Sansaboo/maud huggingface dataset:
Section 6.3 No Solicitation by the Company. <omitted>
(iii)            prior to, but not after, the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, in response to a bona fide written Company Competing Proposal from a third party that was not solicited at any time following the execution of this Agreement and did not arise from a breach of the obligations set forth in this Section 6.3, if the Company Board so chooses, the Company Board may effect a Company Change of Recommendation if:   (A)           the Company Board determines in good faith after consultation with the Company’s financial advisors and outside legal counsel that such Company Competing Proposal is a Company Superior Proposal;   (B)            the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel, that failure to effect a Company Change of Recommendation in response to such Company Superior Proposal would be inconsistent with the fiduciary duties owed by the Company Board to the stockholders of the Company under applicable Law; <omitted> ; and  (Page 33)


Section 6.3 No Solicitation by the Company. <omitted> (iv)            prior to, but not after, the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, in response to a Company Intervening Event that occurs or arises after the date of this Agreement and that did not arise from or in connection with a breach of this Agreement by the Company, the Company may, if the Company Board so chooses, effect a Company Change of Recommendation; provided, however, that such a Company Change of Recommendation may not be made unless and until:   (A)            the Company Board determines in good faith after consultation with the Company’s financial advisors and outside legal counsel that a Company Intervening Event has occurred;   (B)            the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel, that failure to effect such Company Change of Recommendation in response to such Company Intervening Event would be inconsistent with the fiduciary duties owed by the Company Board to the stockholders of the Company under applicable Law;   <omitted> .  (Pages 33-34)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
(d)          Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.3 to the contrary, but subject to Section 6.3(e), at any time prior to the NIC Stockholder Approval being obtained, the NIC Board of Directors may (i) make a Change of Recommendation (only of the type contemplated by Section 6.3(a)(iv) or Section 6.3(a)(v)) in response to an Intervening Event if the NIC Board of Directors has determined in good faith after consultation with NIC’s outside legal counsel, that the failure to take such action would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with the directors’ fiduciary duties under applicable Law or (ii) make a Change of Recommendation (of the type contemplated by Section 6.3(a)(iv) or Section 6.3(a)(v)) and cause NIC to terminate this Agreement pursuant to and in accordance with Section 8.1(h) in order to enter into a definitive agreement providing for an unsolicited Acquisition Proposal received after the date of this Agreement (which, for the avoidance of doubt, did not result from a breach of Section 6.3(a)(i) or (ii) and such Acquisition Proposal is not withdrawn) if the NIC Board of Directors determines in good faith after consultation with NIC’s outside legal counsel and financial advisors that such Acquisition Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, neither NIC nor any NIC Subsidiary shall enter into any NIC Acquisition Agreement unless this Agreement has been terminated in accordance with Section 8.1.  (Page 36)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 5.3            Solicitation by the Company. <omitted> (d)           Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.3 or Section 5.4 to the contrary, at any time prior to the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, the Company Board of Directors may (i) make a Change of Recommendation in response to an Intervening Event, or (ii) following receipt of a bona fide written Competing Proposal, which the Company Board of Directors determines in good faith after consultation with the Company’s outside legal and financial advisors is a Superior Proposal, (A) make a Change of Recommendation or (B) if such Competing Proposal did not result from a breach of Section 5.3(a), terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1(g) in order to enter into a definitive agreement providing for such Superior Proposal, in each case with respect to clauses (i) and (ii), if and only if the Company Board of Directors has determined in good faith after consultation with the Company’s outside legal counsel that the failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the duties of the members of the Company Board of Directors under applicable Law and the Company complies with Section 5.3(e).  (Page 27)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 5.4            Acquisition Proposals. <omitted>

(b) <omitted> (iv)         Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, with respect to an Acquisition Proposal, the Board of Directors of VEREIT or Board of Directors of Realty Income, as applicable, may make a Change in VEREIT Recommendation or a Change in Realty Income Recommendation, as applicable (and in the event that the Board of Directors of VEREIT determines such Acquisition Proposal to be a Superior Proposal, in accordance with this Section 5.4, terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(d)(i)), in each case (including with respect to any such termination), if and only if (A) an unsolicited bona fide written Acquisition Proposal (that did not result from a material breach of this Section 5.4) is made to VEREIT or Realty Income, as applicable, by a third party, and such Acquisition Proposal is not withdrawn, (B) the Board of Directors of VEREIT or the Board of Directors of Realty Income, as applicable, has concluded in good faith (after consultation with outside legal counsel and financial advisors) that such Acquisition Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal, (C) the Board of Directors of VEREIT or of Realty Income, as applicable, has concluded in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel) that failure to do so would reasonably be expected to result in a breach of its duties to VEREIT or Realty Income, as applicable,  (Page 30)


Section 5.4            Acquisition Proposals. <omitted> 

(b) <omitted> (v)           Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in circumstances not involving or relating to an Acquisition Proposal, the Board of Directors of VEREIT or Board of Directors of Realty Income, as applicable, may make a Change in VEREIT Recommendation or a Change in Realty Income Recommendation, as applicable, if and only if (A) a material development or material change in circumstances has first occurred or arisen after the date of this Agreement that was neither known to such party nor reasonably foreseeable as of the date of this Agreement; provided, that (x) such change or development does not relate to an Acquisition Proposal and (y) in no event shall the fact in and of itself that VEREIT or Realty Income meets or exceeds or fails to meet or exceed internal or published projections, forecasts or revenue or earnings predictions for any period constitute such a material development or material change in circumstances that was not reasonably foreseeable as of the date of this Agreement (but the foregoing shall not exclude any change or development underlying such failure to meet or exceed such projections, forecasts or predictions), (B) the Board of Directors of the party proposing to take such action has first reasonably determined in good faith (after consultation with outside legal counsel) that failure to do so would reasonably be expected to result in a breach of its duties to such party,  (Page 30)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
4.4 Meeting of the Company’s Stockholders; Company Change in Recommendation. <omitted>
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time prior to obtaining the Required Company Stockholder Vote, the Company Board may make a   52


Company Change in Recommendation related to a Company Acquisition Proposal if (x) the Company receives from a third party a bona fide written Company Acquisition Proposal after the date of this Agreement that has not been withdrawn and did not result from a material breach of Section 4.2(a) or (c) and (y) prior to making such Company Change in Recommendation: (i) the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation with the Company’s outside legal counsel and its financial advisor, that such Company Acquisition Proposal constitutes a Company Superior Proposal and that failure to take such action would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with the Company Board’s fiduciary duties to the Company and its stockholders under applicable law;  (Pages 56-57)


4.4 Meeting of the Company’s Stockholders; Company Change in Recommendation. <omitted>
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time prior to obtaining the Required Company Stockholder Vote, the Company Board may make a   53


Company Change in Recommendation that is not related to a Company Acquisition Proposal if any state of fact, event, change, effect, circumstance, occurrence or development, or combination thereof, arises following the date of this Agreement (i) that (x) was neither known to nor reasonably foreseeable by the Company Board as of the date of this Agreement, and (y) is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and (ii) that is not related to (A) a Company Acquisition Proposal or a Company Superior Proposal or any inquiry or communications relating thereto, or (B) in each case in and of itself, any changes in the market price or trading volume of Company Common Stock or the fact that the Company meets, fails to meet or exceeds any internal or published projections, forecasts or estimates of its revenue, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period (it being understood, however, that any underlying cause of any of the foregoing may be taken into account unless excluded pursuant to clause (A)) (any such state of fact, event, change, effect, circumstance, occurrence, development, condition, circumstance, or combination thereof, being referred to as a “Company Intervening Event”); and, prior to making such Company Change in Recommendation, (1) the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel and its financial advisor, that, in light of such Company Intervening Event, a failure to effect a Company Change in Recommendation would be reasonably expected to be inconsistent with the Company Board’s fiduciary duties to its stockholders under applicable law;  (Pages 57-58)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 5.2. Acquisition Proposals. <omitted> Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, prior to the Expiration Date, (x) if an Intervening Event occurs and the Special Committee determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel, that failure to effect a Change of Recommendation in light of such Intervening Event would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with their fiduciary obligations under applicable Law, the Company Board (acting upon the recommendation and direction of the Special Committee) may effect a Change of Recommendation contemplated by clauses (1) or (2) of the definition thereof or (y) if the Company receives, directly or indirectly through one or more of its Representatives, an unsolicited, written, bona fide Acquisition Proposal that the Company Board (acting upon the recommendation of the Special Committee) and the Special Committee concludes in good faith, after consultation with their financial advisor and outside legal counsel, constitutes a Superior Proposal and such Acquisition Proposal did not result from a material breach by the Company of this Section 5.2, the Company Board (acting upon the recommendation of the Special Committee) and the Special Committee may effect a Change of Recommendation and/or terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.3(a) in order to enter into an Alternative Acquisition Agreement providing for such Superior Proposal,  (Page 22)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 5.2 No Solicitation by the Company.  <omitted>
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, prior to the time the Stockholder Approval is obtained, the Company Board may enter into a Company Acquisition Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1(c) if prior to taking such action the Company Board or any duly constituted and authorized committee thereof has determined in good faith, after consultation with its financial advisors and legal counsel, that (x) failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the Company Board’s fiduciary duties under applicable Law, and (y) such Company Takeover Proposal constitutes a Company Superior Proposal;  (Page 47)


Section 5.2 No Solicitation by the Company.  <omitted>
(e) Prior to the time the Stockholder Approval is obtained, the Company Board may effect a Company Adverse Recommendation Change of the type described in Section 5.2(d)(i)(B) (“Change of Recommendation”) if and only if: (i) the Company Board or any duly constituted and authorized committee thereof has determined in   43


good faith, after consultation with its financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the Company Board’s fiduciary duties under applicable Law; (ii) such action is not in response to the receipt, existence of or terms of a Company Takeover Proposal or a Company Superior Proposal or any inquiry related thereto or the consequences thereof (which is governed by Section 5.2(d)); (iii) such action is in response to a material development, fact, change, event, effect, occurrence or circumstance that is not known or reasonably foreseeable, or, if known (or reasonably foreseeable), the consequences of which are not known or reasonably foreseeable, to the Company Board as of the date hereof and becomes known to the Company Board prior to the time of the Stockholder Approval (excluding any Company Takeover Proposal, the “Intervening Event”);  (Pages 47-48)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 6.3 No Solicitation; Other Offers. <omitted> (ii) Exception for Superior Proposal. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, but subject to compliance with Section 6.3(c), at any time prior to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval, if the Company has received a Superior Proposal that is not a result of a breach of this Section 6.3, then the Board of Directors of the Company may make an Adverse Recommendation Change and/or cause the Company to terminate this Agreement pursuant to and in accordance with ​Section 10.1(d) (including paying the Termination Fee) in order to enter into a definitive Alternative Acquisition Agreement in respect of such Superior Proposal concurrently with the termination of this Agreement. 

(iii) Exception for Intervening Events. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, but subject to compliance with Section 6.3(c), at any time prior to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval, if the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith, after consultation with the Company’s outside legal counsel and financial advisor, that the failure to take such action would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties pursuant to Applicable Law, the Board of Directors of the Company may, in response to an Intervening Event, make an Adverse Recommendation Change. (Page 47)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
6.3          Stockholder Approvals.  <omitted> However, subject to Section 8.1 and Section 8.2, if the Board of Directors of Webster or Sterling, after receiving the advice of its outside counsel and, with respect to financial matters, its financial advisors, determines in good faith that it would more likely than not result in a violation of its fiduciary duties under applicable law to make or continue to make the Webster Board Recommendation or the Sterling Board Recommendation, as applicable, such Board of Directors may, in the case of Webster, prior to the receipt of the Requisite Webster Vote, and in the case of Sterling, prior to the receipt of the Requisite Sterling Vote, submit this Agreement to its stockholders without recommendation (although the resolutions approving this Agreement as of the date hereof may not be rescinded or amended), in which event such Board of Directors may communicate the basis for its lack of a recommendation to its stockholders in the Joint Proxy Statement or an appropriate amendment or supplement thereto to the extent required by law; (Page 32)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
7.7. OCSI Takeover Proposals. <omitted> If on or after the date of this Agreement and at any time prior to the OCSI Stockholders Meeting, the OCSI Special Committee shall have determined after consultation with its outside legal counsel that continued recommendation of the OCSI Matters to OCSI’s stockholders would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with the OCSI directors’ exercise of their fiduciary duties 47


under applicable Law as a result of an OCSI Superior Proposal, OCSI may (A) withdraw or qualify (or modify or amend in a manner adverse to OCSL), or publicly propose to withdraw or qualify (or modify or amend in a manner adverse to OCSL), the approval, adoption, recommendation or declaration of advisability by the OCSI Board of the OCSI Matters, including the recommendation of the OCSI Board that the stockholders of OCSI adopt this Agreement and approve the Transactions (the “OCSI Recommendation”), and (B) take any action or make any statement, filing or release, in connection with the OCSI Stockholders Meeting or otherwise, inconsistent with the OCSI Recommendation (any action described in clause (A) and (B) referred to collectively with any Takeover Approval as a “OCSI Adverse Recommendation Change”). (Pages 52-53)

7.7. OCSI Takeover Proposals. <omitted> (e) Other than in connection with an OCSI Takeover Proposal, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict the OCSI Board from taking any action described in clause (A) of the definition of OCSI Adverse Recommendation Change in response to an Intervening Event (an “OCSI Intervening Event Recommendation Change”) <omitted>  (C) the OCSI Special Committee determines, after consulting with outside legal counsel and its financial advisor, that the failure to effect such an OCSI Intervening Event Recommendation Change, as applicable, after taking into account any adjustments made by OCSL during the OCSI Intervening Event Notice Period, would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with the OCSI directors’ exercise of their fiduciary duties under applicable Law. (Page 54)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 5.04 Company Recommendation. <omitted>

(b) Superior Proposal. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time prior to the receipt of the Company Shareholder Approval, the Company Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) may, in response to the receipt of a bona fide, written Competing Proposal received after the date hereof that did not result from a breach of ​Section 5.03(a) and is not withdrawn, make a Change of Company Recommendation (and, if so desired by the Company Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) terminate this Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01(d) in order to cause the Company to enter into a binding and definitive written Alternative Acquisition Agreement with respect to a Competing Proposal), only if: 

  (i) the Company Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside financial advisors and outside legal counsel, that (A) failure to take such action would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties under applicable Law and (B) such Competing Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal;  (Page 19)


Section 5.04 Company Recommendation. <omitted>

(c) Intervening Event. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, other than in connection with a Competing Proposal (which shall be subject to Section 5.04(b) and shall not be subject to this Section 5.04(c)) and prior to the time the Company Shareholder Approval is obtained, the Company Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) may effect a Change of Company Recommendation in response to the occurrence of an Intervening Event if the Company Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof) determines in good faith, after consultation with the Company’s outside legal counsel, that the failure to effect a Change of Company Recommendation would be reasonably likely to be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties under applicable Law, provided, that, in each case only if:  (Page 19)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes
Section 6.4    No Solicitation by the Company and Company Change in Recommendation <omitted> (d)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time prior to the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, the Company Board, upon the recommendation of the Special Committee, may make a Company Change in Recommendation in response to a Company Intervening Event if (i) the Special Committee determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel, that the failure to do so would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with the its fiduciary duties under applicable Law (Page 56)

Section 6.4    No Solicitation by the Company and Company Change in Recommendation <omitted> (e)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time prior to receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval if, in response to a bona fide written Company Acquisition Proposal made after the date of this Agreement and not withdrawn that did not result from a breach in any material respect of this Section 6.4, the Special Committee determines in good faith (after consultation with its financial advisors and outside counsel) that (i) such Company Acquisition Proposal constitutes a Company Superior Proposal and (ii) the failure to make the Company Change in Recommendation or terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1(h) would reasonably be expected to be inconsistent with the Company Board’s fiduciary obligations under applicable Law, (A) subject to compliance with Section 6.4(f), the Company Board, upon the recommendation of the Special Committee, may make a Company Change in Recommendation or (B) the Company may terminate this Agreement pursuant t o Section 8.1(h) in order to enter into a Company Alternative Acquisition Agreement with respect to such Company Superior Proposal; (Page 57)

Question: COR permitted in response to Intervening Event
Subquestion: <NONE>
Answer: Yes