From the Effective Date until the Closing or the earlier termination of this Agreement in accordance with its terms, each of the Company and NHL will each afford to the officers and authorized representatives of the other full access to the properties, books and records of the Company or NHL, as the case may be, in order that each may have a full opportunity to make such reasonable investigation as it shall desire to make of the affairs of the other, and each will furnish the other with such additional financial and operating data and other information as to the business and properties of the Company or NHL, as the case may be, as the other shall from time to time reasonably request.