discharge, release or threatened release of any wastes or Hazardous Material, or any other requirement under Environmental Law.
(iii) There is no civil, criminal, or administrative action, suit, demand, claim, hearing, notice, or demand letter, mandate, order, lien, request, investigation, or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of a Responsible Officer, threatened, against any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary relating in any way to Environmental Laws which reasonably could be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(iv) None of the Eligible Properties and, except to the extent that such listing could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, none of the other Properties is listed on or proposed for listing on the National Priority List promulgated pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 and its implementing regulations, or any state or local priority list promulgated pursuant to any analogous state or local law.
(v) To the knowledge of a Responsible Officer, no Hazardous Materials generated at or transported from any of the Properties is or has been transported to, or disposed of at, any location that is listed or proposed for listing on the National Priority List or any analogous state or local priority list, or any other location that is or has been the subject of a clean-up, removal or remedial action pursuant to any Environmental Law, except to the extent that such transportation or disposal could not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.
(q)Investment Company. No Loan Party, nor any other Subsidiary is (i) an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or (ii) subject to any other Applicable Law which purports to regulate or restrict its ability to borrow money or obtain other extensions of credit or to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or to perform its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party.
(r)Margin Stock. No Loan Party or any other Subsidiary is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying or carrying “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulation U.
(s)Affiliate Transactions. Except as permitted by Section 10.8. or as otherwise set forth onSchedule 7.1.(s), no Loan Party nor any other Subsidiary is a party to or bound by any agreement or arrangement with any Affiliate.
(t)Intellectual Property. Each of the Loan Parties and each other Subsidiary owns or has the right to use or require the manager of its Hotel Property to use, under valid license agreements, management agreements or otherwise, all patents, licenses, franchises, trademarks, trademark rights, service marks, service mark rights, trade names, trade name rights, trade secrets and copyrights that are material to the business of the Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as whole (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), without known conflict with any patent, license, franchise, trademark, trademark right, service mark, service mark right, trade secret, trade name, copyright, or other proprietary right of any other Person, in each case, except where the effect of such failure to own or have the right to use or require the manager of its Hotel Property to use, or the effect of such conflict, could not reasonably be expected to have a
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