(v) The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Officers’ Certificate and the issuance of the Securities by the Company and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder and under the Indenture do not and will not conflict with, or result in any breach of, or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of or default under), any provision of (1) the charter or by-laws of the Company or (2) any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan, credit agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties may be bound or affected, or (3) any law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except for, in the case of clauses (2) and (3) above, conflicts, breaches or defaults that would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(vi) To the best of such counsel’s knowledge, there are no contracts, licenses, agreements, leases or documents of a character which are required to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or any other Company filing incorporated by reference therein or to be summarized or described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which have not been so filed, summarized or described;
(vii) To the best of counsel’s knowledge, there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, at law or in equity or before or by any commission, board, body, authority or agency which are required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus but are not so described; and
(viii) The documents incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, when they were filed (or, if an amendment with respect to any such document was filed, when such amendment was filed), complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder (except as to the financial statements (and related notes thereto) and schedules and other financial data contained or incorporated by reference therein, and the Form T-1, as to which such counsel need express no opinion).
In addition, such counsel shall state that he has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, and members of such counsel’s staff have participated in conferences with representatives of the independent, registered public accounting firm of the Company and representatives of the Underwriters, at which the contents of the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus were discussed and, although such counsel has not independently verified, is not passing upon, and does not assume responsibility for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, on the basis of the foregoing, and except for the Form T-1, the financial statements (and related notes thereto) and schedules and other information of an accounting or financial nature included or incorporated by reference therein, as to which such counsel need not express an opinion or belief, no facts have come to such counsel’s attention that led such counsel to believe that: (1) the Registration Statement, at the time it became effective (which, for such counsel’s opinion, shall have the
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