pay, conditionally or otherwise, any additional compensation (including bonuses) or severance benefit, take any action that would give rise to an acceleration of the right to payment, or otherwise make any changes with respect to the fees or compensation payable (or to become payable) to consultants, directors, officers, or salaried employees, or, except as required by Law and except as contemplated by this Agreement, adopt or make any change in any First Personal Plan or other arrangement (including any agreement for indemnification) or payment made to, for or with any of such consultants, directors, officers, or employees;
(vii) fail to accrue, pay, discharge, and satisfy all debts, liabilities, obligations, and expenses, including, without limitation, trade payables, incurred in the regular and ordinary course of business as such debts, liabilities, obligations, and expenses become due, unless the same are being contested in good faith;
(viii) except for obligations disclosed in this Agreement, short-term FHLB advances, federal funds purchased by FPB, trade payables, and similar liabilities and obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and the payment, discharge, or satisfaction in the ordinary course of business of liabilities reflected in the First Personal Financial Statements or the Subsequent First Personal Financial Statements, borrow any money, or incur any indebtedness in an aggregate amount exceeding $50,000;
(ix) change its accounting methods, except as may be necessary and appropriate to conform to (1) changes in tax law requirements, (2) changes in GAAP or regulatory accounting principles, as required by First Personal’s independent auditors or its regulatory authorities, or (3) changes requested by NWIN pursuant to this Agreement;
(x) make, change, or revoke any material tax election, file any material amended tax return, enter into any closing agreement with respect to a material amount of taxes, settle any material tax claim or assessment, or surrender any right to claim a refund of a material amount of taxes;
(xi) make application for the opening or closing of any, or open or close any, branch or automated banking facility, except as may be contemplated by any application filed with any bank regulatory authority in connection with the Merger;
(xii) waive, release, grant, or transfer any material rights of value or enter into, amend, or terminate any contract, agreement, lease, commitment, understanding, arrangement, or transaction or incur any liability or obligation (other than as contemplated bySection 5.03(a)(iv) hereof and legal, accounting, and investment banking or financial advisory fees related to the Merger) requiring payments by First Personal or any of its Subsidiaries which exceed $25,000, whether individually or in the aggregate (other than trade payables or otherwise incurred in the ordinary course of business) or which contain any financial commitment extending more than 12 months following the date of this Agreement;
(xiii) except as already committed in writing as of the date of this Agreement, make any capital expenditures in excess of $25,000 individually or $150,000 in the aggregate;
(xiv) except as required by applicable Law or regulation: (1) implement or adopt any material change in its interest rate risk management or hedging policies, procedures, or practices; (2) fail to follow its existing policies or practices with respect to managing its exposure to interest rate risk; or (3) fail to use commercially reasonable means to avoid any material increase in its aggregate exposure to interest rate risk;
(xv) take any action that would change FPB’s loan loss reserves that is not in compliance with FPB’s policy and past practices consistently applied and in compliance with GAAP;
(xvi) except as already committed in writing as of the date of this Agreement, cancel, release, or compromise any indebtedness in excess of $50,000 owing to First Personal or any Subsidiary or any claims which First Personal or any Subsidiary may possess, or voluntarily waive any material rights with respect thereto;
(xvii) pay, discharge, settle, or compromise any litigation, claim, action, arbitration, or other proceeding against First Personal or any Subsidiary unless such payment, discharge, settlement, or compromise does not require First Personal or any Subsidiary to pay any monies, incur any obligation, or admit any wrongdoing or liability;
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