significant management input. Also, the business of the Trust, and indirectly the Partnership, is to collect the funds generated by the life insurance policies in which they are invested, pay their expenses and distribute the excess to Interest holders. This is likely to remain unchanged irrespective of who owns the Interests.
Section 12 Conditions to the Offer
Notwithstanding any other term of the Offer, we shall not be required to accept for payment, and may postpone the acceptance for payment of, Interests tendered if any of the following events occur prior to the expiration of the Offer:
(a)
we determine, in our reasonable discretion, that the Trust or the Partnership will be unable to register the assignment of Interests accepted for payment in the Offer to the name of Offeror or its affiliate within three business days following expiration of the Offer;
(b)
there shall have occurred,
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any general suspension of, or general limitation on prices for, or trading in, securities on any national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter markets in the United States;
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a declaration of a banking moratorium or any suspension of payments in respect of banks in which we hold accounts or banks in the United States or any limitation (whether or not mandatory) by any governmental agency or authority on, or any other event that, in our reasonable judgment, would adversely affect, the extension of credit by banks or other financial institutions;
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the commencement or escalation of a war, armed hostilities or other similar national or international calamity, including but not limited to, an act of terrorism, directly or indirectly involving the United States; or
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in the case of any of the foregoing existing at the time of the commencement of the Offer, in our reasonable judgment, a material acceleration or worsening thereof;
(c)
any change (or condition, event or development involving a prospective change) shall have occurred or been threatened in the business, properties, assets, liabilities, capitalization, Interest holders’ equity, financial condition, operations, licenses, results of operations or prospects of the Trust or the Partnership that, in our reasonable judgment, would reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Trust or the Partnership or us or any of our affiliates, or we shall have become aware of any fact that, in our reasonable judgment, will have a material adverse effect on the value of the Interests;
(d)
legislation amending the Code has been passed by either the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate or becomes pending before the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate or any committee thereof, the effect of which, in our reasonable judgment, would be to change the tax consequences of the transaction contemplated by the Offer in any manner that would materially adversely affect us or any of our affiliates;
(e)
there shall be threatened, instituted, or pending any action, proceeding, application or counterclaim by or before any court or governmental, administrative or regulatory agency or authority, domestic or foreign, or any other person or tribunal, domestic or foreign, which:
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challenges, restrain or prohibit the making of the Offer, the acquisition by us of the Interests, or any other matter directly or indirectly relating to the Offer, or seeks to obtain any material damages as a result of, or directly or indirectly relating to, the transactions contemplated by the Offer;
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seeks to make the purchase of, or payment for, some or all of the Interests pursuant to the Offer illegal or results in a delay in our ability to accept for payment or pay for some or all of the Interests;
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seeks to impose limitations on our ability (or any affiliate of ours) to acquire or hold or to exercise full rights of ownership of the Interests;