand, and any Affiliate other Person controlled by (as such term is defined in the definition of “Affiliate”) the Issuer, on the other hand, so long as lessor, which is approved (a) at least 25% of the voting securities of such other Person are beneficially owned by the Board of Persons other than the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; any Affiliate thereof, (16b) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of there exists no other substantial business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to relationship between the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by Affiliates and the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms Persons who beneficially own at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by 25% of the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director voting securities of such other Person referred to in clause (a) above, other than the transactions in question, and no such other business relationship is also a director reasonably expected and (c) no portion of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including remaining interest in such other PersonPerson is owned by a Person that controls (as such term is defined in the definition of “Affiliate”) the Issuer, or between or among such Subsidiaries or Persons; (207) Co-Investment Transactions as approved any transaction permitted by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesprovisions described under Section 5.01; and (23) payments to 8) any transaction, the prohibition of which, by operation of this covenant, would violate the “Limitation on Dividend and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries” covenant in the ordinary course of business Existing Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)the indenture governing the Holding Company Notes.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Canwest Media Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into into, make, amend, renew or make or amend extend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10 million, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, fair and reasonable terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Company or such any Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretySubsidiary; and (2) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period25 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in Resolution attached to an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1) above.this covenant and that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members; and (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply with respect to the following: (1) (A) transactions between any Affiliate Transaction or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $150 million or between 3% of Consolidated Total Assets, an opinion issued by an independent accounting, appraisal or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result investment banking firm of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor national standing stating that such transaction Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions is fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are view. Table of Contents (b) The following items will be deemed not materially less favorableto be Affiliate Transactions and, when taken as a wholetherefore, will not be subject to the Issuer provisions of Section 4.05(a): (1) transactions between or among the relevant Company or its Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSubsidiaries; (62) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)Restricted Payments that are permitted under Section 4.04 and Permitted Investments; (73) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer sale of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer Company; (4) transactions pursuant to agreements or arrangements in effect on the Issue Date and described in the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoingOffering Memorandum, or any permitted transferee amendment, modification, or supplement thereto or renewal or replacement thereof) , as long as such agreement or arrangement, as so amended, modified, supplemented, renewed or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries than the agreement or arrangement in existence on the Issue Date as determined by the Disinterested Members of the Issuer or any Board of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required Directors of the Company evidenced by applicable lawa Board Resolution; (115) payments by the Issuer Company (and any direct or indirect parent thereof) and its Subsidiaries pursuant to tax sharing agreements among the Company (and any such parent) and its Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that in each case the amount of such payments in any fiscal year does not exceed the amount that the Company, its Restricted Subsidiaries and its Unrestricted Subsidiaries (to any the extent of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or amounts received from Unrestricted Subsidiaries) would be required to pay in respect of other investment banking activitiesforeign, includingfederal, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by state and local taxes for such fiscal year were the Board of Company and its Subsidiaries (to the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithextent described above) to pay such taxes separately from any such parent entity; (126) paymentspayment of reasonable and customary fees to, loansand reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements and similar payments on behalf of, advances directors of the Company or guarantees any Subsidiary thereof; and (7) any employment, consulting, service or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Memberstermination agreement, or reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Company or any permitted transferee thereof) Restricted Subsidiary with officers and employees of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries Company or any Parent Entity Subsidiary thereof and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, the payment of compensation to officers and employees of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, employee stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employeesplans), directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same such agreement or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans payment have been approved by a majority of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Disinterested Members.

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Sources: Indenture (Zayo Group LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any service) with any Holder (or any Affiliate of its properties such Holder) of 10% or assets to, more of any class of Capital Stock of the Parent or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingParent, an “Affiliate Transaction”) Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million 66,300,000 and (y) 5.00.3% of Consolidated EBITDA consolidated Adjusted Total Assets of the Issuer for Issuers and the Applicable Measurement PeriodRestricted Subsidiaries, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, except upon terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the time of the execution of the agreement providing therefor, in a comparable arm’s-length basis or, transaction with a Person that is not such a Holder or an Affiliate or if in the good faith judgment of the IssuerParent’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactiontransaction, such Affiliate Transaction transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveview. (b) The foregoing provisions limitation set forth in Section 5.12(a) does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) transactions (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf ofParent, or for the benefit ofwhere no such disinterested directors exist, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) by unanimous approval of the Issuer, directors of the Board of Directors of the Parent or (B) for which the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm stating that such the transaction is fair to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view; (2) any transaction solely between an Issuer and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or stating that solely between Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) the terms are not materially less favorablepayment of reasonable fees and compensation (including through the issuance of Capital Stock) to, when taken as a wholeand indemnification and similar arrangements on behalf of, to the Issuer current, former or the relevant future directors, officers, employees or consultants of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of Parent; (4) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Disqualified Stock) of an Issuer; (5) any Restricted Payments not prohibited by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 5.09 and Investments constituting Permitted Investments; (6) any agreement contracts, instruments or arrangement as other agreements or arrangements in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement each case as in effect on the Issue Date)date of this Indenture, and any transactions pursuant thereto or contemplated thereby, or any amendment, modification or supplement thereto or any replacement thereof entered into from time to time, as long as such agreement or arrangements as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuers and the Restricted Subsidiaries at the time executed than the original agreement or arrangements as in effect on the date of this Indenture; (7) the existence ofany employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or the performance customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary with current, former or future officers and employees of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement Parent or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the an Issuer or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions Subsidiary and the payment of all fees compensation to officers and expenses related employees of the Parent, an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary (including amounts paid pursuant to the Transactionsemployee benefit plans, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners employee stock option or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatessimilar plans), in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) 8) loans and advances to officers and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formerParent, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the an Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or guarantees in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees thereof (or cancellation of such loans, advances or guarantees) to future), current or former employeesfor bona fide business purposes, directorsincluding for reasonable moving and relocation, officersentertainment and travel expenses and similar expenses, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) made in the ordinary course of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithbusiness; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (149) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Parent or an Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary an Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns any Equity Interest inCapital Stock of, or controls, controls such Person; (1510) any lease entered transaction with a Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; or (11) the entering into between the Issuer or amending of any Restricted Subsidiarytax sharing, as lessee allocation or similar agreement and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)thereunder.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5.0 million on or after the greater of Issue Date (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodeach, an "AFFILIATE TRANSACTION"), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this Section 4.14 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer;Directors; and (4b) the payment with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid torelated Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, an opinion as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair fairness to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Af- filiate Transaction from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are issued by an Independent Financial Advisor. The following items shall not materially less favorablebe deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, when taken as a wholetherefore, will not be subject to the Issuer or provisions of the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis;prior paragraph: (61) any consulting or employment agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance entered into by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (2) transactions between or among the Issuer and/or its obligations under Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) payment of reasonable directors fees to directors of the terms ofIssuer and any Parent and the provision of customary indemnities to directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Issuer, and any stockholders Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary; (4) issuances and sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Issuer; (5) any tax sharing agreement or arrangement and payments pursuant thereto among the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger Issuer and its Subsidiaries and any similar agreements other Person with which it (the Issuer or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; providedits Subsidiaries is required or permitted to file a consolidated, however, that the existence of, combined or the performance by unitary tax return or with which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is or could be part of a consolidated, combined or unitary group for tax purposes in amounts not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture; (or such Parent Entity6) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be Restricted Payments that are permitted by this clause Section 4.11 or any Permitted Investments; (7) the payment (directly or through any Parent) of annual management, consulting, monitoring and advising fees and related expenses to the extent that Equity Sponsor and its respective Affiliates pursuant to management agreements entered into in connection with the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect Transactions and as described in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DateOffering Memorandum; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made Equity Sponsor and its Affiliates for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures divestitures, which payments are approved by the majority of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer in good faith; provided that the maximum aggregate amount of any such fees in any 12-month period shall not exceed 1.25% of the aggregate transaction value (including enterprise value in connection with acquisitions or divestitures) (or portion thereof) in respect of which such services are rendered (excluding, in any case, commitment or similar fees for providing financing); (129) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) loans to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, employees that are approved in good faith by a majority of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or an amount not to exceed $5.0 million outstanding at any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (time and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally advances and expense reimbursements to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into employees in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practicebusiness; (1710) agreements (and payments relating thereto) entered into in connection with the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage Stock Purchase Agreement and management and similar services to Affiliates as described in the ordinary course of business and otherwise Offering Memorandum, as the same may be amended, modified or replaced from time to time, so long as any amendment, modification or replacement is not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair materially less favorable to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by than the Issuer agreement described in good faith) or are the Offering Memorandum and in effect on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith)date of this Indenture; (1811) an agreement between transactions with a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or joint venture engaged in a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or mergerPermitted Business; provided that all the outstanding ownership interests of such acquisition or merger complied with this covenantjoint venture are owned only by the Issuer, its Restricted Subsidiaries and Persons who are not Affiliates of the Issuer; (1912) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted a Receivables Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute in which the Receivables Subsidiary has an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other PersonInvestment; (2013) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or the senior management purchasers or sellers of the Issuer or any Parent Entity goods, in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into each case in the ordinary course of business business; and (14) transactions which have been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors and with respect to which an Independent Financial Advisor has delivered an opinion as to the fairness to the Issuer or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)such Restricted Subsidiary of such transaction from a financial point of view.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Nortek Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Completion Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Completion Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Completion Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Completion Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Wmih Corp.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property properties or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in arm's-length dealings with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuerthere is no such comparable transaction, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise on terms that are fair and reasonable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretySubsidiary; and (2) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period5.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above.above and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors; and (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $10.0, a written opinion as to the followingfairness to the Company or the relevant Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm that is, in the judgment of the Board of Directors, qualified to render such opinion and is independent with respect to the Company, in each case described in clause (2) above other than any such transactions in the ordinary course of business with an Affiliate engaged in the business of providing helicopter transportation services to the oil and gas industry (or a business that is reasonably complementary or related thereto as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors); provided, however, that the following shall be deemed not to be Affiliate Transactions: (1A) any employment agreement or other employee compensation plan or arrangement entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary; (AB) transactions between or among the Issuer Company and a its Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2C) Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition provisions of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)this Indenture; (3D) (A) the payment of managementloans or advances to officers, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory directors and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses employees of the Investors, Company or any Restricted Subsidiary made in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices of the members of the Board of the IssuerCompany and its Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 outstanding at any one time; (4E) indemnities of officers, directors and employees of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary permitted by bylaw or statutory provisions; (F) the payment of reasonable and customary regular fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) directors of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries who are not employees of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (Company or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafterSubsidiary; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date;and (8) G) the Transactions and redemption or repurchase of or the payment of all fees principal, premium and expenses related to interest on the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) whichCompany's 6% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2003, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Caledonia.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Medic Systems Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Parent Guarantor will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction or arrangement (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, service) with any Affiliate of the Issuer Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretySubsidiary; and (2ii) the Issuer Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (1) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of U.S.$5.0 million (or the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Dollar Equivalent thereof), a Board Resolution or an approval by the audit committee of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Parent Guarantor set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with this covenant and such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors, or by a majority of the members of the audit committee, as applicable; and (2) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of U.S.$10.0 million (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof), in addition to the Board Resolution required in clause (1) above. (b) of this Section 4.1(e)(ii), an opinion as to the fairness to the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an internationally recognized accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm. The foregoing provisions shall limitation does not limit, and will not apply to the followingto: (1i) the payment of reasonable fees, compensation, benefits or indemnity to officers, employees and directors of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; (Aii) transactions between or among the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer and a any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2iii) any Restricted Payments Payment permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition4.1(b); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9iv) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendorsdistributors, contractorsgenerators, joint venture partners transporters or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10v) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (Guarantor or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding U.S.$2.0 million at any time; and (17vi) the provision any issuance of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired bysecurities, or merged intoother payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the Issuer funding of, employment agreements and other compensation arrangements, options to purchase Capital Stock, restricted stock plans, long-term incentive plans, stock appreciation rights plans, participation plans or a Restricted Subsidiary similar employee benefits plans and/or indemnity provided on behalf of officers, directors and not entered into in contemplation employees of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as its subsidiaries approved by the Board of Directors in an aggregate amount not to exceed U.S.$1.5 million (or the senior management Dollar Equivalent thereof) during any fiscal year, calculated at the time of the Issuer such award or any Parent Entity grant and without giving effect to subsequent changes in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)value.

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Sources: Indenture (Camposol Holding PLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, conduct any payment tobusiness or enter into, renew, amend or sellconduct any transaction or series of related transactions (including the purchase, leasesale, transfer lease or otherwise dispose exchange of any assets or the rendering of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, service) with or for the benefit of, of any Affiliate of the Issuer their respective Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsTransaction, taken as a whole, that is on terms which are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been obtained be available in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andan unaffiliated third party; (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any if such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving involves aggregate payments or other consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million 10.0 million, such Affiliate Transaction is in writing and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving Company shall have approved such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying determined that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above.the foregoing provisions, or, in the event that there are no disinterested directors, the Trustee has received a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary involved in such Affiliate Transaction, as the case may be; and (b3) The foregoing provisions if such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involves aggregate payments or other consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of $20.0 million, such Affiliate Transaction is in writing and the Trustee has received a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary involved in such Affiliate Transaction, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the restrictions set forth in this Section 4.13 shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between with or among the Issuer Company and a any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes (so long as no Person (other than a Restricted Subsidiary as a result Subsidiary) that is an Affiliate of the Company has any direct or indirect interest in such transaction and Restricted Subsidiary); (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeRestricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.09; (2C) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (any reasonable and customary issuance of securities, or other than payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise, pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) employment arrangements, or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) any stock options and stock ownership plans for the definition benefit of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) employees, officers and directors, consultants and advisors approved by the Board of such definition)Directors of the Company; (3) (AD) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other customary directors’ fees, indemnities indemnification and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid managementsimilar arrangements, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other consulting fees, indemnities employee salaries, bonuses or employment agreements, compensation or employee benefit arrangements and expenses accrued incentive arrangements with any officer, director or employee of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary entered into in any prior yearthe ordinary course of business (including customary benefits thereunder) and payments under any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuerpermitted by applicable law; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6E) any agreement or arrangement as transactions undertaken pursuant to any contractual obligations in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of existence on the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as obligations are in effect on the Issue Date)Date or as thereafter amended, restated or amended and restated in any manner not materially adverse to the Holders of Notes; (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9F) transactions with customersdistributors, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or other purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partySection 4.09; (10G) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of issue and sale by the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any Company of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawQualified Capital Stock; (11H) payments any transaction with an Affiliate where the only consideration paid by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Personis Qualified Capital Stock; (15I) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate pledge of Capital Stock of Unrestricted Subsidiaries to support the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithIndebtedness thereof; (16J) intellectual property licenses customary shareholders’ and registration rights agreements among the Company or any Subsidiary thereof and the shareholders thereof; and (K) commercial transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) any joint venture to which the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any is a party (so long as no Person (other Person than a Restricted Subsidiary) that would constitute is an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer Company has any direct or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that indirect interest in such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related theretoventure).

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Sources: Indenture (General Cable Corp /De/)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall the Issuer will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly enter into any Transaction (including without limitation making any payment to, or sellselling, leaseleasing, transfer transferring or otherwise dispose disposing of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase purchasing any property or assets from, or enter entering into or make making or amend amending any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Transaction) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their Affiliates involving aggregate consideration in excess of $1.0 million (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsterms that are no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length Transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unaffiliated party; and (ii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $20.0 million, the terms of such Transaction shall have been approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer and by a majority of the Disinterested Members (or, if there is only one Disinterested Member, such Disinterested Member), if any, and the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a resolution adopted by such majority or majorities, as the case may be, of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and resolving that such Affiliate Transaction complies with Section 4.10(a)(i). (b) Section 4.10(a) shall not limit, and shall not apply to; (i) Transactions between or among the Issuer and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries; (ii) Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 4.8; (iii) any issuance or sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer; (iv) Transactions pursuant to agreements or arrangements in effect on the Issue Date, or any amendment, modification, or supplement thereto or replacement thereof, as long as such agreement or arrangement, as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries than the agreement or arrangement in existence on the Issue Date (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Issuer); (v) loans or advances to employees, officers or directors of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not in excess of $5.0 million at any one time outstanding; (vi) payment of reasonable and customary fees and expenses to, and reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements and similar arrangements and payments on behalf of, directors of the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer; (vii) any employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary with officers and employees of the Issuer or any Subsidiary thereof and the payment of compensation to officers and employees of the Issuer or any Subsidiary thereof (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, employee stock option or similar plans), so long as such agreement or payment has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members (or, if there is only one Disinterested Member, such Disinterested Member); (viii) Transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of the business of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture; provided that in the reasonable determination of the members of the Board of Directors or senior management of the Issuer, such Transactions are on terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andPerson; (2ix) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction sale or series other issuance of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of Equity Interests (xother than Disqualified Stock) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodto, or receipt of a resolution adopted by capital contribution from, an Affiliate (or a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (Ban Affiliate) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4x) direct or indirect sales of equipment, supplies, products and services by the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, Issuer or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, Restricted Subsidiaries to any Restricted Subsidiary direct or indirect joint venture of the Issuer or any Parent Entityone of the Restricted Subsidiaries at or above Cost; (5xi) transactions Transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, Subsidiary delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor independent financial advisor stating that such transaction Transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, view; and (xii) Transactions pursuant to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement Master Frac Services Agreement, as in effect or contemplated described in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Offering Memorandum under “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions,” or any amendment amendment, modification or supplement thereto (or replacement thereof so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer agreement, as so amended, modified, supplemented or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on termsreplaced, taken as a whole, that are is not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) adverse to the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) Holders of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Notes.

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Sources: Indenture (FTS International, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into into, make, amend, renew or make or amend extend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsterms that are not less favorable, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable in any material respect to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.5 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Resolution set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1a)(1) aboveabove and that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members. (b) The foregoing provisions shall following items will be deemed not apply to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the following:provisions of Section 4.05(a): (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Company and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any (or an entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposetransaction); (2) (a) Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 10.10 this Indenture and (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(Bb) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor independent accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that meets the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisrequirements of clause (1) of Section 4.05(a); (64) payments or loans (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) or advances to employees or consultants or guarantees in respect thereof for bona fide business purposes in the ordinary course of business; (5) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue DateDate as thereafter amended, supplemented or any amendment thereto replaced (so long as any such amendment is not more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Notes in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)) or any transaction or payments contemplated thereby; (76) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9a) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture Indenture, which are fair to the Issuer Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, Subsidiaries in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer Directors or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsCompany, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party or (as determined by b) transactions with Unrestricted Subsidiaries in the Issuer in good faithordinary course of business; (7) the sale or issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; (8) any contribution to the capital of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock); (189) an agreement between any transaction with a Person and (other than an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19Unrestricted Subsidiary) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that which would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary owns an Equity Interest in or otherwise controls such Person; provided that no Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall have a beneficial interest or otherwise participate in such Person; (10) transactions between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any Person, a director of such other Person which is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent EntityCompany; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Company or such Parent Entitydirect or indirect parent of the Company, as the case may be, on any matter including involving such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (2211) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and; (2312) payments to transactions with Affiliates solely in their capacity as holders of Indebtedness or Equity Interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as such transaction is with all holders of such class (and fromthere are such non-Affiliate holders) and such Affiliates are treated no more favorably than all other holders of such class generally; (13) the existence of, and transactions withor the performance by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of their obligations under the terms of, any joint ventures customary registration rights agreement to which they are a party or become a party in the future; (14) any employment agreements entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and the payment of reasonable and customary fees and reimbursements paid to, and customary indemnity and similar arrangements provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees or consistent consultants of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (to the extent relating to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries) any other direct or indirect parent of the Company; (15) any transaction effected as part of a Qualified Receivables Financing permitted hereunder; (16) the issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock option and stock ownership plans or similar employee benefit plans approved by the Board of Directors of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, as appropriate, in good faith; and (17) any employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with past practice current, former or future officers and employees of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and the payment of compensation to officers and employees of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (includingincluding amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, without limitationemployee stock option or similar plans), any cash management activities related thereto)in each case in the ordinary course of business.

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Sources: Indenture (Cogent Communications Group Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Garden State will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any payment totransaction (or series of related transactions) (each a "Transaction") with any Affiliate of Garden State or any Unrestricted Subsidiary of Garden State, including, without limitation, any sale, purchase, lease or sell, leaseloan or any other direct or indirect payment, transfer or otherwise dispose other disposition of any of its properties or assets toassets, or purchase any property or assets fromservices, unless (a) such Transaction is on terms no less favorable to Garden State or enter into or make or amend such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm's-length transaction with an independent third party (the "Fairness Condition") and (b) prior to effecting such Transaction, Garden State shall deliver to the Trustee (i) with respect to any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) Transaction involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $1.0 million, an officers' certificate certifying that a majority of the greater disinterested members of the Board of Directors of Garden State has approved such Transaction and has determined that the terms of such Transaction satisfy the Fairness Condition and (ii) in addition, with respect to any Transaction involving (x) aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 1.0 million and in which there are no disinterested directors or (y) 5.0% aggregate consideration in excess of Consolidated EBITDA $10.0 million, a written opinion from a nationally recognized investment banking firm stating that the terms of such Transaction satisfy the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that Fairness Condition or are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Garden State or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and view. Clause (2b)(ii)(y) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result purchases of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case newsprint in the ordinary course of business by Garden State and its Restricted Subsidiaries from Affiliates of Garden State or of its Restricted Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this provision will not apply to (A) any Transaction between Garden State and a Restricted Subsidiary of Garden State, or between Restricted Subsidiaries of Garden State (PROVIDED that are consistent with past practice in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, no affiliate of Garden State is a direct or indirect investor in such Subsidiary other than through Garden State), and otherwise any transaction, in compliance with the terms ordinary course of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer business, between Garden State and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in on the reasonable determination one hand, and Denver Newspapers or its wholly owned Subsidiaries (as long as Denver Newspapers is a Subsidiary of ANI), on the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereofother hand, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; the making of Permitted Investments, (11C) payments by the Issuer or any making of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or Payments in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection accordance with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsSection 4.10, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17D) the provision making of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied Permitted Intercompany Payments. In connection with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or , any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because determination regarding whether a director is "disinterested" will be made on the basis of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that whether such director abstains from voting as has, among other things, a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into personal stake in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, transactions requiring any cash management activities related thereto)such determination to be made.

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Sources: Indenture (Garden State Newspapers Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Stage I Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transactiontransaction or series of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Stage I Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsterms that, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Stage I Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could reasonably have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Stage I Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyunaffiliated party; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5,000,000, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of Stage I Issuer delivers to the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Stage I Trustee a resolution adopted in good faith by a the majority of the Board of Directors of the Stage I Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above.; and (biii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $20,000,000, the Stage I Issuer must obtain and deliver to the Stage I Trustee a written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, accounting or appraisal firm (an “Independent Financial Advisor”) stating that the transaction is fair to the Stage I Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view. The foregoing provisions limitation does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between or among Restricted Payments that are permitted by the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms provisions of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposepursuant to Section 4.7 or Permitted Investments; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and indemnities to members of the Board of Directors of the Stage I Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary; (3) the payment (and any agreement, plan or arrangement relating thereto) of reasonable and customary compensation paid toand other benefits (including retirement, health, option, deferred compensation and other benefit plans) and indemnities to officers and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Stage I Issuer or any Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary; (4) transactions between or among the Stage I Issuer and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries; (5) transactions the issuance of Capital Interests (other than Redeemable Capital Interests) of the Stage I Issuer otherwise permitted hereunder and the granting of registration and other customary rights in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisconnection therewith; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect on June 18, 2013 and any amendment, extension or contemplated in modification thereto so long as such amendment, extension or modification is not more disadvantageous to the good faith determination Holders of the Stage I Notes in any material respect; (7) any agreement between any Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by or merged into the Stage I Issuer as or a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of the Issue Datesuch acquisition or merger, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment amendment, extension or modification is not more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Stage I Notes in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)respect; (78) transactions in which the Stage I Issuer delivers to the Stage I Trustee a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Stage I Issuer and any relevant Restricted Subsidiaries; (9) any contribution of capital to the Stage I Issuer; (10) the existence of, or the performance by the Stage I Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related theretoagreement) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger as of June 18, 2013 and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Stage I Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under under, any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date June 18, 2013 shall only be permitted by this clause (710) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue DateJune 18, 2013; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (911) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesdo not directly or indirectly, own Capital Interests in the Stage I Issuer and in which the Stage I Issuer does not, directly or indirectly, own Capital Interests, in each case case, in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesparty; and (2312) payments the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Transactions.

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Sources: First Supplemental Indenture (Jack Cooper Logistics, LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Parent will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into into, make, amend, renew or make extend any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their Affiliates, in each case involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5 million (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsterms that, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Parent or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Parent or such any Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety(as determined by the Parent); and (2) the Issuer Parent delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (A) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period25 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Resolution set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this Section 4.11 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock Affiliate Transaction or series of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer;Disinterested Members; and (4B) the payment with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid torelated Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $50 million, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an opinion issued by an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions is fair to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view. (b) The following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of Section 4.11(a) hereof: (1) transactions between or stating among the Parent and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries; (2) Restricted Payments that are permitted by the terms are not materially less favorableprovisions of Section 4.07 and Permitted Investments; (3) any issuance or sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of, when or capital contributions to, the Parent; (4) transactions pursuant to agreements or arrangements in effect on the Issue Date and referenced in the Offering Circular, or any amendment, modification, or supplement thereto or replacement thereof, as long as such agreement or arrangement, as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuer or Parent and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) 5) payments by the Transactions Parent and its Subsidiaries pursuant to tax sharing agreements among the Parent and its Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Parent and its Subsidiaries; provided that in each case the amount of such payments in any fiscal year does not exceed the amount that the Parent, its Restricted Subsidiaries and its Unrestricted Subsidiaries (to the extent of amounts received from Unrestricted Subsidiaries) would be required to pay in respect of foreign, federal, state and local taxes for such fiscal year were the Parent and its Subsidiaries (to the extent described above) to pay such taxes separately from any such parent entity; (6) payment of reasonable and customary fees and reimbursement of expenses paid to, and reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements and similar payments on behalf of, directors of the Parent or any Subsidiary thereof; (7) any employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or reasonable and customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary with officers, employees and consultants of the Parent or any Subsidiary thereof and the payment of all fees compensation, reimbursement of expenses paid or loans (or cancellation of loans) to officers, employees and expenses related to consultants of the TransactionsParent or any Subsidiary thereof (including issuances of securities and other payments, including Transaction Expensesawards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employee benefit plans, employee stock option or similar plans), entered into in the ordinary course of business or otherwise approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members; (8) purchases and sales of raw materials or Inventory in the ordinary course of business on market terms; (9) (a) transactions with customers, clients, lessors, landlords, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, or transactions otherwise relating to the purchase or sale of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture Indenture, which are fair to the Issuer Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries, Subsidiaries in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer Directors or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) paymentsParent, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party or (as determined by b) transactions with Joint Ventures or Unrestricted Subsidiaries entered into in the Issuer in good faith)ordinary course of business; (1810) an agreement between transactions with a Person and (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Parent) that is an Affiliate of the Parent solely because the Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent owns an equity interest in or otherwise controls such Person; (11) the formation and maintenance of any consolidated group or subgroup for tax, accounting or cash pooling or management purposes in the ordinary course of business; (12) transactions entered into by a Person existing at prior to the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is acquired by, merged or merged into, consolidated into the Issuer Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary and (provided such transaction is not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenantevent); (1913) transactions permitted by, and complying with, the provisions of Section 5.01; (14) transactions in which the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee an opinion issued by an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction or series of related transactions is fair to the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and that the terms are not materially less favorable to the Parent or its relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis; (15) transactions between the Issuer Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because Person, a director of such other Person which is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent EntityParent; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including involving such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (2316) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course customary transaction with a Receivables Entity effected as part of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)a Qualified Receivables Transaction.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Tronox LTD)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Borrower will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower (each of the foregoingeach, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2ii) the Issuer Borrower delivers to the Trustee Agent: (1) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period50 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Borrower's Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause this Section 5.08 and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of such Board of Directors; and (12) abovewith respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $150 million, an opinion as to the fairness to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing. (b) The foregoing provisions shall following items will not apply be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the following:provisions of paragraph (a): E-57 TABLE OF CONTENTS (1i) any employment agreement or director's engagement agreement, employee benefit plan, officer indemnification agreement or similar agreement entered into by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary; (Aii) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Borrower and/or its Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14iii) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising Borrower solely because the Issuer Borrower owns, directly or any through a Restricted Subsidiary owns any Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15iv) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiarypayment of reasonable directors fees and provision to directors, as lessee officers and any Affiliate employees of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithcustomary indemnities and customary benefits pursuant to employee benefit plans and similar arrangements; (16v) intellectual property licenses sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Borrower; (vi) (A) corporate sharing agreements among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with respect to tax sharing and general overhead and other administrative matters and (B) any other intercompany arrangements disclosed or described in the Borrower's report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003 (including the exhibits thereto), all as in effect on the date hereof, and any amendment or replacement of any of the foregoing so long as such amendment or replacement agreement is not less advantageous to the Borrower in any material respect than the agreement so amended or replaced, as such agreement was in effect on the date hereof; (vii) transactions entered into as part of a Permitted Receivables Financing; (viii) Restricted Payments that are permitted by the provisions of Section 5.03 hereof; (ix) loans or advances to employees in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services not to Affiliates exceed $10 million in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms aggregate outstanding at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesone time; and (23x) payments any agreement, instrument or arrangement as in effect on the date hereof or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into amendment thereto) in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the ordinary course Lenders in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the date hereof as determined in good faith by the Chief Financial Officer or other senior financial officer of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)the Borrower.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Williams Companies Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any service) with any Holder (or any Affiliate of its properties such Holder) of 10% or assets to, more of any class of Capital Stock of the Parent or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingParent, an “Affiliate Transaction”) Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million 35,000,000 and (y) 5.00.3% of Consolidated EBITDA consolidated Adjusted Total Assets of the Issuer for Issuers and the Applicable Measurement PeriodRestricted Subsidiaries, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, except upon terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the time of the execution of the agreement providing therefor, in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not such a Holder or an Affiliate or if in the good faith judgment of the IssuerParent’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactiontransaction, such Affiliate Transaction transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveview. (b) The foregoing provisions limitation set forth in Section 5.12(a) does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) transactions (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf ofParent, or for the benefit ofwhere no such disinterested directors exist, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) by unanimous approval of the Issuer, directors of the Board of Directors of the Parent or (B) for which the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm stating that such the transaction is fair to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view; (2) any transaction solely between an Issuer and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or stating that solely between Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) the terms are not materially less favorablepayment of reasonable fees and compensation (including through the issuance of Capital Stock) to, when taken as a wholeand indemnification and similar arrangements on behalf of, to the Issuer current, former or the relevant future directors, officers, employees or consultants of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of Parent; (4) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Disqualified Stock) of an Issuer; (5) any Restricted Payments not prohibited by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 5.09 and Investments constituting Permitted Investments; (6) any agreement contracts, instruments or arrangement as other agreements or arrangements in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement each case as in effect on the Issue Date)date of this Indenture, and any transactions pursuant thereto or contemplated thereby, or any amendment, modification or supplement thereto or any replacement thereof entered into from time to time, as long as such agreement or arrangements as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuers and the Restricted Subsidiaries at the time executed than the original agreement or arrangements as in effect on the date of this Indenture; (7) the existence ofany employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or the performance customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary with current, former or future officers and employees of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement Parent or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the an Issuer or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions Subsidiary and the payment of all fees compensation to officers and expenses related employees of the Parent, an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary (including amounts paid pursuant to the Transactionsemployee benefit plans, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners employee stock option or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatessimilar plans), in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) 8) loans and advances to officers and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formerParent, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the an Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or guarantees in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees thereof (or cancellation of such loans, advances or guarantees) to future), current or former employeesfor bona fide business purposes, directorsincluding for reasonable moving and relocation, officersentertainment and travel expenses and similar expenses, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) made in the ordinary course of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithbusiness; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (149) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Parent or an Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary an Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns any Equity Interest inCapital Stock of, or controls, controls such Person; (1510) any lease entered transaction with a Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; or (11) the entering into between the Issuer or amending of any Restricted Subsidiarytax sharing, as lessee allocation or similar agreement and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)thereunder.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Issuer, and following the Proposed PTP Conversion, the PTP Parent, each will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Entity under their respective control to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates, including for the avoidance of doubt, any Investment Vehicle that is an Affiliate of the Issuer or, following the Proposed PTP Conversion, the PTP Parent (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.5 million, unless: (1) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or at such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person time on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of $10.0 million, the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) terms of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, Affiliate Transaction will be approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, the approval to be evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions; and (3) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of $20.0 million, (i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction will be approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, the approval to be evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions and (ii) the Issuer will, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the Issuer and the relevant Restricted Entity (if any) from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and deliver the same to the Trustee. (b) Section 4.13(a) will not apply to: (1) Affiliate Transactions with or among the Issuer and any Restricted Entity or between or among Restricted Entities; (42) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary agents of the Issuer or any Parent EntityRestricted Entity as determined in good faith by the Issuer; (53) transactions Affiliate Transactions (i) in which existence on the Issuer Issue Date and (ii) in existence immediately following and as a result of the completion of the Proposed PTP Conversion, or any of its Restricted Subsidiariesnecessary or advisable to complete the Proposed PTP Conversion, in each case, as the case may be, delivers Issuer has determined in good faith would not result in a material adverse effect to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that interests of the Holders, or any amendment, modification or replacement of such transaction agreement (so long as such amendment, modification or replacement is fair not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuer and its Restricted Entities or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorableHolders, when taken as a whole, to than the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (74) any Restricted Payments made in compliance with Section 4.9 or any Permitted Investment; (5) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the existence ofIssuer or any Restricted Entity customary in the industry in which the Issuer operates and related to the business activities of the Issuer and the Restricted Entities; (6) any employment agreement or arrangement, profit sharing, employee benefit plan, officer or the performance director indemnification agreement, issuance or grant of securities or stock options, consulting agreement or arrangement, restrictive covenant agreement, incentive compensation plan, expense reimbursement arrangement or any similar arrangement entered into by the Issuer or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries Entities in the ordinary course of its obligations under business or consistent with past practice and payments pursuant thereto; (7) any transaction permitted by Section 5.1; (8) transactions between the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary or, following the Proposed PTP Conversion, between the PTP Parent or any other Restricted Entity) is a party in connection with , on the Merger one hand, and any similar agreements which it (Investment Vehicle managed or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance advised by the Issuer or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries Entities, on the other hand, in each case so long as such transactions are (x) in the ordinary course of business for the Issuer, the PTP Parent, any Restricted Subsidiary or any Restricted Entity, as the case may be, including collateral management agreements and fee and expense arrangements, (y) on commercial terms generally consistent with industry standards for transactions with investment vehicles of similar types, including concessions to improve the marketability of such Parent EntityInvestment Vehicle, and (z) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after on commercial terms that, in each case, the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) Issuer has determined in good faith would not result in a material adverse effect to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment interests of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses;Holders; and (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture Indenture, which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries Entities (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) applicable), or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by party, in the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director faith judgment of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Issuer.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (CIFC Corp.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Parent will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transactiontransaction or series of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Parent (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.0 million, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Parent or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could reasonably have been obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction by the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyunaffiliated party; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5.0 million, Parent delivers to the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Trustee a resolution adopted in good faith by a the majority of the Board of the Issuer Directors of Parent approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Transaction; and (iii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction complies with clause or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, Parent must obtain and deliver to the Trustee a written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, accounting or appraisal firm (1an “Independent Financial Advisor”) above. (b) stating that the transaction is fair to Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view. The foregoing provisions limitation does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between or among Restricted Payments that are permitted by the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms provisions of this Indenture pursuant to Section 4.7 and effected for a bona fide business purposePermitted Investments permitted under this Indenture; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and indemnities to members of the Board of Directors of Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary who are outside directors; (3) the payment of reasonable and customary compensation paid toand other benefits (including retirement, health, option, deferred compensation and other benefit plans) and indemnities to officers and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to employees of Parent or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary as determined by the Board of the Issuer Directors thereof in good faith; (4) transactions between or any among Parent Entityand/or its Restricted Subsidiaries; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any issuance of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point Capital Interests (other than Redeemable Capital Interests) of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisParent; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of on the Issue Date, or Date and any amendment or modification thereto (so long as any such amendment or modification is not more disadvantageous to the holders of the Notes in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)respect; (7) transactions approved by the majority of Disinterested Directors in which Parent delivers to the Trustee a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to Parent and any relevant Restricted Subsidiaries; (8) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with as of the Merger Issue Date and any similar agreements which that it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under under, any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) 8) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous to the holders of the Notes in any material respect as determined in the good faith judgment of by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DateDirectors of Parent; (8) 9) the Refinancing Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expensesin connection therewith; (910) any contribution of capital to Parent; (11) transactions permitted by, and complying with, Section 5.1; (12) transactions with any joint venture; provided that all the outstanding ownership interests of such joint venture are owned only by Parent, its Restricted Subsidiaries and Persons that are not Affiliates of Parent; (13) transactions with Affiliates solely in their capacity as holders of Debt or Capital Interests of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as such transaction is with all holders of such class (and there are such non-Affiliate holders) and such Affiliates are treated no more favorably than all other holders of such class generally; (14) the entering into of any tax sharing, allocation or similar agreement and any payments by Parent (or any other direct or indirect parent of Parent) or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to any tax sharing, allocation or similar agreement; provided that the amount of such payments for any taxable year shall not exceed the amount permitted under clause (xi)(a) of the second paragraph of Section 4.7; (15) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) whichservices, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which consistent with past practice and on terms that are fair no less favorable to Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (case may be, as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been faith by Parent, than those that could be obtained at such time from in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith)Affiliate of Parent; (1816) an transactions effected as part of a Qualified Receivables Transaction; (17) any agreement between a any Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, by or merged into, the Issuer or consolidated with or into Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of Subsidiary, as such acquisition agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended or mergerrenewed from time to time; provided that such acquisition agreement was not entered into contemplation of such acquisition, merger or consolidation, and so long as any such amendment, modification, supplement, extension or renewal, when taken as a whole, is not more disadvantageous to the holders of the Notes in any material respect, than the applicable agreement as in effect on the date of such acquisition, merger complied with this covenant;or consolidation; and (1918) transactions between the Issuer or Parent and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a or director of such other Person which is also a director of the Issuer Parent or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that direct or indirect parent of its company so long as such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Parent as such direct or such Parent Entityindirect parent, as the case may be, on any matter including involving such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Ryerson Holding Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of "), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2ii) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee (A) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions entered into after the Closing Date involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period500,000, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer above and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors and (B) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate consideration in excess of $3 million, an opinion as to the Issuer; (4) fairness to the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to Company or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted such Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view or stating issued by an investment banking firm of national standing; provided that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7ii) shall not apply to transactions under the extent that agreement dated on or about the terms of any such amendment Closing Date (the "Real Estate Agreement") among one or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment more Affiliates of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions Carmel Trust and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, Company in accordance with the terms of such securities Real Estate Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals or loans; (14) transactions with a Person supplements thereto; provided that is an Affiliate any such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal or supplement to the Real 51 57 Estate Agreement contains provisions that are no less favorable to the Holders of the Issuer arising solely because Notes than those contained in the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between Real Estate Agreement as in effect on the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee Closing Date and any Affiliate has been approved by a majority of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors as evidenced by a resolution of the Issuer Board of Directors set forth in good faith;an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee. (161) intellectual property licenses the provision of administrative or management services by the Company or any of its officers to any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (2) any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement, employee benefit plan or any similar arrangement heretofore or hereafter entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of the Company or consistent with past practice; such Subsidiary, (173) transactions between or among the provision Company and/or its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, (4) transactions permitted by Section 4.05, (5) payment of mortgage servicingreasonable and customary compensation to employees, mortgage loan originationofficers, real estate logisticsdirectors or consultants in the ordinary course of business, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates (6) maintenance in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired bybenefit programs, or merged intoarrangements for employees, the Issuer officers or a Restricted Subsidiary directors, including vacation plans, health and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; providedlife insurance plans, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and fromdeferred compensation plans, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business retirement or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)savings plans and similar plans.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Kragen Auto Supply Co)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Company (other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary), in one transaction or a series of transactions (each of the foregoing, foregoing an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of "), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2ii) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions after the Closing Date involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period500,000, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s 's Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. , (b) The foregoing provisions with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions after the Closing Date involving an aggregate consideration in excess of $2 million, a resolution described in an Officers' Certificate, certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above and such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company and (c) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions after the Closing Date involving aggregate consideration in excess of $5 million, an opinion as to the fairness to the Company of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of recognized national standing; provided that the following types of transactions shall not apply to the following: constitute Affiliate Transactions: (1) any transaction with an officer or director of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such individual's compensation (Aincluding directors' fees), employee benefits, severance arrangements or indemnification (to the extent consistent with applicable law and the charter and bylaws of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary), in each case entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (2) transactions between or among the Issuer Company and a its Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Subsidiaries, (3) Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity Payments that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result are permitted by the provisions of such transaction and Section 4.7; (B4) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation sales of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer Company made at prevailing market rates; and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariesloans to officers, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination directors and employees of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case made in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair an aggregate amount not to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained exceed $1 million at such any one time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)outstanding.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Louisiana Ship Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, conduct any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, business or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or exchange of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance Property or guarantee the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Company (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction"), unless (i) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess the terms of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially (A) set forth in writing and (B) no less favorable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been could be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the IssuerCompany, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, (ii) if such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving involves aggregate payments or consideration value in excess of $10,000,000, the greater Board of Directors (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by including a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer approving Directors) approves such Affiliate Transaction and set forth and, in an Officer’s Certificate certifying its good faith judgment, believes that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply of this paragraph as evidenced by a Board Resolution promptly delivered to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction Trustee and (Biii) any mergerif such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $25,000,000, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for Company obtains a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses written opinion from an Independent Appraiser to the Investors (plus any unpaid managementeffect that the consideration to be paid or received in connection with such Affiliate Transaction is fair, consultingfrom a financial point of view, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, Company or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any such Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be. (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, delivers the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into or suffer to exist the Trustee following: (i) any transaction or series of transactions between the Company and one or more Restricted Subsidiaries or between two or more Restricted Subsidiaries; PROVIDED that no more than 5% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or fully diluted basis) of any such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction is owned by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination Affiliate of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto Company (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as other than a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DateRestricted Subsidiary); (7ii) the existence ofany Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.06; (iii) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms funding of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).,

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (LTV Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Unless the Notes are rated the Required Rating (during which time this Section 4.11 will not be in effect), Lennar shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make any payment loan, advance, guarantee or capital contribution to, or for the benefit of, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties property or assets to, or for the benefit of, or purchase or lease any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance agreement or guarantee understanding with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each Lennar or any -48- 55 Affiliate of any of Lennar's Subsidiaries or any holder of 10% or more of the foregoingCommon Equity of Lennar (including any Affiliates of such holders), in a single transaction or series of related transactions (each, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments "), except for any Affiliate Transaction the terms of which are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by Lennar or consideration such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in excess a comparable transaction made on an arm's length basis with Persons who are not such a holder, an Affiliate of the greater such a holder or an Affiliate of (x) $25.0 million Lennar or any of Lennar's Subsidiaries. In addition, Lennar shall not, and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodshall not cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into an Affiliate Transaction unless: (1) with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction involving or having a value of more than $5 million, Lennar shall have (x) obtained the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors of Lennar and (y) either obtained the approval of a majority of Lennar's disinterested directors or obtained an opinion of a qualified independent financial advisor or, if applicable, a qualified independent real estate appraisal firm to the effect that such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable fair to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Lennar or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orSubsidiary, if in as the good faith judgment of the Issuercase may be, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any such Affiliate Transaction involving or series having a value of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of more than $25 million, Lennar shall have (x) $50.0 million obtained the approval of a majority of the Board of Directors of Lennar and (y) 10.0% delivered to the Trustee an opinion of Consolidated EBITDA a qualified independent financial advisor or, if applicable, a qualified independent real estate appraisal firm to the effect that such Affiliate Transaction is fair to Lennar or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view. (b) The restrictions set forth in paragraph (a) of this Section 4.11 shall not apply to: (1) reasonable fees and compensation paid to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees, consultants or agents of Lennar or any Subsidiary of Lennar as determined in good faith by Lennar's Board of Directors or senior management, (2) any contract, agreement or understanding with, or for the benefit of, or plan for the benefit of, employees of Lennar or its Subsidiaries generally (in their capacities as such) that has been approved by the Board of Directors of Lennar, (3) Capital Stock issuances to directors, officers and employees of Lennar or its Subsidiaries pursuant to plans approved by the stockholders of Lennar, (4) any Restricted Payment otherwise permitted under Section 4.10, (5) any transaction between or among Lennar and one or more Restricted Subsidiaries or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries (provided, however, no such transaction shall involve any other Affiliate of Lennar (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary to the extent the applicable amount constitutes a Restricted Payment permitted by the Indenture)), (6) any transaction between one or more Restricted Subsidiaries and one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries where all of the Issuer for payments to, or other benefits conferred upon, such Unrestricted Subsidiaries are substantially contemporaneously dividended, or otherwise distributed or transferred without charge, to Lennar or a Restricted Subsidiary, and (7) transactions between or among Lennar or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof and Lennar Land Partners I and Lennar Land Partners II, both Delaware general partnerships (collectively the Applicable Measurement Period"Land Partnership"); provided, a resolution adopted that such transactions are (i) permitted by and are effected in accordance with the terms of the Partnership Agreement of the Land Partnership and the By-Laws of Lennar, in each case as in effect on the Issue Date and (ii) are in any event approved by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveDirectors of Lennar. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

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Sources: Indenture (Lennar Corp /New/)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Borrower will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend the rendering of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer its Affiliates (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction, at the time such transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person was entered into, on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower; (ii) in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying event that such Affiliate Transaction complies involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orFair Market Value, in any caseexcess of $5 million, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted such Affiliate Transaction will be approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the IssuerBorrower (including a majority of the disinterested members thereof), the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the preceding provisions; and (iii) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of $10 million, the Borrower will, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the Borrower and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (if any) from a financial point of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the Administrative Agent. (b) Section 5.11(a) above will not apply to: (i) Affiliate Transactions with or among the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries, excluding any Affiliate Transaction with a Restricted Subsidiary in which Vitro or any of its Affiliates directly or indirectly own any Capital Stock (other than by virtue of ownership by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries or the issuance to Vitro or any of its Affiliates of any nominal shares of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries as required by applicable law); (4ii) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managersemployees, employees consultants or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) agents of the Issuer, Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions as determined in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction good faith by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Borrower's Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer Directors (including contributions to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Dateemployee stock option plans maintained by Vitro and its Subsidiaries); (7iii) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Affiliate Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case undertaken in the ordinary course of business pursuant to any contractual obligations or rights in existence on the Effective Date (as in effect on the Effective Date) or any amendments, extensions or renewals of such contractual obligations on comparable terms; (iv) any Restricted Payments made in compliance with Section 5.05; (v) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary for travel, entertainment, moving and other relocation expenses, in each case made in the ordinary course of business, and not exceeding in the aggregate $300,000 outstanding at any one time; (vi) Affiliate Transactions on an arm's-length basis with Vitro or any Subsidiary of Vitro (other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) that are consist of (1) the purchase or sales of goods and services (including accounting services) or the leasing of real estate or equipment in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair practice; (2) payments made to Vitro or its Subsidiaries relating to the Issuer use and its Restricted Subsidiariesdevelopment of intellectual property; and (3) purchases, leases or sales of assets up to an aggregate amount of $5 million in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partyany fiscal year; (10vii) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) the assumption of the Issuer rights and obligations under a lease agreement relating to an airplane pursuant to which aggregate annual payments of approximately $7 million will be made, (B) the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any use of the foregoingairplane identified in the prior clause (A), or any permitted transferee thereofreplacement airplane, by customers, directors and officers of Vitro and its Affiliates, and (C) performance under outsourcing agreement entered into for hangar, maintenance, repair and operating services relating to the airplane identified in clause (A), or any replacement airplane, involving aggregate annual payments of up to $8 million; (viii) (A) loans, advances or other extensions of credits (including guarantees) by Vitro or its Affiliates made to the Issuer Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or and any Parent Entity payments made in connection therewith, and (B) directors’ qualifying shares any hedging agreements or arrangements entered into between Vitro or its Affiliates, on the one hand, and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, and any payments made in connection therewith, in each case so long as the terms thereof are no less favorable to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries to than could have been obtained on an arm's-length basis; (ix) any management, administrative, information technology or similar services performed by Vitro or its Affiliates for the benefit of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and any payments made in connection therewith, so long as the Investors aggregate amount of all payments made pursuant to this clause (ix) in any calendar year does not exceed 1.50% of the net sales of the Borrower (determined on a consolidated basis) for such year; and (x) services rendered by Vitro or its Affiliates for the benefit of the Borrower or any financial advisoryof its Subsidiaries, financing, underwriting and any payments in connection therewith not in excess of Vitro's or placement services or in respect its Affiliates' cost of other investment banking activitiesrendering such services, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved made by the Board of the Issuer Borrower or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements in connection with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsinformation technology services, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect the salaries of securities or loans Vitro's Chairman of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause Board and Chief Executive Officer and (AC) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer Clinica Vitro, El ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Vitro Club.

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Sources: Loan Agreement (Vitro Sa De Cv)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of ), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’sa non-length basis orAffiliated Person, if in or (ii) the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which amount paid to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration not substantially in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA fair value of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted services rendered by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveAffiliate. (b) The foregoing provisions of clause (a) above shall not apply to the followingprohibit: (1i) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees employment arrangements (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon customary benefits thereunder) entered into by the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as Subsidiaries in the case may be, delivers to ordinary course of business and consistent with the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to past practice of the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSubsidiary; (6ii) transactions solely between or among the Borrower and its Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries or solely between or among Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries; (iii) transactions permitted under Section 6.06; (iv) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in on the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Effective Date and listed on Schedule 6.09 or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) and any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Lenders in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Effective Date); (7v) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Borrower or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with on the Merger and any similar agreements which it Effective Date; (or any Parent Entityvi) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment services provided to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Issue Date shall only be permitted Borrower for fees approved by this clause (7) to a majority of the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date;Borrower; or (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related vii) subject to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair Agreement, including but not limited to Sections 6.02, 6.05 and 6.12, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiariesissuance, in the reasonable determination sale or other disposition of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) any Equity Interests Interest (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary Borrower, including any equity-related agreements relating thereto such as registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) voting agreements so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders such agreements do not result in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)being Disqualified Stock.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Radio One Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Parent will not, and shall will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Parent and any Restricted Subsidiary (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate involving, with respect to any such transaction or series of related transactions, payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period1.0 million, unless: (1) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially either (a) no less favorable to the Issuer Parent or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, Affiliate of the Parent and any Restricted Subsidiary or (b) if in the good faith judgment of the IssuerParent’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Parent or such the relevant Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyview; and (2) the Issuer Parent delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (A) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period25.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Parent set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this Section 4.11 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock Affiliate Transaction or series of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer;Parent; and (4B) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $50.0 million, an opinion issued to the payment Board of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) Directors of the IssuerParent by an accounting, any Restricted Subsidiary appraisal or investment banking firm of international standing or generally recognized in the Issuer shipping or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in offshore drilling industries as qualified to perform the tasks for which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, such firm has been engaged as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair fairness to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view or stating that the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially no less favorable, when taken as a whole, favorable to the Issuer Parent or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis;Affiliate of the Parent and any Restricted Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration of $25.0 million or less, the determination that such Affiliate Transaction or series of Affiliate Transactions complies with this covenant may be made by a Financial Officer of the Parent. (6b) The following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions, as applicable, and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of Section 4.11(a): (1) any employment agreement, employee benefit plan, compensation plan or arrangement, officer or director indemnification agreement or any similar arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance entered into by the Issuer Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business and payments pursuant thereto; (2) payment of reasonable directors’ fees to directors of the Parent or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with any Restricted Subsidiary; (3) transactions solely between or among the terms Parent and/or any of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (104) the issuance or transfer sale of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing Parent to, or receipt of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formercapital contributions from, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any Affiliates of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawParent; (115) payments by loans or advances to employees of the Issuer Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its Restricted Subsidiaries business not to exceed $7.5 million in the aggregate at any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithone time outstanding; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (146) transactions with a Person (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising Parent solely because the Issuer Parent owns, directly or any through a Restricted Subsidiary owns any Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (157) any lease entered into between Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments that do not violate the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate provisions of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithSection 4.07; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in 8) transactions between the ordinary course Parent or any of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would not otherwise constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a except for the fact that one director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer Parent or any Parent Entitysuch Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable; provided, however, provided that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Parent or such Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary, as the case may beapplicable, on any matter including involving such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (239) payments any agreement as in effect on the Issue Date or any amendments, renewals or extensions of any such agreement (so long as such amendments, renewals or extensions are not less favorable to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related theretoHolders).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Pacific Drilling S.A.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or Subsidiary to enter into any transaction or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, series of related transactions having a value in excess of $10.0 million with or for the benefit of, any of an Affiliate of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary, including any Investment unless such transaction is on terms not materially less favorable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary (each taken as a whole) than those that could reasonably be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with an entity that is not an Affiliate or is otherwise fair to the Issuer from a financial point of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) view. For any transaction or series of related transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration value in excess of the greater $50.0 million, such transaction or series of related transactions is approved by either (x) $25.0 million and a majority of the Disinterested Directors of the Board of Directors of Holdings, if any, or in the event there is only one Disinterested Director, by such Disinterested Director, or (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA the audit committee of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unlessBoard of Directors of Holdings (with any Director on such committee that is not a Disinterested Director recusing himself or herself). (b) The preceding requirements shall not apply to: (1) any transaction pursuant to agreements in effect on the Issue Date, as these agreements may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time, so long as any such Affiliate Transaction amendment, modification, supplement, extension or renewal is on termsnot more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, when taken as a whole, than the terms of the agreements in effect on the Issue Date; (2) any employment, severance and other compensatory agreement or employee benefit arrangements with any future, present or former officers, directors, members of management, consultants and employees, including under any stock option or stock incentive plans, entered into by Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof), the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof), the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary or approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors and transactions pursuant to equity award plans and employee benefit plans and arrangements, in each case solely to the extent attributable to the ownership or operations of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) (x) transactions between or among the Issuer and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries and (y) any Guarantees issued by the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary for the benefit of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in accordance with Section 4.9; (4) any transaction with any Person (x) that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate of the Issuer as a result of such transaction or (y) that is an Affiliate of the Issuer solely because the Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns Capital Stock in, or controls, such Person; (5) payments to or from, and transactions with, joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business; (6) payment of reasonable directors fees to Persons who are not otherwise employees of the Issuer; (7) indemnities and reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses of officers, directors, members of management, consultants and employees of the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer pursuant to bylaws, or statutory provisions or indemnification agreements or the purchase of indemnification insurance for any director or officer; (8) any Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.7; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of the business of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries and otherwise in compliance with the terms of the Indenture; provided that, as determined in good faith by the Issuer, such transactions are on terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (taken as a whole) than those that would could reasonably have been obtained at the time of such transactions in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson; (10) the grant, if in the good faith judgment issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Stock) to Affiliates of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to Issuer and the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point granting of view registration rights and when such transaction is taken other customary rights in its entirety; andconnection therewith; (211) any transaction as to which the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a written opinion of an investment banking firm of national standing or other recognized independent expert with respect to any Affiliate Transaction experience in appraising the terms and conditions of the type of transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer transactions for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in which an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation opinion is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor required stating that such the transaction or series of related transactions is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially no less favorable, when taken as a whole, favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with an unrelated Person on entity that is not an arm’s length basisAffiliate; (612) any written agreements entered into or assumed in connection with mergers or acquisitions of other businesses with Persons who were not Affiliates prior to such transactions; provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such merger or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Dateacquisition, or and any amendment thereto (thereto, so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when Issuer, taken as a whole whole, as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)date of such acquisition or merger; (713) the existence of, payments to Affiliates on or the performance by the Issuer with respect to debt securities or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) Debt of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals Subsidiary on a similar basis as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board made or offered to holders of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in debt securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred Debt held by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer Affiliates and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, otherwise in accordance with the terms of such securities or loansthis Indenture; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee lessee, and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, and transactions pursuant to that lease which lease is approved by the Board of the Issuer Directors or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (15) payment of customary fees and reimbursement of reasonable out-of-pocket costs of, and customary indemnities provided to or on behalf of, future, present or former directors, officers, members of management, consultants and employees of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, to the extent attributable to the ownership or operations of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as determined in good faith by the relevant Person; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in any contribution by Holdings to the ordinary course capital of business or consistent with past practicethe Issuer; (17) the provision payment of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage (or payments to Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) to enable it to pay) reasonable out-of-pocket costs and management expenses related to registration rights and similar services indemnities provided to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith);shareholders under any shareholder agreement; and (18) an agreement between any customary transactions with a Person and an Affiliate Receivables Subsidiary effected as part of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Receivables Facility.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Acushnet Holdings Corp.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into into, make, amend, renew or make or amend extend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer their Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsterms that are not less favorable, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable in any material respect to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.5 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Resolution set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1a)(1) aboveabove and that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Members. (b) The foregoing provisions shall following items will be deemed not apply to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the following:provisions of Section 4.05(a): (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Company and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any (or an entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and transaction); (Ba) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided Restricted Payments that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of are permitted by this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2b) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor independent accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that meets the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisrequirements of clause (1) of Section 4.05(a); (64) payments or loans (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) or advances to employees or consultants or guarantees in respect thereof for bona fide business purposes in the ordinary course of business; (5) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue DateDate as thereafter amended, supplemented or any amendment thereto replaced (so long as any such amendment is not more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Notes in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date)) or any transaction or payments contemplated thereby; (76) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9a) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture Indenture, which are fair to the Issuer Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, Subsidiaries in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer Directors or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsCompany, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party or (as determined by b) transactions with Unrestricted Subsidiaries in the Issuer in good faithordinary course of business; (7) the sale or issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; (8) any contribution to the capital of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock); (189) an agreement between any transaction with a Person and (other than an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19Unrestricted Subsidiary) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that which would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary owns an Equity Interest in or otherwise controls such Person; provided that no Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary shall have a beneficial interest or otherwise participate in such Person; (10) transactions between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any Person who is a director or has a director of such other Person which is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent EntityCompany; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Company or such Parent Entitydirect or indirect parent of the Company, as the case may be, on any matter including involving such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (2211) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and; (2312) payments to transactions with Affiliates solely in their capacity as holders of Indebtedness or Equity Interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as such transaction is with all holders of such class (and fromthere are such non-Affiliate holders) and such Affiliates are treated no more favorably than all other holders of such class generally; (13) the existence of, and transactions withor the performance by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of their obligations under the terms of, any joint ventures customary registration rights agreement to which they are a party or become a party in the future; (14) any employment agreements entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and the payment of reasonable and customary fees and reimbursements paid to, and customary indemnity and similar arrangements provided on behalf of, officers, directors, employees or consistent consultants of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or (to the extent relating to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries) any other direct or indirect parent of the Company; (15) any transaction effected as part of a Qualified Receivables Financing permitted hereunder; (16) the issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock option and stock ownership plans or similar employee benefit plans approved by the Board of Directors of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, as appropriate, in good faith; and (17) any employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with past practice current, former or future officers and employees of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and the payment of compensation to officers and employees of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (includingincluding amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, without limitationemployee stock option or similar plans), any cash management activities related thereto)in each case in the ordinary course of business.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its their Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, lease, transfer property or otherwise dispose of services) with any Affiliate (including entities in which the Issuers or any of its properties Restricted Subsidiaries own a minority interest)(an "Affiliate Transaction") or assets toextend, renew, waive or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for otherwise modify the benefit of, terms of any Affiliate of Transaction entered into prior to the Issuer Issue Date if such extension, renewal, waiver or other modification is more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date unless (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken between or among the Issuers and/or their Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries and/or Holdings (so long as a whole, that Holdings owns at least 99% of the voting and economic power of the Common Stock of the Company); or (ii) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction involving an amount or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration having a value in excess of $1,000,000 which is not permitted under clause (i) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Issuers must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Company certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. In any Affiliate Transaction with a value in excess of $5,000,000 which is not permitted under clause (i) above (other than any sale by the Company of its Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Capital Stock), the Issuers must obtain a written opinion as to the fairness of such a transaction from an independent investment banking firm. (b) The foregoing provisions limitations set forth in Section 4.11(a) shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (Bi) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person Payment that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair Section 4.09 hereof, (ii) any transaction pursuant to an agreement, arrangement or understanding existing on the Issuer Series A/B Issue Date and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer described in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired bySchedule 4.11 hereto, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).66 -58-

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Target Directories of Michigan Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Parent will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, and the Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Parent, the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Parent, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuerthere is no such comparable transaction, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise on terms that are fair and reasonable to the Issuer Parent, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretySubsidiary; and (2ii) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee trustee: (A) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA 1.0 million, a Board Resolution of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Parent certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) aboveabove and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors; and (B) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $10.0 million, a favorable opinion as to the fairness to the Parent, the Company or the relevant Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm that is, in the judgment of the Board of Directors of the Parent, qualified to render such opinion and is independent with respect to the Parent, the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries. (b) The foregoing provisions Notwithstanding the preceding, the following shall not apply be deemed to the followingbe Affiliate Transactions: (1i) any employment agreement or other employee compensation plan or arrangement entered into by the Parent, the Company or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors of Parent; (Aii) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orParent, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents Company and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeWholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries; (2iii) Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition provisions of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)this Indenture; (3iv) (A) the payment indemnities of managementofficers, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory directors and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses employees of the InvestorsParent, in each casethe Company or any Restricted Subsidiary permitted by its charter, approved by, -laws or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer;statutory provisions; and (4v) the payment of reasonable and customary regular fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) directors of the IssuerParent, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer Company or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

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Sources: Indenture (Cricket Communications Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period5.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this Section 4.14 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer;Directors; and (4b) the payment with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid torelated Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating opinion that the terms of such transaction are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, favorable to the Issuer or and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries than those that would might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or at such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person time on an arm’s arm’s-length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment basis from a Person that is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board an Affili- ate of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer Restricted Subsidiaries issued by an Independent Financial Advisor. The following items shall not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date);provisions of this Section 4.14: (71) the existence ofany consulting, employment, severance or the performance separation agreement or arrangement entered into by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and the payment of its obligations under compensation thereunder (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans, employee stock option or similar plans), in each case approved by the terms ofcompensation committee, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or, with respect to employees of the Issuer or any stockholders Restricted Subsidiary that are not Section 16 Officers, the principal executive officer of the Issuer or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; (2) transactions (i) between or among the Issuer and/or the Guarantors, (ii) between or among Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors; and (iii) between or among the Issuer and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors, on the other hand, with respect to clause (iii) only, in the ordinary course of business; (3) payment of reasonable fees to directors of the Issuer and any Parent and the provision of customary indemnities (including advance of expenses in defending a claim) to directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Issuer, and any Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary; (4) issuances and sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Issuer; (5) any tax sharing agreement or arrangement and payments pursuant thereto among the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger Issuer and its Subsidiaries and any similar agreements other Person with which it (the Issuer or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; providedits Subsidiaries is required or permitted to file a consolidated, however, that the existence of, combined or the performance by unitary tax return or with which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is or could be part of a consolidated, combined or unitary group for tax purposes in amounts not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture; (or such Parent Entity6) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be Restricted Payments that are permitted by this clause Section 4.11 or any Permitted Investments; (7) loans to employees in an amount not to exceed $2.5 million outstanding at any time and advances and expense reimbursements to employees, in each case, in the ordinary course of business; (8) agreements (and payments relating thereto) existing on the Issue Date, as the same may be amended, modified or replaced from time to time, so long as any amendment, modification or replacement is not materially less favorable to the extent that Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries than the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) 9) transactions with a joint venture engaged in a Permitted Business; provided that all the Transactions outstanding ownership interests of such joint venture are owned only by the Issuer, its Restricted Subsidiaries and Persons who are not Affiliates of the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction ExpensesIssuer; (910) transactions between a Receivables Subsidiary and any Person in which the Receivables Subsidiary has an Investment; (11) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesgoods, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithbusiness; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Issuer, directly or any Restricted Subsidiary indirectly, owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person;; and (1513) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate transactions which have been approved by a majority of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by disinterested members of the Board of Directors and with respect to which an Independent Financial Advisor has delivered an opinion that the terms of such transaction are not materially less favorable that those that might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Headwaters Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transactiontransaction or series of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Issuer, taken as a whole, or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could reasonably have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyunaffiliated party; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of 5.0 million, the Issuer for delivers to the Applicable Measurement Period, Trustee a resolution adopted in good faith by a the majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above.; and (biii) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, the Issuer must obtain and deliver to the Trustee a written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, accounting or appraisal firm (an “Independent Financial Advisor”) stating that the transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view. The foregoing provisions limitation does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between or among Restricted Payments that are permitted by the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms provisions of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposepursuant to Section 4.7 or Permitted Investments; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and indemnities to members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary; (3) the payment (and any agreement, plan or arrangement relating thereto) of reasonable and customary compensation paid toand other benefits (including retirement, health, option, deferred compensation and other benefit plans) and indemnities to officers and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary; (4) transactions between or among the Issuer and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries; (5) transactions in which the issuance of Capital Interests (other than Redeemable Capital Interests) of the Issuer or any otherwise permitted hereunder and the granting of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained registration and other customary rights in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisconnection therewith; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect on the Issue Date and any amendment, extension or contemplated in modification thereto so long as such amendment, extension or modification is not more disadvantageous to the good faith determination Holders of the Notes in any material respect; (7) any agreement between any Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by or merged into the Issuer as or a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of the Issue Datesuch acquisition or merger, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders in the good faith judgment of the Board board of directors of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Datedate of such acquisition or merger); (78) transactions in which the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Issuer and any relevant Restricted Subsidiaries; (9) any contribution of capital to the Issuer; (10) payments to Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. or its affiliates pursuant to the Management Services Agreement of (i) management, consulting, monitoring, administration and advisory fees not to exceed $12.0 million per annum; provided that such amount shall increase by $1.0 million per annum on the first anniversary of the Issue Date and each subsequent anniversary of the Issue Date thereafter, and (ii) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses payable pursuant to the Management Services Agreement; provided that payments under this clause (10) shall not be permitted for services rendered after consummation of the Spin-Off; (11) any provision of services to Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. or its affiliates pursuant to the Transition Services Agreement in exchange for (i) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, administration and advisory fees and (ii) the reimbursement of reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses payable pursuant to the Transition Services Agreement; (12) the separation and distribution agreement, tax matters agreement and employee matters agreement, and any ancillary agreements contemplated therewith, consistent in all material respects with the description thereof in this offering memorandum, together with any changes, additions, modifications or amendments thereto as are not, taken as a whole, materially more disadvantageous to the Issuer or Holders; (13) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related theretoagreement) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with as of the Merger Issue Date and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under under, any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (713) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date;; and (8) the Transactions and 14) the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above.this covenant and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors; and (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $5.0 million, an opinion as to the followingfairness to the Holders of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing. The following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of the prior paragraph: (1) any employment agreement entered into by the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary; (A2) transactions between or among the Issuer and a and/or the Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Subsidiaries; (3) (A) the loans, advances, payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other ofreasonable fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation indemnification of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved bydirectors, or pursuant similar arrangements to arrangements approved byofficers, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuerdirectors, employees and consultants; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity sales ofEquity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) ofthe Issuer to Affiliates of the Issuer; (5) transactions under any contract or agreement in effect on the date of this Indenture as the same may be amended, modified or replaced from time to time so long as any amendment, modification, or replacement is no less favorable to the Issuer and the granting and performing Restricted Subsidiaries than the contract or agreement as in effect on the date of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawthis Indenture; (116) payments Permitted Investments and Restricted Payments that are permitted by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith;Section 4.7; and (127) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than transactions between the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into Sagamore in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)business.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Barrington Quincy LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, amend or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, leaseproperty or services) with any Affiliate (each an "Affiliate Transaction") or extend, transfer renew, waive or otherwise dispose modify in any material respect the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to or on the Issue Date, if the terms of its properties such Affiliate Transaction after giving effect to such extension, renewal, replacement, waiver or assets toother modification, or purchase taken as a whole, are more disadvantageous to the Holders of Notes in any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for material respect than the benefit of, any Affiliate of original agreement as in effect on the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: Issue Date unless (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsbetween or among the Issuer, taken as a wholeone or more of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, and/or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries that are not materially less favorable also Guarantors; or (2) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair and reasonable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of $10.0 million which is not permitted under clause (1) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Issuer must obtain a resolution of the Issuer for majority of the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (2) above. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $40.0 million which is not permitted under clause (1) above. (b) , the Issuer must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the fairness, from a financial point of view, of such transaction or transactions, as the case may be, from an Independent Financial Advisor. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following:to (1) (A) transactions between or among any Restricted Payment that is not prohibited by the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, provisions described in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSection 4.08; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than any transaction pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) an agreement, arrangement or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) understanding existing on the Issue Date and described in the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Offering Memorandum and that was entered into or amended in compliance with or otherwise permitted to exist under the Existing Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture; (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future any officers, directors, managers, directors or employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntityAffiliate of the Issuer or of such officers, directors or employees as determined in good faith by the Issuer's Board of Directors or senior management thereof; (4) any transaction between the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and their Affiliates involving ordinary course investment banking, commercial banking or related activities; (5) transactions any transaction with any Affiliate solely in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken capacity as a whole, to the Issuer holder of Indebtedness or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) Capital Stock of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries where such Affiliate is treated no more favorably than holders of such Indebtedness or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawsuch Capital Stock generally; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (146) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer between or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between among the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee on the one hand, and any Affiliate other Person controlled by (as such term is defined in the definition of "Affiliate") the Issuer, on the other hand, so long as lessor, which is approved (a) at least 25% of the voting securities of such other Person are beneficially owned by the Board of Persons other than the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; any Affiliate thereof, (16b) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of there exists no other substantial business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to relationship between the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by Affiliates and the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms Persons who beneficially own at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by 25% of the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director voting securities of such other Person referred to in clause (a) above, other than the transactions in question, and no such other business relationship is also a director reasonably expected and (c) no portion of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including remaining interest in such other PersonPerson is owned by a Person that controls (as such term is defined in the definition of "Affiliate") the Issuer, or between or among such Subsidiaries or Persons; (207) Co-Investment Transactions as approved any transaction permitted by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesprovisions described under Section 5.01; and (23) payments to 8) any transaction, the prohibition of which, by operation of this covenant, would violate the "Limitation on Dividend and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries" covenant in the ordinary course of business Existing Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)the indenture governing the Holding Company Notes.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Canwest Media Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to the greater of Issue Date unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to between or among the Issuer and its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries; or (ii) the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment terms of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise are fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view Subsidiary, as the case may be, and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Issuer delivers to or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the Trustee with respect to case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm’s-length basis between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions Transactions) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of the greater of $1.0 million which is not permitted under clause (xi) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving certifying in good faith that it has approved such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying determined that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to of the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orimmediately preceding sentence. In addition, in any case, Affiliate Transaction (or any entity that becomes series of related Affiliate Transactions) involving an amount or having a Restricted Subsidiary as a result Fair Market Value in excess of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation $5.0 million which is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments not permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than under clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transfereei) of the Issuersecond preceding sentence, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer must obtain a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor that such transaction or transactions are fair to the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its such Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating view; provided that the terms are provisions of this sentence shall not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, apply to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination sale of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case inventory in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise business. The foregoing provisions will not apply to (i) any Restricted Investment made in compliance with the terms Section 4.18 hereof, (ii) reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers directors or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) employees of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, as determined in good faith by the Issuer’s Board of Directors or controls, such Person; senior management or (15iii) any lease entered into between written agreement in existence on the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Effective Date.

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Sources: Indenture (Elk Horn Coal Co LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction") involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to the greater of Issue Date unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that between or among the Issuer and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; or (ii) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm’s-arm's- length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of the greater of $1,000,000 which is not permitted under clause (xi) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of above, the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. . In any Affiliate Transaction (bor any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) The foregoing provisions shall involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $5,000,000 which is not apply permitted under clause (i) above, the Issuer must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among fairness to the Issuer and from a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result financial point of view of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariestransactions, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating Advisor. The foregoing provisions will not apply to (i) any Restricted Payment that such transaction is fair not prohibited by the provisions described under Section 4.07 above, (ii) reasonable fees, compensation and equity incentives in the form of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors or employees of the Issuer or such any Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as determined in good faith by the Issuer's Board of Directors or senior management, (iii) any agreement as in effect as of the Issue Date, Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to than the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); Date or (7iv) the existence ofany standard tax sharing agreement now or hereinafter in effect among any of Holdings, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Guarantors.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Oro Spanish Broadcasting Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, lease transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period"), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant such Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson; (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction involving aggregate consideration in excess of $2.5 million, if (x) a determination by the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company made in the good faith judgment (evidenced by a resolution approved by at least a majority of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company and set forth in an Officers' Certificate delivered to compare such Affiliate Transaction, the Trustee) or (y) an opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary of the Company involved in such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an Independent Financial Advisor or, with respect to development, launch and when such transaction is taken operations of satellites and remote imaging-related matters, a nationally recognized expert in its entiretythe respective applicable industry; and and (2b) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $10 million, an opinion as to the greater fairness of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth to the Company or Restricted Subsidiary of the Company involved in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies from a financial point of view issued by an Independent Financial Advisor or, with clause (1) aboverespect to development, launch and operations of satellites and remote imaging-related matters, a nationally recognized expert in the respective applicable industry. (b) The foregoing provisions following shall not apply to the followingbe deemed Affiliate Transactions: (1i) any employment agreement, stock option or stock purchase agreement entered into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with any of their respective employees in the ordinary course of business; (Aii) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Company and/or its Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSubsidiaries; (2iii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 clauses (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(Fi), (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi) of the Section 4.10(b) and Permitted Investments of a type referred to in clauses (i), (iii) and (vi) of the definition of Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (Aiv) the payment sale of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) common Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock, except as contemplated by the Stock Purchase Agreement) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights Company for cash to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any an Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawCompany; (11v) payments transactions pursuant to agreements entered into with resellers of the Company's products and services on terms substantially the same as the Company's standard agreements entered into with such parties in the ordinary course of business; (vi) transactions pursuant to the Orbital Agreements, including transactions pursuant to any amendments to the Procurement Agreement with respect to the selection of the launch vehicle for the satellite designated on the First Issue Date as the OrbView-4 satellite; (vii) amendments, supplements or other modifications to the Orbital Agreements that do not involve the payment of cash by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithSubsidiaries; (12viii) payments, loans, advances or guarantees payment of reasonable directors fees to Persons who are not otherwise Affiliates of the Company; and (or cancellation ix) the sale of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants securities (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereofother than common Equity Interests) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally Company for cash to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because Company; provided that: (A) an amount of such securities at least equal to the Issuer amount sold to such Affiliate have been or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, are being sold substantially simultaneously to Persons that are not Affiliates of the Company; (B) the price per security paid by such Person; Affiliate is no less than the price paid by such non-Affiliates; and (15C) any lease the Company shall not have entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of arrangement with such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that non-Affiliates to induce such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or non-Affiliates to purchase such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)securities.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Orbital Imaging Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make enter into, renew or extend any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance transaction or guarantee with, arrangement with or for the benefit ofof an Affiliate of the Company (including, without limitation the sale, purchase or lease of assets, property or services from or to any Affiliate of the Issuer Company) (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of "AFFILIATE TRANSACTION"), unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on and (ii) the Company delivers to the Trustee (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction (or series of related transactions) involving aggregate payments in excess of $1.0 million, an arm’s-length basis Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above and a Board Resolution adopted by a vote of a majority of the Independent Directors approving such Affiliate Transaction or, if at the time there are no Independent Directors then in office, an Officers' Certificate executed by the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer or the General Counsel of the Company and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction (or series of related transactions) involving aggregate payments of $5.0 million or more, the certificates or documentation described in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair preceding clause (a) and an opinion as to the Issuer fairness to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view issued by an Independent Financial Advisor; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the following shall not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions: (i) transactions exclusively between or among (1) the Company and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and one or more Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries or (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; ; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19ii) transactions between the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any qualified employee stock ownership plan established for the benefit of the Company's employees, or the establishment or maintenance of any such plan; (iii) reasonable director, officer and employee compensation and other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director benefits, and indemnification arrangements existing on the Issue Date, and with respect to any material modification of such other Person is also a director of arrangements after the Issuer or any Parent Entity; providedIssue Date, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by a majority of the Board Independent Directors or in the event there are no Independent Directors, as certified by the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer or the senior management General Counsel of the Issuer Company pursuant to an Officers' Certificate; (iv) transactions permitted under Section 4.05; (v) the existing relationships and transactions between the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, on one hand, and QTV, Ltd. ("QTV"), and Quiet Technologies, Inc., ("QTI"), on the other hand, including but not limited to, the purchase of hushkits and the funding by the Company or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales its Restricted Subsidiaries of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets the research and development costs of QTV and QTI in connection with hushkit development projects or any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness new relationships or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; transactions (22other than continuations, including future hushkit purchases and research and development funding, of such existing relationships or transactions) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted between the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, on the one hand, and transactions withQTV, and QTI, on the other hand ("NEW TRANSACTIONS"), so long as the total amount paid by the Company and any joint ventures entered into Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with respect to such New Transactions does not exceed the fair market value of the services and equipment delivered in connection therewith as determined by a majority of the Independent Directors, or in the ordinary course event there are no Independent Directors, as certified by the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer or the General Counsel of business the Company pursuant to an Officers' Certificate; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, with respect to New Transactions between the Company and QTV, or consistent with past practice (includingQTI, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)such determination shall only be made on an annual basis on the anniversary date of this Indenture.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Agro Air Associates Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make directly or indirectly, conduct any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, business or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or exchange of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance Property or guarantee the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on termsare (A) fair and reasonable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, taken as a wholethe case may be, that are not materially and (B) no less favorable to the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been could be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andBorrower; (2) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $10.0 million, the Issuer Borrower obtains and promptly delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Administrative Agent a resolution adopted by of its Board of Directors (including a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer Directors) approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth certifying that, in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that its good faith judgment, such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause clauses (1a)(1)(A) and (a)(1)(B) above; and (3) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $15.0 million, the Borrower obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor that the transaction is fair to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries. (b) The Without regard to the foregoing provisions shall not apply limitations, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into or suffer to exist the following: (1) (A) any transaction or series of transactions between the Borrower and one or among the Issuer and a more Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries or between two or among more Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result the ordinary course of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entitybusiness; provided that no more than 5% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a fully diluted basis) of any such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets Restricted Subsidiary is owned by an Affiliate of the Borrower (other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeRestricted Subsidiary); (2) any Restricted Payments Payment permitted by Section 10.10 (other than to be made pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) Section 6.07 or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “any Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Investment; (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, any transaction, advisory including compensation and other feesemployee benefit arrangements, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum with an officer or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses director of the Investors, in each case, approved by, Borrower or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority any of the members of Restricted Subsidiaries in his or her capacity as an officer or director, so long as the Board of Directors in good faith shall have approved the Issuerterms thereof; (4) the payment of reasonable loans and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided advances to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to consistent with the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director past practices of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Borrower or such Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, on ; provided that such loans and advances do not exceed $1.0 million to any matter including such other Personone employee and $5.0 million in the aggregate at any one time outstanding; (205) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by agreements in effect on the Board Effective Date and any modifications, extensions or renewals thereto that are no less favorable to the senior management of the Issuer Borrower or any Parent Entity Restricted Subsidiary than such agreement as in good faith;effect on the Effective Date; and (216) sales of accounts receivable, or participation participations therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Receivables Facility.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Term Loan Agreement (Paxson Communications Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 50.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 105.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) ), of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation cancellations of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation participations therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

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Sources: Indenture (Mr. Cooper Group Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose exchange of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets fromthe rendering of any service or the payment of any management, advisory or similar fees) with any officer, director, holder of any Equity Interests in, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit other Affiliate of, the Company or any Affiliate of the Issuer other Guarantor (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving ), in each case having an aggregate payments or consideration value in excess of $10.0 million unless the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA terms of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially no less favorable in any material respect to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted such Subsidiary than those that would have been could reasonably be obtained at the time of the Affiliate Transaction in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis ordealings with a Person who is not an Affiliate. For purposes of this Section 4.11(a), if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any the modification, amendment or replacement of an Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess existence as of the greater Issue Date on substantially comparable terms, such threshold shall be calculated only with respect to the amount of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA any net increase in the value of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that as a result of such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) abovemodification, amendment or replacement rather than the aggregate value. (b) The foregoing provisions restrictions set forth in Section 4.11(a) hereof shall not apply to the followingto: (1i) employment and severance arrangements (Aincluding equity incentive plans and employee benefit plans and arrangements) with their respective officers and employees in the ordinary course of business; (ii) transactions between or among the Issuer Company and a Restricted Subsidiary any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) or between or among Restricted such Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definitionany Excluded Subsidiary); (3iii) transactions between the Company or one of its Subsidiaries (Aother than any Excluded Subsidiary) or any Person in which the payment Company or one of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory its Subsidiaries (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) has made an Investment in the ordinary course of business and such Person is an Affiliate solely because of such Investment; (iv) transactions between the Company or one of its Subsidiaries (other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus than any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior yearExcluded Subsidiary) and any termination fees Person in which the Company or one of its Subsidiaries (including other than any Excluded Subsidiary) holds an interest as a joint venture partner and such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation Person is an Affiliate solely because of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuersuch interest; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6v) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Date or any amendment or replacement agreement thereto or any transactions or payments contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment or replacement agreement thereto) so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue DateDate (as determined by the Company in good faith); (7vi) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the existence oftime such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the performance by Company or a Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; (vii) Indebtedness, Restricted Payments or Investments (other than pursuant to clause (13) of the Issuer or any definition of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of“Permitted Investments”), or the performance by the Issuer mergers, acquisitions, divisions or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (dispositions or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be Asset Sales permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DateIndenture; (8) viii) sales of Qualified Capital Stock by the Transactions Company or any Subsidiary and the payment of all fees and expenses related capital contributions to the Transactions, including Transaction ExpensesCompany from Affiliates; (9ix) transactions with customersin which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, clientsas the case may be, suppliersreceives an opinion from a nationally recognized investment banking, vendorsappraisal or accounting firm that such Affiliate Transaction is fair, contractorsfrom a financial standpoint, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer Company or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partySubsidiary; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17a) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which that are fair to the Issuer Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer Company in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer Company in good faith), and (b) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of assets or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture that are fair to the Company and its Subsidiaries or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Company in good faith); (18xi) an agreement between a Person payment of customary fees and an Affiliate reasonable out of pocket costs to, and indemnities for the benefit of, directors, officers and employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Company or such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or mergerSubsidiary; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant;and (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21xii) sales of accounts receivable, or participation participations therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Qualified Securitization Indebtedness or Transaction, Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Agency Repurchase Indebtedness.

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Sources: Indenture (Walker & Dunlop, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction") involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period5 million, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2ii) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Disinterested Directors of the Board of the Issuer Directors approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers' Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall will not apply to the following: : (1) (Ai) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Company and/or any of its Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and Subsidiaries; (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2ii) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 1009; (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (Aiii) the payment of customary annual management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, consulting and advisory fees and other fees, indemnities and related expenses to the Investors KKR and its Affiliates; (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4iv) the payment of reasonable and customary regular fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, of the Company or any permitted transfereeRestricted Subsidiary; (v) payments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to KKR and its Affiliates made pursuant to any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement agreement or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which are approved by a majority of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary Disinterested Directors of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; Company in good faith; (5vi) transactions in which the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that meets the terms requirements of clause (i) of the preceding paragraph; (vii) payments or loans to employees or consultants which are not materially less favorable, when taken as approved by a whole, to majority of the Issuer or Disinterested Directors of the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained Company in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; good faith; (6viii) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Issuance Date or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous to the Holders of the Notes in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer respect) or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); any transaction contemplated thereby; (7ix) transactions permitted by, and complying with, Article Eight; (x) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with as of the Merger Issuance Date and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Issuance Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7x) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous to the holders of the Notes in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; respect; (8) the Transactions and xi) the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; Recapitalization and the Financings; and (9xii) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this the Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of Directors of the Issuer Company or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)party.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (E&s Holdings Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction"), except for (i) involving Affiliate Transactions, which together with all Affiliate Transactions that are part of a common plan, have an aggregate payments or consideration in excess value of the greater of (x) not more than $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole1.0 million; PROVIDED, that such transactions are not materially conducted in good faith and on terms that are no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by at such time on an arm's-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiary, (ii) Affiliate Transactions, which together with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related all Affiliate Transactions involving that are part of a common plan, have an aggregate payments or consideration in excess value of the greater of (x) not more than $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.0 million; PROVIDED, a resolution adopted by that a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) Directors of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) Company determine that such transactions are conducted in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers good faith and on terms that are no less favorable to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by at such time on an arm's-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; and (6iii) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in Affiliate Transactions for which the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer Company delivers to the Holders when taken Trustee an opinion as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on fairness to the Issue Date); (7) the existence ofCompany or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view, or the performance issued by the Issuer or any an investment banking firm of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms ofnational standing; PROVIDED, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, howeverHOWEVER, that the existence of, following will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions: (i) employment or the performance consulting agreements entered into by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms approval of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer disinterested members of the Company's Board of Directors, (ii) transactions between or among the Company and/or its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries or Guarantors, (iii) transactions permitted by the provisions described in Section 4.7 hereof -35- and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the (iv) reasonable determination and customary directors' fees for non-management members of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) Directors of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Archibald Candy Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary to, make conduct any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, business or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or exchange of any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance property or guarantee the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction is on termsare (x) set forth in writing, taken as a whole, that are not materially and (y) no less favorable to the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary case may be, than those that would have been could be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, Borrower; (ii) if such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving involves aggregate payments or consideration value in excess of $20,000,000, the greater Board of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Directors of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by Borrower (including a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving Borrower or, if there is only one disinterested director, such disinterested director) approves such Affiliate Transaction and set forth and, in an Officer’s Certificate certifying its good faith judgment, believes that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1a)(i)(y) aboveof this Section as evidenced by a Board Resolution; and (iii) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $100,000,000, the Borrower obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the consideration to be paid or received in connection with such Affiliate Transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. (b) The Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions shall not apply limitation, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may make, enter into or suffer to exist the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (Bi) any merger, amalgamation transaction or consolidation series of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer Borrower and one or more Restricted Subsidiaries or between two or more Restricted Subsidiaries; (ii) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 8.2 or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other PersonPermitted Investment; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (R H Donnelley Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or to enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction") involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement PeriodIssue Date, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that between or among the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries; or (2) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant case may be, than the terms which could reasonably be obtained by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained Subsidiary, as the case may be, at such time in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions Transactions) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of $100,000 which is not permitted under clause (a)(1) of this Section 10.08, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Company shall obtain a resolution of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving Company certifying that they have approved such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying determined that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1a)(2) aboveof this Section 10.08, and in any Affiliate Transaction or any series of related Affiliate Transactions involving an amount or having a Fair Market Value in excess of $10,000,000 which is not permitted under clause (a)(1) of this Section 10.08, the Company must obtain an opinion as to the fairness to the Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by a nationally recognized accounting, investment banking or appraisal firm. (b) The foregoing provisions shall of Section 10.08(a) will not apply to the followingto: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated Payment made in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSection 10.06 or any Permitted Investment; (2) any employment agreement or compensation arrangement with officers, directors and employees in effect on the Issue Date, or entered into thereafter by the Company or any of its Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and Subsidiaries in the definition ordinary course of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)business; (3) (A) transactions in the payment ordinary course of managementbusiness pursuant to any pension, consultingshare or partnership unit option, monitoringprofit sharing, transaction, advisory and partnership unit or share appreciation rights or other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees employee benefit plan or agreement (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event)insurance, and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors reimbursement plans and reimbursement of expenses of the Investorsarrangements for directors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuerofficers and employees); (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided loans to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or not to exceed $5,000,000 in aggregate amount at any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entityone time outstanding; (5) transactions in which issuances of Capital Stock, other than Disqualified Capital Stock, of the Issuer Company; or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers Capital Contribution to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisCompany; (6) any payments or other transactions pursuant to any tax-sharing agreement between the Company and any other Person with which the Company files a consolidated tax return or arrangement with which the Company is part of a consolidated group for tax purposes; (7) any agreement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer entered into as of the Issue Date, Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) and any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the Holders of the Floating Rate Notes in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) any transaction in the Transactions ordinary course of business, or approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company, between the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Affiliate of the payment of all fees and expenses related to Company controlled by the Transactions, including Transaction ExpensesCompany that is a joint venture or similar entity; (9) transactions with Affiliates solely in their capacity as holders of Debt or Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, where such Affiliates receive the same consideration as non-Affiliates in such transactions; (10) any transaction with any Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; (11) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case in the ordinary course of business or business, and that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the on terms of this Indenture which are fair at least as favorable to the Issuer Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable Subsidiaries as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of that are considered fair to the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity Company and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any in the view of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer in good faithCompany; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) reasonable and customary payment approved by a majority of the Issuer, any disinterested members of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer Company in good faithconnection with the registration for sale or distribution by any Affiliate of the Company of any Capital Stock of the Company, including reimbursements for reasonable and customary offering expenses, underwriting discounts and commissions; (A13) investments by Permitted Holders in securities sales of accounts receivable, or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders participations therein, in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or with any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loansReceivables Facility; (14) transactions any transaction in connection with which the Company obtains a Person written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor that such transaction is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer Company or such Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management from a financial point of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesview; and (2315) payments any transaction contemplated by the Restructuring that is consummated on or prior to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Issue Date.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Second Supplemental Indenture (Catalyst Paper Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction") involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to the greater of Issue Date unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to between or among the Issuer and its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries; or (ii) the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment terms of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise are fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view Subsidiary, as the case may be, and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Issuer delivers to or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the Trustee with respect to case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm's-length basis between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions Transactions) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a Fair Market Value in excess of the greater of $3.0 million which is not permitted under clause (xi) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving certifying in good faith that it has approved such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying determined that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to of the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries orimmediately preceding sentence. In addition, in any case, Affiliate Transaction (or any entity that becomes series of related Affiliate Transac- tions) involving an amount or having a Restricted Subsidiary as a result Fair Market Value in excess of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation $10.0 million which is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments not permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than under clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transfereei) of the Issuersecond preceding sentence, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer must obtain a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor that such transaction or transactions are fair to the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its such Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating view; provided that the terms are provisions of this sentence shall not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, apply to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6i) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination sale of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case inventory in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise (ii) payments made to International Marine Terminals, on an arm's-length basis in compliance with the terms ordinary course of this Indenture which are fair business, relating to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination loading of the Board of the Issuer coal onto ships or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms Issuer's financial obligations, if any, pursuant to the Issuer's contractual partnership obligations existing on the Issue Date with respect to International Marine Terminals. The foregoing provisions will not apply to (i) any Restricted Payment made in compliance with Section 4.07 hereof, (ii) reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of such securities officers, directors or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate employees of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer as determined in good faith by the Issuer's Board of Directors or the senior management or (iii) any written agreement in existence on the Issue Date which has been disclosed in the Offering Memorandum in respect of the Notes and any such extension, renewal or substitution that does not materially alter the financial and economic risks and obligations of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in thereto from those existing on the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Issue Date.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (River Marine Terminals Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets fromfrom in any transaction or series of related transactions, or enter into or make or amend amend, any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period10.0 million, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could reasonably have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyunaffiliated third party; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of 25.0 million, the Issuer for delivers to the Applicable Measurement Period, Trustee a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above. (b) . The foregoing provisions limitation does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1i) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Permitted Investments and/or other Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity Payments that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeare permitted by Section 4.7; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (Aii) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and any fees or expenses to incurred or paid by the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) Issuer and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the IssuerTransactions; (4iii) any employment or consulting agreement, director’s engagement agreement, employee benefit plan, officer or director indemnification agreement, severance arrangement, compensation or any similar arrangement entered into by the Issuer (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or approved in good faith by the relevant Board of Directors and payments pursuant thereto; (iv) the payment of reasonable fees, reasonable out of pocket costs, compensation and customary fees other benefits (including retirement, health, stock, option, deferred compensation and compensation other benefit plans), reimbursements and indemnities paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements or provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future directors, officers, directorsemployees, managers, employees managers and consultants of any direct or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) indirect parent of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (v) payments to any future, current or former employee, director, officer or consultant of Issuer (any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any of its obligations under the terms of, Subsidiaries pursuant to a management equity plan or stock option plan or any stockholders other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement and any employment agreements, stock option plans and other compensatory arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any health, disability and similar insurance or benefit plans or supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers or consultants that are, in each case, approved by the equivalent Issuer in good faith; (vi) transactions between or among the Issuer and one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is Person that becomes a party Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Merger and such transaction) or between or among one or more Restricted Subsidiaries (including any similar agreements Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such transaction); (vii) any transaction with a Person which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary owns, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests of or otherwise controls such Person (viii) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock or other Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer to the management of the Issuer, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entityany direct or indirect parent thereof), or any of their respective subsidiaries pursuant to employee and severance arrangements in the ordinary course of business, or to any director, officer, employee or consultant (or their respective estates, investment funds, investment vehicles, spouses or former spouses) of obligations under the Issuer, any future amendment to of the Issuer’s subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer and the granting and performing of reasonable and customary registration rights; (ix) any agreement, instrument or arrangement as in effect on the Escrow Release Date, and any transactions contemplated thereby and amendments or modifications thereto or replacements thereof, so long as any such existing agreement amendment, modification or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are replacement is not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders, taken as a whole, as compared to the original agreement, instrument or arrangement in effect on the Escrow Release Date; (x) transactions as to which the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary delivers to the Trustee a written opinion of an investment banking, accounting, consulting or appraisal firm of national standing in the good faith judgment United States to the effect that the transaction complies with clause (i) above or is fair, from a financial point of the Board of view or otherwise, to the Issuer or the senior management thereof to Restricted Subsidiary that is a party thereto, as the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Datecase may be; (8) the Transactions and the payment xi) any contribution of all fees and expenses related capital to the Transactions, including Transaction ExpensesIssuer or any Restricted Subsidiary otherwise permitted hereunder; (9xii) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatesservices, in each case case, in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent in all material respects with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are (x) in the good faith determination of the Issuer (including by senior management or the board thereof), fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer Subsidiaries or the senior management thereof, or (y) on terms that are on termsnot less favorable, taken as a whole, to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, than those that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with an unaffiliated third party; (10xiii) sales or other dispositions of accounts receivable and related assets and interests therein of the type specified in the definition of “Qualified Receivables Transaction” to a Receivables Subsidiary in a Qualified Receivables Transaction and Permitted Investments and other transactions in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction and any other Standard Securitization Undertakings in connection with a Qualified Receivables Transaction; (xiv) the issuance entering into of a tax sharing agreement, or transfer payments pursuant thereto, between the Issuer and one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any other Person (including any direct or indirect parent of (Athe Issuer) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) with which the Issuer and/or such Restricted Subsidiaries files a consolidated tax return; provided that any such tax sharing agreement, or payment pursuant thereto, shall be on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to relevant Restricted Subsidiaries; (xv) any Parent Entity merger, amalgamation, arrangement, consolidation or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) other reorganization of the Issuer with an Affiliate solely for the purpose and with the sole effect of forming a holding company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawreincorporating the Issuer in a new jurisdiction; (11xvi) payments by transactions between the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to and any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting Person that is an Affiliate solely because one or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any more of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans directors is also a director of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, on any matter involving such other Person; (xvii) any issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Issuer and any agreement that grants registration and other customary rights in connection therewith or otherwise to the direct or indirect securityholders of the Issuer (and the performance of such agreements); (xviii) (A) investments by Affiliates (other than any direct or indirect parent of the Issuer or any such parent’s subsidiaries) in securities of the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as (x) the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable termsterms and (y) the investment constitutes less than 10.0% of the proposed issue amount of such class of securities, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders transactions with Affiliates solely in respect their capacity as holders of securities Debt or loans Equity Interests of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance so long as such transaction is with the terms all holders of such securities or loansclass (and there are such non-Affiliate holders) and such Affiliates are treated no more favorably than all other holders of such class generally; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15xix) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a any Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, merged into or merged intoamalgamated, arranged or consolidated with the Issuer or a any of its Restricted Subsidiary and Subsidiaries; provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition acquisition, merger, amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation and any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary in the good faith judgment of Senior Management or the Board of Directors of the Issuer, when taken as a whole, as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the date of such acquisition, merger; provided that such acquisition , amalgamation, arrangement or merger complied with this covenantconsolidation); (19xx) transactions any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiary, as lessee, and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent EntityIssuer, as lessor, in the case may beordinary course of business, on and any matter including such other Personlease, sublease, license or sublicense of intellectual property in the ordinary course of business; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22xxi) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted SubsidiariesSubsidiaries to support the Debt of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary; and (23xxii) payments to and from, from and transactions with, with any joint ventures entered into venture in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice business; provided that such joint venture is not controlled by an Affiliate (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)other than a Restricted Subsidiary) of the Issuer.

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Sources: Indenture (WillScot Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) 4.17.1 The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Company (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1a) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyPerson; and (2b) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (i) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 US$2 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodin any Financial Year, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying Resolution stating that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause this Section 4.17 and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Company; and (1ii) abovewith respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of US$4 million in any Financial Year, an opinion as to the fairness to the Company or such Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an Independent Appraiser. 4.17.2 The following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and shall not be subject to Section 4.17.1: (a) [Reserved] (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to any employment agreement, employee benefit plan, officer or director indemnification agreement or any similar arrangement entered into by the following:Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and payments pursuant thereto; (1c) [Reserved] (Ad) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Company and/or its Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeGuarantors; (2e) payment of reasonable directors’ fees to Persons who are not otherwise Affiliates of the Company; (f) [Reserved] (g) Restricted Payments permitted by that do not violate the provisions of Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)4.12; (3h) [Reserved] (Ai) any agreement as in effect as of the Amendment and Restatement Date as described in the Information Memorandum or any renewal or extension thereof or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto or renewal or extension thereof) or in any replacement agreement thereto as long as any such amendment, renewal, extension or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the holders of Notes in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Amendment and Restatement Date; and (j) the payment purchase of managementshrimp feed, consultingraw materials for the production of shrimp, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum shrimp feed or present value fee upon the consummation of fish feed or fuel from a corporate event)Permitted Supplier. 4.17.3 The Company shall not, and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or shall not permit any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiaries to enter into any transaction or series of related transactions for the purchase of shrimp feed, as raw materials for the case may beproduction of shrimp, delivers to the Trustee shrimp feed or fish feed or fuel from a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that Permitted Supplier, unless: (a) such transaction is fair on terms that are no less favorable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis;Person; and (6b) the Company delivers to the Trustee: (i) with respect to any agreement such transaction or arrangement as series of related transactions involving aggregate consideration in effect or contemplated excess of US$5 million in the good faith determination an Financial Year, a Board Resolution stating that such transaction complies with this Section 4.17 and that such transaction has been approved by a majority of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted SubsidiariesCompany; and (23ii) payments with respect to and fromany such transaction or series of related transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of US$10 million in any Financial Year, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in an opinion as to the ordinary course fairness to the Company or such Subsidiary of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)such transaction from a financial point of view issued by an Independent Appraiser.

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Sources: Indenture (PT Centralpertiwi Bahari)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transactiontransaction or series of related transactions, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.5 million, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could reasonably have been obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyunaffiliated party; and (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of 5.0 million, the Issuer for delivers to the Applicable Measurement Period, Trustee a resolution adopted in good faith by a the majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1i) above.; and (biii) The foregoing provisions shall not apply with respect to the following: (1) (A) transactions between any Affiliate Transaction or among series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, the Issuer must obtain and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers deliver to the Trustee a letter from written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, accounting or appraisal firm (an Independent Financial Advisor Advisor”) stating that such the transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a financial point of view or stating view. The foregoing limitation does not limit, and shall not apply to: (1) Restricted Payments that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction permitted by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 4.7 and Permitted Investments permitted under this Indenture; (62) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination payment of the Issuer as of the Issue Datereasonable and customary fees, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment expenses and indemnities to members of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board Directors of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue DateRestricted Subsidiary; (8) the Transactions and 3) the payment of all fees reasonable and expenses related customary compensation and other benefits (including retirement, health, option, deferred compensation and other benefit plans) and indemnities to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice officers and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) employees of the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary as determined by the Board of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawDirectors thereof in good faith; (114) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors Permitted Holders made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures divestitures, which payments are approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors in good faith; provided that the aggregate amount of such payments may not exceed $5.0 million in any calendar year; (5) transactions between or among the Issuer and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect on the Issue Date and any amendment or modification thereto or replacement thereof so long as such amendment or modification or replacement is not, in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) Directors of the Issuer, more disadvantageous to Holders in any material respect; (7) transactions in which the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the transaction is fair, from a financial point of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreementsview, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (to the Issuer and any successor plans theretorelevant Restricted Subsidiaries; (8) any contribution of capital to the Issuer; (9) the payment to the Permitted Holders of up to $5.5 million in the aggregate of fees and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans expenses related to the transactions disclosed in the Offering Memorandum; (10) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers purchasers or consultants (sellers of goods or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) whichservices, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as that are no less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of to the Issuer or such Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved determined in good faith by the Board or the senior management Issuer, than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted SubsidiariesIssuer; and (2311) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course effected as part of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)a Qualified Receivables Transaction.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Kemet Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of or any affiliated professional associations or professional corporations which employ physicians and other professionals who provide healthcare services for the Issuer Company’s occupational and health services centers (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyan unrelated Person; and (2) the Issuer Company delivers to the Trustee Trustee: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period5 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above.above and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors; and (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15 million, an opinion as to the fairness to the holders of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing. The foregoing provisions following items shall not apply be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, shall not be subject to the followingprovisions of the prior paragraph: (1) customary directors’ fees to Persons who are not otherwise Affiliates of the Company; (A2) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Company and/or its Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Subsidiaries; (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued Affiliate Management Fees in an amount in any prior yearcalendar year not to exceed the greater of (a) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), $1 million and (Bb) the payment 1% of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the IssuerConsolidated EBITDA; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and their respective Affiliates made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures divestitures, which payments are approved in good faith by a majority of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer in good faithCompany or a committee thereof consisting of disinterested members; (125) paymentsloans or advances to employees in accordance with past practice made in the ordinary course of business which are approved in good faith by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof consisting of disinterested members; (6) any agreement as in effect on the Issue Date or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is no less favorable to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries); (7) any payment pursuant to any tax sharing agreement between the Company and Holdings or any other Person with which the Company is required or permitted to file a consolidated tax return or with which the Company is or could be part of a consolidated, loanscombined or unitary group for tax purposes; provided that in no event shall the amount permitted to be paid pursuant to all such agreements exceed the tax liabilities attributable solely to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (whether as a consolidated, advances combined or guarantees unitary group); (or cancellation of loans8) Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 1009; (9) customary fees and compensation paid to, advances or guarantees) to futureand indemnity provided on behalf of, current or former employeesofficers, directors, officers, managers employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithRestricted Subsidiaries; (A10) investments any transaction involving ordinary course investment banking, merchant banking, commercial banking or related activities; and (11) issuances or sales by Permitted Holders in securities the Company of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) or loans any contribution to the capital of the Issuer Company or any Restricted Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Holders will be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of all amounts due or to become due in respect of the Securities before any payment is made with respect to Affiliate Management Fees in the event of any distribution to creditors of the Company in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding with respect to the Company. No payments of Affiliate Management Fees shall be made by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as if the investment Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which Affiliate Management Fees are to be paid is being offered generally less than 1.75 to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity1; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or payments due but not paid shall accrue and shall be paid only after such Parent Entity, time as the case may beFixed Charge Coverage Ratio for a four full fiscal quarter period is no longer less than or equal to 1.75 to 1. For the avoidance of doubt, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges transaction between Holdings and the Company, a member of Equity Interests the Board of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments Directors of the Company shall not cease to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in be a disinterested director solely because such director also serves on the ordinary course board of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)directors of Holdings.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Oci Holdings Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its their Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, lease, transfer property or otherwise dispose of services) with any Affiliate (including entities in which the Issuers or any of its properties Restricted Subsidiaries own a minority interest)(an "Affiliate Transaction") or assets toextend, renew, waive or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for otherwise modify the benefit of, terms of any Affiliate of Transaction entered into prior to the Issuer Issue Date if such extension, renewal, waiver or other modification is more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date unless (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken between or among the Issuers and/or their Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries and/or Holdings (so long as a whole, that Holdings owns at least 99% of the voting and economic power of the Common Stock of the Company); or (ii) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction involving an amount or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration having a value in excess of $1,000,000 which is not permitted under clause (i) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Issuers must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Company certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. In any Affiliate Transaction with a value in excess of $5,000,000 which is not permitted under clause (i) above (other than any sale by the Company of its Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Capital Stock), the Issuers must obtain a written opinion as to the fairness of such a transaction from an independent investment banking firm. (b) The foregoing provisions limitations set forth in Section 4.11(a) shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (Bi) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided Restricted Payment that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted not prohibited by Section 10.10 4.09 hereof, (other than ii) any transaction pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) an agreement, arrangement or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect understanding existing on the Issue Date); Date and described in Schedule 4.11 hereto, (7iii) the existence ofany transaction, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management Directors of the Issuer in good faith; (12) paymentsCompany or Capital, loans, advances with an officer or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) director of the Issuer, Issuers or of any of its Subsidiaries Subsidiary in his or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory her capacity as officer or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses director entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19iv) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved permitted by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Section 5.01 hereof.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (TWP Capital Corp Ii)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Issuers will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted their Subsidiaries to, make any payment todirectly or indirectly, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make suffer to exist any transaction or amend any transactionseries of related transactions (including, contractwithout limitation, agreementthe sale, understandingpurchase, loanexchange or lease of assets, advance property or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingeach, an "AFFILIATE TRANSACTION") or extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify the terms of any Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of Transaction entered into prior to the greater of Issue Date unless (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that between or among the Issuers and their Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; or (ii) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable fair and reasonable to the Issuer Issuers or such Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms which could be obtained by the Issuers or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person made on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of $1 million which is not permitted under clause (i) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, Issuers must obtain a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate Issuers certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1ii) above. . In any Affiliate Transaction (bor any series of related Affiliate Transactions which are similar or part of a common plan) The foregoing provisions shall involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $5 million which is not apply permitted under clause (i) above, the Issuers must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result fairness of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiariestransactions, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating Advisor. The foregoing provisions will not apply to (i) any Restricted Payment that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction prohibited by the Issuer provisions of Section 4.03, or such Restricted (ii) reasonable fees, compensation and equity incentives in the form of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers, directors or employees of the Issuers or any Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; of the Issuers as determined in good faith by the Company's Board of Directors or senior management or (6iii) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including pursuant to any amendment thereto) in any replacement agreement thereto so long as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to the holders in any material respect in than the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); Date or (7iv) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection affiliation agreements with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)WB Television Network.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Acme Intermediate Holdings LLC)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into into, make, amend, renew or make or amend extend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee Guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Borrower (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction by the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person that is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment Affiliate of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entiretyBorrower; and (2ii) the Issuer Borrower delivers to the Trustee Agent: (a) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period20.0 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this Section 5.14 and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock Affiliate Transaction or series of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted related Affiliate Transactions has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer;Directors; and (4b) the payment with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid torelated Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $50.0 million, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, an opinion as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair fairness to the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions from a financial point of view issued by an independent accounting, appraisal or stating that the terms are investment banking firm of national standing. The following items shall not materially less favorablebe deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, when taken as a wholetherefore, shall not be subject to the Issuer provisions of the prior paragraph: (iii) any employment or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction consulting agreement, employee benefit plan, officer or director indemnification agreement or any similar arrangement entered into by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise approved in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of good faith by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereofDirectors and payments pursuant thereto, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) payment of directors’ fees and the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer Borrower to directors and the granting and performing of customary registration rights employees pursuant to any Parent Entity stock option or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawstock ownership plans; (11iv) payments by transactions between or among the Issuer or any of Borrower and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithSubsidiaries; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14v) transactions with a Person (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Borrower) that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising Borrower solely because the Issuer Borrower owns, directly or any through a Restricted Subsidiary owns any Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15vi) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee Payments that are permitted by Section 5.10 and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithPermitted Investments; (16vii) intellectual property licenses any sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Borrower and transactions where the only consideration paid by the Borrower is in the form of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock); (viii) any agreement as in effect as of the Effective Date or as thereafter amended, supplemented or replaced (so long as such amendment, supplement or replacement agreement is not materially disadvantageous to the holders of the notes when taken as a whole as compared to the original agreement as in effect on the Effective Date) or any transaction or payments contemplated thereby; and (ix) transactions with joint ventures for the purchase or sale of goods, equipment and services entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)business.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Subordinated Delayed Draw Credit Agreement (Gencorp Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Company will not, and shall will not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into any payment totransaction (including, without limitation, the purchase, sale, lease or sell, lease, transfer exchange of any property or otherwise dispose the rendering of any service or the lending of any funds) with or for the benefit of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Affiliates (each of the foregoingeach, an "Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration "), other than such transactions as are entered into and conducted in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million good faith and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is which are on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not fair to the Company or such Subsidiary and materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or the relevant Restricted such Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’sarm's-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction Person that is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any not an Affiliate. All Affiliate Transaction Transactions or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration other market value in excess of (euro)1,000,000 per calendar year must also be approved, prior to the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Periodconsummation thereof, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; Company and evidenced by a Board Resolution. Any Affiliate Transaction or series of Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or other market value in excess of (4euro)5,000,000 per calendar year, or as to which there are no disinterested directors, is also subject to the further requirement that the Company obtain an opinion of an Independent Financial Advisor with experience in appraising the terms and conditions of the relevant type of transaction (or series of transactions) stating that the payment transaction (or a series of transactions) is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company or such Subsidiary. The foregoing restrictions will not apply to (i) transactions between the Company and any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries or among its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, (ii) reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities indemnification and reimbursements and employment and severance similar arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future with officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the IssuerCompany and its Subsidiaries and payments thereunder, any Restricted Subsidiary of (iii) arrangements in effect on the Issuer Issue Date and amendments or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers renewals thereof that are not more disadvantageous to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair Holders in any material respect than the original arrangements as in effect on the Issue Date and that, in any case, are on terms materially no less favorable to the Issuer Company or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s arm's-length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment basis from a Person that is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); an Affiliate, (7iv) the existence of, or the performance transactions permitted by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection and complying with the Merger and any similar agreements which it provisions of Section 5.01 hereof, (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14v) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising Company solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary Company owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate voting securities of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a and (vi) Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into Payments (including Permitted Payments) made in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied accordance with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Section 4.07 hereof.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Antenna Tv Sa)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. Except as permitted by Section 7.16 and except for the Subordinated Guaranty, enter into any transaction, including, without limitation, any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of Property, the rendering of any service or the payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any Affiliate (other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor) unless such transaction is (a) The Issuer shall nototherwise permitted under this Agreement, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to in the following: (1) (A) transactions between ordinary course of business of Holdings, Borrower or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be, delivers and (c) upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on than it would obtain in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate; provided that Holdings, the Borrower or any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or Borrower's Subsidiaries may not enter into any Parent Entity transaction with an Affiliate thereof if the value of such transaction is greater than $1,000,000 individually and the value of all such transactions by Holdings, the Borrower and the Borrower's Subsidiaries is greater than $5,000,000 in good faith; the aggregate other than (21w) sales Required Hedge Agreements, (x) the reasonable allocation of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to overhead costs and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with the past practices of Holdings, the Borrower and the Borrower's Subsidiaries, (y) Hydrocarbon sales by Borrower to EMT or an Affiliate in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice practices for each separate producing basin; provided that (includingI) such Hydrocarbon sale is upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, without limitationas the case may be, any than it would obtain in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate and (II) the Borrower does not deliver the Hydrocarbon sold until it is paid in full in cash management activities related thereto)by EMT or such Affiliate, and (z) the assignment of Hydrocarbon sale contracts and transportation contracts from EMT to the Borrower upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower than it would obtain in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Williams Companies Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall Investor will not, and shall will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer Investor (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1) such : the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Investor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been could be obtained at the time of such transaction in arm’s-length dealings in a comparable transaction by with a Person that is not such an Affiliate; and the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer Investor delivers to the Trustee Lender: with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period2.5 million, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Investor’s Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and Directors set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this covenant and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the such Board of Directors; and with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $7.5 million, an opinion as to the Issuer; (4) fairness to the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to Investor or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted such Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are issued by a Qualified Expert. The following items will not materially less favorablebe deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, when taken as a wholetherefore, will not be subject to the Issuer provisions of Section 0: any employment agreement, employee benefit plan, officer and director indemnification agreement or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction any similar arrangement entered into by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer Investor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent business and compensation (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related theretobonuses and equity compensation) paid to which it and other benefits (including retirement, health and other benefit plans) and indemnification arrangements provided on behalf of directors, officers and employees of the Investor or any Parent EntityRestricted Subsidiary; transactions between or among or solely for the benefit of the Investor and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries; transactions with a Person (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Investor) that is an Affiliate of the Investor solely because the Investor owns, directly or through a party Restricted Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; payment of reasonable directors’ fees to Persons who are not otherwise Affiliates of the Investor; any issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Shares) of the Investor to Affiliates of the Investor; Restricted Payments that do not violate the provisions of this Schedule described above under Section 0 (Limitation on Restricted Payments) or Permitted Investments; loans or advances to employees for travel and relocation in connection with the Merger ordinary course of business not to exceed $1.0 million in the aggregate at any one time outstanding; the entering into of a tax sharing agreement, or payments pursuant thereto, between the Investor and/or one or more Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any similar agreements other Person with which it (the Investor or such Subsidiaries are required or permitted to file a consolidated tax return or with which the Investor or such Subsidiaries are part of a consolidated group for tax purposes, on the other hand; provided that any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance payments by the Issuer or any of its Investor and the Restricted Subsidiaries (or required under such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment excess of the Board of the Issuer tax liabilities that would have been payable by them on a stand-alone basis; transactions contemplated by supply, purchase or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions sale agreements with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates(other than the Investor or its Subsidiaries), in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are Schedule; provided that if such agreement is effected on or after the date of this Agreement, such agreement is fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination Investor or such Subsidiary of the Board of the Issuer Investor or the senior management thereof, or are is on terms, terms (taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable favourable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party and the Investor delivers to the Lender a resolution of the Investor’s Board of Directors set forth in an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such agreement complies with this clause (as determined i) and that such agreement has been approved by a majority of the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate disinterested members of such Person existing at Board of Directors; the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary granting and not entered into in contemplation performance of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director SEC registration rights for securities of the Issuer or any Parent EntityInvestor; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into pursuant to agreements in existence on the ordinary course date of business or consistent with past practice this Agreement (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)on the terms in effect on such date) and disclosed in writing to the Lender.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Distribution Agreement (Central European Distribution Corp)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into any transaction or series of related transactions having a value in excess of $10.0 million with or for the benefit of an Affiliate of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary, including any Investment, either directly or indirectly, unless such transaction is on terms no less favorable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with an entity that is not an Affiliate or is otherwise fair to the Issuers from a financial point of view. For any transaction or series of related transactions involving aggregate value in excess of $25.0 million, such transaction or series of related transactions is approved by either (x) a majority of the Disinterested Directors of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, if any, or in the event there is only one Disinterested Director, by such Disinterested Director, or (y) the audit committee of the Board of Directors of the Issuer (with any Director on such committee that is not a Disinterested Director recusing himself or herself). (b) The preceding requirements shall not apply to: (1) any transaction pursuant to agreements in effect on the Issue Date, as these agreements may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time, so long as any such amendment, modification, supplement, extension or renewal is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors or senior management of the Issuer, when taken as a whole, than the terms of the agreements in effect on the Issue Date; (2) any employment agreement or employee benefit arrangements with any officer or director, including under any stock option or stock incentive plans, entered into by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make in the ordinary course of business of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary or approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors; (3) transactions between or among the Issuer and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries and any payment to, Guarantees issued by the Issuer or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or a Restricted Subsidiary for the benefit ofof the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in accordance with Section 4.9; (4) any transaction with any Person (x) that is not an Affiliate of the Issuer immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate of the Issuer as a result of such transaction or (y) that is an Affiliate of the Issuer solely because the Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns Capital Stock in, or controls, such Person; (5) transactions with joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business, provided that no other Affiliate of the Issuer (each other than a Subsidiary thereof) directly or indirectly holds any Capital Stock of such joint venture; (6) payment of reasonable directors fees to Persons who are not otherwise employees of the foregoingIssuer; (7) indemnities of officers, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million directors and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA employees of the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer pursuant to bylaws, or statutory provisions or indemnification agreements or the purchase of indemnification insurance for the Applicable Measurement Period, unless:any director or officer; (18) any Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.7; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of the business of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture; provided that in the reasonable determination of the Issuers, such Affiliate Transaction is transactions are on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer Issuers or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would could have been obtained at the time of such transactions in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis orPerson; (10) the grant, if in the good faith judgment issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Stock) to Affiliates of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to Issuer and the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point granting of view registration rights and when such transaction is taken other customary rights in its entirety; andconnection therewith; (211) any transaction as to which the Issuer delivers to the Trustee a written opinion of an investment banking firm of national standing or other recognized independent expert with respect to any Affiliate Transaction experience in appraising the terms and conditions of the type of transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer transactions for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in which an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation opinion is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor required stating that such the transaction or series of related transactions is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially no less favorable, when taken as a whole, favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with an unrelated Person on entity that is not an arm’s length basis;Affiliate; and (612) any written agreements entered into or assumed in connection with mergers or acquisitions of other businesses with Persons who were not Affiliates prior to such transactions; provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such merger or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Dateacquisition, or and any amendment thereto (thereto, so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer Directors or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders Issuer, when taken as a whole whole, as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date);date of such acquisition or merger. (7c) Notwithstanding the existence ofpreceding, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect requirements set forth in the good faith judgment third sentence of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof Section 4.11(a) relating to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time an opinion from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions firm of national standing or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board other recognized independent expert shall not apply to leases of the Issuer property or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses equipment entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)business.

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Sources: Indenture (Bloomin' Brands, Inc.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, amend or suffer to exist any payment totransaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation, the sale, purchase, exchange or selllease of assets, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, services) with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration extend, renew, waive or otherwise modify in excess any material respect the terms of any Affiliate Transaction entered into prior to or on the greater Issue Date, if the terms of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% such Affiliate Transaction after giving effect to such extension, renewal, replacement, waiver or other modification, taken as a whole, are more disadvantageous to the Holders of Consolidated EBITDA of Notes in any material respect than the Issuer for original agreement as in effect on the Applicable Measurement Period, unless: Issue Date unless (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on termsbetween or among the Issuer, taken as a wholeone or more of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, and/or one or more of the Restricted Subsidiaries that are not materially less favorable also Guarantors; or (2) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are fair and reasonable to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those case may be, and the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are at least as favorable as the terms that would have been could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable transaction made on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to between unaffiliated parties. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions that are similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments an amount or consideration having a fair market value in excess of $10.0 million that is not permitted under clause (1) above, the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA Issuer must obtain a resolution of the Issuer for majority of the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (2) above. In any Affiliate Transaction (or any series of related Affiliate Transactions that are similar or part of a common plan) involving an amount or having a fair market value in excess of $40.0 million that is not permitted under clause (1) above. (b) , the Issuer must obtain a favorable written opinion as to the fairness, from a financial point of view, of such transaction or transactions, as the case may be, from an Independent Financial Advisor. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following:to (1) (A) transactions between or among any Restricted Payment that is not prohibited by the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, provisions described in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purposeSection 4.09; (2) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 10.10 (other than any transaction pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) an agreement, arrangement or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) understanding existing on the Issue Date and described in the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition)Offering Memorandum; (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements any indemnity provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future any officers, directors, managers, directors or employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent EntityAffiliate of the Issuer or of such officers, directors or employees as determined in good faith by the Issuer’s Board of Directors or senior management thereof; (4) any transaction between the Issuer or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries and their Affiliates involving ordinary course investment banking, commercial banking or related activities; (5) transactions any transaction with any Affiliate solely in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such transaction is fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken capacity as a whole, to the Issuer holder of Indebtedness or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) Capital Stock of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries where such Affiliate is treated no more favorably than holders of such Indebtedness or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable lawsuch Capital Stock generally; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (146) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer between or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between among the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee on the one hand, and any Affiliate other Person controlled by (as such term is defined in the definition of “Affiliate”) the Issuer, on the other hand, so long as lessor, which is approved (a) at least 25% of the voting securities of such other Person are beneficially owned by the Board of Persons other than the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; any Affiliate thereof, (16b) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of there exists no other substantial business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to relationship between the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by Affiliates and the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms Persons who beneficially own at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by 25% of the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director voting securities of such other Person referred to in clause (a) above, other than the transactions in question, and no such other business relationship is also a director reasonably expected and (c) no portion of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including remaining interest in such other PersonPerson is owned by a Person that controls (as such term is defined in the definition of “Affiliate”) the Issuer, or between or among such Subsidiaries or Persons; (207) Co-Investment Transactions as approved any transaction permitted by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faithprovisions described under Section 5.01; (21) sales 8) any transaction, the prohibition of accounts receivablewhich, by operation of this covenant, would violate the “Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries” covenant in the CMI Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiariesthe CMI Senior Notes Indenture; and (239) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related theretotransaction described by clause Section 4.10(2)(ii).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Canwest Media Inc)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer Issuers shall not, and shall not permit any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries to, make directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any payment totransaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose the rendering of any service) with any Holder (or any Affiliate of its properties such Holder) of 10% or assets to, more of any class of Capital Stock of the Parent or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, with any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingParent, an “Affiliate Transaction”) Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million 50,100,000 and (y) 5.00.3% of Consolidated EBITDA consolidated Adjusted Total Assets of the Issuer for Issuers and the Applicable Measurement PeriodRestricted Subsidiaries, unless: (1) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, except upon terms that are not materially less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis than could be obtained, at the time of such transaction or, if such transaction is pursuant to a written agreement, at the time of the execution of the agreement providing therefor, in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not such a Holder or an Affiliate or if in the good faith judgment of the IssuerParent’s Board of Directors, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transactiontransaction, such Affiliate Transaction transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer Issuers or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; and (2) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period, a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) aboveview. (b) The foregoing provisions limitation set forth in Section 5.12(a) does not limit, and shall not apply to the followingto: (1) transactions (A) transactions between or among the Issuer and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the members disinterested directors of the Board of Directors of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf ofParent, or for the benefit ofwhere no such disinterested directors exist, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) by unanimous approval of the Issuer, directors of the Board of Directors of the Parent or (B) for which the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, delivers to the Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor written opinion of a nationally recognized investment banking, appraisal or accounting firm stating that such the transaction is fair to the Issuer Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view view; (2) any transaction solely between an Issuer and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or stating that solely between Restricted Subsidiaries; (3) the terms are not materially less favorablepayment of reasonable fees and compensation (including through the issuance of Capital Stock) to, when taken as a wholeand indemnification and similar arrangements on behalf of, to the Issuer current, former or the relevant future directors, officers, employees or consultants of Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of Parent; (4) the issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction Disqualified Stock) of an Issuer; (5) any Restricted Payments not prohibited by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basisSection 5.09 and Investments constituting Permitted Investments; (6) any agreement contracts, instruments or arrangement as other agreements or arrangements in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination of the Issuer as of the Issue Date, or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement each case as in effect on the Issue Date)date of this Indenture, and any transactions pursuant thereto or contemplated thereby, or any amendment, modification or supplement thereto or any replacement thereof entered into from time to time, as long as such agreement or arrangements as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Issuers and the Restricted Subsidiaries at the time executed than the original agreement or arrangements as in effect on the date of this Indenture; (7) the existence ofany employment, consulting, service or termination agreement, or the performance customary indemnification arrangements, entered into by the an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary with current, former or future officers and employees of its Restricted Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement Parent or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the an Issuer or any of its such Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions Subsidiary and the payment of all fees compensation to officers and expenses related employees of the Parent, an Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary (including amounts paid pursuant to the Transactionsemployee benefit plans, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners employee stock option or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliatessimilar plans), in each case in the ordinary course of business or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partybusiness; (10) the issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) 8) loans and advances to officers and employees of the Issuer and the granting and performing of customary registration rights to any Parent Entity or to any Permitted Holder or to any formerParent, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of the an Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries Restricted Subsidiary or any Parent Entity and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required by applicable law; (11) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or guarantees in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (12) payments, loans, advances or guarantees thereof (or cancellation of such loans, advances or guarantees) to future), current or former employeesfor bona fide business purposes, directorsincluding for reasonable moving and relocation, officersentertainment and travel expenses and similar expenses, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) made in the ordinary course of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faithbusiness; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (149) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Parent or an Issuer arising solely because the Issuer Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary an Issuer, directly or indirectly, owns any Equity Interest inCapital Stock of, or controls, controls such Person; (1510) any lease entered transaction with a Person who is not an Affiliate immediately before the consummation of such transaction that becomes an Affiliate as a result of such transaction; or (11) the entering into between the Issuer or amending of any Restricted Subsidiarytax sharing, as lessee allocation or similar agreement and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services to Affiliates in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair to the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)thereunder.

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Sources: Senior Notes Indenture (MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.)

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Issuer (each of the foregoingeach, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $25.0 million and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Issuer for the Applicable Measurement Period), unless: (1i) such the Affiliate Transaction is on terms, taken as a whole, terms that are not materially no less favorable to the Issuer or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary with Person who is not an unrelated Person on an arm’s-length basis or, if in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, no comparable transaction is available with which to compare such Affiliate Transaction, such Affiliate Transaction is otherwise fair to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view and when such transaction is taken in its entirety; andAffiliate; (2ii) the Issuer delivers to the Trustee with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of the greater of (x) $50.0 million and (y) 10.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of U.S.$5.0 million, the Issuer for delivers to the Applicable Measurement Period, Trustee a resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors of the Issuer approving such Affiliate Transaction and or of the relevant Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, set forth in an Officer’s Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (1) above. (b) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to the following: (1) (A) transactions between or among the Issuer this covenant and a Restricted Subsidiary or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries or, in any case, any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction and (B) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation of the Issuer into any Parent Entity; provided that such Parent Entity shall have no material liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Issuer and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise consummated in compliance with the terms of this Indenture and effected for a bona fide business purpose; (2) Restricted Payments permitted Affiliate Transaction has been approved by Section 10.10 (other than pursuant to Sections 10.10(b)(11)(B) or 10.10(b)(13)(F)) and the definition of “Permitted Investments” (other than clause (11) of such definition); (3) (A) the payment of management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses to the Investors (plus any unpaid management, consulting, monitoring, transaction, advisory and other fees, indemnities and expenses accrued in any prior year) and any termination fees (including any such cash lump sum or present value fee upon the consummation of a corporate event), and (B) the payment of indemnification and other similar amounts to the Investors and reimbursement of expenses of the Investors, in each case, approved by, or pursuant to arrangements approved by, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of the Issuer; (4) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and compensation paid to, and indemnities and reimbursements and employment and severance arrangements provided to or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, former, current or future officers, directors, managers, employees or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee) of the Issuer, any Restricted Subsidiary Directors of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; (5) transactions in which of the Issuer or any of its relevant Restricted SubsidiariesSubsidiary, as the case may be; and (iii) in the event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, delivers or transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value in excess of U.S.$15.0 million, the Issuer shall, prior to the Trustee consummation thereof, obtain a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that favorable opinion as to the fairness of such transaction is fair Affiliate Transaction to the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view from an accounting, appraisal or stating investment banking firm of recognized standing; provided that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a whole, to neither the Issuer or the relevant nor its Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries shall be required to comply with an unrelated Person on an arm’s length basis; (6this Section 4.1(e) any agreement or arrangement as in effect or contemplated in the good faith determination while equity securities of the Issuer as remain registered with the SEC and listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on the NASDAQ, directly or in the form of American Depositary Receipts. The following items shall not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, shall not be subject to the provisions of the Issue Dateprior paragraph: (1) any employment agreement, employee benefit plan, stock options, stock ownership plans, officer or director indemnification agreement or any amendment thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date); (7) the existence of, or the performance similar arrangement entered into by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries provided on behalf of its obligations under the terms ofdirectors, any stockholders agreement or the equivalent (including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related thereto) to which it (or any Parent Entity) is a party in connection with the Merger officers and any similar agreements which it (or any Parent Entity) may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or the performance by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or such Parent Entity) of obligations under any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted by this clause (7) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous in any material respect in the good faith judgment of the Board of the Issuer or the senior management thereof to the Holders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Issue Date; (8) the Transactions and the payment of all fees and expenses related to the Transactions, including Transaction Expenses; (9) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, vendors, contractors, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers of goods or services that are Affiliates, in each case employees in the ordinary course of business and approved by the Board of Directors of the Issuer and/or the relevant Subsidiary, as applicable, and payments pursuant thereto; (2) transactions between or that are consistent with past practice and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture which are fair to among the Issuer and its the Restricted Subsidiaries, in Subsidiaries and Guarantees issued by the reasonable determination of Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary for the Board benefit of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the senior management thereofcase may be, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated partyin accordance with Section 4.1(c); (103) payment of reasonable and customary directors’ fees of the Issuer and any Restricted Subsidiary; (4) any issuance or transfer of (A) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and the granting and performing to Affiliates of customary registration rights such Person; (5) transactions pursuant to any Parent Entity contract or to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, employee or consultant (or any Affiliate or Immediate Family Members of any of the foregoing, or any permitted transferee thereof) of agreement with the Issuer or any of its the Restricted Subsidiaries in effect on the Issue Date, as the same may be amended, modified or replaced from time to time so long as any Parent Entity such amendment, modification or replacement is not less favorable in any material respect to the Issuer and (B) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals the Restricted Subsidiaries than the original agreement as required by applicable lawin effect on the Issue Date, except for any extension of the time period thereof; (116) payments by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Investors made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith;Note Guarantees; and (127) payments, loans, loans or advances or guarantees (or cancellation of loans, advances or guarantees) to future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers officers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereofi) of the Issuer, any of its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity and employment agreements, consulting agreements, indemnification agreements, employee benefit plans, stock option plans and other compensatory or severance arrangements (and any successor plans thereto) and any supplemental executive retirement benefit plans or similar arrangements with any such employees, directors, officers, managers or consultants (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members, or any permitted transferee thereof) (including salary or guaranteed payments and bonuses) which, in each case, are approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (A) investments by Permitted Holders in securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and any payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Permitted Holders in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered generally to other investors on the same or more favorable terms, and (B) payments to Permitted Holders in respect of securities or loans of the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (A) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans; (14) transactions with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer arising solely because the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary owns any Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person; (15) any lease entered into between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee and any Affiliate of the Issuer, as lessor, which is approved by the Board of the Issuer or the senior management of the Issuer in good faith; (16) intellectual property licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (17ii) the provision of mortgage servicing, mortgage loan origination, real estate logistics, brokerage and management and similar services otherwise not to Affiliates exceed U.S.$2.0 million in the ordinary course of business and otherwise not prohibited by this Indenture which are fair aggregate at any one time outstanding with respect to all loans or advances made since the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined by the Issuer in good faith) or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party (as determined by the Issuer in good faith); (18) an agreement between a Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the time such Person is acquired by, or merged into, the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition or merger; provided that such acquisition or merger complied with this covenant; (19) transactions between the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person that would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because a director of such other Person is also a director of the Issuer or any Parent Entity; provided, however, that such director abstains from voting as a director of the Issuer or such Parent Entity, as the case may be, on any matter including such other Person; (20) Co-Investment Transactions as approved by the Board or the senior management of the Issuer or any Parent Entity in good faith; (21) sales of accounts receivable, or participation therein, or Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Permitted Securitization Indebtedness or Permitted Funding Indebtedness; (22) pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and (23) payments to and from, and transactions with, any joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including, without limitation, any cash management activities related thereto)Issue Date.

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Sources: Indenture (Cementos Pacasmayo Saa)