“Governmental Entity” means any (i) multinational, federal, provincial, state, municipal, local or other government, governmental or public department, central bank, court, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, having or asserting jurisdiction over MTY, any Subsidiary or any Revolving Lender, as applicable, (ii) subdivision or authority of any of the foregoing, or (iii) quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, expropriation or taxing authority under or for the account of any of the above.
“Guarantee” means any guarantee delivered by any Person in connection herewith, including pursuant to a Guarantee Agreement.
“Guarantee Agreement” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6.1(3).
“Guarantor” means each of the entities listed as such in Schedule 1.1 and shall include any successor of any such Person and any Subsidiary which becomes a Guarantor pursuant to the requirements set forth hereunder and “Guarantors” is the collective reference to all such Persons; it being understood that MTY USA shall cease to be a Guarantor and shall be released from all of its Obligations in its capacity as Guarantor only as of February 19, 2019.
“Hazardous Material” means any and all pollutants, toxic or hazardous wastes or any other substances that might pose a hazard to health or safety, the removal of which may be required or the generation, manufacture, refining, production, processing, treatment, storage, handling, transportation, transfer, use, disposal, release, discharge, spillage, seepage, or filtration of which is or shall be restricted, prohibited or penalized by any applicable law (including asbestos, urea formaldehyde foam insulation and polychlorinated biphenyls);
“Hedge Lender” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Eligible Hedging Agreements”.
“Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, all liabilities of such Person under any documents executed with respect to interest rate swap, index swap, basis swap, equity swap, forward rate swap, commodity swap, cap, floor or collar transaction, tunnel transaction, foreign exchange swap, cross-currency rate swap transaction, foreign exchange spot or forward transaction, currency option or any other similar transaction (including any option with respect to any of these transactions and any combination of these transactions) as well as any other transaction contemplated by the expression “swap transaction” in accordance with the definitions of the International Swap Dealers Association, Inc., as amended and supplemented from time to time.
“Holdback Funds” has the meaning specified in the Transaction Agreement.
“Impermissible Qualification” means, relative to (i) the financial statements or notes thereto of any Person; or (ii) the opinion or report of any independent auditors as to any financial statement or notes thereto, any qualification or exception to such financial statements, notes, opinion or report, as the case may be, which (a) is of a “going concern” or similar nature; or (b) relates to any limited scope of examination of material matters relevant to such financial statement, if such limitation results from the refusal or failure of the Person to grant access to necessary information therefor.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
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