6.2    Antitrust and Investment Screening Laws. 

(a)    Parent and Company shall, and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to, use their respective reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all reasonable actions, and to do, or cause to be done, all reasonable things necessary and proper under any applicable Laws to consummate and make effective the Merger as promptly as practicable and in any event prior to the Termination Date, including (i) preparing and filing all forms, registrations and notifications to or with any Governmental Authority required to be filed to consummate the Merger, (ii) using reasonable best efforts to satisfy the conditions to consummating the Merger, (iii) using reasonable best efforts to obtain (and to cooperate with each other in obtaining) any consent, authorization, expiration or termination of a waiting period, permit, order or approval of, waiver or any exemption by, any Governmental Authority, and (iv) defending any lawsuits or other legal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the Merger. (Page 58)

(c)    Without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), Parent shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective the Transactions, including taking all such further action as may be necessary to resolve such objections, if any, as the United States Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, state antitrust enforcement authorities, competition authorities of any other nation or other jurisdiction or any other Governmental Authority or Person may assert under any Law with respect to the Transactions, and to avoid or eliminate each and every impediment under any Law that may be asserted by any Governmental Authority or Person with respect to the Transactions, including (x) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of any assets or businesses of Parent or its Subsidiaries (including the Surviving Corporation) and (y) otherwise taking or committing to take any actions that after the Effective Time would limit the freedom of Parent or its Subsidiaries (including the Surviving Corporation) with respect to, or their ability to retain, one or more of their businesses, product lines or assets, in each case as may be required in order to avoid the entry of, or   55


to effect the dissolution of, any Order in any Legal Proceeding that would otherwise have the effect of preventing the Closing; provided, however, that neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall become subject to, or be required to consent or agree to or otherwise take any action with respect to, any requirement, condition, understanding, agreement or order, unless such requirement, condition, understanding, agreement or order is binding only in the event that the Closing occurs. (Pages 59-60)

Question: General Antitrust Efforts Standard
Category: Operating and Efforts Covenant
Answer: Reasonable best efforts