EXHIBIT 10.8
EXECUTION
VERSION
$565,000,000
Wendy’s/Arby’s
Restaurants, LLC
10.0% Senior Notes Due
2016
PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
June 18, 2009
Credit Suisse
Securities (USA) LLC
Banc of America
Securities LLC
Citigroup Global
Markets Inc.,
As Representatives of the Several
Purchasers,
c/o Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC
Eleven
Madison Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10010-3629
Dear Sirs:
1. Introductory.
Wendy’s International Holdings, LLC (to be
renamed Wendy’s/Arby’s Restaurants, LLC), a Delaware
limited liability company (the “ Company ”),
agrees with the several initial purchasers named in Schedule A
hereto (the “ Purchasers ”) subject to the terms
and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the several
Purchasers U.S.$565,000,000 principal amount of its 10.0% Senior
Notes Due 2016 (“ Offered Securities ”) to be
issued under an indenture, to be dated as of the Closing Date
(the “ Indenture ”), between the Company, the
Guarantors, (hereinafter defined) and U.S. Bank, National
Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Offered
Securities will be unconditionally guaranteed as to the payment of
principal and interest by each of the Company’s subsidiaries
listed on Schedule B hereto (collectively, the “
Guarantors ” and such guarantees, the “
Guarantees ”).
The holders of the Offered Securities will be
entitled to the registration rights set forth in a registration
rights agreement to be dated as of the Closing Date among the
Company, the Guarantors and the Purchasers (the “
Registration Rights Agreement ”), pursuant to which
the Company and the Guarantors will agree to file a registration
statement with the Commission registering the resale of the Offered
Securities and the related Guarantees under the Securities
Act.
Each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby
agrees with the several Purchasers as follows:
2. Representations and Warranties
of the Company and the Guarantors. Each of the
Company and the Guarantors represents and warrants to, and agrees
with, the several Purchasers that:
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(a)
Offering Circulars; Certain Defined Terms . The
Company has prepared or will prepare a Preliminary Offering
Circular and a Final Offering Circular.
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For purposes of
this Agreement:
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“ Applicable Time
” means 3:30 p.m. (New York time) on the date of this
Agreement.
“ Closing Date ”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3 hereof.
“ Commission ”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ Exchange Act ”
means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
“ Final Offering
Circular ” means the final offering circular
relating to the Offered Securities to be offered
by the Purchasers that discloses the offering price and other final
terms of the Offered Securities and is dated as of the date of this
Agreement (even if finalized and issued subsequent to the date of
this Agreement).
“ Free Writing
Communication ” means a written communication (as such
term is defined in Rule 405) that constitutes an offer to sell
or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Offered Securities and is
made by means other than the Preliminary Offering Circular or the
Final Offering Circular.
“ General Disclosure
Package ” means the Preliminary Offering Circular
together with any Issuer Free Writing Communication existing at the
Applicable Time and the information, if any, distributed at or
prior to the Applicable Time, as evidenced by its being specified
in Schedule C hereto.
“ Issuer Free Writing
Communication ” means a Free Writing Communication
prepared by or on behalf of the Company, used or referred to by the
Company or containing a description of the final terms of the
Offered Securities or of their offering, in the form retained in
the Company’s records.
“ Preliminary Offering
Circular ” means the preliminary offering
circular,
dated June 10, 2009, 2009, relating
to the Offered Securities to be offered by the
Purchasers.
“ Rules and Regulations
” means the rules and regulations of the
Commission.
“ Securities Act
” means the United States Securities Act of 1933.
“ Securities Laws
” means, collectively, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
(“ Sarbanes-Oxley ”), the Securities Act, the
Exchange Act, the Rules and Regulations, the auditing principles,
rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors of
“issuers” (as defined in Sarbanes-Oxley) promulgated or
approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board.
“ Supplemental Marketing
Material ” means any Issuer Free Writing Communication
other than any Issuer Free Writing Communication specified in
Schedule C hereto, which has been approved by the Company,
including, the electronic Bloomberg roadshow slides and the
accompanying audio recordings.
Unless otherwise specified, a
reference to a “rule” is to the indicated rule under
the Securities Act.
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(b)
Disclosure . As of the date of this Agreement,
the Final Offering Circular does not, and as of the Closing Date,
the Final Offering Circular will not, include any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. At the Applicable Time, and as of the
Closing Date, neither (i) the General Disclosure Package, nor (ii)
the Supplemental Marketing Material, when considered, as an
aggregate, together with the General Disclosure Package, included,
or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted, or will omit, to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The preceding two sentences do not apply to
statements in or omissions from the Preliminary or Final Offering
Circular, the General Disclosure Package or any Supplemental
Marketing Material based upon written information furnished to the
Company by any Purchaser through the Representatives specifically
for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such
information is that described as such in Section 8(b)
hereof.
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(c)
Good Standing of the Company and the Guarantors . The
Company and each Guarantor has been duly organized or incorporated
and is existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization or incorporation, with power and
authority (corporate
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and other) to
own its properties and conduct its business as described in the
General Disclosure Package; and the Company and each Guarantor is
duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good
standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease
of property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification except for when failure to be qualified or good
standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a
material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise),
results of operations, business or properties of the Company, the
Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries taken as a whole
(“ Material Adverse Effect ”).
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(d)
Subsidiaries . Each “ significant
subsidiary ”, as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of
Regulation S-X of the Company and each significant subsidiary, as
such term is defined in Item 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X of the
Guarantors has been duly incorporated and is existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation,
with power and authority (corporate and other) to own its
properties and conduct its business as described in the General
Disclosure Package; and each significant subsidiary of the Company
and each significant subsidiary of the Guarantors is duly qualified
to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all
other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or
the conduct of its business requires such qualification except for
when failure to be qualified or good standing would not constitute
a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding
capital stock of each significant subsidiary of the Company and
each significant subsidiary of the Guarantors has been duly
authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable;
and except as described in the General Disclosure Package or the
Final Offering Circular, and except for any such liens,
encumbrances, defects incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
the capital stock of each significant subsidiary owned by the
Company or each Guarantor, directly or through significant
subsidiaries, is owned free from liens, encumbrances and
defects.
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(e)
Corporate Structure . The entities listed on
Schedule D hereto are the only subsidiaries, direct or
indirect, of the Company.
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(f)
Indenture; Offered Securities . The Indenture has
been duly and validly authorized by the Company and the Guarantors
and, when duly executed and delivered by the Company and the
Guarantors (assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery
thereof by the Trustee), will be a legally binding and valid
obligation of the Company, enforceable against it in accordance
with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
to general equity principles. The Indenture, when executed and
delivered, will conform in all material respects to the description
thereof in the General Disclosure Package and the Final Offering
Circular. The Offered Securities have been duly
and validly authorized for issuance and sale to the Purchasers by
the Company. When the Offered Securities are issued and executed by
the Company, authenticated by the Trustee and delivered by the
Company against payment therefor by the Purchasers in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement and the Indenture, the Offered
Securities will be legally binding and valid obligations of the
Company, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity
principles. The Offered Securities, when issued,
authenticated and delivered, will conform in all material respects
to the description thereof in the General Disclosure Package and
the Final Offering Circular.
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(g)
Trust Indenture Act . On the Closing Date, the
Indenture will conform in all material respects to the requirements
of the United States Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the
“ Trust Indenture Act ”), and the rules and
regulations of the Commission applicable to an indenture which is
qualified thereunder.
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(h)
No Finder’s Fee . Except as disclosed in
the General Disclosure Package, there are no contracts, agreements
or understandings between the Company and any person that would
give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any Purchaser for
a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in
connection with the issuance of the Offered Securities.
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(i)
Registration Rights Agreement . The Registration
Rights Agreement has been duly authorized by the Company and the
Guarantors; and, when the Registration Rights Agreement has been
duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantors, and
assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by the
Representatives, will be the valid and legally binding obligations
of the Company and the Guarantors, enforceable in accordance with
its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
to general equity principles and except that any rights to
indemnity or contribution thereunder may be limited by federal and
state securities laws and public policy considerations.
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(j)
Exchange Securities . On the Closing Date, the
Exchange Securities will have been duly authorized by the Company;
and when the Exchange Securities are issued and executed by the
Company and authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the
terms of the Exchange Offer and the Indenture and delivered by the
Company, the Exchange Securities will be entitled to the benefits
of the Indenture and will be the valid and legally binding
obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
to general equity principles.
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(k)
Guarantee . The Guarantee to be endorsed on the
Offered Securities by each Guarantor has been duly authorized by
such Guarantor; and, when the Offered Securities are issued and
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered by the
Company against payment pursuant to this Agreement, the Guarantee
of each Guarantor endorsed thereon will have been duly executed and
delivered by each such Guarantor, will conform to the description
thereof contained in the Final Offering Circular and will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Guarantor,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights and to general equity
principles. The Guarantee to be endorsed on the Exchange
Securities by each Guarantor has been duly authorized by such
Guarantor; and, when issued, will have been duly executed and
delivered by each such Guarantor and will conform, in all material
respects, to the description thereof contained in the Final
Offering Circular. When the Exchange Securities have
been issued and executed by the Company and authenticated by the
Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Exchange Offer and the
Indenture and delivered by the Company, the Guarantee of each
Guarantor endorsed thereon will constitute valid and legally
binding obligations of such Guarantor, enforceable in accordance
with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
to general equity principles.
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(l)
No Registration Rights . There are no contracts,
agreements or understandings between the Company or any Guarantor
and any person granting such person the right to require the
Company or such Guarantor to file a registration statement under
the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company or
such Guarantor or to require the Company or such Guarantor to
include such securities with the Offered Securities and Guarantees
registered pursuant to any Registration Statement.
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(m)
Absence of Further Requirements . Assuming the
accuracy of, and the compliance with, the representations,
warranties and agreements set forth in Section 4 of this Agreement
and except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, no
consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing or
registration with, any person (including any governmental agency or
body or any court) by the Company or by the Guarantors is required
for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the Indenture and the Registration Rights Agreement in
connection with the offering, issuance and sale of the Offered
Securities and the Guarantees by the Company and the Guarantors
except for the order of the Commission declaring
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effective the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement or, if required, the Shelf
Registration Statement (each as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement).
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(n)
Title to Property . Except as disclosed in the
General Disclosure Package and except as would not constitute a
Material Adverse Effect, the Company, the Guarantors and their
respective subsidiaries have good and valid title to all real
properties and all other properties and assets owned by them, in
each case free from liens, charges, encumbrances and defects (a
“Lien”) that would materially affect the value thereof
or materially interfere with the use made or to be made thereof by
them except as are permitted under the Indenture; and except as
disclosed in the General Disclosure Package and except as would not
constitute a Material Adverse Effect, the Company, the Guarantors
and their respective subsidiaries hold any material leased real or
personal property under valid and enforceable leases with no terms
or provisions that would materially interfere with the use made or
to be made thereof by them.
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(o)
Absence of Defaults and Conflicts Resulting from Transaction
. Except as set forth in the General Disclosure Package and
assuming the accuracy of, and the compliance with, the
representations, warranties and agreements set forth in Section 4
of this Agreement, the execution, delivery and performance of the
Indenture, this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement,
and the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities and Guarantees
and compliance with the terms and provisions thereof will not
result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions
of, or constitute a default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event
(as defined below) under, or result in the imposition of any Lien
upon any property or assets of the Company, the Guarantors or any
of their respective subsidiaries pursuant to, (i) the
organizational documents of the Company, the Guarantors or any of
their respective subsidiaries, (ii) any statute, any rule,
regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any
court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company,
the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries or any of
their properties, or (iii) any agreement or instrument to which the
Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is
a party or by which the Company, the Guarantors or any of their
respective subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties
of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective
subsidiaries is subject except, in the cases of clauses (ii) and
(iii), for such breach, violation, default of a Debt Repayment
Triggering Event or Lien that would not constitute a Material
Adverse Effect; a “ Debt Repayment Triggering Event
” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving
of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note,
debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting
on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase,
redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by
the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective
subsidiaries.
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(p)
Absence of Existing Defaults and Conflicts . None
of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries is
in violation of their respective organizational documents or in
default (or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would be in
default) under any existing obligation agreement, covenant or
condition contained in any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage,
lease or other agreement or instrument to which any of them is a
party or by which any of them is bound or to which any of the
properties of any of them is subject, except such defaults that
would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material
Adverse Effect. The agreements listed in Schedule E are
the only material agreements of the Company and the
Guarantors.
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(q)
Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the
Guarantors.
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(r)
Possession of Licenses and Permits . The Company,
the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries possess, and are
in compliance with the terms of, all adequate certificates,
authorizations, franchises, licenses and permits (“
Licenses ”) necessary or material to the conduct of
the business now conducted as described in the General Disclosure
Package except as would not constitute a Material Adverse Effect
and have not received any written notice of proceedings
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relating to the
revocation or modification of any Licenses, which proceeding could
reasonably be expected individually or in the aggregate to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(s)
Absence of Labor Dispute . No labor dispute with
the employees of the Company or the Guarantor or any of their
respective subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company
or the Guarantors, is imminent, in each case, that would have a
Material Adverse Effect.
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(t)
Possession of Intellectual Property . The
Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries own,
possess, lease or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate
trademarks, trade names and other rights to inventions, know how,
patents, copyrights, confidential information and other
intellectual property (collectively, “ intellectual
property rights ”) necessary to conduct the business now
operated by them except as would not constitute a Material Adverse
Effect, or presently employed by them, and have not received any
written notice of infringement of or conflict with asserted rights
of others with respect to any intellectual property rights, which
infringement or conflict could reasonably be expected individually
or in the aggregate to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(u)
Environmental Laws . Except as disclosed in the
General Disclosure Package, none of the Company, the Guarantors or
their respective subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, any
rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or
body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use,
disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to
the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure
to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “
environmental laws ”), owns or operates any real
property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any
environmental laws, is liable for any off site disposal or
contamination pursuant to any environmental laws, or is subject to
any claim relating to any environmental laws, which violation,
contamination, liability or claim would individually or in the
aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not
aware of any pending investigation which might lead to such a
claim.
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(v) Accurate
Disclosure. The statements in the General
Disclosure Package and the Final Offering Circular under the
headings “Business-Legal Proceedings” and
“Business- Governmental Regulations” insofar as such
statements summarize legal matters, agreements, documents or
proceedings discussed therein, are accurate and fair summaries in
all material respects of such legal matters, agreements, documents
or proceedings and present the information required to be
shown.
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(w)
Absence of Manipulation. None of the Company, the Guarantors
and their respective affiliates has, either alone or with one or
more other persons, bid for or purchased for any account in which
it or any of its affiliates had a beneficial interest any Offered
Securities or attempted to induce any person to purchase any
Offered Securities.
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Internal
Controls and Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
. Except as set forth in
the General Disclosure Package, the Company, the Guarantors and
their respective subsidiaries in all material respects are in
compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. The Company and the
Guarantors are subject to a system of internal controls maintained
by Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc., including, but not
limited to, disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls
over accounting matters and financial reporting, an internal
control audit function and legal and regulatory compliance controls
(collectively, “ Internal Controls ”), are
sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions
are executed in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as
necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and
to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is
permitted only in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals
and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences.
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(y) Litigation
. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package,
there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings (including any
inquiries or investigations by any court or governmental agency or
body, domestic or foreign) against or affecting the Company, the
Guarantors, any of their respective subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties, which actions, suits or proceedings
(including any inquiries or investigations by any court or
governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign) could reasonably
be expected individually or in the aggregate to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, and no such actions, suits or proceedings
(including any inquiries or investigations by any court or
governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign) to the
Company’s or the Guarantors’ knowledge, are threatened
or contemplated.
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(z)
Financial Statements . The historical financial
statements included in the General Disclosure Package
present fairly in all material respects the
financial position of the Company, the Guarantors and their
respective consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and
their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown,
and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with
the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
applied on a consistent basis; and the assumptions used in
preparing the pro forma financial statements included in the
General Disclosure Package provide a reasonable basis for presenting the
significant effects directly attributable to the transactions or
events described therein, the related pro forma adjustments give
appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma columns
therein reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the
corresponding historical financial statement amounts.
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(aa) No Material Adverse Change
in Business . Except as disclosed in the General
Disclosure Package, since the end of the period covered by the
latest unaudited financial statements included in the General
Disclosure Package (i) there has been no change, nor any
development or event involving a prospective change, in the
condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business
or properties of the Company, the Guarantors and their respective
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that has had a Material Adverse
Effect;
(ii) except as disclosed in or
contemplated by the General Disclosure Package, there has been no
dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the
Company or the Guarantors on any class of their capital stock and
(iii) except as disclosed in or contemplated by the General
Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change in
the capital stock, short-term indebtedness, long-term indebtedness,
net current assets or net assets of the Company, the Guarantors and
their respective subsidiaries.
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(bb) Investment Company Act .
Neither the Company nor any Guarantor is an open-end investment
company, unit investment trust or face-amount certificate company
that is or is required to be registered under Section 8 of the
United States Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “
Investment Company Act ”); and neither the Company nor
any Guarantor is and, after giving effect to the offering and sale
of the Offered Securities and the application of the proceeds
thereof as described in the General Disclosure Package, will be an
“investment company” as defined in the Investment
Company Act.
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(cc) Regulations T, U, X
. Neither the Company nor any Guarantor nor any of their
respective subsidiaries nor any agent thereof (other
than the Purchasers, as to whom the Company makes no
representations) acting on their behalf has taken, and none of them
will take, any action that might cause this Agreement or the
issuance or sale of the Offered Securities to violate Regulation T,
Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
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(dd) Ratings
. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package
and the announcements by each of Standard & Poor’s
Ratings Service and Moody’s Investors Service prior to the
date hereof, no “nationally recognized statistical rating
organization” as such term is defined for purposes of
Rule 436(g)(2) (i) has imposed (or has informed the
Company or any Guarantor that it is considering imposing) any
condition (financial or otherwise) on the Company’s or any
Guarantor’s retaining any rating assigned to the Company or
any Guarantor or
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any securities
of the Company or any Guarantor or (ii) has indicated to the
Company or any Guarantor that it is considering any of the actions
described in Section 7(b)(ii) hereof.
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(ee) Class of Securities Not
Listed . No securities of the same class (within the
meaning of Rule 144A(d)(3)) as the Offered Securities are
listed on any national securities exchange registered under Section
6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer
quotation system.
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(ff) No Registration
. Assuming the accuracy of, compliance by the Purchasers
with the representations, warranties and agreements set forth in
Section 4 of the Agreement, and assuming compliance by holders of
the Offered Securities with the transfer restrictions thereof, the
offer and sale of the Offered Securities in the manner contemplated
by this Agreement will be exempt from the registration requirements
of the Securities Act by reason of Section 4(2) thereof, Rule
144A and Regulation S thereunder; and it is not necessary to
qualify an indenture in respect of the Offered Securities under the
Trust Indenture Act.
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(gg) No General Solicitation; No
Directed Selling Efforts . Neither the Company, nor
any Guarantor, nor any of their respective affiliates, nor any
person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Purchasers, as
to whom the Company makes no representations) (i) has, within
the six-month period prior to the date hereof, offered or sold in
the United States or to any U.S. person (as such terms are defined
in Regulation S under the Securities Act) the Offered
Securities or any security of the same class or series as the
Offered Securities or (ii) has offered or will offer or sell
the Offered Securities (A) in the United States by means of
any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the
meaning of Rule 502(c) or (B) with respect to any such
securities sold in reliance on Rule 903 of Regulation S
(“ Regulation S ”) under the Securities Act, by
means of any directed selling efforts within the meaning of Rule
902(c) of Regulation S. The Company, the
Guarantors, their respective affiliates and any person acting on
its or their behalf (other than the Purchasers, as to whom the
Company makes no representations) have complied and will comply
with the offering restrictions requirement of Regulation S.
Neither the Company nor any Guarantor has entered and neither the
Company nor any Guarantor will enter into any contractual
arrangement with respect to the distribution of the Offered
Securities except for this Agreement and the Registration Rights
Agreement.
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(hh)
FCPA . Neither the Company, the Guarantors nor
any of their significant subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the
Company or the Guarantors, any director, officer, agent, employee
or affiliate of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their
significant subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action,
directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such
persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended,
and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “ FCPA
”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or
any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in
furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization
of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to
give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any
“foreign official” (as such term is defined in the
FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any
candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the
FCPA and the Company, the Guarantors, their significant
subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company or the
Guarantors, their affiliates have conducted their businesses in
compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies
and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably
expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith and
neither the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their significant
subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company or the
Guarantors, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of
the Company, the Guarantors or any of their significant
subsidiaries or has otherwise made any bribe, rebate, payoff,
influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.
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(ii) Money
Laundering Laws . The operations of the Company, the
Guarantors and their significant subsidiaries are and have been
conducted at all times in material compliance with applicable
financial record keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency
and Foreign
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Transactions
Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of
all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any
related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued,
administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively,
the “ Money Laundering Laws ”) and no action,
suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency,
authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company, the
Guarantor or any of their significant subsidiaries with respect to
the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened.
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(jj) OFAC . Neither the
Company, the Guarantors nor any of their significant subsidiaries
nor, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantors, any
director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company, the
Guarantors or any of their significant subsidiaries is currently
subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Offi
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