(aa)Environmental Laws. (A) The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries are and have been in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules, regulations, decisions and orders relating to the protection of human health and safety (as affected by exposure to hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants) or the environment, or the storage, treatment, use, discharge or disposal of hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), which includes obtaining and maintaining all permits, licenses or other approvals (collectively, “Environmental Permits”) required under such Environmental Laws to carry on the business of the Company, the Guarantors, and their respective subsidiaries; (B) the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have not received any written notice that alleges any of them is in violation or of potentially liable under any Environmental Laws and none of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, any of their properties is the subject of any claims, investigations, liens, demands, or judicial, administrative or arbitral proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, threatened, under any Environmental Law or to revoke or modify any Environmental Permit held any of the Companies, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries; (C) to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, there has been no release, discharge or disposal of any materials, pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, compounds, constituents, substances or wastes, in any form, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyl, radon, gas, mold, electromagnetic radio frequency or microwave emissions, that are regulated pursuant to, or which could give rise to liability under, any Environmental Laws on, at, under or from any property owned, leased, or operated by any of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries, or any property formerly owned, operated, or leased by any of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries or arising out of the conduct of any of the Company, the Guarantor or their respective subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to result in the Company or the Guarantors incurring liability, under any Environmental Laws; and (D) to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, there are no facts, circumstances or conditions arising out of or relating to the operations of any of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries or any property owned, leased, or operated by any of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries or any property formerly owned, operated or leased by any of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries or any of their predecessors in interest that could reasonably be expected to require investigation, response, or corrective action, or could reasonably be expected to result in any of the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries incurring liability, under applicable Environmental Laws, except, in the case of (A), (B), (C) and (D), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(bb)Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses except where the failure to own or possess such rights would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and the conduct of their respective businesses does not conflict in any respect with any such rights of others, except for any such conflicts as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have not received any notice of any claim of infringement of or conflict with any such rights of others, except for any such claims as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantors, the Intellectual Property Rights of the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries are not being infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any person except where such infringement, misappropriation or other violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(cc)Regulations T, U, X. Neither the Company nor any Guarantor nor any of their respective subsidiaries nor any agent thereof acting on their behalf has taken, and none of them will take, any action that might cause this Agreement or the issuance or sale of the Offered Securities to violate Regulation T, Regulation U, or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.