Voting Trust The voting trust hereby created shall commence on the date hereof and continue through and including December 31, 2005. Throughout such period the Trustee shall have the exclusive right to vote upon such shares or to give written consents in lieu of voting thereon, subject to any limitation on the right to vote contained in the Articles of Incorporation or other certificate filed pursuant to law, in person or by proxy at all meetings of the shareholders of the Corporation, and in all proceedings wherein the vote or written consent of shareholders may be required or authorized by law.
Voting Trusts, etc To join with other holders of any Securities in acting through a committee, depository, voting trustee or otherwise, and in that connection to deposit any Security with, or transfer any Security to, any such committee, depository or trustee, and to delegate to them such power and authority with relation to any Security (whether or not so deposited or transferred) as the Trustees shall deem proper, and to agree to pay, and to pay, such portion of the expenses and compensation of such committee, depository or trustee as the Trustees shall deem proper;
No Voting Trusts Shareholder agrees that Shareholder will not, nor will Shareholder permit any entity under Shareholder's control to, deposit any Shares in a voting trust or subject the Shares to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with respect to the voting of the Shares inconsistent with this Agreement.
Voting of Subject Shares Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Shareholder hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, during the time this Agreement is in effect, at any annual or extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Company, however called, including any adjournment or postponement thereof, and in connection with any action proposed to be taken by written consent of the shareholders of the Company, such Shareholder shall, in each case to the fullest extent that its Subject Shares are entitled to vote thereon: (a) appear at each such meeting or otherwise cause all such Subject Shares to be counted as present thereat for purposes of determining a quorum, and (b) be present (in person or by proxy) and vote (or cause to be voted), or deliver (or cause to be delivered) a written consent with respect to, all of its Subject Shares (i) in favor of any proposal recommended by the Company Board that is intended to facilitate the consummation of the Transactions, (ii) against any action or agreement that would reasonably be expected to (A) result in a breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or any other obligation or agreement of the Company contained in the Purchase Agreement or the Purchase Agreement Amendment, or of such Shareholder contained in this Agreement, or (B) result in any of the conditions set forth in Annex I of the Purchase Agreement not being satisfied on or before the End Date, and (iii) against any Alternative Acquisition Proposal (or any proposal relating to an Alternative Acquisition Proposal) and against any other proposed action, agreement or transaction involving the Company that would reasonably be expected, to impede, interfere with, delay, postpone, adversely affect or prevent the consummation of the Offer or the other Transactions, including (x) any extraordinary corporate transaction, such as a merger, consolidation or other business combination involving the Company (other than the Offer or the other Transactions), (y) a sale, lease, license or transfer of a material amount of assets (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Company Intellectual Property Rights and capital stock of Subsidiaries of the Company) of the Company or any reorganization, recapitalization or liquidation of the Company or (z) any change in the present authorized capitalization of the Company or any amendment or other change to the Company Organizational Documents. Each Shareholder shall retain at all times the right to vote the Subject Shares in such Shareholder’s sole discretion, and without any other limitation, on any matters that are at any time or from time to time presented for consideration to the Company’s shareholder generally.
Antitrust Approval (a) Each Party agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the other Transaction Agreements and the Rights Offering Sub-Plan, including (i) if applicable, filing, or causing to be filed, the Notification and Report Form pursuant to the HSR Act with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice and the United States Federal Trade Commission and any filings under any other Antitrust Laws that are necessary to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as soon as reasonably practicable following the date on which the Approval Order is entered and (ii) promptly furnishing documents or information requested by any Antitrust Authority.
(b) The Company and each Investor subject to an obligation pursuant to the Antitrust Laws to notify any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the Rights Offering Sub-Plan or the Transaction Agreements that has notified the Company in writing of such obligation (each such Investor, a “Filing Party”) agree to reasonably cooperate with each other as to the appropriate time of filing such notification and its content. The Company and each Filing Party shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law: (i) promptly notify each other of, and if in writing, furnish each other with copies of (or, in the case of material oral communications, advise each other orally of) any communications from or with an Antitrust Authority; (ii) not participate in any meeting with an Antitrust Authority unless it consults with each other Filing Party and the Company, as applicable, in advance and, to the extent permitted by the Antitrust Authority and applicable Law, give each other Filing Party and the Company, as applicable, a reasonable opportunity to attend and participate thereat; (iii) furnish each other Filing Party and the Company, as applicable, with copies of all correspondence, filings and communications between such Filing Party or the Company and the Antitrust Authority; (iv) furnish each other Filing Party with such necessary information and reasonable assistance as may be reasonably necessary in connection with the preparation of necessary filings or submission of information to the Antitrust Authority; and (v) not withdraw its filing, if any, under the HSR Act without the prior written consent of Requisite Investors and the Company.
(c) Should a Filing Party be subject to an obligation under the Antitrust Laws to jointly notify with one or more other Filing Parties (each, a “Joint Filing Party”) a transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the Rights Offering Sub-Plan or the Transaction Agreements, such Joint Filing Party shall promptly notify each other Joint Filing Party of, and if in writing, furnish each other Joint Filing Party with copies of (or, in the case of material oral communications, advise each other Joint Filing Party orally of) any communications from or with an Antitrust Authority.
(d) The Company and each Filing Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the waiting periods under the applicable Antitrust Laws to terminate or expire at the earliest possible date after the date of filing. The communications contemplated by this Section 7.15 may be made by the Company or a Filing Party on an outside counsel-only basis or subject to other agreed upon confidentiality safeguards. The obligations in this Section 7.15 shall not apply to filings, correspondence, communications or meetings with Antitrust Authorities unrelated to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Rights Offering Sub-Plan and the Transaction Agreements.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, nothing shall require the Company, any Investor or any of their respective Affiliates to (i) dispose of, license or hold separate any of its or its Subsidiaries’ or Affiliates’ assets or the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ assets, (ii) limit its freedom of action with respect to any of its or its Subsidiaries’ businesses, the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ businesses or make any other behavioral commitments, (iii) divest any of its Subsidiaries, its Affiliates or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, or (iv) commit or agree to any of the foregoing. Without the prior written consent of Requisite Investors (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall commit or agree to (i) dispose of, license or hold separate any of its assets or (ii) limit its freedom of action with respect to any of its businesses or commit or agree to any of the foregoing, in each case, in order to secure any necessary consent or approvals for the transactions contemplated hereby under the Antitrust Laws. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, neither the Investors, nor any of their Affiliates, nor the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, shall be required as a result of this Agreement, to initiate any legal action against, or defend any litigation brought by, the United States Department of Justice, the United States Federal Trade Commission, or any other Governmental Entity in order to avoid the entry of, or to effect the dissolution of, any injunction, temporary restraining order or other order in any suit or proceeding which would otherwise have the effect of preventing or materially delaying the transactions contemplated hereby, or which may require any undertaking or condition set forth in the preceding sentence.