(j) The Issuer will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or result in, or that has constituted or might reasonably be expected to constitute, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Senior Notes.
SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses.
(a) The Issuer will pay all expenses incident to (i) the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including the preparation, printing and any filing of each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including financial statements and any exhibits and any document incorporated therein by reference) and of each amendment or supplement thereto, (ii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the certificates for the Senior Notes to each Underwriter, (iii) the fees and disbursements of the Issuer’s counsel and accountants, (iv) the printing and delivery to the Underwriters in quantities as hereinabove stated of copies of each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, (v) the fees of rating agencies, (vi) the fees and expenses, if any, incurred in connection with the listing of the Senior Notes on any securities exchange, (vii) the fees, if any, of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and (viii) expenses associated with marketing and any “road show”; provided, however, that except as set forth below, the Issuer shall not be required to pay the fees and expenses of counsel to the Underwriters.
(b) If this Agreement is terminated by the Underwriters in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 or Section 10(i), the Issuer shall reimburse the Underwriters for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters.
SECTION 5. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Issuer herein contained, to the accuracy of the statements of the Issuer’s officers made in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Issuer of all of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:
(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective under the 1933 Act, and no order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the 1933 Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the 1933 Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the 1933 Act) and in accordance with Section 3(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Underwriters.
(b) At the Closing Time, the Underwriters shall have received the opinion and negative assurance letter, each dated as of the Closing Time, of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, counsel to the Issuer, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(c) The Underwriters shall have received from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, counsel to the Underwriters, an opinion and negative assurance letter, each dated as of the Closing Time, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.
(d) At the Closing Time there shall not have been, since the date hereof or since the respective dates as of which information is given in each of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, and the Underwriters shall have received a certificate of two officers of the Issuer, dated as of such Closing Time, to the effect that there has been no such material adverse change and that the representations and warranties contained in Section 1 are true and correct as of the Closing Time.
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