Assumed Liabilities Upon Closing, Buyer assumes and hereby agrees to fulfill, perform, be bound by, pay and discharge (or cause to be fulfilled, performed, paid or discharged) all obligations and liabilities of any kind whatsoever of Seller arising from or relating to the Assets or the Companies, whether known or unknown, liquidated or contingent, and regardless of whether the same are deemed to have arisen, accrued or are attributable to periods prior to, on or after the Effective Time, including obligations and liabilities of Seller concerning: (a) the use, ownership or operation of the Assets or the ownership or operation of the Companies, (b) any obligations under or relating to any Contracts, (c) furnishing makeup Hydrocarbons and/or settling and paying for Imbalances according to the terms of applicable operating agreements, gas balancing agreements, Hydrocarbons sales, processing, gathering or transportation Contracts and other Contracts, (d) paying all obligations owed to working interest, royalty, overriding royalty, net profits and other interest owners and operators relating to the Assets, including their share of any revenues or proceeds attributable to production or sales of Hydrocarbons, (e) all Environmental Liabilities, (f) properly plugging, re-plugging and abandoning the Xxxxx, (g) any obligation or liability for the dismantling, decommissioning, abandoning and removing of the Xxxxx or Equipment, (h) any obligation or liability for the cleaning up, restoration and/or remediation of the premises covered by or related to the Assets in accordance with applicable Contracts, Laws and all Environmental Laws, and (i) any obligation or liability regarding permits held by the Companies or transferred to Buyer and relating to the Assets (all of the obligations and liabilities described in this Section 2.10 are collectively referred to as the “Assumed Liabilities”); provided, Buyer does not assume (and Assumed Liabilities shall not include): (i) the Retained Liabilities, (ii) any obligations or liabilities of Seller to the extent that they are attributable to or arise out of the ownership, use or operation of the Excluded Assets, or (iii) any other Claims for which Seller is required to indemnify Buyer pursuant to Section 3.9, Section 3.19, Article 4 or Section 12.1.
Excluded Liabilities All Liabilities of the Seller other than the Assumed Liabilities shall be excluded from the sale to the Purchaser, regardless of whether such Liabilities are imposed by law, contract or otherwise (collectively “Excluded Liabilities”), including, without limitation, the following Liabilities:
(a) any Liabilities of the Seller arising or incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation, investigation and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including fees and expenses of counsel, accountants, consultants, advisers and others;
(b) any Liabilities for (i) Taxes of the Seller or (ii) Taxes on Purchased Assets to the extent they are allocable to periods ending on and including the Closing Date or (iii) value added Tax resulting from supplies of the Seller or the reduction of input value added Tax claimed by the Seller (alle Verbindlichkeiten bezüglich (i) Steuern des Verkäufers oder (ii) Steuern der verkauften Vermögensgegenstände soweit sie Zeiträumen zuzuordnen sind, die am und einschließlich des Closing Dates enden oder (iii) Umsatzsteuer die aus Vorräten des Verkäufers oder einer vom Verkäufer geforderten Herabsetzung der Vorsteuer resultiert);
(c) any Liabilities relating to or arising out of any Excluded Assets or Excluded Contracts;
(d) any Liabilities for purchase orders for wood or other consumables that are not an Assumed PO and sales orders or commitments for lumber that are not an Assumed SO;
(e) any Liabilities of the Seller which constitute intercompany payables owing to their Affiliated Companies or which constitute debt, loans or credit facilities owing to lenders;
(f) any Liabilities of the Business relating to or arising from unfulfilled commitments, quotations, purchase orders, customer orders or work orders that (i) do not constitute part of the Purchased Assets (ii) are issued by the Business’ customers to the Seller on or before Closing (iii) did not arise in the Ordinary Course of Business or (iv) are not validly and effectively assigned to Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement;
(g) any claims, Environmental Liabilities, or Liabilities under Environmental Laws, to the extent arising out of or relating to facts, circumstances or conditions existing on or prior to the Closing or otherwise to the extent arising out of any actions or omissions of the Seller; and
(h) any Liabilities arising out of, in respect of or in connection with (i) the failure by the Seller to comply with any law or order of a Governmental Authority, or (ii) payments or entitlements under the EEG received by the Seller or its Affiliates without the respective entitlement.
Assumed Obligations As additional consideration for the Acquired Assets, Buyer shall assume the following obligations and liabilities of Seller (the “Assumed Obligations”):
(i) obligations and liabilities of Seller (if any) arising before (except to the extent such obligations are imposed on Seller under the Existing Lease) or after the Closing Date under Real Property Interests and Contracts assigned to Buyer pursuant to the provisions hereof or under Line Agreements, as provided in Section 2.08(b);
(ii) except for any income tax liability Seller may incur from Seller selling the Acquired Assets to Buyer, all obligations, commitments and liabilities of the Public Parties, of whatever nature, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, fixed, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated or due or to become due, which relate to the condition of the Real Property and the other Acquired Assets arising before or after the Closing Date, or which relate exclusively to the ownership, condition or operation of the Acquired Assets arising before or after the Closing Date, including those arising under statutes, rules, regulations and effective or pending orders of Governmental Authorities;
(iii) all Environmental Liabilities of the Public Parties arising before or after the Closing Date which arise out of or are related in any way to the condition, ownership or use of the Real Property or the Line Agreements or any other Acquired Assets, including without limitation (A) any environmental contamination or other condition, or the presence of Hazardous Substances, on the Real Property or other Acquired Assets, whether such contamination or Hazardous Substances are located on or under the Real Property or other Acquired Assets or have migrated or will migrate from or to the Real Property or other Acquired Assets, and (B) the handling, use, treatment, removal, storage, decontamination, cleanup, transport (except for transportation as a common carrier) or disposal of, or exposure to, Hazardous Substances, whether such conditions and/or Environmental Liabilities are known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, contemplated or uncontemplated, and whether or not such conditions were caused by Seller or predecessors or Affiliates of Seller.
Excluded Assets and Liabilities The list of Assets described in this Agreement as being purchased is exclusive and the Parties agree that all remaining assets of ESSI and/or Seller are not to be purchased pursuant to this Agreement and shall be Excluded Assets. It is further agreed that in acquiring the Assets, Buyer is not assuming or undertaking to assume and shall have no responsibility for any liabilities whether fixed or contingent, past, present or future, or direct or indirect, arising out of or in connection with the Assets, or any other acts or omissions of ESSI and/or Seller in connection therewith prior to the Closing (collectively referred to as the "Excluded Liabilities"), including without limitation, (i) any claim arising out of or in connection with the failure by ESSI or Seller to comply with any applicable government regulation; (ii) federal, state or local tax liabilities (including any depreciation, investment tax credit recapture and rollback taxes); (iii) any claim arising out of or in connection with any Employee Plans of ESSI or Seller or with the employment by ESSI or Seller of any of its employees or any past employees or with the termination of any current employees; (iv) any claim resulting from defective products or workmanship (including any recalls or returns with respect thereto) related to goods or services invoiced prior to Closing; (v) any claim arising from environmental liabilities, and (vi) any claim under any provision of the New York Uniform Commercial Code or bulk sales law. LIMITATIONS ON WARRANTIES. EXCEPT FOR THOSE WARRANTIES EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, SELLER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS AND NEGATES AND BUYER HEREBY WAIVES, ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. AS EXAMPLES AND FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, THE ASSETS SHALL BE CONVEYED PURSUANT HERETO WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE QUANTITY, PROFITABILITY, COLLECTIBILITY, QUALITY, CONDITION, SIZE, WEIGHT, SERVICEABILITY, CONFORMITY TO SAMPLES OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT OR OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDED AMONG THE ASSETS, ALL OF WHICH SHALL BE CONVEYED TO THE BUYER AS IS, WHERE IS, AND WITH ALL FAULTS AND DEFECTS AND IN THEIR PRESENT CONDITION AND STATE OF REPAIR AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER OF MERCHANTABILITY OR OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE BUYER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS CONSPICUOUS.
Retained Liabilities Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, and subject to Article VII, the Sellers shall retain, and none of Purchaser or any of its Affiliates shall assume or be responsible for pursuant to this Agreement, any Liabilities of Sellers or any of their Affiliates other than the Assumed Liabilities (such Liabilities other than the Assumed Liabilities, the “Retained Liabilities”). The Retained Liabilities shall include:
(a) all Liabilities for which any Seller expressly has responsibility pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any Ancillary Implementing Agreement, including all Liabilities for which the Sellers have responsibility pursuant to Section 6.6;
(b) all Liabilities of any Seller or Conveyed Subsidiary (or Subsidiaries thereof) to the extent related to or arising out of (i) the Excluded Assets (other than any Liabilities for which Purchaser or its Affiliates expressly has responsibility pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, and other than any Liabilities that are separately allocated pursuant to any other agreement or transaction related to such Excluded Assets between Seller Parent or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and Purchaser or any of its Affiliates, on the other hand, including any commercial or other agreements unrelated to this Agreement), including Environmental Liabilities, whether arising prior to, on or after the Closing, to the extent arising out of or related to the ownership or occupancy of the Retained Facilities (the “Retained Facilities Environmental Liabilities”) or (ii) the matters set forth on Section 2.5(b)(ii) of the Seller Disclosure Letter (the “Retained Environmental Liabilities”);
(c) all Seller Indemnified Taxes;
(d) all Seller Transaction Expenses;
(e) Seller Parent’s portion of Shared Contractual Liabilities pursuant to Section 2.2(d);
(f) all Indebtedness of Seller Parent and its Affiliates (including the Conveyed Subsidiaries and their Subsidiaries) that are not Assumed Liabilities under Section 2.4; and
(g) all Liabilities of Seller Parent or any of its Affiliates (including the Conveyed Subsidiaries and their Subsidiaries) set forth in Section 2.5(g) of the Seller Disclosure Letter.
Company SEC Documents; Undisclosed Liabilities (a) The Company has filed with or furnished to the SEC, on a timely basis, all registration statements, reports, proxy statements and other documents with the SEC required to be filed or furnished since October 31, 2013 (collectively, and in each case including all exhibits and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, as such statements, reports and documents may have been amended since the date of their filing, the “Company SEC Documents”). As of their respective effective dates (in the case of Company SEC Documents that are registration statements filed pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act) and as of their respective filing dates (in the case of all other Company SEC Documents), or in the case of amendments thereto, as of the date of the last such amendment (but only amendments prior to the date of this Agreement in the case of any Company SEC Document with a filing or effective date prior to the date of this Agreement), the Company SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Securities Act or the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”), as the case may be, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, applicable to such Company SEC Documents, and none of the Company SEC Documents as of such respective dates (or, if amended, the date of the filing of such amendment, with respect to the disclosures that are amended) contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(b) Except to the extent updated, amended, restated or corrected by a subsequent Company SEC Document (but only amendments, restatements or corrections prior to the date of this Agreement in the case of any Company SEC Document with a filing or effective date prior to the date of this Agreement), as of their respective dates of filing with the SEC, the consolidated financial statements of the Company included in the Company SEC Documents (i) complied as to form in all material respects with all applicable accounting requirements and with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto (except, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC), (ii) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except (A) as may be indicated in the notes thereto or (B) as permitted by Regulation S-X) and (iii) present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows, as of each of the dates and for the periods shown, as applicable, in conformity with GAAP.
(c) The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting (as such terms are defined in paragraphs (e) and (f), respectively, of Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act) as required by Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act. The Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are reasonably designed to ensure that all material information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or furnishes under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and that all such material information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to make the certifications required pursuant to Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act.
(d) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any liabilities which would be required to be reflected or reserved against on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP or the notes thereto, except for liabilities (i) reflected or reserved against on the balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of July 31, 2015 (the “Balance Sheet Date”) (including the notes thereto) included in the Company SEC Documents, (ii) incurred after the Balance Sheet Date in the ordinary course of business, (iii) as contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise arising in connection with the Transactions or (iv) as would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(e) All filings (other than immaterial filings) required to be made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries since January 1, 2014 under applicable state Laws specifically governing the regulation of public utilities have, to the Knowledge of the Company, been filed with the applicable state public utility commissions (including, to the extent required, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (“NCUC”), the South Carolina Public Service Commission and the Tennessee Regulatory Authority as the case may be, including all forms, statements, reports, agreements (oral or written) and all documents, exhibits, amendments and supplements appertaining thereto (collectively, “Regulatory Filings”)), and all such Regulatory Filings complied, in all material respects, as of their respective dates, with all applicable requirements of the applicable statute and the rules and regulations thereunder, except for Regulatory Filings the failure of which to make or the failure of which to make in compliance with all applicable requirements of the applicable statute and the rules and regulations thereunder have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Assumption of Assumed Liabilities (a) Except as expressly provided in Section 2.4(b), the Purchaser shall not assume, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, any liability or obligation of either Seller whatsoever, whether known, unknown, absolute, contingent or otherwise, and whether accrued or unaccrued.
(b) Subject to the foregoing Section 2.4(a), effective as of the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall assume the following liabilities and obligations of the Sellers arising out of the use, ownership or operation of the Business, the Facilities or the other Assets (collectively, the “Assumed Liabilities”):
(i) the obligations of the Sellers under (x) each Assumed Contract, related to the rights under each Assumed Contract assigned to the Purchaser under the Assignment and Assumption Agreement, (y) each JWWTP Agreement to the extent assigned to the Purchaser under the Assignment (JWWTP Agreements) and (z) each License included in the Assets required to be performed on or after the Closing Date;
(ii) all accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities of the Sellers related to the Business and accrued or existing as of the Closing Date, but only to the extent included in the determination of Final Net Working Capital;
(iii) all liabilities and obligations, known or unknown, relating to, resulting from, arising out of or in connection with, directly or indirectly, (A) events that occur, (B) services performed or products manufactured or sold, or (C) the ownership, operation or use of the Business and the Assets, in each case, from and after the Closing;
(iv) liabilities and obligations relating to or arising from physical or bodily injuries to, or damage to the property of, third parties that occur from and after the Closing to the extent caused by the physical condition of the Assets (which are being transferred as-is, where-is);
(v) liabilities arising in connection with any severance plan established by the Purchaser on or after the Closing Date; and
(vi) liabilities under any of the CBAs or any other collective bargaining agreement or other labor arrangement, including any grievances, to the extent arising from any act or omission after the Closing.
Assets and Liabilities At the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall possess all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises of a public as well as of a private nature, and be subject to all the restrictions, disabilities and duties of each of Acquisition Corp. and the Company (collectively, the “Constituent Corporations”); and all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises of each of the Constituent Corporations, and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due to any of the Constituent Corporations on whatever account, as well as all other things in action or belonging to each of the Constituent Corporations, shall be vested in the Surviving Corporation; and all property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises, and all and every other interest shall be thereafter as effectively the property of the Surviving Corporation as they were of the several and respective Constituent Corporations, and the title to any real estate vested by deed or otherwise in either of such Constituent Corporations shall not revert or be in any way impaired by the Merger; but all rights of creditors and all liens upon any property of any of the Constituent Corporations shall be preserved unimpaired, and all debts, liabilities and duties of the Constituent Corporations shall thenceforth attach to the Surviving Corporation, and may be enforced against it to the same extent as if said debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or contracted by it.
SEC Documents; Undisclosed Liabilities (a) The Parent has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Parent with the SEC (the “Parent SEC Documents”) pursuant to Sections 13(a), 14(a) and 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(b) As of its respective filing date, each Parent SEC Document complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to such Parent SEC Document, and did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Except to the extent that information contained in any Parent SEC Document has been revised or superseded by a later Parent SEC Document, none of the Parent SEC Documents contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The consolidated financial statements of the Parent included in the Parent SEC Documents comply as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, have been prepared in accordance with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) (except, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto) and fairly present the consolidated financial position of the Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for the periods shown (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments).
(c) Except as set forth in the Parent SEC Documents, the Parent has no liabilities or obligations of any nature (whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) required by GAAP to be set forth on a balance sheet of the Parent or in the notes thereto. Except for its agreement with Securities Transfer Corporation to act as the Parent’s stock transfer agent, the Parent has no financial or contractual obligations and liabilities (including any obligations to issue capital stock or other securities of the Parent) due after the date hereof. All liabilities of the Parent shall have been paid off and shall in no event remain liabilities of the Parent, the Company or the Shareholders following the Closing.
Financial Statements; Absence of Undisclosed Liabilities (a) Parent has made available to Buyer copies of (i) the combined audited balance sheets of the Business as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and related audited statements of income, changes in equity and cash flows for the years then ended (the “Annual Financial Statements”) and (ii) the unaudited combined pre-tax balance sheet of the Business as of June 30, 2017, in each case excluding the Medical Device Business (the “Interim Balance Sheet”). The Annual Financial Statements (A) are derived from, and have been prepared in accordance with, the consolidated financial statements and books and records of Parent and its Affiliates, (B) fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position of the Business (excluding the Medical Device Business) as of the dates indicated, and (C) fairly present, in all material respects, the assets and liabilities, the results of the operations, changes in equity and cash flows of the Business (excluding the Medical Device Business) for the periods then ended. The Annual Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated. The Interim Balance Sheet is derived from, and has been prepared in accordance with, the consolidated financial statements and books and records of Parent and its Affiliates, except that it does not include footnote disclosure and does not include income tax-related accruals and disclosures.
(b) There are no material Liabilities of Parent or any of its Affiliates (to the extent relating to the Business) or of any Transferred Subsidiary or the Business (whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) required by GAAP to be set forth on a combined balance sheet of the Business, except (i) Liabilities expressly reflected, reserved for or disclosed in the Interim Balance Sheet, (ii) Liabilities incurred or accrued in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice since the Balance Sheet Date, (iii) Liabilities incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, or (iv) Excluded Liabilities.
(c) Parent maintains systems of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP in all material respects, including internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements of the Business in conformity with GAAP and maintain accountability for assets. There are no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies (as such terms are defined in Regulation S-X) in Parent’s internal controls likely to adversely affect its ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information of the Business and there has not been any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees of the Business who have a significant role in Parent’s internal controls over financial reporting.
