(h) If Units are Offered Securities, (i) such Units have been
duly authorized and, when executed and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the Unit Agreement and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such Units will be valid and binding
obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions and (ii) the Unit Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and is a valid and binding agreement of, the
Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.
(i) This Agreement has
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(j) The Company is not in violation of its charter or by-laws. The Company is not (1) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or
condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject; or
(2) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (1) and (2) above, for any such default or violation
that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(k) The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, this
Agreement and, as applicable, each other Transaction Document will not contravene (i) any provision of applicable law, (ii) the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company, (iii) any
agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or (iv) any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any subsidiary of the Company except, in
the case of clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) above, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(l) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body or agency is required
for the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement or the applicable Transaction Documents, except such as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the
Offered Securities.
(m) There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development involving a
prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus.
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