theatticusproject/maud huggingface dataset:
7.5. Acquisition Proposals.   7.5.1.      (a) Each party agrees that it will not, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and representatives (collectively, “Representatives”) not to, directly or indirectly, (i) initiate, solicit, knowingly encourage or knowingly facilitate any inquiries or proposals with respect to any Acquisition Proposal (as defined below), (ii) engage or participate in any negotiations with any Person concerning any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) provide any confidential or nonpublic information or data to, or have or participate in any discussions with, any Person relating to any Acquisition Proposal or (iv) unless this Agreement has been terminated in accordance with its terms, approve or enter into any term sheet, letter of intent, commitment, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, acquisition agreement, merger agreement or other agreement (whether written or oral, binding or nonbinding) (other than a confidentiality agreement referred to and entered into in accordance with this Section 7.5) in connection with or relating to any Acquisition Proposal. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that after the date of this Agreement and prior to the receipt of the Requisite Bridge Bancorp Vote, in the case or Bridge Bancorp, or the Requisite DCB Vote, in the case of DCB, a party receives an unsolicited bona fide written Acquisition Proposal, such party may, and may permit its Subsidiaries and its Subsidiaries’ Representatives to, furnish or cause to be furnished confidential or nonpublic information or data and participate in such negotiations or discussions with the Person making the Acquisition Proposal if the Board of Directors of such party concludes in good faith (after receiving the advice of its outside counsel, and with respect to financial matters, its financial advisors) that failure to take such actions would be more likely than not to result in a violation of its fiduciary duties under applicable law; provided, that, prior to furnishing any confidential or nonpublic information permitted to be provided pursuant to this sentence, such party shall have entered into a confidentiality agreement with the Person making such Acquisition Proposal on terms no less favorable to such party than the Confidentiality Agreement, which confidentiality agreement shall not provide such Person with any exclusive right to negotiate with such party.  (Page 68)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
5.4 No Solicitation by the Company; Other Offers. (a) From and after the Agreement Date, until the earlier of the Effective Time and the date on which this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7.1, the Company shall not, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries to, and it shall instruct its and their respective Representatives not to, directly or indirectly including through another Person, except as otherwise provided below in this Section 5.4: (i) solicit, initiate or knowingly encourage any proposal or inquiry that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal; (ii) other than informing Persons of the provisions contained in this Section 5.4, enter into, continue or participate in any discussions or any negotiations regarding any Acquisition Proposal or any proposal or inquiry that would reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal; (iii) approve, endorse or recommend an Acquisition Proposal or any letter of intent (whether binding or non-binding), memorandum of understanding or other Contract contemplating an Acquisition Proposal or that would reasonably be expected to lead the Company to abandon or terminate its obligations under this Agreement; or (iv) resolve, propose or agree to do any of the 38 foregoing. From and after the Agreement Date, the Company shall, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives to, immediately cease and cause to be terminated all discussions or negotiations with any Person previously conducted with respect to any Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall be responsible for any action taken by its Representatives acting in their authorized capacities on behalf of the Company that would violate this Section 5.4 if taken by the Company.  (Pages 43-44)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
Section 5.2    No Solicitation. 

(a)    No Solicitation or Negotiation. Except as expressly permitted by this Section 5.2 (including Section 5.2(b)), the Company and its Subsidiaries shall, and the Company and its Subsidiaries shall cause their respective directors, officers, employees, Affiliates, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other advisors or representatives (collectively, “Representatives”) to, (i) immediately cease and terminate any solicitation, encouragement (including by way of providing access to non-public information or the business, properties, assets or personnel of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person or its Representatives, Affiliates, or prospective equity and debt financing sources), discussions or negotiations with any Persons that may be ongoing with respect to any inquiry, proposal or Acquisition Proposal, and as promptly as practicable thereafter deliver a written notice to each such Person to the effect that the Company is ending all discussions and negotiations with such Person with respect to any inquiry, proposal or Acquisition Proposal, effective immediately, which notice shall also request such Person to return or destroy promptly all confidential   36


information concerning the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (ii) from the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time or the termination of this Agreement in accordance with ARTICLE VII, not directly or indirectly (A) initiate, solicit, knowingly facilitate or knowingly encourage (publicly or otherwise) (including by way of providing access to non-public information or the business, properties, assets or personnel of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person and its Representatives and its Affiliates) any inquiries regarding, or the making, submission or announcement of any proposal or offer that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (B) engage or enter into, continue or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations with respect to, or provide any non-public information or data concerning, the Company or its Subsidiaries to any Person relating to, or that would reasonably be expected to lead to, any Acquisition Proposal or otherwise cooperate with or assist or participate in, or knowingly facilitate such inquiries, proposals, discussions or negotiations, (C) grant to any Person any waiver, amendment or release under any standstill or confidentiality agreement or any Takeover Statute unless, in each case, the Company’s Board of Directors (or a committee thereof) first determines that the failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the Company directors’ fiduciary duties under applicable Law, or (D) otherwise facilitate any such inquiries, proposals, discussions or negotiations or any effort or attempt by any Person to make an Acquisition Proposal. A breach by any Subsidiary or Representative of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of this Section 5.2 shall constitute a breach by the Company of this Section 5.2 (Pages 40-41)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
Section 5.10    Acquisition Proposals. <omitted>
(b)    The Company agrees that it will not, and will cause its Subsidiaries and its Subsidiaries’ officers, directors, agents, advisors and affiliates not to, initiate, solicit, encourage or knowingly facilitate inquiries or proposals with respect to, or engage in any negotiations concerning, or provide any confidential or nonpublic information or data to, or have any discussions with, any Person relating to, any Acquisition Proposal (other than contacting a Person for the sole purpose of seeking clarification of the terms and conditions of such Acquisition Proposal); provided that, in the event the Company receives an unsolicited bona fide Acquisition Proposal, from a Person other than Nicolet, after the execution of this Agreement and prior to the receipt of the Company Shareholder Approval, and the Company Board concludes in good faith, after consultation with its financial advisor and outside counsel, that such Acquisition Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal or could reasonably be likely to result in a Superior Proposal and, after considering the advice of outside counsel, that failure to take such actions could be reasonably likely to result in a violation of the directors’ fiduciary duties under applicable law, the Company may: (i) furnish information with respect to it to such Person making such Acquisition Proposal pursuant to a customary confidentiality agreement (subject to the requirement that any such information not previously provided to Nicolet shall be promptly furnished to Nicolet); (ii) participate in discussions or negotiations regarding such Acquisition Proposal; and (iii) terminate this Agreement in order to concurrently enter into an agreement with respect to such Acquisition Proposal; provided, however, that the Company may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 5.10 unless and until (x) five (5) Business Days have elapsed following the delivery to Nicolet of a written notice of such determination by the Company Board and, during such five (5) Business-Day period, the parties cooperate with one another with the intent of enabling the parties to engage in good faith negotiations so that the Contemplated Transactions may be effected, and (y) at the end of such five (5) Business-Day period, the Company Board continues, in good faith and after consultation with outside legal counsel and financial advisors, to believe that a Superior Proposal continues to exist.  (Page 41)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
“Representatives” means, collectively, with respect to any Person, such Person’s officers, directors, Affiliates, employees, agents or  advisors, including any investment banker, broker, attorney, accountant, consultant or other authorized representative of such Person.  <omitted> 

5.3. No Solicitation; Acquisition Proposals. 

(a) No Solicitation Generally. Subject to Section 5.3(c), Section 5.3(d) and Section 5.3(f), from and after the Original Agreement Date until the earlier of the Effective Time and termination of this Agreement in accordance with its terms, the Company Board, the Company and the Subsidiaries will not, and will direct their respective Representatives (collectively, the “Company Representatives”) not to, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit, initiate or knowingly encourage, knowingly facilitate or knowingly induce the making, submission or public announcement of any inquiry, indication of interest, proposal or offer that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (ii) enter into, participate in, maintain or continue any communications (except to provide written notice as to the existence of these provisions and to clarify the terms and conditions of any Acquisition Proposal) or negotiations regarding, or deliver or make available to any Person any non-public information with respect to any inquiry, indication of interest, proposal or offer that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (iii) agree to, accept, approve, endorse or recommend (or publicly propose or announce any intention to agree to, accept, approve, endorse or recommend) any Acquisition Proposal, (iv) enter into any agreement in principle, letter of intent, term sheet or any other agreement, understanding or contract (whether binding or not) contemplating or otherwise relating to any Acquisition Proposal (other than an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement), (v) submit any Acquisition Proposal to the vote of any securityholders of the Company or any Subsidiary, (vi) approve any transaction, or any third party becoming an “interested stockholder,” under Section 203 of Delaware Law or (vii) resolve, propose or 55


agree to do any of the foregoing. <omitted> If any Company Representative takes any action that the Company is obligated pursuant to this Section 5.3 not to take, then the Company shall be deemed for all purposes of this Agreement to have breached this Section 5.3. (Pages 61-62)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
SECTION 5.02. Acquisition Proposals. (a) No Solicitation or Negotiation. The Company agrees that, except as permitted by this Section 5.02, neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any of the officers, directors and management-level employees of it or its Subsidiaries shall, and it shall instruct and use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and its Subsidiaries’ other employees, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other advisors or representatives (such directors, officers, employees, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other advisors or representatives, collectively, “Representatives”) not to, directly or indirectly, (i) initiate, solicit or knowingly take any action to facilitate, solicit or encourage any Acquisition Proposal or the making of any proposal that would reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal, (ii) participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish or provide any non-public information to any Person in connection with, any Acquisition Proposal, or afford access to the business, properties, assets, books or records of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to, or knowingly   30


assist, participate in, facilitate or encourage any effort relating to an Acquisition Proposal by, any Person that is seeking to make, or has made, an Acquisition Proposal, (iii) except as required by applicable Law, amend or grant any waiver or release under any standstill or similar agreement with respect to any class of equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iv) enter into any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, merger agreement, acquisition agreement or other similar agreement relating to an Acquisition Proposal.  (Pages 34-35)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
Section 6.3          No Solicitation of Transactions.  (a)          From the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time and the valid termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 8.1, except as otherwise set forth in this Section 6.3, the Company shall not, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries and Representatives of the Company not to, and shall not authorize or permit the Representatives of the Company to, directly or indirectly:   (i)            initiate, solicit, cooperate with, assist, participate in or knowingly take any action to encourage, induce or facilitate (including by way of providing non-public information relating to the Company or Company Subsidiaries or affording access to the business or properties of the Company) the making, submission or announcement of any Acquisition Proposal;   (ii)           enter into, participate or engage in discussions or negotiations with, furnish any non-public information relating to the Company or any Company Subsidiaries or afford access to the business, properties, assets, books or records of the Company or any Company Subsidiaries to, any Person, in each case, in connection with an Acquisition Proposal;   (iii)          approve, adopt, endorse, declare advisable or recommend to the Company’s stockholders, or publicly propose to approve, adopt, endorse, declare advisable or recommend to the Company’s stockholders, any Acquisition Proposal, or publicly disclose that the Company Board (or any committee of the Company Board) has determined that any Acquisition Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal;  (Page 38)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
“Representative” means, with respect to a Person, one or more of such Person’s trustees, directors, officers, employees, advisors (including
attorneys, accountants, consultants, investment bankers and financial advisors), agents and other representatives when acting in such capacity and not when acting in any other capacity. <omitted>

Section 7.3 No Solicitation; Change in Recommendation. (a) Except as expressly permitted by this Section 7.3, during the Interim Period, RMRM and TRMT shall, and shall cause the RMRM Subsidiaries and the TRMT Subsidiaries, respectively, and their respective Representatives, (i) to immediately cease any solicitation, encouragement, discussions or negotiations with any Persons that may be ongoing with respect to a Competing Proposal (or that may be ongoing with respect to any inquiry or proposal that may be reasonably expected to lead to a Competing Proposal), request that any such Person and its Representatives promptly return or destroy all confidential information concerning RMRM and the RMRM Subsidiaries and TRMT and the TRMT Subsidiaries and immediately terminate all physical and electronic data room access granted to any such Person or its Representatives, and (ii) not to, directly or indirectly, (A) solicit, initiate or knowingly facilitate or knowingly encourage any inquiry or the making of any proposal which constitutes, or may reasonably be expected to lead to, any Competing Proposal, (B) engage in, continue or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any other Person information in connection with or for the purpose of encouraging or facilitating, a Competing Proposal, or (C) enter into any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, merger agreement, acquisition agreement, agreement in principle or other agreement with respect to a Competing Proposal (other than an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement) (each, an “Acquisition Agreement”). <omitted>
 It is agreed that any violation of the restrictions set forth in this Section 7.3(a) by any Representative of RMRM or TRMT or any of the RMRM Subsidiaries or the TRMT Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be a breach of this Section 7.3(a) by RMRM or TRMT, as applicable. (Page 29)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
4.3     No Solicitation by the Company.   (a)     Subject to Section 4.3(b), the Company shall not, and shall ensure that the other Inphi Entities and its and their respective Representatives do not, in each case, directly or indirectly: (i) solicit, initiate, knowingly encourage, knowingly induce or knowingly facilitate the making, submission or announcement of any Company Acquisition Proposal or Company Acquisition Inquiry (including by approving any transaction, or approving any Person (other than Marvell and its Affiliates) becoming an “interested stockholder,” for purposes of Section 203 of the DGCL); (ii) furnish or otherwise provide access to any information regarding any of the Inphi Entities to any Person in connection with or in response to a Company Acquisition Proposal or Company Acquisition Inquiry; (iii) engage in discussions or negotiations with any Person with respect to any Company Acquisition Proposal or Company Acquisition Inquiry (other than, solely in response to an unsolicited inquiry, to refer the inquiring Person to this Section 4.3(a) and to limit its discussion exclusively to such referral); (iv) approve, endorse or recommend any Company Acquisition Proposal; (v) enter into any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle or similar document or any Contract contemplating or otherwise relating to a Company Acquisition Transaction (other than a confidentiality agreement entered into pursuant to, and in compliance with, clause “(iv)(B)” of Section 4.3(b)); or (vi) resolve or publicly propose to take any of the actions or do any of the other things described in clauses “(i)” through “(v)” of this sentence; provided, however, that (x) nothing in this Section 4.3(a) shall prohibit the Company or its Representatives from contacting in writing, on a single occasion, any Person who, following the date of this Agreement and prior to the adoption of this Agreement by the Required Company Stockholder Vote, made an unsolicited Company Acquisition Proposal to the Company (that has not been withdrawn), solely to ask such Person, and to request from such Person a written response to, questions for the purpose of clarifying (and not for the purpose of engaging, directly or indirectly, in any discussions or negotiations of any sort regarding) the material terms of such Company Acquisition Proposal, (y) simultaneously with sending any written communication to such Person, the Company shall deliver to Marvell a copy of such written communication, and (z) promptly (and in any event within 24 hours) after receiving any communication from such Person, the Company shall deliver to Marvell a copy of such communication.  (Page 58)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability
Section 6.3 No Solicitation; Other Offers. 

(a) General Prohibitions. Subject to Section 6.3(b), from the date hereof until the earlier to occur of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to ARTICLE 10 and the Effective Time, the Company shall not, and shall cause its Subsidiaries and its and their respective directors, officers, employees, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other advisors or representatives (collectively, “Representatives”) not to, (i) solicit, initiate or knowingly take any action to facilitate or encourage, directly or indirectly, the submission of any Acquisition Proposal, (ii) enter into or participate in any discussions or negotiations with, furnish any non-public information relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or afford access to the business, properties, assets, books or records of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Third Party in furtherance of any expression of interest, proposal or offer that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to result in an Acquisition Proposal <omitted> 
(d) Application of this Provision to Representatives. Any violation or non-performance of the restrictions on the Company set forth in this ​Section 6.3 by any Representative of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a breach of this​Section 6.3 by the Company. (Page 46)

Question: No-Shop
Category: Deal Protection and Related Provisions
Answer: Strict liability