Purchase Price; Allocation of Purchase Price (a) The purchase price for the Purchased Assets and the Shares, subject to the adjustment set forth in Section 3.08(c), shall be an amount in cash (the “Purchase Price”) equal to (i) $32,000,000, minus (ii) the Estimated Closing Date Indebtedness, plus (iii) the Estimated Closing Date Cash, and minus (iv) the Inventory Adjustment, if any. The Purchase Price shall be paid to Seller at the Initial Closing in accordance with Section 3.08(b).
(b) Within forty-five (45) days after the Determination Date, Seller shall prepare and deliver to Buyer an allocation of the final Purchase Price (plus the amount of Assumed Liabilities and Liabilities of the Purchased Subsidiaries, in each case, to the extent properly taken into account for U.S. federal and other applicable income tax purposes) among the Purchased Assets and the assets of the Purchased Subsidiaries for U.S. federal income tax purposes, consistent with the procedures in Section 3.08(c) and in accordance with applicable Law and taking into account Section 7.08 and the section 336(e) elections referred to in Section 7.04(d) (the “Allocation Statement”). If Buyer does not object to the Allocation Statement within thirty (30) days after receipt, the Allocation Statement shall be final and binding on the Parties. If Buyer does object to the Allocation Statement within such period, then Buyer and Seller shall negotiate in good faith to resolve promptly any such objection. If Buyer and Seller do not obtain a final resolution within thirty (30) days after Buyer has so objected (or such longer period as mutually agreed between Buyer and Seller), then the dispute shall be resolved by the Auditor, and the procedures for such resolution (including the allocation of liability for the Auditor’s fees and expenses) shall be consistent with the procedures set forth in Section 3.09(c) (with such provisions applying to this Section 3.07(b) mutatis mutandis). Promptly after any adjustment to the amount of
Allocation of Purchase Price (a) No later than sixty (60) calendar days after the final determination of the Adjusted Payment Amount in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.3, Purchaser shall prepare and deliver to Seller a draft of a statement (the “Draft Allocation Statement”) setting forth the allocation of the total consideration paid by Purchaser to Seller pursuant to this Agreement among the Assets for purposes of Section 1060 of the Code. If, within thirty (30) calendar days of the receipt of the Draft Allocation Statement, Seller shall not have objected in writing to such draft, the Draft Allocation Statement shall become the Final Allocation Statement, as defined below. If Seller objects to the Draft Allocation Statement in writing within such thirty (30) calendar-day period, Purchaser and Seller shall negotiate in good faith to resolve any disputed items. If, within ninety (90) calendar days after the final determination of the Adjusted Payment Amount in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.3, Purchaser and Seller fail to agree on such allocation, any disputed aspects of such allocation shall be resolved by a nationally recognized independent accounting firm mutually acceptable to Purchaser and Seller. The allocation of the total consideration, as agreed upon by Purchaser and Seller (as a result of either Seller’s failure to object to the Draft Allocation Statement or of good faith negotiations between Purchaser and Seller) or determined by an accounting firm under this Section 3.9(a) (the “Final Allocation Statement”), shall be final and binding upon the parties. Each of Purchaser and Seller shall bear all fees and costs incurred by it in connection with the determination of the allocation of the total consideration, except that the parties shall each pay one-half (50%) of the fees and expenses of such accounting firm.
(b) Purchaser and Seller shall report the transaction contemplated by this Agreement (including income Tax reporting requirements imposed pursuant to Section 1060 of the Code) in accordance with the allocation specified in the Final Allocation Statement. Each of Purchaser and Seller agrees to timely file, or cause to be timely filed, IRS Form 8594 (or any comparable form under state or local Tax law) and any required attachment thereto in accordance with the Final Allocation Statement. Except as otherwise required pursuant to a “determination” under Section 1313 of the Code (or any comparable provision of state or local law), neither Purchaser nor Seller shall take, or shall permit its Affiliates to take, a Tax position which is inconsistent with the Final Allocation Statement. In the event any party hereto receives notice of an audit in respect of the allocation of the consideration paid for the Assets, such party shall immediately notify the other party in writing as to the date and subject of such audit. Any adjustment to the Purchase Price pursuant to Section 3.3 shall be allocated among the Assets by reference to the item or items to which such adjustment is attributable.
THE PURCHASER AND PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE 8.1 Immediately after the fall of the hammer and upon being declared the successful purchaser of the Property, the Purchaser shall execute the memorandum attached hereto (`the Memorandum’).
8.2 The signed Memorandum together with these conditions of sale and the Proclamation of Sale shall in their entirety form the contract for the sale and purchase of the Property (`the Contract of Sale’).
8.3 The last bid which is the highest bid accepted by the Auctioneer and upon which the Property is sold to the Purchaser shall be the purchase price for the Property (`the Purchase Price’).
8.4 Upon successful bid of the property by the bidder, the Bidding Deposit deposited by the bidder pursuant to clause 3.1 shall be paid to the Bank immediately upon execution of the Contract of Sale (“ the Purchase Deposit)
8.5 In the event that the Purchase Price is higher than the Reserve Price, the Purchaser shall immediately deposit with the Auctioneer as stakeholder a sum equivalent to the difference between Purchase Deposit and the Bidding Deposit (`the Purchase Deposit Shortfall’) either in cash or by way of a valid bank draft or cashier’s order drawn in favour of the Bank which together will form the Purchase Deposit.
8.6 The Auctioneer shall upon receipt of the Purchase Deposit release the said sum, bank draft and/or cashier’s order to the Bank.
8.7 In the event that the Purchaser shall fail to deposit the Purchase Deposit Shortfall or shall fail to execute the Memorandum for any reason whatsoever or in the event of the bank draft and/or cashier’s order for the Bidding Deposit and/or the Purchase Deposit Shortfall is dishonored for any reason whatsoever when presented by the Bank for payment, the Purchaser shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the terms of the Auction Sale and the consequences set out in paragraph 8.8 hereto shall ensue.
8.8 In the event that the Purchaser shall commit a breach, the Bidding Deposit shall be forfeited absolutely to the Bank and the Bank may in its absolute discretion upon such terms and conditions and at such time or times the Bank deems fit put the Property up for resale. The Bank shall be further entitled to recover from the Purchaser all costs and expenses of, in connection with and resulting from such resale. The Purchaser shall be further liable to the Bank for any shortfall in the sale price obtained at the resale and the Purchase Price (`the Resale Shortfall’). A certificate duly signed by an authorized officer of the Bank as to amount of the Resale Shortfall and the costs and expenses of, in connection with resulting from such resale shall be accepted by the Purchaser as binding correct and conclusive for all purposes including for legal proceedings. The certified amount shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Bank not later than seven (7) days from the date of the demand made by the Bank.
8.9 Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the amount representing the difference between the Purchase Price and the Purchase Deposit (“Balance Purchase Price”) shall be paid by the Purchaser directly to the Bank without any set-off not later than NINETY (90) DAYS from the date of the Contract of Sale (`the Due Date’).
8.10 The Balance Purchase Price shall be paid to the Bank by way of bank draft or cashier’s order drawn in favour of the Bank or E-Payment or any mode of payment which acceptable by the Bank.
8.11 Upon the written request by the Purchaser before the expiry date, the Bank in its absolute discretion may but shall be under no obligation to extend the Due Date for such period or periods the Bank deems fit (`the Extended Due Date’).
8.12 The Purchaser shall have prior to twenty one (21) days of the Due Date, the Purchaser shall issue a written request to the Assignee/Bank applying for an extension of time and the Bank may in it’s absolute discretion (i) agree to grant the extension of time unconditionally, or (ii) refuse the request, in which case the 10% of the successful bid shall be forfeited, or (iii) agree to grant an extension of time subject to conditions (including but not limited to imposition of late payment interest/charges/compensation at such rate/amount as the Bank shall determine) without assigning any reasons whatsoever and such decision shall be binding on the Purchaser. The interest on late payment if imposed by the Bank may be in the form of advance payment of interest for the extension period or otherwise is final and not refundable.
8.13 In the event that the Purchaser for any reason whatsoever (save and except where it is due to the default of the Bank) fails to pay the Balance Purchase Price by the Due Date or the Extended Due Date, as the case may be, the Purchaser shall be deemed to be in breach of the Contract of Sale, and all monies paid to the Bank upon the execution of the Contract of Sale including the Purchase Deposit shall be forfeited absolutely by the Bank and the consequences as set out in paragraph 8.8 shall ensue.
Purchase Price Allocation (a) As soon as practicable after the date of this Agreement, Seller shall prepare and deliver to Purchaser: (i) a proposed allocation of the Assumed Liabilities by country based on an estimate of the fair market values of the Purchased Assets and, if required by applicable Law, an allocation by asset category within a particular country (the “Estimated Allocation of the Assumed Liabilities”) and (ii) a proposed allocation of the Initial Payment by country based on an estimate of the fair market values of the Purchased Assets and, if required by applicable Law, an allocation by asset category within a particular country (the “Estimated Allocation of the Initial Payment”, and together with the “Estimated Allocation of the Assumed Liabilities”, the “Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price”). Subject to Section 6.04(a), during the fifteen (15) day period following delivery of the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price, Seller shall make its Representatives reasonably and timely available to Purchaser, Xxxxxx and their respective Representatives to discuss the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price. The Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price shall be prepared in accordance with the principles of Section 1060 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. If Purchaser does not deliver written notice of any dispute (an “Allocation Dispute Notice”) within fifteen (15) days after receipt of the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price, the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price shall be deemed the Final Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price for all purposes hereunder. Prior to the end of such fifteen (15) day period, Purchaser may accept the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price by delivering written notice to that effect to Seller and Xxxxxx, in which case the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price shall be deemed the Final Allocation for all purposes hereunder when such notice is given. If Purchaser delivers an Allocation Dispute Notice within such fifteen (15) day period, the Parties and Xxxxxx shall use reasonable best efforts to resolve such dispute during the thirty (30) day period following Seller’s receipt of the Allocation Dispute Notice from Purchaser. If the Parties and Xxxxxx do not agree upon a final resolution with respect to the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price within such fifteen (15) day period, then the Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price shall be submitted immediately to an internationally recognized, independent accounting or valuation firm reasonably acceptable to the Parties and Xxxxxx (the “Allocation Firm”). The Allocation Firm shall be requested to render a determination of the applicable dispute within fifteen (15) days after referral of the matter to such Allocation Firm, which determination must be in writing and must set forth, in reasonable detail, the basis therefor. The determination of the Allocation Firm shall be final and binding, absent manifest error. Any fees payable to the Allocation Firm shall be borne equally by Seller and Purchaser. The Estimated Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price accepted by the Parties and Xxxxxx or determined by the Allocation Firm, as the case may be, shall be the “Final Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price”. The Final Allocation of the Initial Purchase Price shall be done at arm’s length based upon a good faith determination of fair market value.
(b) As soon as practicable after each Subsequent Payment Date, Seller shall determine the U.S. Tax Purchase Price and Local Tax Purchase Price and prepare and deliver to Purchaser a proposed allocation of each of the U.S. Tax Purchase Price and Local Tax Purchase Price by country based on an estimate of the fair market values of the Purchased Assets and, if required by applicable Law, an allocation by asset category within a particular country (the “Estimated Allocation of the U.S. Tax Purchase Price” and the “Estimated Allocation of the Local Tax Purchase Price”, respectively, and together the “Estimated Allocation of the U.S.
Payment of Purchase Price The Purchase Price shall be paid as follows:
Adjustment of Purchase Price NUMBER OF COMMON SHARES OR NUMBER OF RIGHTS. The number of Common Shares or other securities covered by each Right and the number of Rights outstanding are subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in this SECTION 11.
(i) In the event the Company shall at any time after the date of this Agreement (A) declare a dividend on the Common Shares payable in Common Shares, (B) subdivide the outstanding Common Shares, (C) combine the outstanding Common Shares into a smaller number of Common Shares or (D) issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the Common Shares (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), except as otherwise provided in this SECTION 11(a), the Purchase Price in effect at the time of the record date for such dividend or of the effective date of such subdivision, combination or reclassification, and the number and kind of shares of capital stock issuable on such date, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the holder of any Right exercised after such time shall be entitled to receive the aggregate number and kind of shares of capital stock which, if such Right had been exercised immediately prior to such date and at a time when the Common Shares transfer books of the Company were open, such holder would have owned upon such exercise and been entitled to receive by virtue of such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in no event shall the consideration to be paid upon the exercise of one Right be less than the aggregate par value of the shares of capital stock of the Company issuable upon exercise of one Right.
(ii) Subject to SECTION 24 of this Agreement, in the event any Person becomes an Acquiring Person, each holder of a Right shall thereafter have a right to receive, upon exercise thereof at the Purchase Price, five Common Shares of the Company on the date of the occurrence of such event; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the transaction that would otherwise give rise to the foregoing adjustment is also subject to the provisions of SECTION 13 hereof, then only the provisions of SECTION 13 hereof shall apply and no adjustment shall be made pursuant to this SECTION 11(a)(ii). In the event that any Person shall become an Acquiring Person and the Rights shall then be outstanding, the Company shall not take any action which would eliminate or diminish the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights. Notwithstanding anything else in the Agreement, from and after the occurrence of such event, any Rights that are or were acquired or beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person (or any Associate or Affiliate of such Acquiring Person) in excess of the Rights associated with 11.5% of the Common Shares outstanding on or prior to the Distribution Date or in excess of 11.5% of the Rights outstanding after the Distribution Date shall be void and any holder of such Rights shall thereafter have no right to exercise such Rights under any provision of this Agreement. No Right Certificate shall be issued pursuant to SECTION 3 that represents Rights beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person whose Rights would be void pursuant to the preceding sentence or any Associate or Affiliate thereof; no Right Certificate shall be issued at any time upon the transfer of any Rights to an Acquiring Person whose Rights would be void pursuant to the preceding sentence or any Associate or Affiliate thereof or to any nominee of such Acquiring Person, Associate or Affiliate; and any Right Certificate delivered to the Rights Agent for transfer to an Acquiring Person whose Rights would be void pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be cancelled.
(iii) In the event that there shall not be sufficient Common Shares of the Company issued but not outstanding or authorized but unissued to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with the foregoing subparagraph (ii), the Company shall take all such action as may be necessary to authorize additional Common Shares of the Company for issuance upon exercise of the Rights.
(b) Irrespective of any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price or the number of Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Rights, the Right Certificates theretofore and thereafter issued may continue to express the Purchase Price and the number of Common Shares which were expressed in the initial Right Certificates issued hereunder.
(c) In any case in which this SECTION 11 shall require that an adjustment be made effective as of a record date for a specified event, the Company may elect to defer until the occurrence of such event the issuing to the holder of any Right exercised after such record date of the Common Shares and other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the Common Shares and other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise on the basis of the Purchase Price in effect prior to such adjustment; provided, however, that the Company shall deliver to such holder a due xxxx or other appropriate instrument evidencing such holder's right to receive such additional shares upon the occurrence of the event requiring such adjustment.
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.
Closing Purchase Price Buyer shall have delivered the Closing Purchase Price in accordance with Section 2.5.
Balance of Purchase Price The balance of the Purchase Price shall be paid in cash or by certified funds at the Closing (as defined below).
Payment of Purchase Price for the Mortgage Loans In consideration of the sale of the Mortgage Loans from the Seller to the Purchaser on the Closing Date, the Purchaser agrees to pay to the Seller on the Closing Date (the "Purchase Price") (i) by transfer of immediately available funds, an amount equal to $165,276,772.63 and (ii) the Class S Certificates, the Class C Certificates, the Class P Certificates and the Class R Certificates (collectively the "Option One Certificates") which Option One Certificates shall be registered in the name of Option One Mortgage Securities Corp. The Seller shall pay, and be billed directly for, all expenses incurred by the Purchaser in connection with the issuance of the Certificates, including, without limitation, printing fees incurred in connection with the prospectus relating to the Certificates, blue sky registration fees and expenses, fees and expenses of Purchaser's counsel, fees of the rating agencies requested to rate the Certificates, accountant's fees and expenses and the fees and expenses of the Trustee and other out-of-pocket costs, if any.
