Company Stock The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of: (i) 95,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock, (ii) 900,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $1.75 per share, and (iii) 100,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $1.75 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) (the undesignated and Series A Preferred Stock are collectively referred to herein as the “Company Preferred Stock”). As of August 7, 2007, (a) 44,641,388 shares of Company Common Stock were issued and outstanding, (b) no shares of Company Preferred Stock were issued and outstanding, (c) 18,195,312 shares of Company Common Stock were reserved for issuance under the Company Stock Plans, (d) 1,500,000 shares of Company Common Stock were reserved for issuance under stock options granted outside of the Company Stock Plans, (e) 1,370,763 shares of Company Common Stock were reserved for issuance under Company Warrants, and (f) 378,100 shares of Company Common Stock were held in treasury. The outstanding shares of Company Common Stock have been duly authorized and are validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable, and subject to no preemptive rights (and were not issued in violation of any subscriptive or preemptive rights). As of the date hereof, other than the Company Stock Options and the Company Warrants, there are no shares of Company Common Stock authorized and reserved for issuance, the Company does not have any Rights issued or outstanding with respect to Company Stock, and the Company does not have any commitment to authorize, issue or sell any Company Stock or Rights, except pursuant to this Agreement. Section 4.2(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of the holders of outstanding Company Stock Options and Company Warrants, the date that each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant was granted, the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant, the vesting schedule and expiration date of each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant and the price at which each such Company Stock Option or Company Warrant may be exercised.
Company Stock Plans (a) Effective as of the Effective Time, each outstanding stock option, stock equivalent right or right to acquire Shares (each a “Company Option” and collectively, the “Company Options”) granted under the Company’s 1991 Incentive Stock Option Plan, 1997 Stock Option Plan or 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Company Stock Plans”) or granted outside of a plan, without regard to the extent then vested and exercisable, shall be cancelled and, in consideration of such cancellation, Parent shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, promptly following the Effective Time, pay to such holders of Company Options, an amount in respect thereof equal to the product of (x) the excess, if any, of the Offer Price over the exercise price of each such Company Option and (y) the number of unexercised Shares subject thereto (such payment, if any, to be net of applicable Taxes withheld pursuant to Section 2.5).
(b) Effective as of the Effective Time, restrictions on each restricted stock award (each a “Company Restricted Share” and collectively, the “Company Restricted Shares”) granted under any Company Stock Plan, which is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, will lapse as of such Effective Time and such Company Restricted Shares shall be treated in the same manner as other Shares pursuant to Section 2.1(c) (except that with respect to any restrictions which by the terms provide for a lapse to a lesser extent upon the consummation of the Merger, such restrictions shall only lapse to such lesser extent) (such payment, if any, to be net of applicable Taxes withheld pursuant to Section 2.5).
(c) As of the Effective Time, the Company Stock Plans shall terminate and all rights under any provision of any other plan, program or arrangement providing for the issuance or grant of any other interest in respect of the capital stock of the Company, or any Company Subsidiary (as defined in Section 3.4(a)), shall be cancelled. The Company shall ensure that, after the Effective Time, no person shall have any right under the Company Stock Plans to acquire any capital stock of the Company or the Surviving Corporation or any other equity interest therein (including “phantom” stock or stock appreciation rights), except as set forth herein. The Company Board of Directors (or, if appropriate, any committee thereof administering the Company Stock Plans) shall adopt such resolutions, or take such other actions as may be required, to effect the foregoing.
ESOP (a) As of the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, the ESOP has been in compliance in all material respects with applicable provisions of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder, and the ESOT has been duly organized and is a validly existing trust. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.29(a), each of the ESOP Plan Documents is in full force and effect and no term or condition thereof has been amended, modified or waived from the terms and conditions contained in the ESOP Plan Documents delivered to Administrative Agent without the consent of the Requisite Lenders (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver could not reasonably be anticipated to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, the ESOT has performed and complied with all the material terms, provisions, agreements and conditions set forth therein and required to be performed or complied with by the ESOT, and no unmatured default, default or breach of any covenant by any such party exists thereunder.
(b) As of the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, the execution, delivery and performance of each of the ESOP Plan Documents to which the ESOT is a party do not (i) conflict with the ESOP Plan Documents, (ii) conflict with any requirement of law, or (iii) other than with respect to ordinary course ESOP operations, require a registration with, consent or approval of, or notices to, or other action to, with or by any Governmental Authority.
(c) As of the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, none of the assets of Borrower constitute, for any purpose of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, assets of the ESOP or any other “plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
(d) As of the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, no non-exempt prohibited transaction described in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code has occurred with respect to the ESOP, and no Loan hereunder constitutes or shall constitute or give rise to any such non-exempt prohibited transaction.
(e) The ESOP is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the ESOP includes two components, one of which is a stock bonus plan that constitutes an employee stock ownership plan as defined in Section 4975(e)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the other is a profit sharing plan that includes a cash or deferred arrangement under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(f) Borrower has provided Administrative Agent with a complete and true copy of each of the ESOP Plan Documents pursuant to which the ESOP and the ESOT are maintained by Borrower, or which concern Borrower’s obligations with respect to the ESOP and ESOT, as of the Closing Date and has not subsequently amended or in any other way modified or replaced such ESOP Plan Documents in any manner without the prior written consent of the Requisite Lenders, except for any amendment, modification or waiver that could not reasonably be anticipated to have a Material Adverse Effect (and Borrower shall use its best efforts to deliver a copy of any such amendment, modification or replacement to Administrative Agent prior to the execution thereof).
(g) To Borrower’s knowledge, no Loan hereunder is (for any purpose of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code) a direct or indirect loan or other transaction between Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders and the ESOT which, if it is assumed that Administrative Agent and the Lenders are “parties in interest” and “disqualified persons” (as defined in Section 3(14) of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, respectively), is a non-exempt prohibited transaction described in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
(h) Neither Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is or shall be subject to the tax imposed by Section 4978 of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to any “disposition” by the ESOT of any shares of Equity Interests of Borrower.
(i) To Borrower’s knowledge, there is no investigation or review by any Governmental Agency, or action, suit, proceeding or arbitration, pending or concluded, concerning any matter with respect to the ESOP or the ESOT relevant as to whether any representation set forth herein was, or has or will at any time become, inaccurate or breached or, if it were to be made at any time prior to the satisfaction of all Obligations, would be inaccurate when made (other than in respect of (i) periodic requests to the Internal Revenue Service to issue a favorable determination letter to the effect that the ESOP is and continues to be a qualified plan and an employee stock ownership plan, (ii) Annual Reports (IRS Form 5500 Series) for the ESOP and (iii) routine claims for ESOP benefits), and neither the ESOP Fiduciary nor the ESOT Trustee has made any assertion with respect to the ESOP or the ESOT contrary to or inconsistent with the accuracy of any such representation which assertion could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(j) As of the Closing Date, the ESOP has not incurred any Indebtedness (including any guarantee of Indebtedness of any other Person), other than its obligations under the ESOP Plan Documents to the extent constituting Indebtedness, including the outstanding PTE 80-26 loans set forth on Schedule 4.29(j).
Employee Stock Purchase Plan The Company shall take all requisite action with respect to the Company’s 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (the “Company ESPP”), to ensure that (i) all outstanding Company Purchase Rights (as defined in Section 4.02) will be exercised no later than three (3) Business Days prior to the Expiration Date, (ii) no Company Purchase Rights will be issued and outstanding as of the Expiration Date, (iii) conditioned upon the occurrence of the Closing, the Company ESPP will be terminated no later than the Effective Time, and (iv) no additional offering periods shall commence on or after the Expiration Date. The Company shall deliver to Parent prior to the Expiration Date sufficient evidence that the Company ESPP will be terminated as of the Effective Time, conditioned upon the occurrence of the Closing. In addition, prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall take all actions (including, if appropriate, amending the terms of the Company ESPP and the terms of any offering period(s) commencing prior to the Expiration Date) that are necessary to provide that, as of the Effective Time, participants and former participants in the Company ESPP shall cease to have any right or interest thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all actions taken and all amendments made pursuant to this Section 3.06 shall be taken or made in compliance with Sections 423 and 424 of the Code and so as not to result in a “modification” under such Sections. All Shares issued in connection with the exercise of the Company Purchase Rights shall be, at the Effective Time, converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration in accordance with, and pursuant to, the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
STOCK AND STOCK CERTIFICATES Section 1. Shares of stock shall be transferrable on the books of the Company and a transfer book shall be kept in which all transfers of stock shall be recorded.
Section 2. Certificate of stock shall bear the signature of the President or any Vice President, however denominated by the Board of Directors and countersigned by the Secretary or Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary, and the seal of the corporation shall be engraved thereon. Each certificate shall recite that the stock represented thereby is transferrable only upon the books of the Company by the holder thereof or his attorney, upon surrender of the certificate properly endorsed. Any certificate of stock surrendered to the Company shall be cancelled at the time of transfer, and before a new certificate or certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof. Duplicate certificates of stock shall be issued only upon giving such security as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors or the Executive Committee.
Section 3. The Board of Directors of the Company is authorized to fix in advance a record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, any meeting of stockholders and any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or to any allotment or rights, or to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, or in connection with obtaining the consent of stockholders for any purpose, which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days proceeding the date of any meeting of stockholders or the date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of capital stock shall go into effect, or a date in connection with obtaining such consent.
Shareholder Accounts The proportionate allocation of expenses based upon the number of each Fund’s shareholder accounts and transaction activity in those accounts, measured over a period of time, relative to the total number of shareholder accounts and transaction activity in those accounts for all Funds receiving number of portfolio transactions for all Funds receiving services from the Service Company during such period.
No Further Ownership Rights in Company Common Stock All shares of --------------------------------------------------- Parent Common Stock issued upon the surrender for exchange of shares of Company Common Stock in accordance with the terms hereof shall be deemed to have been issued in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to such shares of Company capital stock, and there shall be no further registration of transfers on the records of the Surviving Corporation of shares of Company capital stock which were outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates are presented to the Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall be canceled and exchanged as provided in this Article I.
Capital Stock and Ownership The Capital Stock of each of Holdings and its Subsidiaries has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.2, as of the date hereof, there is no existing option, warrant, call, right, commitment or other agreement to which Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries is a party requiring, and there is no membership interest or other Capital Stock of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries outstanding which upon conversion or exchange would require, the issuance by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any additional membership interests or other Capital Stock of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or other Securities convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the right to subscribe for or purchase, a membership interest or other Capital Stock of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries. Schedule 4.2 correctly sets forth the ownership interest of Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date.
Company Stock Options At the Effective Time, each Company Stock --------------------- Option shall be deemed to have been assumed by Evergreen, without further action by Evergreen, and shall thereafter be deemed an option to acquire, on the same terms and conditions as were applicable under such Company Stock Option, that number of shares of Surviving Corporation Common Stock that would have been received in respect of such Company Stock Option if it had been exercised immediately prior to the Effective Time (such Company Stock Options assumed by Evergreen, the "Assumed Chancellor Stock Options"); provided, however, that, for -------- ------- each optionholder, (i) the aggregate fair market value of Surviving Corporation Common Stock subject to Assumed Chancellor Stock Options immediately after the Effective Time shall not exceed the aggregate exercise price thereof by more than the excess of the aggregate fair market value of Company Common Stock subject to Company Stock Options immediately before the Effective Time over the aggregate exercise price thereof and (ii) on a share-by-share comparison, the ratio of the exercise price of the Assumed Chancellor Stock Option to the fair market value of the Surviving Corporation Common Stock immediately after the Effective Time is no more favorable to the optionholder than the ratio of the exercise price of the Company Stock Option to the fair market value of the Company Common Stock immediately before the Effective Time; and provided, -------- further, that no fractional shares shall be issued on the exercise of such ------- Assumed Chancellor Stock Option and, in lieu thereof, the holder of such Assumed Chancellor Stock Option shall only be entitled to a cash payment in the amount of such fraction multiplied by the closing price per share of Surviving Corporation Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market on the business day immediately prior to the date of such exercise.
Rights as Shareholders; Stock Transfers At the Effective Time, holders of Company Common Stock shall cease to be, and shall have no rights as, shareholders of the Company other than the right to receive the Merger Consideration provided under this Article III. After the Effective Time, there shall be no transfers on the stock transfer books of the Company of shares of Company Common Stock.
