Acquisition Transactions The Company shall provide the holder of this Warrant with at least twenty (20) days’ written notice prior to closing thereof of the terms and conditions of any of the following transactions (to the extent the Company has notice thereof): (i) the sale, lease, exchange, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property or business, or (ii) its merger into or consolidation with any other corporation (other than a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company), or any transaction (including a merger or other reorganization) or series of related transactions, in which more than 50% of the voting power of the Company is disposed of.
Purchase and Sale of Assets Subject to the terms and conditions set forth below, Seller agrees to assign, sell and transfer to Buyer, and Buyer agrees to purchase from Seller, all of Seller’s rights, title and interest in and to the assets, properties and business (except for Excluded Assets) of every kind and description, wherever located, real, personal, tangible or intangible, used solely by or otherwise relating solely to the Stations as the same shall exist on the Closing Date (as defined herein) (collectively, the Station Assets”). Seller agrees that the Station Assets on the Closing Date shall be free and clear of any and all liens, claims, petitions, charges and encumbrances of any nature whatsoever (“Liens”), and shall include:
(a) the Licenses and any and all other FCC authorizations pertaining to the Stations set forth on Schedule 1(a) hereto;
(b) any and all pending applications before the FCC which relate solely to the Stations;
(c) all books and records relating solely to the Stations;
(d) all of Seller’s proprietary information, technical information, demographic and market data, coverage maps, diagrams and the like which relate solely to the Station or to the future business of the Stations;
(e) all of the Seller’s land, leases, land purchase contracts, tower registrations, tower permits relating solely to the Stations, including but not limited to all rights, title and interest under the leases, subleases, licenses, occupancy agreements or other contracts relating solely to the Stations, as set forth on Schedule 1(e) hereto (collectively the “Real Property”);
(f) all of the Seller’s right, title and interests under existing agreements, contracts, commitments, leases relating solely to the operation of the Stations as more fully described on Schedule 1(f) hereto; and
(g) all of the Seller’s supplies, equipment, inventories and other property purchased but not installed, as and relating solely to the operation of the Stations, as set forth on Schedule 1(g) hereto. In connection with the purchase of Station Assets, Buyer shall assume and agree to pay, perform and discharge when due the following obligations arising in connection with the Station Assets and operation of the business, as the same shall exist on the Closing Date (collectively, the “Assumed Liabilities”): (i) those liabilities arising from the Station Assets that are scheduled by Seller in Schedule 3.6 set forth herein and agreed upon by both Parties, (ii) all obligations of Seller under the leases, contacts and other agreements included in the Station Assets arising and to be performed on or after the Closing Date, but excluding any such obligations arising or to be performed prior to the Closing Date.
Repurchase Transactions (a) Repo Custodian shall make all credits and debits to the Transaction Account and effect the transfer of Securities to or from the Participating Funds upon proper instructions received from the Participating Funds, or the Custodian on behalf of the Participating Funds, and shall make all credits and debits to the Seller Account and effect the transfer of Securities to or from the Seller upon proper instructions received from Seller. In the event that Repo Custodian receives conflicting proper instructions from Seller and the Participating Funds, or the Custodian on behalf of the Participating Funds, Repo Custodian shall follow the Participating Funds' or the Custodian's proper instructions. The Participating Funds shall give Repo Custodian only such instructions as shall be permitted by the Master Agreement. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Participating Funds, or the Custodian on behalf of the Participating Funds, may from time to time instruct Repo Custodian to transfer cash from the Transaction Account to Custodian.
(b) (i) Whenever on any Banking Day one or more Funds and Seller agree to enter into a repurchase transaction, Seller and the Participating Funds, or the Custodian on behalf of the Participating Funds, will give Repo Custodian proper instructions by telephone or otherwise on the Sale Date, specifying the Transaction Category, Repurchase Date, Sale Price, Repurchase Price or the applicable Pricing Rate and the Margin Percentage for each such repurchase transaction.
(ii) In the case of repurchase transactions in which the Repurchase Date is the Banking Day next following the Sale Date (x) the Participating Funds may increase or decrease the Sale Price for any such repurchase transaction by no more than 10% of the initial Sale Price by causing to be delivered further proper instructions by telephone or otherwise to Repo Custodian prior to the close of business on the Sale Date and (y) Seller and the Participating Funds may by mutual consent agree to increase or decrease the Sale Price by more than 10% of the initial Sale Price by causing to be provided further proper instructions to Repo Custodian by the close of business on the Sale Date. In any event, Repo Custodian shall not be responsible for determining whether any such increase or decrease of the Sale Price exceeds the 10% limitation.
(c) Seller will take such actions as are necessary to ensure that on the Sale Date the aggregate Market Value of all Securities held by Repo Custodian for Seller and cash in the Seller Account equals or exceeds the Margin Percentage of the Sale Price. Seller shall give Repo Custodian proper instructions specifying with respect to each of the Securities which is to be the subject of a repurchase transaction (a) the name of the issuer and the title of the Securities, and (b) the Market Value of such Securities. Such instructions shall constitute Seller's instructions to Repo Custodian to transfer the Securities to the Participating Funds and/or Cash Collateral from the Seller Account to the Transaction Account.
Consummation of Acquisition Concurrently with the making of the initial Loans, (i) the Buyer shall have purchased pursuant to the Acquisition Documents (no provision of which shall have been amended or otherwise modified or waived in a manner that is materially adverse to the Lenders’ interests) without the prior written consent of the Agents), and shall have become the owner, free and clear of all Liens, of all of the Acquisition Assets, (ii) the proceeds of the initial Loans shall have been applied in full to pay a portion of the Purchase Price payable pursuant to the Acquisition Documents for the Acquisition Assets and the closing and other costs relating thereto, and (iii) the Buyer shall have fully performed all of the obligations to be performed by it under the Acquisition Documents.
Closing Transactions On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, the following transactions shall occur in the order set forth in this Section 2.1:
Asset Purchase (a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Asset Closing, the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, sell, assign, transfer, convey and deliver to Purchaser, and Purchaser shall, and/or shall cause its Subsidiaries to, purchase, acquire and accept from the Company and its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens, all of the Company’s and such Subsidiaries’ respective right, title and interest in and to the following assets and all of the goodwill associated therewith (in each case after taking into account the effects of, and assuming the completion of, the Restructuring), as the same shall exist on the Asset Closing Date (collectively, the “Purchased Assets”):
(i) the Owned Real Property (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and any fixtures, machinery, equipment and tangible personal property attached to or located on the Owned Real Property that relate to or are used or held for use in connection with the SMS Business;
(ii) all inventories (including raw materials, purchased goods, parts, containers, recycled materials, work in process, supplies, finished goods and demo and consignment inventory) on the books of the Company or its Subsidiaries;
(iii) all lists of current, former and prospective customers, suppliers, resellers and vendors, customers’ files, credit information, parts lists, business correspondence, business lists, brochures, manuals, sales literature, promotional literature and other selling, advertising and marketing materials and all other similar assets and rights related to the conduct of the SMS Business;
(iv) all of the machinery, equipment, tools, spare parts, all transportation and office equipment, computers, furniture, furnishings, vehicles, and other fixed assets and personal property owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries and related to, used or held for use in connection with the SMS Business (including any and all hard drives, disks, diskettes, tapes or other tangible media), and in the case of any such items which are leased or licensed by the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Company’s and such Subsidiaries’ leasehold or license interest therein;
(v) all Contracts to which any of the Company or its Subsidiaries are a party to the extent they are related to the SMS Business, including the SMS Agreements (collectively, the “Assumed Contracts”);
(vi) all Intellectual Property owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries and that is related to the SMS Business and was used, is used or is held for use in the SMS Business (the “Transferred Business Intellectual Property”);
(vii) all information technology systems, network or telecommunications equipment and software, desktop computer software, accounting, finance and database software, general software development and control systems, and tools, environments and other general information technology functionality, in each case that is used in the operation of the SMS Business;
(viii) all Permits used in the SMS Business;
(ix) all accounts receivable, notes receivable and other rights to payment of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent related to the SMS Business, together with any unpaid interest or fees accrued thereon or other amounts due with respect thereto, and any claim, remedy or other right related to any of the foregoing;
(x) all deposits to the extent made by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with the SMS Business, and any claim, remedy or other right related to any of the foregoing, in each case to the extent associated with Assumed Contracts or other Purchased Assets, or related to other Assumed Liabilities;
(xi) all prepaid assets paid by the Company or its Subsidiaries to the extent in connection with the SMS Business, and any claim, remedy or other right related to any of the foregoing, in each case to the extent associated with Assumed Contracts or other Purchased Assets, or related to Assumed Liabilities;
(xii) all causes of action, claims, demands, rights (including rights under or pursuant to warranties, representations and guarantees made by suppliers, manufacturers or contractors) and privileges against third parties, whether liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent, xxxxxx or inchoate that relate to events or breaches occurring on or prior to the Asset Closing Date which relate to the SMS Business, Purchased Assets or Assumed Liabilities;
(xiii) all financial and other books and all other documents, microfilm and business records (other than Tax Returns) and correspondence, wherever located, related to the SMS Business, the Purchased Assets or the Assumed Liabilities;
(xiv) personnel records for each Transferred SMS Employee (subject to the prior consent of such Transferred SMS Employee to the extent such consent is required by applicable Law in connection with the transfer of such personnel records of such Transferred SMS Employee); and
(xv) all other assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries that relate to, or are used in the conduct of, the SMS Business, are not Excluded Assets and are not of a category or type described in the foregoing clauses of this Section 2.1(a).
(b) The Seller Parties and the Purchaser Parties expressly understand and agree that the following assets and all of the goodwill associated therewith (in each case after taking into account the effects of, and assuming the completion of, the Restructuring), as the same shall exist on the Asset Closing Date shall be excluded from the Purchased Assets (the “Excluded Assets”):
(i) all capital stock or other equity interests in any Person;
(ii) all rights arising from Excluded Liabilities; and
(iii) the Maintenance Agreements;
(iv) all accounts receivable, notes receivable and other rights to payment of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent related to the Maintenance Business, together with any unpaid interest or fees accrued thereon or other amounts due with respect thereto, and any claim, remedy or other right related to any of the foregoing;
(v) all deposits to the extent made by the Company or its Subsidiaries to the extent related to the Maintenance Business, and any claim, remedy or other right related to any of the foregoing, in each case to the extent associated with the Maintenance Business;
(vi) all prepaid assets paid by the Company or its Subsidiaries to the extent in related to the Maintenance Business, and any claim, remedy or other right related to any of the foregoing, in each case to the extent associated with the Maintenance Business;
(vii) all causes of action, claims, demands, rights (including rights under or pursuant to warranties, representations and guarantees made by suppliers, manufacturers or contractors) and privileges against third parties, whether liquidated or unliquidated, fixed or contingent, xxxxxx or inchoate that relate to events or breaches occurring on or prior to the Asset Closing Date which relate to the Maintenance Agreements;
(viii) all other assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries that relate exclusively to, or are used exclusively in the conduct of, the Maintenance Business; and
(ix) any assets that are excluded from the Purchased Assets pursuant to Section 3.1(c).
Sale and Purchase of Assets (a) The Manager shall, in accordance with instructions from the Board, supervise the sale and purchase of assets on the Company’s behalf including the completion of such transactions.
(b) In respect of any sale or purchase of an asset, the Manager shall provide assistance which shall include, but not be limited to, arranging the financing in the case of a purchase and, if necessary, renegotiating existing financing, and in the case of a sale or purchase, arranging other contractual agreements required by the transaction and the general completion of the specific transaction.
(c) The Manager shall assist the Board in reviewing the market for sale and purchase of assets and providing the Company with recommendations in this respect. Any contracts related to a sale or purchase of an asset shall always be subject to the final approval of the Board.
Purchase and Sale of Acquired Assets On the Closing Date but effective as of the Effective Date, each Seller shall sell, transfer, deliver, convey and assign to Purchaser, and Purchaser shall purchase, acquire, and accept from such Seller, upon the terms and conditions stated herein, all of such Seller’s right, title and interest in and to the following:
(a) All hardware, third-party software licenses, documentation, third-party trademark licenses, fixtures, furniture, equipment and other assets of such Seller, in each case, which is necessary to satisfy such Seller’s obligations under the Assumed Contracts, as identified on Schedule 1.1 attached hereto (the “Transferred Resources”), to the fullest extent transferable by such Seller to Purchaser (or if not at all transferable, a mutually acceptable arrangement shall be structured as provided in Section 8.4);
(b) All right, title, and interest of such Seller in and to the source code, object code, schematics, design tools, and all associated documentation for all of such Seller’s past or present software products (including but not limited to Connect CCB, Connect IXC, Access IM, Connect RTR, IPC, WPM, Marketing Dashboard, Revenue Assurance Suite, Communications Resources Manager (CRM), and EBP&P), and all of such Seller’s software tools, subroutines, and other components, whether completed or under development, all prior or unreleased versions thereof, and all tangible embodiments (and all copies, extracts, or analyses thereof) in any medium whatsoever, and all right, title, and interest of such Seller in and to its copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, and any applications therefor (including U.S. patent application number 12055933), and any related Intellectual Property Rights (as defined in Section 2.2) of such Seller, and all rights under any and all contracts for the acquisition or development of any of the foregoing, including without limitation assignments to such Seller, covenants to assign inventions to such Seller (including without limitation those assignments contained in subcontractor agreements), covenants to cooperate with such Seller’s obtaining protections of intellectual property, other provisions for ownership by such Seller of a work-for-hire, any and all confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements in favor of a Seller and all agreements similar to the foregoing, in each case to the fullest extent transferable by such Seller to Purchaser (or if not at all transferable, a mutually acceptable arrangement shall be structured as provided in Section 8.4) (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”);
(c) All right, title, and interest (including rights to payment for customer services which services were rendered on or following the Effective Date or for Software (as hereinafter defined) for periods on or following the Effective Date) of such Seller in and under the Assumed Contracts (as hereinafter defined) on and after the Effective Date, including any successor agreements to the Assumed Contracts which are entered into by such Seller with respect to the Business prior to the Closing Date (the “Contract Rights”);
(d) Cash in an amount, when all such payments made by Sellers are aggregated, equal to Ninety Seven Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Four Dollars and 52/100 ($97,374.52) (“Prepaid Customer Funds” and, together with the Transferred Resources, Intellectual Property, and Contract Rights, the “Acquired Assets”), which amount represents prepaid but undelivered maintenance obligations under the Assumed Contracts with Bresnan (in an amount equal to $7,760); Xxxxxxxxxx (in an amount equal to $40,000); Westel (in an amount equal to $6,533); and Page One (in an amount equal to $43,081.52);
(e) All receivables and rights to payment arising with respect to customer services provided on or after the Effective Date or Software for periods on or following the Effective Date relating to any Acquired Assets;
(f) Copies of those books and records of such Seller directly related to the Acquired Assets, including invoices, purchase orders, and vendor and customer correspondence; and
(g) All goodwill and other intangible assets associated with the foregoing; in each case wherever located, but specifically excluding those assets described in Section 1.2.
Formation Transactions The Formation Transactions shall have been or shall be consummated substantially concurrently in accordance with the timing set forth in the respective Formation Transaction Documentation.
Fundamental Changes; Disposition of Assets; Acquisitions Enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or liquidate, wind-up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution) or convey, sell, lease or license, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or any part of its business, assets or property of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, leased or licensed, or acquire by purchase or otherwise (other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials and equipment and Consolidated Capital Expenditures in the ordinary course of business) all or substantially all of the assets of, all of the Equity Interests of, or a business line or unit or a division of, any Person, except:
(i) any Group Member may be merged or consolidated with or into any other Group Member, or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved, or all or any part of its business, assets or property may be conveyed, sold, leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, to any other Group Member; provided, that (x) in the case of a merger or consolidation of a Group Member that is not a Loan Party with or into a Borrower or Guarantor, such Borrower or such Guarantor, as applicable, shall be the continuing or surviving Person, (y) in the case of a merger or consolidation of a Guarantor with or into another Guarantor, a Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving Person and (z) in the case of a merger or consolidation of a Guarantor with or into a Borrower, such Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person, and (ii) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge with any other person in order to effect an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 6.06 so long as the continuing or surviving person shall be a Restricted Subsidiary, which shall be a Loan Party if the merging Restricted Subsidiary was a Loan Party and which together with each of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have complied with the requirements of Section 5.12, 5.13 and 5.14, as applicable and if such transaction involves the U.S. Borrower, the U.S. Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person;
(b) any Group Member (other than the U.S. Borrower in the case of a disposition of all of its assets) may dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to a Borrower or any other Loan Party, and any Group Member that is not a Loan Party may dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to another Group Member that is not a Loan Party;
(c) sales or other dispositions of assets that do not constitute Asset Sales;
(i) Asset Sales, the proceeds of which (valued at the principal amount thereof in the case of non-cash proceeds consisting of notes or other debt Securities and valued at fair market value in the case of other non-cash proceeds) when aggregated with the proceeds of all other Asset Sales made pursuant to this clause (d)(i) in any Fiscal Year, are less than (x) 2.0% of Consolidated Total Assets plus (y) an amount equal to any unutilized portion of the amount permitted under subclause (x) for any preceding Fiscal Year; provided that in no event shall the proceeds of any Asset Sale, when aggregated with the proceeds of all other Asset Sales made pursuant to this clause (d)(i) in any Fiscal Year, exceed 5.0% of Consolidated Total Assets; and (ii) the Asset Sale described on Schedule 6.08(d); provided that, in the case of each of clause (i) and (ii), (1) the consideration received for such assets shall be in an amount at least equal to the fair market value thereof (determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the U.S. Borrower (or a duly authorized committee thereof)), (2) except in the case of any Asset Sale to any Restricted Subsidiary, no less than 75.0% thereof shall be paid in cash or Cash Equivalents, and (3) except in the case of any Asset Sale to any Restricted Subsidiary, the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied as required by Section 2.14(a);
(e) any Group Member may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business (x) which are overdue, or (y) which such Group Member may reasonably determine are difficult to collect but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with prudent business practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing of receivables);
(f) any Group Member may enter into licenses or sublicenses of Software, Trademarks and other Intellectual Property and general intangibles in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of the Group Members taken as a whole;
(i) any disposition of Securitization Assets to a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing and (ii) any disposition of accounts receivable in connection with receivables factoring arrangements in the ordinary course of business;
(h) dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents;
(i) Permitted Acquisitions; provided, that in respect of acquisitions of Persons which do not become Loan Parties or of assets which are not acquired by Loan Parties, the consideration for such Persons or assets shall not exceed an aggregate amount of 5.0% of Consolidated Total Assets over the term of this Agreement; and
(i) Permitted Sale and Lease-Backs and (ii) Sale and Lease-Backs otherwise permitted by Section 6.10(ii), provided that the Net Cash Proceeds of Sale and Lease-Backs (other than Permitted Sale and Lease-Backs) shall be applied as required by Section 2.14(a); provided, further, that, the case of clause (ii), the net proceeds received by the applicable Group Member are at least equal to the fair market value of such asset or Investment (as determined by the U.S. Borrower’s Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof));
(k) sales or other dispositions of the Equity Interests of, or other ownership interests in or assets or property, including Indebtedness, or other securities of, any Joint Venture (including the China JV); provided that, in each case, the net proceeds received by the applicable Group Member are at least equal to the fair market value of such asset or Investment (as determined by the U.S. Borrower’s Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof);
(l) any lease, assignment or sublease in the ordinary course of business which does not materially interfere with the business of the Group Members taken as a whole; and
(m) Investments made in accordance with Section 6.06 and Restricted Payments made in accordance with Section 6.04.
