Purchase Price Adjustment (a) Within 90 days following the Closing, the Buyer shall prepare and deliver, or cause to be prepared and delivered, to the Seller a statement (the “Closing Schedule”) setting forth:
(i) the Buyer’s determination of the actual amounts of (A) the Adjustment Amount, including the Final Adjustment Amount Overage or the Final Adjustment Amount Underage (the “Final Adjustment Amount”), and (B) the Seller Indebtedness Amount, in each case as of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on the Closing Date without taking into account any of the transactions to be completed on the Closing Date in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(ii) a calculation of any adjustments to the Closing Payment based on such calculations (the adjusted Closing Payment as a result of such calculation being the “Final Closing Payment”); and
(iii) a calculation of the accounts receivable contained in the Preliminary Adjustment Amount that were not collected by Buyer within the thirty (30) days immediately following the Closing and the accounts receivable existing at the Closing but not taken into account in calculating the Adjustment Amount (the “Excluded AR”).
(b) Within fifteen (15) days after delivery of the Closing Schedule, the Seller may deliver a notice to Buyer either: (i) concurring with the Closing Schedule (a “Notice of Concurrence”); or (ii) disagreeing therewith (a “Notice of Disagreement”). If the Seller delivers a Notice of Disagreement, then it shall be accompanied by the Seller’s proposed revisions to the Closing Schedule. If the Seller fails to deliver any notice within such 15-day period, the Seller shall be deemed to have delivered a Notice of Concurrence.
(c) If a Notice of Concurrence is delivered or deemed delivered, and if the Final Closing Payment is less than the Closing Payment, the Buyer shall be entitled to payment out of the Royalty Consideration in the full amount of such shortfall. If a Notice of Concurrence is delivered or deemed delivered, and the Final Closing Payment is greater than the Closing Payment, Buyer shall pay to the Seller the full amount of such excess (with such payment being in shares of Buyer Common Stock priced at $1.50 per share) within thirty (30) days of the delivery of the Notice of Concurrence.
(d) If a Notice of Disagreement is delivered, then the Seller and the Buyer shall, during the 15-day period following such delivery (the “Negotiation Period”), use commercially reasonable efforts to agree on the Final Adjustment Amount. If, during such period, the Seller and the Buyer are unable to reach agreement, they promptly shall engage a nationally recognized certified public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to each such party (the “Independent Auditor”) to resolve the disagreement, and any such resolution shall be final, conclusive and binding upon the parties hereto, absent fraud or manifest error. To the extent the Final Closing Payment as determined by the Independent Auditor is less than the Closing Payment, the Buyer shall be entitled to payment out of the Royalty Consideration in the full amount of such shortfall. To the extent the Final Closing Payment as determined by the Independent Auditor is more than the Closing Payment, the Buyer shall pay to the Seller the full amount of such excess (with such payment being in shares of Buyer Common Stock priced at $1.50 per share) within thirty (30) days of such resolution.
(e) Each of the Seller and the Buyer shall pay fifty percent (50%) of the fees and expenses of the Independent Auditor.
Post-Closing Purchase Price Adjustment 1.9.1 Within ninety (90) days following the Closing Date, Seller shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and deliver to Purchaser a statement (the “Closing Net Working Capital Statement”) which shall set forth the Net Working Capital of the Newsprint Business and of Apache as of the Closing Time (which shall be set forth separately for each of the Newsprint Business and Apache, but as aggregated shall be referred to as the “Closing Net Working Capital”) and shall be prepared in accordance with Seller’s past accounting methods, policies, practices and procedures and in the same manner, with consistent classification and estimation methodology, as the Financial Statements were prepared, except that the Excluded Assets and the Newsprint Retained Obligations shall be excluded. The Closing Net Working Capital Statement may not be amended by Seller after it is delivered to Purchaser.
1.9.2 Purchaser shall, within thirty (30) days after the delivery of the Closing Net Working Capital Statement to it, complete its review of the Closing Net Working Capital reflected on the Closing Net Working Capital Statement. If Purchaser wishes to dispute the Closing Net Working Capital, Purchaser shall notify Seller in writing in reasonable detail of such disagreement and any reason therefore (“Purchaser’s Objection”), setting forth a specific description of the basis of Purchaser’s Objection and the adjustments to the Closing Net Working Capital that Purchaser believes should be made, on or before the last day of such thirty (30) day period, which Purchaser’s Objection may not be amended by Purchaser after it is delivered to Seller (except to withdraw any such Purchaser’s Objection). Any items on the Closing Net Working Capital Statements not disputed in Purchaser’s Objection shall be irrevocably deemed to be accepted by Purchaser. Seller shall then have thirty (30) days to review and respond to Purchaser’s Objection. If Seller and Purchaser are unable to resolve all of their disagreements with respect to the determination of the foregoing items within thirty (30) days following Seller’s receipt of Purchaser’s Objection (the “Negotiation Period”), they shall refer their remaining differences to a mutually agreeable independent accounting firm of national recognition (other than an independent accounting firm utilized by any of Seller, Apache or Purchaser or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing within the past three (3) years) acceptable to both Seller and Purchaser or if Seller and Purchaser are unable to agree as to such third party accounting firm within ten (10) days after the conclusion of the Negotiation Period, either Seller or Purchaser may request that the Chairman of the American Arbitration Association (or the nominated representative of the Chairman) appoint a third party accounting firm meeting the aforementioned requirements to resolve the dispute (the accounting firm selected being referred to as the “CPA Firm”), who shall determine, only with respect to the remaining differences so submitted, whether and to what extent, if any, the Closing Net Working Capital requires adjustment. The procedure and schedule under which any dispute shall be submitted to the CPA Firm shall be as follows:
(a) Within ten (10) days after the later of (i) the end of the Negotiation Period and (ii) the selection of the CPA Firm, Purchaser shall submit any unresolved elements of the Purchaser’s Objection to the CPA Firm in writing (with a copy to Seller), supported by any documents and/or affidavits upon which it relies. Failure to timely do so shall constitute a withdrawal by Purchaser of the Purchaser’s Objection with respect to any unresolved element to which such failure relates.
(b) Within fifteen (15) days following Purchaser’s submission of the unresolved elements of the Purchaser’s Objection as specified in sub-clause (a) above, Seller shall submit its response to the CPA Firm in writing (with a copy to Purchaser), supported by any documents and/or affidavits upon which it relies. Failure to timely do so shall constitute an acceptance by Seller with respect to any unresolved elements to which such failure relates.
(c) The CPA Firm shall deliver its written determination to Purchaser and Seller no later than the thirtieth (30th) day after the remaining differences underlying Purchaser’s Objection are referred to the CPA Firm, or such longer period of time as the CPA Firm determines is necessary.
Price Adjustment Civil works contracts of long duration (more than 18 months) shall contain an appropriate price adjustment clause.
Purchase Price Adjustments (a) Schedule 2.4 sets forth the Seller’s good faith estimate of the Net Working Capital (the “Estimated Net Working Capital”) as of September 30, 2013, together with a calculation of the Closing Purchase Price based on such estimate. The Estimated Net Working Capital shall be determined in accordance with Section 2.6 and the other terms of this Agreement.
(b) As promptly as possible, but in any event within forty five (45) days after the Closing Date, the Buyer will deliver to the Seller a balance sheet of the Company (the “Closing Balance Sheet”) and a statement showing the calculation of the Net Working Capital derived from the Closing Balance Sheet (together with the Closing Balance Sheet, the “Preliminary Closing Statement”), in each case as of the Reference Time. The Closing Balance Sheet shall be prepared, and the Net Working Capital and the Preliminary Closing Statement shall be determined, in accordance with Section 2.6 and the definitions and other terms set forth in this Agreement. The Preliminary Closing Statement shall contain line item detail comparable to the Balance Sheet with respect to the components of Net Working Capital of the Company as of the Reference Time. After delivery of the Preliminary Closing Statement, the Buyer shall give the Seller and its accountants and representatives reasonable access at reasonable times to review the Company’s books and records and work papers related to the preparation of the Preliminary Closing Statement subject to customary confidentiality restrictions. The Seller and its accountants and representatives may make inquiries of the Buyer and its accountants regarding questions concerning or disagreements with the Preliminary Closing Statement arising in the course of its review thereof, and the Buyer shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause any such accountants to cooperate with and respond to such inquiries. If the Seller has any objections to the Preliminary Closing Statement, the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer a statement setting forth its objections thereto (an “Objections Statement”). If an Objections Statement is not delivered by the Seller to the Buyer within twenty (20) days after delivery of the Preliminary Closing Statement, the Preliminary Closing Statement shall be final, binding and non-appealable by the Parties hereto. The Seller and the Buyer shall negotiate in good faith to resolve any such objections for fifteen (15) days after the delivery of the Objections Statement, but if they do not reach a final resolution, the Seller and the Buyer shall submit such dispute to PricewaterhouseCoopers, or if they are not independent pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission at the time, another nationally recognized independent accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Buyer and the Seller (the “Dispute Resolution Firm”) within three (3) Business Days following the end of the fifteen (15)-day period from the date of the delivery of the Objections Statement. Any further submissions to the Dispute Resolution Firm must be written and delivered to each party to the dispute. The Dispute Resolution Firm shall consider work papers and other documents and information related to those items and amounts which are identified in the Objections Statement as being items which the Seller and the Buyer are unable to resolve. The Dispute Resolution Firm’s determination will be based on the definition of Net Working Capital and the other definitions and terms contained herein and shall be in amounts between the disputed amounts set forth in the Preliminary Closing Statement and the Objections Statement. The Seller and the Buyer shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Dispute Resolution Firm to resolve all disagreements as soon as practicable and in any event within thirty (30) days after the submission of any dispute. Further, the Dispute Resolution Firm’s determination shall be based solely on the presentations by the Buyer and the Seller which are in accordance with the terms and procedures set forth in this Agreement (i.e., not on the basis of an independent review). The resolution of the dispute by the Dispute Resolution Firm shall be, absent manifest error, final, binding and non-appealable on the Parties hereto. The costs and expenses of the Dispute Resolution Firm shall be allocated fifty percent (50%) to the Buyer and fifty percent (50%) to the Seller.
(c) If the Net Working Capital as finally determined pursuant to Section 2.4(b) above is greater than the Target Working Capital, the Buyer shall promptly pay to the Seller the amount of such excess in cash. If the Net Working Capital as finally determined pursuant to Section 2.4(b) above is less than the Target Working Capital (such amount, the “Working Capital Deficiency”), the Seller and the Buyer shall promptly cause an amount equal to the Working Capital Deficiency to be paid to the Buyer from the Working Capital Escrow Amount; provided, however, that if the Working Capital Deficiency is in excess of the Working Capital Escrow Amount (such excess amount, the “Working Capital Indemnity Amount”), then the Buyer may elect to seek indemnification for the Working Capital Indemnity Amount either (i) from the Indemnity Escrow Amount or (ii) directly from the Seller. The net adjustment amount payable to the Seller or the Buyer under this Section 2.4(c) (such amount, the “Net Adjustment Amount”) shall be paid in accordance with Section 2.5.
Base Purchase Price Buyer agrees to pay for the Assets the total sum of Thirty Million and No/100 Dollars ($30,000,000.00) (“Base Purchase Price”) to be paid by direct bank deposit or wire transfer in same day funds at the Closing, subject only to the price adjustments set forth in this Agreement.
Adjustments to Purchase Price At Closing, the Purchase Price shall be adjusted (without duplication) in accordance with this Section 2.4.
(a) The Purchase Price shall be increased by the following amounts:
(i) the amount of all production expenses, operating expenses, third-party overhead expenses under applicable operating agreements, ad valorem and severance taxes, well bonds and capital expenditures actually paid by Seller in connection with the Assets, insofar and only insofar as the same are attributable to the period of time from and after the Effective Time, including, without limitation, (a) all operating costs and expenses paid by Seller, (b) all capital expenditures, including, without limitation, all drilling, completion, reworking, deepening, side-tracking, plugging and abandoning costs and expenses and paid by Seller, (c) all prepaid expenses and land related costs and expenses attributable to the Assets, including, without limitation, all bonus payments, royalty disbursements, delay rental payments, shut-in payments and other similar costs paid by Seller (provided, however, that the Purchase Price shall not be increased by land related expenses incurred by Seller in connection with Title Defect or Environmental Defect curative work), (d) excise, severance and production tax payments, and any other tax payments based upon or measured by the production of Sale Hydrocarbons or the proceeds of sale or other disposition therefrom paid by Seller and (e) expenses paid by Seller to any third party under applicable joint operating agreements or other contracts or agreements included in the Assets (with respect to which Seller shall provide Buyer with copies of the related invoices);
(ii) an amount equal to the value of all Stock Hydrocarbons (it being understood that such value shall be calculated based on the reference prices set forth in Schedule 2.4(a)(ii) determined as of the Effective Time, less transportation costs, quality adjustment, if any, applicable taxes and royalty payments);
(iii) the adjustment amount, if any, due Seller as determined pursuant to Section 11.1 with respect to Imbalances;
(iv) by Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00) if all of Seller’s right, title and interest in the RCVC Agreement are assigned to Buyer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; and
(v) any other amount specified herein or otherwise agreed upon by Seller and Buyer in writing.
(b) The Purchase Price shall be decreased by the following amounts:
(i) an amount equal to the net proceeds (the price at which the Hydrocarbons are sold after the Effective Time, less transportation costs, quality adjustment, if any, applicable taxes and royalty payments) received by Seller from the sale or other disposition of Sale Hydrocarbons and Stock Hydrocarbons;
(ii) all actual production expenses, operating expenses, overhead under applicable operating agreements, taxes, and capital expenditures paid or incurred by Buyer in connection with the Assets (including, without limitation, royalties, minimum royalties, rentals, and prepaid charges, including, without limitation, prepaid taxes and prepaid insurance), to the extent they are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Assets (or to the Hydrocarbons produced and saved from, or allocable to, the Assets) before the Effective Time;
(iii) an amount equal to all proceeds received by Seller from whatever source that relate to the sale of Assets and are attributable to periods after the Effective Time;
(iv) the adjustment amount, if any, due Buyer as determined pursuant to Section 11.1 with respect to Imbalances;
(v) if reductions due to the aggregate Title Defect Value is greater than the aggregate Title Benefit Value, as provided in Section 6, an amount equal to such difference;
(vi) reductions due to Environmental Defects as provided in Section 7;
(vii) reductions due to the exercise of Preferential Rights as provided for in Section 9.2 or the time for the exercise of such right has not expired by Closing, or for the Allocated Value of Assets for which consents to assignment have not been obtained by Closing;
(viii) reductions due to Casualty Loss as provided in Section 11.3;
(ix) Seller’s pro rata share of taxes as determined pursuant to Section 4.1;
(x) reductions of the aggregate Allocated Values (without application of thresholds and deductibles) of Leases: (a) for which a consent for assignment has not been obtained by Closing and (b) which have an expiration date between execution of this Agreement and three (3) months after the Closing Date which have not been cured by an extension of such Lease for a period of time of not less than one (1) year; and
(xi) any other amount specified herein or otherwise agreed upon by Seller and Buyer in writing.
Payment of Receivables Purchase Price In consideration of the sale of the Receivables from the Seller to the Purchaser as provided in Section 2.1, on the Closing Date the Purchaser shall have paid to the Seller the Receivables Purchase Price.
Supply Price The Initial Term “Supply Price” for the “Monthly Fixed Price Volume” set forth on Exhibit A shall be $[______]/MWh for the first [***] years of the Initial Term, and thereafter shall be the then-current market price as mutually agreed by Customer and Supplier prior to the end of the [***] year. The Extension Term Supply Price, if any, will be the then-current market price as mutually agreed by Customer and Supplier prior to entering into the Extension Term. Supplier and Customer may agree to fix the Supply Price for one or more periods during the Term that individually and in total are shorter than the full Term. Exhibit A sets forth the hourly delivery volume for which the Energy Price will be fixed during each month of the Term to take into account the phase-in of the facility which is expected to progress at a rate of approximately [***]MW per month (the “Monthly Fixed Price Volume”). Supplier represents that Supplier has used commercially reasonable efforts to set such Supply Price at approximately [***]% discount to the forward price at which Supplier xxxxxx its delivery obligations under this Transaction Confirmation with respect to any financial or physical energy supply arrangement intended to cover the Monthly Fixed Price Volume, the settlement index (ERCOT North Load Zone), and this Transaction Confirmation term. The [***]% discount shall be revised to take into account any physical or software limitations originating from Customer and limiting Supplier’s ability to curtail 100% of the load at the Data Center. Exhibit A also sets forth the minimum load that Customer has designated as not subject to economic curtailment (“Non-Curtailable Load”), which represents, among other things, the Motor Control Center (MCC), and other essential server and administrative load. Customer and Supplier can, in the context of the immediately preceding sentence, agree on a lesser than [***]% discount with respect to the Supply Price to account for Supplier’s incremental cost of providing a fixed Supply Price for Non-Curtailable Load.
Purchase Order Pricing/Product Deviation If a deviation of pricing/product on a Purchase Order or contract modification occurs between the Vendor and the TIPS Member, TIPS must be notified within five (5) business days of receipt of change order. TIPS reserves the right to terminate this agreement for cause or no cause for convenience with a thirty (30) days prior written notice. Termination for convenience is conditionally required under Federal Regulations 2 CFR part 200 if the customer is using federal funds for the procurement. All purchase orders presented to the Vendor, but not fulfilled by the Vendor, by a TIPS Member prior to the actual termination of this agreement shall be honored at the option of the TIPS Member. The awarded Vendor may terminate the agreement with ninety (90) days prior written notice to TIPS 0000 XX Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000. The vendor will be paid for goods and services delivered prior to the termination provided that the goods and services were delivered in accordance with the terms and conditions of the terminated agreement. This termination clause does not affect the sales agreements executed by the Vendor and the TIPS Member customer pursuant to this agreement. TIPS Members may negotiate a termination for convenience clause that meets the needs of the transaction based on applicable factors, such as funding sources or other needs. Usually, purchase orders or their equal are issued by participating TIPS Member to the awarded vendor and should indicate on the order that the purchase is per the applicable TIPS Agreement Number. Orders are typically emailed to TIPS at xxxxxx@xxxx-xxx.xxx. • Awarded Vendor delivers goods/services directly to the participating member. • Awarded Vendor invoices the participating TIPS Member directly. • Awarded Vendor receives payment directly from the participating member. • Fees are due to TIPS upon payment by the Member to the Vendor. Vendor agrees to pay the participation fee to TIPS for all Agreement sales upon receipt of payment including partial payment, from the Member Entity or as otherwise agreed by TIPS in writing and signed by an authorized signatory of TIPS.
Adjustments to the Purchase Price As soon as practicable (but not more than five business days) after the date on which the Final Closing Balance Sheet shall have been determined in accordance with this Section 2.5.3:
(a) the Escrow Agent shall:
(i) release from the ESOP Adjustments and Claims Escrow and pay to Federal an amount in immediately available funds equal to the product of (1) the amount, if any, by which the Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Final Closing Balance Sheet is less than the amount of Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and (2) the ESOP Percentage. The difference between any payment to Federal pursuant to this Section 2.5.3(a)(i) and the product of $2,000,000 (Two Million Dollars) and the ESOP Percentage, shall be released to the ESOP Stockholders’ Representative; and
(ii) release from the Non-ESOP Adjustments and Claims Escrow and pay to Federal an amount in immediately available funds equal to the product of (1) the amount, if any, by which the Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Final Closing Balance Sheet is less than the amount of Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and (2) the Non-ESOP Percentage. The difference between any payment to Federal pursuant to this Section 2.5.3(a)(ii) and the product of $2,000,000 (Two Million Dollars) and the Non-ESOP Percentage shall be released to the Non-ESOP Stockholders’ Representative as Paying Agent; and
(b) Federal shall pay to:
(i) the ESOP Stockholder an amount in immediately available funds equal to the product of (1) the amount, if any, by which the Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Final Closing Balance Sheet is greater than the Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and (2) the ESOP Percentage; and
(ii) the Non-ESOP Stockholders’ Representative, as Paying Agent, an amount in immediately available funds equal to the product of (1) the amount, if any, by which the Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Final Closing Balance Sheet is greater than the Net Worth (after the M Street Lease Adjustment) as set forth in the Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and (2) the Non-ESOP Percentage; and
(c) Pursuant to Section 2.5.3(b) following payment by Federal to the ESOP Shareholder’s Representative and the Non-ESOP Stockholder’s Representative, respectively, of any amount by which the Net Worth as set forth in the Final Closing Balance Sheet is greater than the Net Worth as set forth in the Estimated Closing Balance Sheet, the Escrow Agent shall:
(i) release from the ESOP Adjustments and Claims Escrow and pay to the ESOP Stockholder’s Representative an amount in immediately available funds equal to the product of (1) $2,000,000 (Two Million Dollars) and (2) the ESOP Percentage; and
(ii) release from the Non-ESOP Adjustments and Claims Escrow and pay to the Non-ESOP Stockholders’ Representative as paying agent an amount in immediately available funds equal to the product of (1) $2,000,000 (Two Million Dollars) and (2) the Non-ESOP Percentage. All payments made pursuant to this Section 2.5.3 shall constitute immediate adjustments of the Purchase Price in such amounts.
