SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT
Exhibit 99.2
EXECUTION COPY
SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT, dated as of September 13, 2010 (this “Agreement”), by the
undersigned shareholder (the “Shareholder”) of O.I. Corporation, an Oklahoma corporation
(the “Company”), for the benefit of ITT Corporation, an Indiana corporation
(“Parent”), and the Company.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Parent, Oyster Acquisition Corp., an Oklahoma corporation and a direct wholly owned
subsidiary of Parent (“Sub”), and the Company are entering into an Agreement and Plan of
Merger, dated as of September 13, 2010 (the “Merger Agreement”), whereby, upon the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement, each issued and outstanding
share of Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share, of the Company (“Company Common Stock”),
not owned directly or indirectly by Parent or the Company, will be converted into the right to
receive the Merger Consideration specified in Section 1.5(c) of the Merger Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Shareholder (i) owns of record the number of shares of Company Common Stock
and/or (ii) owns or holds conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or stock options (whether or
not vested) to acquire that number of shares of Company Common Stock appearing on the signature
page hereof (all such shares of Company Common Stock, together with any other shares of capital
stock of the Company acquired by such Shareholder after the date hereof and during the term of this
Agreement, being collectively referred to herein as the “Subject Shares”); and
WHEREAS, as a condition to its willingness to enter into the Merger Agreement, Parent has
required that the Shareholder agree, and in order to induce Parent to enter into the Merger
Agreement the Shareholder has agreed, to enter into this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual covenants and agreements set
forth herein, the Shareholder agrees as follows:
1. Covenants of Shareholder. Until the termination of the Shareholder’s obligations
in accordance with Section 3, the Shareholder agrees as follows:
(a) At the Shareholder Meeting (or at any adjournment thereof) or in any other circumstances
upon which a vote, consent or other approval with respect to the Merger or the Merger Agreement is
sought, the Shareholder shall appear or otherwise cause the Subject Shares to be cast in accordance
with the applicable procedures relating thereto so as to ensure that the Subject Shares are duly
counted as present thereat for purposes of calculating a quorum.
(b) At the Shareholder Meeting (or at any adjournment thereof) or in any other circumstances
upon which a vote, consent or other approval with respect to the Merger or
the Merger Agreement is sought, the Shareholder shall vote (or cause to be voted) the Subject
Shares in favor of the Merger, the adoption of the Merger Agreement and the approval of the terms
thereof and each of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;
provided, however, that in the event a Company Adverse Recommendation
Change is made in response to a Superior Proposal and continues in effect in compliance with the
Merger Agreement, the Shareholder shall not be bound by the obligations set forth in this
Section 1(b).
(c) At any meeting of shareholders of the Company (or at any adjournment thereof) or in any
other circumstances upon which the Shareholder’s vote, consent or other approval is sought, the
Shareholder shall vote (or cause to be voted) the Subject Shares against (i) any merger agreement
or merger (other than the Merger Agreement and the Merger), consolidation, combination, sale of
substantial assets, reorganization, recapitalization, dissolution, liquidation or winding up of or
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Takeover Proposal, (ii) any amendment of the
Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, or Bylaws or other proposal or transaction
involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, which amendment or other proposal or transaction
would in any manner (A) impede, frustrate, prevent or nullify the Merger, the Merger Agreement or
any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, (B) reasonably be expected to
result in a breach of the Merger Agreement in any respect or (C) change in any manner the voting
rights of any class of capital stock of the Company, and (iii) any nomination, proposal to elect or
election of any person as a director of the Company who is not a member of the Company’s Board of
Directors on the date hereof.
(d) The Shareholder shall not, nor shall the Shareholder permit any affiliate, director,
officer, employee, investment banker or attorney or other advisor or representative of the
Shareholder to, (i) directly or indirectly solicit, initiate or knowingly encourage the submission
of, any Takeover Proposal or (ii) directly or indirectly participate in any discussions or
negotiations regarding, or furnish to any person any information with respect to, or take any other
action to facilitate any inquiries or the making of any proposal that constitutes or may reasonably
be expected to lead to, any Takeover Proposal.
(e) The Shareholder shall use the Shareholder’s commercially reasonable efforts to take, or
cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with
Parent in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to support and to consummate and make
effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by the Merger Agreement.
(f) The Shareholder hereby agrees not to (i) sell, transfer, pledge, assign or otherwise
dispose of (including by gift) (collectively, “Transfer”), or enter into any contract,
option or other arrangement (including any profit-sharing arrangement) with respect to the Transfer
of such Shareholder’s Subject Shares to any person or (ii) enter into any voting arrangement,
whether by proxy, voting agreement or otherwise, in relation to such Shareholder’s Subject Shares.
(g) The Shareholder further agrees not to commit or agree to take any action inconsistent with
the foregoing.
2. Representations and Warranties. The Shareholder represents and warrants to Parent
as follows:
(h) The Shareholder is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good title to, the Subject
Shares, including the shares set forth below the Shareholder’s name on the signature page hereto,
free and clear of any Liens. The Shareholder does not own, of record or beneficially, or hold any
conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or stock options to acquire, any shares of capital
stock of the Company other than the Subject Shares. The Shareholder has the sole right to vote, and
the sole power of disposition with respect to, the Subject Shares, and none of the Subject Shares
is subject to any voting trust, proxy or other agreement, arrangement or restriction with respect
to the voting or disposition of such Subject Shares, except as contemplated by this Agreement.
(i) The Shareholder has the legal capacity and all requisite power and. authority to enter
into this Agreement and to perform the Shareholder’s obligations hereunder and consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the
Shareholder. Assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent,
this Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Shareholder enforceable against
the Shareholder in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general application which may
affect the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Shareholder does not and will not conflict with any
agreement, order or other instrument binding upon the Shareholder, nor require the Shareholder to
make or obtain any regulatory filing or approval.
3. Termination. The obligations of the Shareholder hereunder shall terminate upon the
earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1 thereof or the
Effective Time.
4. Further Assurances. The Shareholder will, from time to time, execute and deliver,
or cause to be executed and delivered, such additional or further consents, documents and other
instruments as Parent may reasonably request for the purpose of effectively carrying out the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
5. Successors, Assigns and Transferees Bound. Any successor, assignee or transferee
(including a successor, assignee or transferee as a result of the death of the Shareholder, such as
an executor or heir) shall be bound by the terms hereof, and the Shareholder shall take any and all
actions necessary to obtain the written confirmation from such successor, assignee or transferee
that it is bound by the terms hereof.
6. Recapitalizations, Stock Dividends, etc. If, between the date of this Agreement
and the Effective Time, (a) the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock shall be increased,
decreased, changed into or exchanged for a different number of shares or different class, in each
case, by reason of any reclassification, recapitalization, stock split, split-up, combination or
exchange of shares, (b) a stock dividend or dividend payable in any other securities of the Company
shall be declared with a record date within such period, (c) any other securities of the Company
shall be declared with a record date within such period or (d) any
similar event shall have occurred, then the term “Subject Shares” shall be deemed to refer to
and include such shares as well as all such additional shares, stock dividends and any other
securities into which or for which any or all of such changes may be changed or exchanged or which
are received in such transaction.
7. Shareholder Information. The Shareholder hereby agrees to permit Parent and the
Company to publish and disclose in the Proxy Statement, any public announcement and any report
filed with or furnished to the SEC the Shareholder’s identity and ownership of the Subject Shares
and the nature of the Shareholder’s commitments, arrangements and understandings under this
Agreement.
8. Stop Transfer Order. In furtherance of this Agreement, the Shareholder hereby
authorizes and instructs the Company to instruct its transfer agent to enter a stop transfer order
with respect to all of the Subject Shares.
9. Remedies. The Shareholder acknowledges that money damages would be both
incalculable and an insufficient remedy for any breach of this Agreement by it and that any such
breach would cause Parent irreparable harm. Accordingly, the Shareholder agrees that in the event
of any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, Parent, in addition to any other remedies at
law or in equity it may have, shall be entitled, without the requirement of posting a bond or other
security, to equitable relief, including injunctive relief and specific performance.
10. No Ownership Interest. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to
vest in Parent any direct or indirect ownership or incidence of ownership of or with respect to the
Subject Shares. All rights, ownership and economic benefits of and relating to the Subject Shares
shall remain vested in and belong to the Shareholder, and Parent shall have no authority to direct
the Shareholder in the voting or disposition of the Subject shares, except as otherwise provided
herein.
11. Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid,
illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law or public policy, all other terms,
conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so
long as the economic and legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby are not affected
in any manner materially adverse to any party. Upon such determination that any term or other
provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties shall negotiate in good
faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as
possible in a mutually acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement may be consummated as originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.
12. Amendment. This Agreement may be amended only by means of a written instrument
executed and delivered by both the Shareholder and Parent.
13. Governing Law, Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.
(a) This Agreement shall be deemed to be made in and in all respects shall be interpreted,
construed and governed by and in accordance with the laws of the state of Oklahoma without regard
to the conflict of law principles thereof. The parties hereby irrevocably submit to the
jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Oklahoma and the federal courts of the United States
of America located in the State of Oklahoma solely in respect of the interpretation and
enforcement of the provisions of this Agreement and of the documents referred to in this
Agreement, and in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby, and
hereby waive, and agree not to assert,
as a defense in any action, suit or proceeding for the interpretation or enforcement hereof or of
any such document, that it is not subject thereto or that such action, suit or proceeding may not
be brought or is not maintainable in said courts or that the venue thereof may not be appropriate
or that this Agreement or any such document may not be enforced in or by such courts, and the
parties hereto irrevocably agree that all claims with respect to such action or proceeding shall be
heard and determined in such a court. The parties hereby consent to and grant any such court
jurisdiction over the person of such parties and over the subject matter of such dispute and agree
that mailing of process or other papers in connection with any such action or proceeding in such
manner as may be permitted by law shall be valid and sufficient service thereof.
(b) EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN
RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, OR
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (i) NO
REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT
SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, (ii)
EACH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (iii) EACH PARTY MAKES
THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY, AND (iv) EACH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY,
AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 13.
14. Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used in this Agreement that are not defined
herein shall have such meanings as set forth in the Merger Agreement.
15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, all of which shall
be considered one and the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts
have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other parties.
16. No Limitation on Actions of the Shareholder as Director. In the event the
Shareholder is a director of the Company, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to require the Shareholder
to take or in any way limit any action that the Shareholder may take to discharge the Shareholder’s
fiduciary duties as a director of the Company.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Shareholder has signed this Agreement as of the date first written
above.
| Farnam Street Partners, L.P. |
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| By: | Farnam Street Capital, Inc. | |||
| Its: | General Partner | |||
| By: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
| Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer | |||
| By: | Xxxxx Xxxx | |||
| Name: | Xxxxx Xxxx | |||
| Title: | President and Secretary | |||
| Number of shares of Company Common Stock owned on the date hereof: 312,880 | ||||
| Number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to conversion rights, Exchange rights, warrants and stock options owned and/or held on the date hereof: 0 | ||||
Accepted and agreed to
As of the date first written above:
As of the date first written above:
| ITT Corporation |
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| By: | /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Title: | Senior Vice President | |||
| O.I. Corporation |
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| By: | /s/ J. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |||
| Name: | J. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |||
| Title: | CEO/CFO | |||
[Signature Page to Shareholder Agreement]
