Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. (b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree. (c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed. (d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it. (e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading. (f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures. (g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ Cravath, Swaine & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission rate set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of Hunton A▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, 2▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) The Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission rate set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of Hunton ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from ---------------------------------------------- Solicitations as Agent. On the Purchasing Agent (or in the case basis of the Purchasing Agentrepresentations and warranties ---------------------- herein contained, from but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, each of you agrees, as agent of the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer , to use your best efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon Prospectus. You are hereinafter sometimes referred to, in your capacity as agents, as the terms communicated to "Agents". The Company reserves the Agents right from time to time by to sell Securities on its own behalf directly to investors, provided that the Company or shall furnish the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, Agents with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose reasonable advance notification of any domestic offering of such sales the Agents Securities. Commissions will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents not be paid on Notes sold directly by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase purchases of the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice instructions from the Company, the Agents you will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities purchases from the Company until such time as the Company has advised the Agents you that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made . The Company agrees to pay you a commission, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (of a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities todiscount, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating equal to the reoffering percentage of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering principal amount of Securities each Note sold by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement as a result of a solicitation made by you as set forth in Schedule A hereto. The Company may accept offers to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representationsNotes through an agent other than an Agent, warranties and agreements of provided that (i) the Company herein contained shall not have solicited such -------- offers, (ii) the Company and such agent shall be subject have executed an agreement with respect to such purchases having terms and conditions (including, without limitation, commission rates) with respect to such purchases substantially the same as the terms and conditions herein set forththat would apply to such purchases under this Agreement if such agent were an Agent (which may be accomplished by incorporating by reference in such agreement the terms and conditions of this Agreement) and (iii) the Company shall notify the Agents prior to the execution of any such agreement and shall provide the Agents with a copy of such agreement promptly following the execution thereof. Each Terms Agreement shall describe As an Agent, each of you is authorized to solicit orders for the Securities only in denominations of $1,000 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000 at a purchase price equal to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the 100% or a percentage of their principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate otherwise specified. You shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each reasonable offer to purchase Securities received by you as Agent. The Company shall have the initial public offering price at which sole right to accept offers to purchase the Securities are proposed and may reject any such offer in whole or in part. You shall have the right to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether reject any offer to purchase the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined received by you in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable whole or repayable and on what terms and conditionsin part, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to ityour agreement contained herein.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Solicitations as Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on On the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees , the Agent agrees, as an agent of the Company, to sell use its reasonable best efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A heretoShares. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share Company agree that such solicitations, and offers for the above-mentioned discount sale of the Shares, shall commence upon receipt of, and shall be made in accordance with, written instructions from the Company to the Agent (which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and which may take the form of an exchange of any standard form of written telecommunication between the Agent and the Company) and shall continue until such proportions time as they may agree.
(c) the Company has instructed the Agent that such solicitations and offers shall be suspended in accordance with Section 8 hereof. The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by instruct the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing Agent, at any time and from time to time after the Commencement Date (as defined in Section 7 hereof), to so commence or suspend such solicitations and offers for any period of time or permanentlypermanently in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. Upon receipt In soliciting purchases of at least one business day’s prior the Shares from the Company by others (including customers of the Agent), the Agent will be acting for the Company and not as principal. The Agent, as the exclusive agent for the offer and sale of the Shares, will use its reasonable best efforts to sell the Shares on behalf of the Company as contemplated hereby; provided, however, that it is understood by the Company that the Agent has no obligations to find purchasers of the Shares and that the Agent in its sole discretion, upon notice thereof to the Company, can suspend from time to time its efforts in offering for sale, and soliciting purchases of, the Shares. In any transaction where the Agent has acted as agent for the Company and has not purchased as principal, the Agent will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain performance by each purchaser of Shares from the Company, but the Agents Agent will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers not have liability to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised in the Agents that event any such solicitation purchase is not consummated for any reason except as may be resumed.
otherwise provided by any applicable regulations and rules of the Exchanges (das defined in Section 3(a) Each sale of Securities shall be made (i) hereof) on which the transaction was executed and except that the Agent will complete the purchase in accordance with the terms customs of this the Exchanges in the case of transactions in which the Agent has also acted as broker for the purchaser. The Company also understands that under no circumstances shall the Agent be obligated to purchase any Shares for its own account, except (i) pursuant to a Terms Agreement, (ii) as provided in the Procedures preceding sentence and (as defined belowiii) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating except to the reoffering extent that the Agent has acted as a principal in purchasing a portion of such Securities a block as contemplated by Section 3 (a)(ii) hereof, or has made a firm commitment with the Purchasing Agent. The Company in connection with an offering or distribution of Securities the type contemplated by Section 3(a) (iii) hereof that has been expressly authorized by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement agreed to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Sales Agency Agreement (Constellation Energy Group Inc)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission rate set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of Hunton ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Solicitations as Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on On the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees , each of the Agents hereby severally and not jointly agrees, as agent of the Company, to sell use its reasonable efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to Company upon the applicable commission terms and conditions set forth in Exhibit A heretothe Prospectus as amended or supplemented from time to time. The Company may from time to time offer Notes for sale otherwise than through the Agents; provided, however, that so long as this Agreement shall be in effect the Company shall not solicit or accept offers to purchase, or sell, Securities or any other debt securities with a maturity at the time of original issuance of nine (9) months or more except pursuant to this Agreement and any Terms Agreement, or except pursuant to a private placement not constituting a public offering under the Securities Act or except in connection with a firm commitment underwriting pursuant to an underwriting agreement that does not provide for a continuous offering of medium-term debt securities through any other agents without amending this Agreement to appoint such agents as additional Agents hereunder on the same terms and conditions as provided herein for the Agents and without giving the Agents prior notice of such appointment. The consent of the then current Agents shall not be necessary for such purpose. In the absence of such an amendment, the Company may accept offers to purchase Notes from or through an agent other than the Agents, provided that (i) the Company shall not have solicited such offers, (ii) the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount such agent shall have executed an agreement with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplementsuch purchases having terms and conditions (including, in without limitation, commission rates) with respect to such purchases substantially the form attached same as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or and conditions that would apply to such purchases under this Agreement as if such agent was an Agent (which may be accomplished by incorporating by reference in such agreement the terms and conditions of this Agreement), and (iii) the Company shall provide the Agents with a description copy of particular such agreement following the execution thereof. However, the Company reserves the right to sell, and may solicit and accept offers to purchase, Securities directly on its own behalf to investors (the “Pricing Supplement”other than broker-dealers). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by instruct the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing suspend at any time time, for any period of time or permanently, the solicitation of offers to purchase Securities. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s 's prior notice from the Company, the Agents each Agent will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities from the Company until such time as the Company has advised the such Agent or Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale . During the period of Securities time that such solicitation is suspended, the Company shall not be made required to deliver any opinions, letters or certificates in accordance with the terms of this AgreementSections 4(l), the Procedures (as defined below4(m) and 4(n); provided that if the Registration Statement or Prospectus is amended or supplemented during the period of suspension (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for a separate agreement change in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (interest rates, redemption provisions, amortization schedules or maturities offered for the Securities or for a “Terms Agreement”) change that the Agents deem to be entered into which will provide immaterial), including an amendment or supplement including or incorporating amended or supplemented financial information, no Agent shall be required to resume soliciting offers to purchase Securities until the Company has delivered such opinions, letters and certificates as such Agent may reasonably request. The Company agrees to pay each Agent, as consideration for the sale of each Security resulting from a solicitation made or an offer to purchase received by such Securities toAgent, and a commission in the form of a discount from the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating price of such Security in an amount equal to the reoffering following applicable percentage of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of such Security sold: RANGE OF MATURITIES COMMISSION PERCENTAGE OF AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF SECURITIES SOLD From 9 months to less than 1 year................ .125% From 1 year to less than 18 months............... .150% From 18 months to less than 2 years.............. .200% From 2 years to less than 3 years................ .250% From 3 years to less than 4 years................ .350% From 4 years to less than 5 years................ .450% From 5 years to less than 6 years................ .500% From 6 years to less than 7 years................ .550% From 7 years to less than 10 years............... .600% From 10 years to less than 15 years.............. .625% From 15 years to less than 20 years.............. .675% From 20 years to 30 years........................ .750% RANGE OF MATURITIES COMMISSION PERCENTAGE OF AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF SECURITIES SOLD Greater than 30 years............................ * *As agreed to by the Company and the applicable Agent at the time of sale. The Agents are authorized to solicit offers to purchase Securities to be purchasedonly in the principal amount of $1,000 (or, in the case of Securities not denominated in U.S. dollars, the interest rate equivalent thereof in the applicable foreign currency or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates composite currency, rounded down to the nearest 1,000 units of such Securitiesforeign currency or composite currency) or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000 (or, in the interest payment datescase of Securities not denominated in U.S. dollars, if any, the net proceeds 1,000 units of such foreign currency or composite currency). Each Agent shall communicate to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the orally or in writing, each offer to purchase Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased received by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder as agent that in its judgment should be considered by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially Company shall include those procedures have the sole right to accept offers to purchase the Securities and may reject any such offer in whole or in part. Each Agent shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to reject any offer to purchase Securities, as a whole or in part, that it considers to be unacceptable and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of its agreements herein contained. The procedural details relating to the issue and delivery of Securities sold by an Agent as agent and the payment therefor are set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the ProceduresAdministrative Procedures (as hereinafter defined).
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
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Sources: Distribution Agreement (Security Capital Group Inc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission rate set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ Hunton & W▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇2▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)
Solicitations as Agent Purchases as Principal. (a) Securities shall be purchased by each Agent from the Purchasing Agent (or in the case of the Purchasing Agent, from the Company) as principal. The Agents shall offer the Securities upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Prospectus and upon the terms communicated to the Agents from time to time by the Company or the Purchasing Agent, as the case may be (which terms, unless otherwise agreed, may be agreed upon orally, with written confirmation prepared by such Agent or Agents and sent by telecopier to the Company). For the purpose of such sales the Agents will use the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, as then amended or supplemented, which has been most recently distributed to the Agents by the Company, and the Agents will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted or contemplated thereby and herein and will offer and sell the Securities only as permitted by the Securities Act and the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Securities as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
(b) The Company agrees to sell the Securities to the Purchasing Agent at a discount from the public offering price of each such Security equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Exhibit A hereto; provided, however, that the Company and the Purchasing Agent may agree instead to a discount greater than or less than the percentages set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The actual aggregate discount with respect to each sale of Securities will be set forth in the related pricing supplement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit G, that sets forth the terms or a description of particular Securities (the “Pricing Supplement”). The Purchasing Agent and the other Agents or Selected Dealers will share the above-mentioned discount in such proportions as they may agree.
(c) The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation by the Agents in their capacities as Agents of offers to purchase the Securities commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of at least one business day’s prior notice from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Securities until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.
(d) Each sale of Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Procedures (as defined below) and a separate agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C (a “Terms Agreement”) to be entered into which will provide for the sale of such Securities to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, the Purchasing Agent as principal. A Terms Agreement may also specify certain provisions relating to the reoffering of such Securities by the Purchasing Agent. The offering of Securities by the Company hereunder and the Purchasing Agent’s agreement to purchase Securities pursuant to any Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Each Terms Agreement shall describe the Securities to be purchased pursuant thereto by the Purchasing Agent as principal, and may specify, among other things, the principal amount of Securities to be purchased, the interest rate or interest rate basis (and whether such interest rate shall be fixed or floating) and maturity date or dates of such Securities, the interest payment dates, if any, the net proceeds to the Company, the initial public offering price at which the Securities are proposed to be reoffered, and the Settlement Date and place of delivery of and payment for such Securities, whether the Securities provide for a Survivor’s Option (as such term is defined in the Prospectus), whether the Securities are redeemable or repayable and on what terms and conditions, and any other relevant terms. In connection with the resale of the Securities purchased, without the consent of the Company and the Purchasing Agent, the Agents are not authorized to appoint subagents or to engage the service of any other broker or dealer, other than the Selected Dealers, nor may any Agent reallow any portion of the discount paid to it.
(e) The Purchasing Agent may, and, upon the request of an Agent with respect to any Securities being purchased by such Agent shall, terminate any agreement hereunder by the Purchasing Agent to purchase such Securities, immediately upon notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if there shall have come to the attention of the Purchasing Agent or such Agent or Agents any facts that would cause them to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Securities, included an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(f) Administrative procedures respecting the sale of Securities (the “Procedures”) shall be agreed upon from time to time by the appropriate representatives of each Agent and the Company. The Procedures initially shall include those procedures set forth in Exhibit B hereto. Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by each of them herein and in the Procedures.
(g) The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date.as
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Agency Agreement (National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp /Dc/)