Material Contracts; Defaults (a) Other than as disclosed in the Company Reports filed prior to the date hereof or as set forth in Company Disclosure Schedule 3.13, neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to, bound by or subject to any agreement, contract, arrangement, commitment or understanding (whether written or oral) (i) with respect to the employment of any directors, officers, employees or consultants, (ii) which would entitle any present or former director, officer, employee or agent of Company or any of its Subsidiaries to indemnification from Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) the benefits of which will be increased, or the vesting of benefits of which will be accelerated, by the occurrence of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (iv) which grants any right of first refusal, right of first offer or similar right with respect to any material assets or properties of Company and or Subsidiaries; (v) which provides for payments to be made by Company or any of its Subsidiaries upon a change in control thereof; (vi) which provides for the lease of personal property having a value in excess of $25,000 individually or $100,000 in the aggregate; (vii) which relates to capital expenditures and involves future payments in excess of $10,000 individually or $50,000 in the aggregate; (viii) which relates to the disposition or acquisition of assets or any interest in any business enterprise outside the ordinary course of Company’s business; (ix) which is not terminable on sixty (60) days or less notice and involving the payment of more than $25,000 per annum; or (x) which materially restricts the conduct of any business by Company of any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, “Material Contracts”). Company has previously delivered to Buyer true, complete and correct copies of each such document.
(b) Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default under any contract, agreement, commitment, arrangement, lease, insurance policy or other instrument to which it is a party, by which its assets, business, or operations may be bound or affected, or under which it or its assets, business, or operations receives benefits, and there has not occurred any event that, with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both, would constitute such a default. No power of attorney or similar authorization given directly or indirectly by Company is currently outstanding.
Contracts; No Defaults (a) Part 3.17(a) of the Disclosure Letter contains a complete and accurate list, and Sellers have delivered to Buyer true and complete copies, of:
(i) each Contract that involves performance of services or delivery of goods or materials by the Company of an amount or value in excess of $100,000.
(ii) each Contract that involves performance of services or delivery of goods or materials to the Company of an amount or value in excess of $10,000:
(iii) each current Insurance Policy;
(iv) each Contract that was not entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business and that involves expenditures or receipts of the Company in excess of $10,000;
(v) each lease, rental or occupancy agreement, license, installment and conditional sale agreement, and other Contract affecting the ownership of, leasing of, title to, use of, or any leasehold or other interest in, any real or personal property (except personal property leases and installment and conditional sales agreements having a value per item of less than $10,000, and having an aggregate value of all items having a value per item of less than $10,000 items not exceeding $50,000.00);
(vi) each licensing agreement or other Contract with respect to patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property, including agreements between the Company and current or former employees, consultants, or contractors regarding the appropriation or the non-disclosure of any of the Intellectual Property Assets;
(vii) each collective bargaining agreement and other Contract to or with any labor union or other employee representative of a group of employees;
(viii) each joint venture, partnership, and other Contract (however named) involving a sharing of profits, losses, costs, or liabilities by the Company with any other Person;
(ix) each Contract containing covenants that in any way purport to restrict the business activity of the Company or limit the freedom of the Company to engage in any line of business or to compete with any Person;
(x) each Contract providing for payments to or by any Person based on sales, purchases, or profits, other than direct payments for goods;
(xi) each power of attorney that is currently effective and outstanding;
(xii) each Contract entered into other than in the Ordinary Course of Business that contains or provides for an express undertaking by the Company to be responsible for consequential damages;
(xiii) each Contract for capital expenditures in excess of $10,000;
(xiv) each written warranty, guaranty, and or other similar undertaking with respect to contractual performance extended by the Company other than in the Ordinary Course of Business; and
(xv) each amendment, supplement, and modification (whether oral or written) in respect of any of the foregoing, except for change orders which will have no material adverse effect to the Company;.
(b) Part 3.17(b) of the Disclosure Letter is a work in progress schedule setting forth the total amount of each contract and certain information as reflected in the captions thereto.
Material Contract Defaults The Company is not in default in any material respect under the terms of any outstanding contract, agreement, lease, or other commitment which is material to the business, operations, properties, assets, or financial condition of either of them, and there is no event of default or other event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default in any material respect under any such contract, agreement, lease, or other commitment in respect of which the Company has not taken adequate steps to prevent such a default from occurring.
Other Material Contracts Company has no lease, contract or commitment of any nature affecting the Business and involving consideration or other expenditure in excess of $100,000.00, or involving performance over a period of more than twelve (12) months, or which is otherwise individually material to the operations of the Business, except for purchase orders taken in the ordinary course of business and except as explicitly described in Schedule 5.11(l) or in any other Schedule of the Disclosure Schedule.
SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS; MATERIAL CONTRACTS AND COMMITMENTS The Company has delivered to TCI an accurate list (which is set forth on Schedule 5.15) of all customers (persons or entities) representing 1% or more of the Company's annual revenues for the year ended December 31, 1997; provided, however, that Schedule 5.15 need not set forth more than the Company's 20 largest customers during such period. Except to the extent set forth on Schedule 5.15, none of such customers have canceled or substantially reduced or, to the knowledge of the Stockholders, are currently attempting or threatening to cancel a contract or substantially reduce utilization of the services provided by the Company. The Company has listed on Schedule 5.15 all Material Contracts (as defined below) to which the Company is a party or by which it or any of its properties are bound, other than agreements listed on Schedules 5.10, 5.14 or 5.16, (a) in existence as of the Balance Sheet Date and (b) entered into since the Balance Sheet Date, and in each case has delivered true, complete and correct copies of such agreements to TCI. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Material Contracts" includes contracts between the Company and significant customers (as described above), joint venture or partnership agreements, contracts with any labor organization, strategic alliances, options to purchase land and other contracts which are not terminable on sixty days or less notice and involve payments by the Company in any twelve-month period in excess of $25,000. The Company has also indicated on Schedule 5.15 a summary description of all plans or projects involving the opening of new operations, expansion of existing operations, the acquisition of any personal property, business or assets requiring, in any event, the payment of more than $25,000 by the Company during any 12- month period. To the knowledge of the Stockholders, all of the Material Contracts are in full force and effect and constitute valid and binding agreements of the parties (and their successors) thereto in accordance with their respective terms except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity.
Material Contracts and Transactions Other than as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, there are no material contracts, agreements, licenses, permits, arrangements, commitments, instruments, understandings or contracts, whether written or oral, express or implied, contingent, fixed or otherwise, to which Pubco is a party except as disclosed in writing to Priveco or as disclosed in the Pubco SEC Documents.
Material Contracts and Commitments (a) Section 3.16 of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a true and complete list as of the date of this Agreement of all of the following contracts, agreements and commitments, whether oral or written ("Contracts"), to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them or any of their material Company Assets is bound, as each such contract or commitment may have been amended, modified or supplemented:
(i) any agreement (including all master commitments and pool purchase contracts) between the Company or any of its subsidiaries and any Agency or Investor pursuant to which the Company and its subsidiaries sold more than $175 million in principal amount of Mortgage Loans during fiscal year 1999, and all insurance or guaranty contracts (including contracts with any private mortgage insurer or Pool (as defined herein) insurance provider with respect to the Mortgage Loans;
(ii) any agreement (or group of related agreements) for the lease of personal property to or from any Person providing for rent in excess of $100,000 during any twelve-month period;
(iii) any agreement for the lease of real property providing for the payment of rent in excess of $250,000 during any twelve-month period;
(iv) any agreement (or group of related agreements) or indemnity under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed any debt including without limitation any indebtedness for borrowed money, warehouse lines of credit, or any capitalized lease or purchase money obligation (except for intercompany obligations);
(v) any agreement under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has granted a lien, pledge, security interest or other encumbrance upon any of its material assets;
(vi) any agreement under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has an obligation to indemnify a director, officer or employee;
(vii) any agreement for the employment of any individual on a full-time, part-time, consulting or other basis other than oral retainers of professionals terminable at will except for employment agreements of employees with a salary of less than $100,000 who have signed the Company's or any of its subsidiaries' standard form employment agreement (excluding commissioned employees);
(viii) any agreement concerning confidentiality or noncompetition given by the Company other than those agreements (A) with employees on the Company's standard form employment, (B) related to Company Stock Options, (C) entered into with any Person in connection with the proposed sale of the Company and (D) that do not materially restrict the manner in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries conduct its business;
(ix) any other plan, contract or arrangement, whether formal or informal, which involves direct or indirect compensation (including bonus, stock option, severance, golden parachute, deferred compensation, special retirement, consulting and similar agreements and all agreements and arrangements regarding the Company's net branches) for the benefit of one or more of the current or former directors, officers or employees of the Company (other than Company Employee Plans described in Section 3.12(a));
(x) any guaranty or suretyship, performance bond or contribution agreement;
(xi) any marketing, sales representative or dealership agreement with respect to which the fees paid or payable by the Company are or will be in excess of $100,000; any material agreement relating to e-commerce or agreements related to the Company's "net branches"; and
(xii) any other material contract or commitment.
(b) The Company has heretofore made available to the Parent true and complete copies of all of the Contracts required to be set forth in Section 3.16 of the Company Disclosure Schedule. Each such Contract is a valid and binding agreement of the Company or one of its subsidiaries in accordance with its terms, and is in full force and effect (except as set forth in Section 3.16 of the Company Disclosure Schedule), except where the failure to be valid and binding and in full force and effect would not individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in default with respect to any such Contract, nor (to the Company's Knowledge) does any condition exist that with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute such a default thereunder or permit any other party thereto to terminate such Contract, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company's Knowledge, no other party to any such Contract is in default in any respect with respect to any such Contract, which would have a Material Adverse Effect. No party has given any written notice (i) of termination or cancellation of any such Contract or (ii) that it intends to assert a breach of any such Contract, whether as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby or otherwise, which would have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Contract identified in Section 3.16 of the Company Disclosure Schedule in response to any item under this Section 3.16 shall be deemed incorporated by reference to all other items in this Section 3.16.
Material Contracts (a) Except as filed as an exhibit to the Company SEC Filings or as set forth on Schedule 3.23, there are none of the following (each a “Material Contract”):
(i) Contracts restricting the payment of dividends upon, or the redemption, repurchase or conversion of, the Convertible Preferred Stock or the Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof;
(ii) joint venture, partnership, limited liability or other similar Contract or arrangement relating to the formation, creation, operation, management or control of any partnership or joint venture that is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(iii) any Contract relating to the acquisition or disposition of any business, stock or assets that (x) is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, or (y) has representations, covenants, escrows, indemnities, purchase price payments, “earn-outs”, adjustments or other obligations that are still in effect;
(iv) Contracts containing any covenant (x) limiting the right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to engage in any line of business or in any geographic area, or (y) prohibiting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from engaging in business with any Person or levying a fine, charge or other payment for doing so;
(v) “material contracts” (as such term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, excluding any exhibits, schedules and annexes to such material contracts that are not required to be filed with the SEC, and those agreements and arrangements described in Item 601(b)(10)(iii)) with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries required to be filed with the SEC (the Material Contracts, together with any lease, binding commitment, option, insurance policy, benefit plan or other contract, agreement, instrument or obligation (whether oral or written) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be bound, the “Contracts”);
(vi) Contracts relating to indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in an amount exceeding $250,000;
(vii) Contracts (other than the Transaction Agreements) that would be or purport to be binding on the Purchasers or any of their Affiliates after the Closing;
(viii) Contracts with any Governmental Entity that imposes any material obligation or restriction on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and
(ix) any material Contract with any current or former director, officer or employee, or with any HRG Affiliate.
(b) Each Material Contract is valid and binding on the Company (and/or each such Subsidiary of the Company party thereto) and, to the Knowledge of the Company, on each other party thereto, and is in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries that is a party thereto, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto, is in breach of, or default under, any such Material Contract, and no event has occurred that with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute such a breach or default thereunder or would result in the termination thereof or would cause or permit the acceleration or other change of any right or obligation of the loss of any benefit thereunder by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto, except for such failures to be in full force and effect and such breaches and defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Contracts and Commitments; No Default (a) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.22, the Target:
(i) has no written or oral contract, commitment, agreement or arrangement with any person which (A) requires payments individually in excess of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) annually or in excess of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) over its term (including without limitation periods covered by any option to extend or renew by either party) and (B) is not terminable on thirty (30) days’ or less notice without cost or other Liability;
(ii) does not pay any person or entity cash remuneration at the annual rate (including without limitation guaranteed bonuses) of more than Fifty Thousand ($50,000) for services rendered;
(iii) is not restricted by agreement from carrying on its businesses or any part thereof anywhere in the world or from competing in any line of business with any person or entity;
(iv) is not subject to any obligation or requirement to provide funds to or make any investment (in the form of a loan, capital contribution or otherwise) in any person or entity;
(v) is not party to any agreement, contract, commitment or loan to which any of its directors, officers or shareholders or any Affiliate (or former Affiliate) thereof is a party;
(vi) is not subject to any outstanding sales or purchase contracts, commitments or proposals which is anticipated to result in any loss upon completion or performance thereof;
(vii) is not party to any purchase or sale contract or agreement that calls for aggregate purchases or sales in excess over the course of such contract or agreement of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) or which continues for a period of more than twelve months (including without limitation periods covered by any option to renew or extend by either party) which is not terminable on sixty (60) days’ or less notice without cost or other Liability at or any time after the Closing; and
(viii) has no distributorship, dealer, manufacturer’s representative, franchise or similar sales contract relating to the payment of a commission.
(b) True and complete copies (or summaries, in the case of oral items) of all items disclosed pursuant to this Section 3.22 have been made available to the Company for review. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.22, all such items are valid and enforceable by and against the Target in accordance with their respective terms, the Target is not in breach, violation or default, however defined, in the performance of any of its obligations thereunder, and no facts and circumstances exist which, whether with the giving of due notice, lapse of time, or both, would constitute such a breach, violation or default thereunder or thereof; and to the best knowledge of the Target, no other parties thereto are in breach, violation or default, however defined, thereunder or thereof, and no facts or circumstances exist which, whether with the giving of due notice, lapse of time, or both, would constitute such a breach, violation or default thereunder or thereof.
Material Contracts and Obligations All agreements, contracts, leases, licenses, instruments, commitments (oral or written), indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations to which any Group Company is a party or by which it is bound that (i) are material to the conduct and operations of its business and properties; (ii) involve any of the officers, consultants, directors, employees or shareholders of any Group Company; or (iii) obligate any Group Company to share, license or develop any product or technology are listed in Section 3.12 of the Disclosure Schedule and have been provided to the Investor and its counsel. For purposes of this Section 3.12, “material” shall mean any agreement, contract, indebtedness, Liability, arrangement or other obligation either (i) having an aggregate value, cost, Liability or amount of RMB4,000,000 or more, or (ii) not terminable upon no more than thirty (30) days’ notice without penalty or obligation, or (iii) relating to the leased stores with a monthly rental of RMB300,000 or more and leased warehouses.
