authorized by each Issuer and, as of the Closing Date, will have been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and will have been duly executed and delivered by each Issuer, and will constitute a valid and binding agreement of each Issuer, enforceable against each Issuer in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.
(ff) The Securities have been duly authorized by each Issuer and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will have been duly executed and delivered by each Issuer, and will constitute valid and binding obligations of each Issuer entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable in accordance with their terms and the terms of the Indenture, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.
(gg) The Securities and the Indenture conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.
(hh) No holders of securities of the Issuers have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement.
(ii) Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, (i) there has not been any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or interference with the business of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.
(jj) Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has filed all non-U.S., federal, state and local tax returns (including foreign, national, local or other) that are required to be filed or has requested extensions thereof (except in any case in which the failure so to file would not have a Material Adverse Effect), and has paid all taxes required to be paid by it and any other assessment, fine or penalty levied against it, to the extent that any of the foregoing is due and payable, except for any such assessment, fine or penalty that is currently being contested in good faith or as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(kk) Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there has been no security breach or incident, unauthorized access to or disclosure or other compromise of any information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases used in the businesses of the Company or its Subsidiaries (or any data, including “personal data,” “personal information,” “nonpublic personal information,” or other similar terms as defined by applicable laws) that is processed or stored thereby (collectively, “IT Systems”); (ii) neither the Company nor its subsidiaries have been notified of any security breach or incident, unauthorized access to or disclosure or other compromise to any IT Systems and has never been required to notify any governmental or regulatory authority or other person of same; (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries have not received any written notice, request, claim, complaint, correspondence, or other communication from any governmental or regulatory authority or other person regarding same; (iv) the IT Systems operate and perform as necessary to operate the Company’s businesses, and do not contain any material “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse,” “virus,” “ransomware,” “worm,” or other disabling or malicious codes and the Company and its subsidiaries have implemented and maintain commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and technological safeguards to maintain and protect the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of the IT Systems; and (v) the Company and its subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any governmental or regulatory authority (and all industry standards and internal and external policies and contractual obligations) relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and to the protection of such IT Systems from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.
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