Adjustment to Purchase Price (a) The Closing Payment shall be increased by the parties' good faith estimate of the Current Assets of Seller and decreased by the parties' good faith estimate of the Current Liabilities of Seller as of the Closing Date (the "Closing Adjustment"), which adjustment shall be subject to final adjustment as provided for in paragraph (c) below.
(b) No later than sixty (60) days after the Closing Date, or within three (3) days after receipt of the necessary accounting data from the NRTC Central Billing System, whichever is later, Purchaser shall make and deliver to Seller a balance sheet reflecting the Current Assets and Current Liabilities of Seller as of the Closing Date (the "Closing Date Balance Sheet"), prepared on a basis consistent with GAAP. For purposes of the Closing Adjustment and the Final Closing Adjustment (as hereinafter defined), the amount of Accounts Receivable of Seller to be included in the Closing Date Balance Sheet shall include only Accounts Receivable of Subscribers as reflected on Report 18A (Subscriber Accounts Receivable Aging By Account) of the NRTC Central Billing System Reports less a reserve of six percent (6%) for Accounts Receivable which are not collectible. In addition, the Closing Date Balance Sheet and the Final Closing Adjustment shall not include as a Current Asset any accounts receivable arising from Leased Subscriber Equipment. Purchaser may, by providing Seller with written notice at least five (5) days prior to the Closing, elect to purchase all, or certain of, the DSS(TM) subscriber equipment owned by Seller (other than Leased Subscriber Equipment) on the Closing Date; provided, however, Purchaser shall not have the right to acquire any assets attributable to Seller's Electric Business. Any such equipment which is purchased by Purchaser shall be included as Inventory in the Closing Date Balance Sheet. Except as set forth in this Section 4.4(b), no other assets or liabilities shall be included in the Closing Date Balance Sheet. Seller shall make available to Purchaser such documentation, back-up, invoices, and books and records of Seller as Purchaser may reasonably request.
(c) Seller and Purchaser shall negotiate in good faith to reconcile any discrepancies which may arise in connection with the determination of the Closing Date Balance Sheet. If Seller and Purchaser are unable to reconcile such discrepancies, Seller shall have fifteen (15) days from presentment of the Closing Date Balance Sheet by Purchaser to notify Purchaser if Seller wishes to have Purchaser's determination examined. If Seller elects to have Purchaser's determination examined, it shall be submitted to the determination in Atlanta, Georgia, by the Certified Public Accounting firm of KMPG Peat Marwick (or any other independent Certified Public Accounting firm mutually acceptable to Seller and Purchaser), the cost of such examination to be paid fifty percent (50%) by Seller and fifty percent (50%) by Purchaser. The determination by Purchaser shall be final and binding on the parties unless Seller elects to have an examination as provided herein, in which case the results of the examination shall be made within thirty (30) days of such referral, and shall be final and binding on the parties (the "Final Closing Adjustment").
(d) To the extent the Final Closing Adjustment is less than the Closing Adjustment, Seller shall pay the difference in cash to Purchaser within five (5) days after the final determination. In the event the Final Closing Adjustment is greater than the Closing Adjustment, Purchaser shall pay such excess in cash to Seller within five (5) days after the final determination. If, following any payment pursuant to this Section 4.4(d), an error (in billing or reporting by NRTC or otherwise) is thereafter discovered which would have affected the Final Closing Adjustment, the party in whose favor the error was made shall immediately pay in cash the amount of such error to the other party.
Purchase Price Payment The total Purchase Price for the Property is the amount of the successful bid for the parcel at public auction.
Agreement to Purchase Purchase Price a. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, on the Purchase Date (as defined below) the Company will issue and sell to Purchaser, and Purchaser agrees to purchase from the Company, ________ (------) shares of the Company's Common Stock (the "Shares") at a purchase price of _______ ($_____) per Share, for a total purchase price of _______________ ($_______). The term "Shares" refers to the purchased Shares and all securities received in replacement of or in connection with the Shares pursuant to stock dividends or splits, all securities received in replacement of the Shares in a recapitalization, merger, reorganization, exchange or the like, and all new, substituted or additional securities or other properties to which Purchaser is entitled by reason of Purchaser's ownership of the Shares.
Adjustments to Purchase Price The Purchase Price shall be adjusted at the Closing Date and at the Final Settlement Date as follows:
(a) The Purchase Price shall be adjusted upward by the sum of the following, without duplication:
(i) the value of all merchantable allowable Hydrocarbons in storage above the pipeline connection at the Effective Time, and not previously sold, that is credited to the Properties, such value to be the actual sales price for such Hydrocarbons, or if not yet sold or the actual sales price is not known as of the time of preparation of the Closing Settlement Statement, then the market price as of the Effective Time, less taxes, gravity adjustments and other costs deducted by the purchaser of such Hydrocarbons;
(ii) the amount of all Operating Expenses which relate to and were incurred during any period from and after the Effective Time (or, if relating to a period that is in part from and after the Effective Time, that part of such Operating Expenses that relate to the period from and after the Effective Time) and that are paid by or on behalf of Target prior to the Closing Date in connection with the operation and development of the Properties from and after the Effective Time, but excluding any and all Disallowed Expenses;
(iii) an amount equal to all prepaid expenses attributable to the Properties that are paid by or on behalf of Target prior to the Closing Date and that are, in accordance with GAAP (except for Asset Taxes, in which case in accordance with the Tax Allocation Methodology), attributable to the ownership or operation of the Properties during the period from and after the Effective Time (or, if relating to a period that is in part from and after the Effective Time, that part of such expenditures that relates to the period from and after the Effective Time) including, without limitation, prepaid utility charges, prepaid Asset Taxes (but not including Income Taxes, franchise taxes or gross receipts taxes) based upon or measured by the ownership of the Properties or the production of hydrocarbons or the receipt of proceeds therefrom, but excluding any and all Disallowed Expenses;
(iv) any other amount required under this Agreement or otherwise agreed upon by Buyer and Owners to be added to the Purchase Price.
(b) The Purchase Price shall be adjusted downward by the sum of the following, without duplication:
(i) the amount of all proceeds actually received by or on behalf of Target prior to the Closing Date and attributable to Hydrocarbon production from the Properties from and after the Effective Time, less amounts actually paid by or on behalf of Target as Burdens or as production, gathering, processing and transportation costs, and less any production, severance, sales or excise Taxes not reimbursed to Target by the purchaser of such Hydrocarbon production, to the extent such deductions are not otherwise accounted for in an any upward adjustment to the Purchase Price;
(ii) an amount equal to all Asset Taxes (but not including Income Taxes, franchise taxes or gross receipts taxes) that are (A) unpaid as of the Closing Date, (B) based upon or measured by the ownership of the Properties or the production of Hydrocarbons therefrom (including the receipt of proceeds therefrom) and (C) accruing to the Properties in accordance with the Tax Allocation Methodology prior to the Effective Time, which amount shall, to the extent not actually assessed, be computed based upon such taxes and assessments for the preceding calendar year or, if such taxes or assessments are assessed on other than a calendar year basis, for the tax related year last ended;
(iii) the amount of all Operating Expenses which relate to any period prior to the Effective Time (or, if relating to a period that is in part prior to the Effective Time, that part of such Operating Expenses that relate to the period prior to the Effective Time) and that are unpaid as of the Closing Date, and the amount of all Disallowed Expenses that are unpaid as of the Closing Date; and
(iv) any other amounts required under this Agreement or otherwise agreed upon by Buyer and Owners.
(c) The Purchase Price shall be adjusted upward by the sum of 100% of the following:
(i) subject to Section 3.07, the Title Benefit Amount with respect to a Title Benefit properly asserted prior to the Title Defect Claim Date; and
(ii) any other amounts required under this Agreement or otherwise agreed upon by Buyer and Owners.
(d) The Purchase Price shall be adjusted downward by the sum of 100% of the following:
(i) subject to Section 3.07, the Title Defect Amount with respect to Title Defects properly asserted by Buyer prior to the Title Defect Claim Date; and
(ii) any other amounts required under this Agreement or otherwise agreed upon by Buyer and Owners.
Contingent Payment (a) In the event that Purchaser consummates a Change of Control Transaction prior to the second anniversary of the Closing Date (a “Qualifying Sale Transaction”), then Seller shall be entitled to receive a payment in an amount equal to twenty percent (20%) of the Net Sale Proceeds, valuing any non-cash consideration included in the Net Sale Proceeds at fair market value (as determined in good faith by the board of directors of Purchaser) (such payment, the “Contingent Payment”), payable in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.7.
(b) No later than five (5) days following the final determination of the Qualifying Sale Proceeds pursuant to the post-closing purchase price adjustment provisions of the definitive agreement for such Qualifying Sale Transaction (the “Qualifying Sale Agreement”) Purchaser shall deliver to Seller, along with reasonable supporting documentation, a statement setting forth in reasonable detail Purchaser’s good faith calculation of the Net Sale Proceeds and the resulting Contingent Payment (the “Contingent Payment Statement”). Purchaser’s calculation of the Contingent Payment set forth in the Contingent Payment Statement shall be final and binding for all purposes of this Agreement unless Seller delivers to Purchaser a written objection to such calculation within twenty (20) days following the date of delivery of the Contingent Payment Statement setting forth in reasonable detail Seller’s basis for its objection. In the event that Seller timely submits any such written objection, then Purchaser and Seller shall negotiate in good faith to resolve their dispute with respect to the calculation of the Contingent Payment; provided, that if such dispute is not resolved within twenty (20) days after delivery of such written objection, then the dispute resolution provisions of Section 2.4(b) shall apply, mutatis mutandis.
(c) No later than three (3) Business Days after final determination of the amount of the Contingent Payment pursuant to Section 2.7(b), Purchaser shall pay to Seller the Contingent Payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the bank account designated by Seller at least one (1) Business Day prior to the end of such three (3) Business Day period; provided, that in the event that any portion of the consideration to be received by Cerberus pursuant to such Qualifying Sale Transaction (i) is subject to any escrow, holdback or other contingency, then the proportionate amount of the Contingent Payment shall be withheld and not paid to Seller unless, until and only to the extent that such portion of Cerberus’s consideration is released to Cerberus from any such escrow or holdback, or such contingency lapses or is satisfied (or any portion of the amounts withheld in respect of such contingency is distributed to the limited partners or other investors of Cerberus), as applicable, and (ii) is non-cash consideration, then the Contingent Payment shall be made in the same proportion of cash and non-cash consideration as the proportion of cash and non-cash consideration comprising the Qualifying Sale Proceeds; provided further that, to the extent receipt of any non-cash consideration would cause Seller or any of its Affiliates to be bound by, or otherwise subject to, any noncompetition, nonsolicitation or other material restrictive covenant (other than a customary confidentiality covenant, and expressly excluding any shareholder restrictions on transfer that apply equally to Cerberus), Seller instead shall be entitled to receive from Purchaser cash with a value equivalent to such non-cash consideration, valuing such non-cash consideration at fair market value (as determined in good faith by the board of directors of Purchaser).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.7 or otherwise, but subject to any rights Seller or any of its Affiliates may have under the Ancillary Agreements, (i) Seller shall have no rights with respect to any Change of Control Transaction, Qualifying Sale Transaction or Qualifying Sale Agreement (including, without limitation, no information rights or rights to object or consent to any such transaction or agreement) other than the rights expressly set forth herein to receive the Contingent Payment if and when payable pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.7 and (ii) Purchaser shall not be permitted in connection with any Qualifying Sale Transaction to bind Seller or any of its Affiliates to sell any equity interests to, or to make any agreement, covenant or restriction with or in favor of, any third party.
Base Purchase Price Buyer agrees to pay for the Assets the total sum of Thirty Million and No/100 Dollars ($30,000,000.00) (“Base Purchase Price”) to be paid by direct bank deposit or wire transfer in same day funds at the Closing, subject only to the price adjustments set forth in this Agreement.
Purchase Price Adjustment (a) Within 90 days following the Closing, the Buyer shall prepare and deliver, or cause to be prepared and delivered, to the Seller a statement (the “Closing Schedule”) setting forth:
(i) the Buyer’s determination of the actual amounts of (A) the Adjustment Amount, including the Final Adjustment Amount Overage or the Final Adjustment Amount Underage (the “Final Adjustment Amount”), and (B) the Seller Indebtedness Amount, in each case as of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on the Closing Date without taking into account any of the transactions to be completed on the Closing Date in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(ii) a calculation of any adjustments to the Closing Payment based on such calculations (the adjusted Closing Payment as a result of such calculation being the “Final Closing Payment”); and
(iii) a calculation of the accounts receivable contained in the Preliminary Adjustment Amount that were not collected by Buyer within the thirty (30) days immediately following the Closing and the accounts receivable existing at the Closing but not taken into account in calculating the Adjustment Amount (the “Excluded AR”).
(b) Within fifteen (15) days after delivery of the Closing Schedule, the Seller may deliver a notice to Buyer either: (i) concurring with the Closing Schedule (a “Notice of Concurrence”); or (ii) disagreeing therewith (a “Notice of Disagreement”). If the Seller delivers a Notice of Disagreement, then it shall be accompanied by the Seller’s proposed revisions to the Closing Schedule. If the Seller fails to deliver any notice within such 15-day period, the Seller shall be deemed to have delivered a Notice of Concurrence.
(c) If a Notice of Concurrence is delivered or deemed delivered, and if the Final Closing Payment is less than the Closing Payment, the Buyer shall be entitled to payment out of the Royalty Consideration in the full amount of such shortfall. If a Notice of Concurrence is delivered or deemed delivered, and the Final Closing Payment is greater than the Closing Payment, Buyer shall pay to the Seller the full amount of such excess (with such payment being in shares of Buyer Common Stock priced at $1.50 per share) within thirty (30) days of the delivery of the Notice of Concurrence.
(d) If a Notice of Disagreement is delivered, then the Seller and the Buyer shall, during the 15-day period following such delivery (the “Negotiation Period”), use commercially reasonable efforts to agree on the Final Adjustment Amount. If, during such period, the Seller and the Buyer are unable to reach agreement, they promptly shall engage a nationally recognized certified public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to each such party (the “Independent Auditor”) to resolve the disagreement, and any such resolution shall be final, conclusive and binding upon the parties hereto, absent fraud or manifest error. To the extent the Final Closing Payment as determined by the Independent Auditor is less than the Closing Payment, the Buyer shall be entitled to payment out of the Royalty Consideration in the full amount of such shortfall. To the extent the Final Closing Payment as determined by the Independent Auditor is more than the Closing Payment, the Buyer shall pay to the Seller the full amount of such excess (with such payment being in shares of Buyer Common Stock priced at $1.50 per share) within thirty (30) days of such resolution.
(e) Each of the Seller and the Buyer shall pay fifty percent (50%) of the fees and expenses of the Independent Auditor.
Post-Closing Purchase Price Adjustment 1.9.1 Within ninety (90) days following the Closing Date, Seller shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and deliver to Purchaser a statement (the “Closing Net Working Capital Statement”) which shall set forth the Net Working Capital of the Newsprint Business and of Apache as of the Closing Time (which shall be set forth separately for each of the Newsprint Business and Apache, but as aggregated shall be referred to as the “Closing Net Working Capital”) and shall be prepared in accordance with Seller’s past accounting methods, policies, practices and procedures and in the same manner, with consistent classification and estimation methodology, as the Financial Statements were prepared, except that the Excluded Assets and the Newsprint Retained Obligations shall be excluded. The Closing Net Working Capital Statement may not be amended by Seller after it is delivered to Purchaser.
1.9.2 Purchaser shall, within thirty (30) days after the delivery of the Closing Net Working Capital Statement to it, complete its review of the Closing Net Working Capital reflected on the Closing Net Working Capital Statement. If Purchaser wishes to dispute the Closing Net Working Capital, Purchaser shall notify Seller in writing in reasonable detail of such disagreement and any reason therefore (“Purchaser’s Objection”), setting forth a specific description of the basis of Purchaser’s Objection and the adjustments to the Closing Net Working Capital that Purchaser believes should be made, on or before the last day of such thirty (30) day period, which Purchaser’s Objection may not be amended by Purchaser after it is delivered to Seller (except to withdraw any such Purchaser’s Objection). Any items on the Closing Net Working Capital Statements not disputed in Purchaser’s Objection shall be irrevocably deemed to be accepted by Purchaser. Seller shall then have thirty (30) days to review and respond to Purchaser’s Objection. If Seller and Purchaser are unable to resolve all of their disagreements with respect to the determination of the foregoing items within thirty (30) days following Seller’s receipt of Purchaser’s Objection (the “Negotiation Period”), they shall refer their remaining differences to a mutually agreeable independent accounting firm of national recognition (other than an independent accounting firm utilized by any of Seller, Apache or Purchaser or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing within the past three (3) years) acceptable to both Seller and Purchaser or if Seller and Purchaser are unable to agree as to such third party accounting firm within ten (10) days after the conclusion of the Negotiation Period, either Seller or Purchaser may request that the Chairman of the American Arbitration Association (or the nominated representative of the Chairman) appoint a third party accounting firm meeting the aforementioned requirements to resolve the dispute (the accounting firm selected being referred to as the “CPA Firm”), who shall determine, only with respect to the remaining differences so submitted, whether and to what extent, if any, the Closing Net Working Capital requires adjustment. The procedure and schedule under which any dispute shall be submitted to the CPA Firm shall be as follows:
(a) Within ten (10) days after the later of (i) the end of the Negotiation Period and (ii) the selection of the CPA Firm, Purchaser shall submit any unresolved elements of the Purchaser’s Objection to the CPA Firm in writing (with a copy to Seller), supported by any documents and/or affidavits upon which it relies. Failure to timely do so shall constitute a withdrawal by Purchaser of the Purchaser’s Objection with respect to any unresolved element to which such failure relates.
(b) Within fifteen (15) days following Purchaser’s submission of the unresolved elements of the Purchaser’s Objection as specified in sub-clause (a) above, Seller shall submit its response to the CPA Firm in writing (with a copy to Purchaser), supported by any documents and/or affidavits upon which it relies. Failure to timely do so shall constitute an acceptance by Seller with respect to any unresolved elements to which such failure relates.
(c) The CPA Firm shall deliver its written determination to Purchaser and Seller no later than the thirtieth (30th) day after the remaining differences underlying Purchaser’s Objection are referred to the CPA Firm, or such longer period of time as the CPA Firm determines is necessary.
Cash Purchase Price The term "Cash Purchase Price" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a).
Purchase Price Payments (a) On the first Funding Date and ----------------------- on each Purchase Date on which any Receivables are purchased from a Seller by Buyer pursuant to Article I, on the terms and subject to the conditions of this --------- Agreement, Buyer shall pay to such Seller the Purchase Price for the applicable Receivables and Related Assets purchased on such day by Buyer from such Seller as follows:
(i) if such Receivable is then an Ineligible Receivable owned by ALS, ALS shall convey it to Buyer as a capital contribution;
(ii) if such Receivable is then an Ineligible Receivable owned by a Seller other than ALS, such Seller shall convey such Receivable to ALS, which shall in turn convey it to Buyer as a capital contribution;
(iii) if such Receivable is not an Ineligible Receivable at such time, Buyer shall pay the Purchase Price in the following priority:
(A) make a cash payment to such Seller of such Purchase Price, to the extent that Buyer has cash available to make such payment pursuant to Section 3.3; -----------
(B) if Buyer does not have cash available to pay the full Purchase Price, automatically decrease the aggregate amount of then outstanding Purchase Price Credits with respect to such Seller, but not below zero;
(C) if such Purchase Price exceeds the amounts available pursuant to clause (A), by automatically increasing the principal amount of the Purchase Money Note issued by Buyer to ALS by the lesser of (x) the amount of such excess and (y) the Remaining Available Amount under the Purchase Money Note; and
(iv) only if ALS is the Seller, if so elected by ALS, by deeming the remaining amount of such Receivables to constitute a capital contribution to Buyer; provided that no contribution of a Receivable shall be made, and such Receivable shall not be transferred hereunder, in the event that the 75% Test would be violated after giving effect to such contribution. In the event that Buyer has insufficient funds pursuant to the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv) to acquire any Receivables and (x) a Person other than ----------- ---- ALS is the Seller or (y) ALS is the Seller, but ALS does not elect to make the capital contribution described in the foregoing clause (iv), then such ----------- Receivables shall not be transferred to Buyer on such Purchase Date, and such Receivables shall continue to be owned by such Seller. ALS shall maintain a bookkeeping account for the benefit of the Sellers, and shall evidence the obligation of Buyer to pay each Seller the portion of the Purchase Price for such Seller's Receivables that has been allocated to the Purchase Money Note pursuant to clause (iii). ALS shall be responsible for ------------ allocating cash payments and amounts evidenced by the Purchase Money Note among the Sellers and shall maintain sufficient records with respect to the Purchase Money Note such that, on any day, it would be able to identify the amount owed by Buyer to each Seller. ALS and each other Seller agree that, prior to the Seller Maturity Date, Buyer shall be required to make payments in respect of the payment obligations evidenced by the Purchase Money Note only to the extent that it has cash available under Section 3.3, after taking into account amounts ----------- required to be established as reserves pursuant to the applicable Third Party Documents, amounts paid to Third Party Financiers in respect of interest, principal and other amounts owing to such Third Party Financiers and amounts paid in connection with the purchase of newly generated Receivables.
(b) If on each Business Day, the Unpaid Balance of a Purchased Receivable is either (w) reduced as a result of any defective goods or services, any cash discount or any adjustment by a Seller (whether individually or in its performance of duties as Servicer), (x) reduced or canceled as a result of a setoff in respect of any claim by any Person (whether such claim arises out of the same or a related transaction or an unrelated transaction and whether such claim relates to a Seller or any Affiliate thereof), (y) otherwise reduced as a result of any of the factors set forth in the definition of Dilution or (z) determined by the applicable Seller, Buyer or the Servicer to be on any date Ineligible Receivable as of the applicable Purchase Date, then, in such event, Buyer shall be entitled to a credit (each, a "Purchase Price Credit") against the Purchase Price otherwise payable to the applicable Seller hereunder equal to the full amount of such reduction or cancellation. If such Purchase Price Credit exceeds the original Purchase Price for the Receivables to be sold by the applicable Seller hereunder on the date such Purchase Price Credit arises, then the applicable Seller shall pay the remaining amount of such Purchase Price Credit in cash on the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the payment of any Purchase Price Credit relating to returned or repossessed goods, all right, title and interest in and to such goods shall be re-vested in the applicable Seller and Buyer shall have no further interest therein.
